.NET Developer (closed)
McLean, VA
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Job Description
We are looking for a vital contributor to join a small team responsible for the design and development of a completely new and highly-sophisticated social media website. The position represents an unparalleled opportunity to join a team that will bring to market an innovative and disruptive form of social investing. This is a tremendous career opportunity for the right candidate to participate in a key initiative within a stable, growing company in a startup-like environment.
Responsibilities- Research, design and develop innovative new social media experiences targeted at today's investors.
- Test engineering. (High-powered developers take pride in creating automated tests to exercise their code. Sophisticated test coverage is extremely important to us.)
- BS in computer science, or equivalent experience. Degree from a top-ranked computer science school a plus.
- Strong .NET 3.5+ C#, LINQ, ASP.NET MCV 3 experience.
- Experience developing and maintaining large-scale rich web applications written in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JavaScript Frameworks (jQuery, Ext JS). Reading HTTP headers is second nature to you.
- Relational Database experience (modeling, querying, tuning). Experience with ORM's and Entity Framework a plus.
- Experience creating and consuming web services (REST).
- Experience with at least one other web stack (Rails, Django, etc.).
- Software version control and release management experience.
- Appreciation and experience with open-source technologies.
- Strong familiarity with social media experiences such as Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging, video sharing, blogging, etc.
- Exceptional problem solving abilities.
- Excellent communications skills. (FOLIOfn, Inc. is a collaborative, high-bandwidth communication environment.).
- Extensive experience architecting and developing large-scale software systems.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies.
- Experience building data driven web applications.
- Experience building customer facing social-media websites.
- Domain expertise in financial services.
- Experience with Java enterprise frameworks (J2EE, JEE, Hibernate, Spring, etc.).
- High level intellect — you understand the global design goals of a complex project and align your design and development efforts accordingly
- Efficient — you solve problems and accomplish tasks at a high rate of speed
- Pride in your work — your code is innovative yet easy to read
- Curiosity — you are able to think expansively and are not constrained by your prior experience
- Drive — you are dogged in the pursuit of solutions and are not easily side-tracked
- Self-directed — you are able to work with little supervision, though you enjoy the collaborative process
