Summary:
Betfair US currently seeks a Lead Software Engineer to focus their creativity and passion on our Web Platform. This position will have overall responsibility in delivering consumer-focused, highly scalable and high availability web products.

Through collaboration with Executives and our Architectural teams; our Lead will manage a small team of talented developers to take technical and design concepts into production through their creative vision…

Responsibilities:

• Create, deliver and maintain a very scalable system architecture to address a high availability internet site and varied sets of internal applications
• Work with the technology and product management leaders to develop and deliver the company strategy and vision
• Work with the senior engineers to provide clear leadership in technical design and architecture of Betfair US software systems
• Share knowledge with other members of the Software Engineering team
• Lead the development of white papers and other technical documents to effectively present Betfair's US technology
• Participate in reviewing and evaluating 3rd party technologies and vendors
• Work with patent attorneys to identify and file patents

Requirements:

• BS in CS, Preferred MSCS (or equivalent) and 5-8 years of hands-on software design and development experience or data and mathematical analysis
• Strong hands on skills in - PHP, RoR, Java, Flash, AMFPhP, memcached, memqueue, + at least one of LAMP stack environments
• Relational Databases and SQL ( MySQL, Oracle, logical design and stored procedures).
• Front-end Web Technologies (HTML, Javascript, XML, XSL, good understanding of HTTP protocol and some knowledge of development with varied mobile platforms
• Proven ability to lead and manage a small (3-5) team of engineers
• Deep experience building Distributed Large Scale Systems focused on highly available websites
• Proven ability to operate effectively at the senior level
• Exceptional motivator and technical leader
• Excellent oral and written communications skills

Additional Experience Desired:
Social & Web Gaming; Mobile Gaming, Virtual World Applications (UX, Currency, Transactions, Community, Micro-Payments, Start-up Exp)

Betfair US Overview
Located in San Francisco; Betfair US is a true start-up being developed from the ground up! We are an incubation team consisting of highly talented, passionate, and collaborative team members. We look to continue to build our team with the brightest and most creative individuals across all disciplines. This is a tremendous opportunity for those with an entrepreneurial mindset to help create the direction we take with our technology platform and product portfolio.

For more infromation or to submit your resume, contact Seth Dawson at SDawson@tvg.com or by phone 415-515-2654.

Stealth mode startup seeks a sharp, motivated PHP engineer to help launch Beta website on a tight deadline.

Founded by serial entrepreneurs who have helped build successful internet brands in Silicon Valley and Europe, our company is based on an internationally proven business model and has tremendously high growth (and profitability) potential. We are producing a next-generation social network involving mobile technology and e-commerce components.

This is a real opportunity to join a high potential startup and build something of real value. Whether you are a seasoned engineer or a super smart college student, we want to talk to you if you think you have what it takes to have a large roll in the development of our site and its database.

We've secured angel funding, built the wireframes, wrote the specs and are moving fast -- if you're interested in joining us, please send us your resume.

KEY SKILLS

• Excellent web programming knowledge and 2+ years experience building sites in PHP, specifically using frameworks such as Zend.
• Strong SQL knowledge and the ability to fundamentally understand relational database theory
• Strong ability to write structured code followed up with clear documentation
• Strict adherence to web 2.0 standards and cross-platform compatibility
• Solid understanding of browser capabilities and restrictions
• Knowledge of web server platforms, protocols and applications
• Ability to write clean, light code (and then test your clean, light code)
• Understanding of SEO and experience with design programs (eg. Illustrator and PhotoShop) is a plus
• XHTML expertise is a plus
• Linux experience is a plus

RELATED SKILLS

• Obsession with new technologies and trends, especially in social or mobile tech
• Self-driven, with a good approach to working efficiently and effectively
• Organized, detail-oriented and able to set (and meet) realistic deadlines
• True passion for creating clean, functional and well-designed sites

NON-TECHNICAL / DESIRABLE SKILLS

• It is absolutely required that you can be self motivated, work independently and work under very tight deadlines.
• It is absolutely required that you have a good sense of humor, have an open minded attitude, have high level of integrity and like to have fun (work hard, play hard)
• Intense desire to build something successful from the ground-up
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Slight addiction to social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
• Sense of adventure: willing to take risks, either for the adrenaline or experience
• Love of travel, especially backpacking or visiting remote destinations
• Fluency in another language is a plus (eg. Spanish, German, Chinese, etc)

GOOD KARMA

Did we mention that our site will be a good thing for the world? Sure, profitability may be our main focus but we're actually building something that will help people across the globe. (Really.)

This is a contract-to-hire position. Compensation is dependent on availability and experience.

HOW TO APPLY

The mission of the Healthy City Project is to improve the ability of low-income, underserved children, youth, and their families to access services and to facilitate smarter resource planning throughout L.A. County. To this end, Healthy City (HC) has created a user friendly GIS mapping website that provides access to the largest database of community resources and localized demographic, health, and economic data for all of L.A. County. Always on the cutting edge of technology, HealthyCity.org is widely recognized as a national model in how to re-purpose GIS technology for public sector use. HC was recently recognized as a featured project for the Netsquared 2008 Conference (N2Y3) and is in the process of statewide expansion. Along with our online site, HC provides direct research and technical assistance to governmental (elected and otherwise), philanthropic, and community based institutions including community engaged mapping, policy research, and website development. The Healthy City Project is a program within the Advancement Project LA, a nonprofit research and public policy organization near downtown Los Angeles.

Healthy City is now seeking a highly qualified Web Developer/PHP Programmer with working knowledge and experience to help lead its successful online site and various research and policy portals. This position will work directly with Healthy City's Technology Manager and Technology consultants assisting in multiple aspects of the project including the website design, development, maintenance and administration for a wide range of research/technology projects.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Construct, develop, code, debug and maintain of interactive mapping website applications.
• Participate in project status review meeting with Team Lead.
• Assist in setting scope of work and timelines for various technology projects, including updating and maintaining existing sites as well as development of new websites.
• Plan and implement enhancement of existing and creation of new Web-based applications, including but not limited to interactive features and tools that facilitate data analysis.
• Participation in systems analysis and design efforts regarding user interfaces, definition of process specifications and design of application structures.
• Conform to in-house software development processes, and defined software design methodologies for the development and implementation of Internet based applications
• Perform code evaluation and make recommendations for software adaptation
• Generate application test data as necessary and validate any data conversion requirements for final implementation and production rollout.
• Database management; maintain data for healthycity.org as well as other projects; conduct data preparation and clean-up.
• Liaison as necessary between the Technology Manager and Technology consultants regarding www.HealthyCity.org and various project websites.
• Timely communication of issues and status information to Technology Manager concerning system development activities.
• Quality assurance testing and usability testing for various project websites.

Additional Qualifications:

• 4+ years programming experience required in application development.
• High-level programming/scripting experience (PHP5 tree, JavaScript, XML, CSS).
• High-level SQL programming.
• Strong background in open-source environments, software, and tools (Linux, Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc).
• Computer Science trained graduate or with equivalent work experience
• Strong web application documentation, design, coding and testing experience
• Proven analytical ability to create/modify application code to support new functionality.
• Strong debugging experience with code written by other developers
• Proven ability to execute project deliverables within effort and elapsed time estimates
• Proven experience in meeting workload estimates as defined in project work plan.
• Strong familiarity with demographic, health and economic datasets highly preferred.
• Experience or interest working with GIS mapping.
• Understanding of Web 2.0 concepts and capabilities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the proven ability to work with diverse communities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, i.e. facilitation, outreach and message delivery Flexibility to adjust and contribute to continually evolving work situation and changing priorities.

  Please send cover letters and resumes to:
  ATTN: Lori Thompson
  1541 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 508, Los Angeles CA 90017
  Or e-mail to: lthompson@advanceproj.org or fax to: 213.989.1309

Who We Are
QuinStreet has become the leader in online, performance-based vertical marketing because we've consistently delivered the right leads at the right volume to thousands of industry-leading consumer and business brands since 1999. QuinStreet is headquartered in Foster City, CA, with satellite offices worldwide.

Our Culture
QuinStreet is a meritocracy, where recognition and advancement are based on performance. It is the ideal work environment for someone who is interested in personal growth as well as professional growth. Working here, you will be held to the highest standards of performance and encouraged to dissent when you see a better solution. We deal with each other honestly and non-hierarchically in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We celebrate each other's efforts and strive to create a casual, upbeat and supportive setting in which you can excel.

What We Offer
QuinStreet offers a competitive benefits package to all full-time employees including: competitive salary; medical, dental, and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; Flexible Spending Account; and generous paid time off (PTO) package. QuinStreet is an EEO employer.

QuinStreet offers a fun, casual, supportive, and high energy culture that rewards employees for their performance. If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we want to hear from you!

Job Description

The PHP Technical Lead will serve as a lead and manager for a multi-million dollar portfolio of web sites. An entrepreneurial mindset is essential for success in this fast growing team.

• Managing and prioritizing a project pipeline for a team of software engineers, QA engineers, and system administrators.
• The PHP Technical Lead will work closely with cross functional teams so he/she must have the ability to communicate and explain technical concepts to non-technical team members.
• Assisting in continuously analyzing, maintaining, and improving the development process.

Technical Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

• Minimum of 8 years hands-on software development experience in a broad range of technologies.
• Must be well versed in PHP, Java and ASP.Net.
• Strong and diverse knowledge of web development and infrastructure, e.g. HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, AJAX, PHP/JSP/ASP/CFM.
• Hands on experience with relational databases, e.g. MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL. Debugging SQL is also preferred.
• Advanced UNIX skills preferred.
• Solid understanding of 3 tier architectures including solid scalability fundamentals such as caching and load-balancing.
• Knowledge of search engine marketing and optimization (SEM and SEO).
• Must have experience in web project development cycle.
• Good business analytical skills combined with the ability to get things done.

General Requirements

• Must have experience with full life cycle projects.
• A high task load is expected. You should be able to manage and juggle multiple projects while exhibiting exemplary time management and task prioritization.
• Recent experience managing or leading a team.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong presentation, communication, and collaboration skills, enabling effective interaction and knowledge transfer to teammates
• Ability to work with minimal to no supervision.
• Positive attitude and professionalism in the workplace.
• BS/BA, or equivalent experience

For immediate consideration, please send resume to Leah Rodriguez, Recruiter at lrodriguez@quinstreet.com.

We are looking for a talented front-end web developer who is passionate about games and the web. You will be a key member of the team developing our websites, including game websites, promotional micro-sites, and our corporate website. The ideal candidate is an experienced programmer in PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS and HTML.

Responsibilities:

• Create all websites for us and our games, working closely with web designers on translating visual design mockups into working web pages.
• Drive client-side web technology decisions for rich interactions, optimization, and ease of use.
• Work with game and platform engineers to support integrating account, billing and game data across related websites.
• Provide programming support for online creative services (graphical ads, partner tracking, etc.) and Community Management tools (forums, content management, etc.)

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience with 2+ years building highly interactive, large-scale websites.
• Programming skills in PHP or similar scripting languages (Perl, JSP, ASP, etc.) and experience with Drupal or similar CMS systems.
• Web development experience using JavaScript, DHTML and AJAX to create dynamic web interfaces.
• Strong command of web standards - Apache, HTTP, CSS-driven/table-less HTML layouts, web optimization, SEO, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Capable with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to support graphic designer.
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Flash is a big plus.
• Understanding of server side coding/web frameworks, state management, dynamic content retrieval, and web services (SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, etc) are all bonuses.

For more information contact Brandon Rende - (650) 561-9336 or brandon@toptechventures.com

Requirements/Duties

• BS,MS (PhD a plus) Computer Science or related field
• Experience building large-scale server applications and reliable software
• Expert level with PHP and AJAX (7+ years experience)
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, XHTML & CSS
• Strong experience working with Apache
• 5+ years experience with MySQL administration
• Experience with auction, online advertising systems a plus

Responsibilities

• Design and develop internal tools as well as applications tightly integrated between Financials, Sales and Ad systems
• Provide technical guidance and design expertise for all IT internal apps to fit larger strategic and tactical initiatives and company goals
• Champion design and coding standards and work closely/provide guidance to other members of the team
• Code primarily in PHP/AJAX or any other appropriate tech stack that would be a scalable fit to support the company objectives
• Help with administration and maintenance of MySQL database backend behind these applications where applicable
• Design and implement web interfaces using Ajax, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Build report interfaces and data feeds
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa.

For more information or to submit your resume, please contact Derek Metz: derek@staffingforce.com

The CCI Web Team Developer plays a pivotal role in delivering world-class websites, portals, applications, content management systems, databases, and emerging mobile and social technologies to support the work of designers and content producers in execution of team initiatives. The developer provides the backbone of delivering robust websites that utilize the latest technologies and designs to enhance their natural search and conversion abilities.

General Duties:

• Support CCI initiatives in the areas of student portal, social network applications, & video applications.
• Assist in optimizing flagship & ancillary websites for mobile device traffic. Develop mobile applications as needed, and work with outside and internal resources to integrate SMS texting into applicable systems.
• Develop domain management tool, manage & optimize hosting solution providers, audit and monitor websites & URLs.
• Provide code testing before it is deployed for public viewing. Establish development standards, version control, & documentation. Includes oversight of email service provider custom coding.
• Creates efficient and logical databases and effectively employ database design techniques using MySQL.
• Design and code superior technical solutions using HTML, XHTML, PHP, AJAX, XML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Recognize system deficiencies and implements effective solutions. Suggest areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions.
• Create XML schemas.
• Communicate and enforce coding standards
• Create well designed, reusable objects.
• Create and execute project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Serve as system administrator for Windows IIS and Linux servers.
• Communicate effectively to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.
• Manage expectations effectively.
• Actively contributes to corporate knowledge base.

Requirements

• Demonstrates expert knowledge of HTML, XHTML, DHTML, PHP, AJAX, XML, CSS, OOP (Object Oriented Programming), Linux, Windows IIS, Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, RDBMS, common PHP Frameworks, Memcached, & DNS.
• Understands complex database concepts as well as the implications of different database designs.
• Familiarity with the LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
• Possesses significant knowledge of client server and Internet systems architectures.
• Understands browser specific compatibility issues.
• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
• Familiarity with version control systems (CVS, SVN).
• Possesses demonstrated work experience with more than one relational database management system.
• Ability to diagnose and fix programming issues relating to website operations.
• BS in computer information systems or equivalent.
• 5 years demonstrated experience in Web development.

Additional Requirements:

• Please be willing to provide code samples.

We offer competitive compensation and an excellent benefit package including a comprehensive healthcare program and a 401k plan.

Qualified candidates ONLY - apply online for consideration and the potential opportunity to work with a dynamic and growing company.

Zynga (www.zynga.com) is the #1 social gaming company on the web and was founded specifically to add a social element to casual online games to provide a more fun, competitive, and contagious experience.

Recently well funded ($10M series-A) by top tier investors and industry legends who pioneered new technologies and created new markets on the web, the founding team has an excellent track record founding and building companies such as: Tribe.net, SupportSoft, Freeloader, eUniverse, Houseglue, and Coremetrics!!

Zynga is based in San Francisco's Potrero Hill in a super dynamic environment and fun space and also has an office in Los Gatos, CA (other end of the valley). If you are a serious game or web developer/software engineer, this is one ground floor startup opportunity you don't want to miss.

The Job

Zynga PHP Developers are passionate developers who believe in building viral, consumer games and applications faster, smarter and better than everybody else. Multiple positions are available.

Candidate Requirements:

• 3+ years of solid software development experience
• Expertise in PHP
• Expertise in JavaScript / HTML / CSS / AJAX
• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to assist other team members in problem solving.
• Excellent knowledge of Internet/Web technologies, such as browsers, firewalls, and http.
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Interested? Send your resume to peterg@zynga.com with the job title in the subject line, please.

We are working with a successful San Francisco based company that has created a virtual world online game, which has become a cultural phenomena. Our Client has had tremendous success since their launch a couple of years ago.

We are looking for an senior software / database engineer to take a very large scale single database based MMO and re-engineer both the database and the applications. This app is scaling rapidly, so our client is looking to shard the DB appropriately and re-write how the applications access data in this new distributed architecture.

Tech is:

• C++,
• some Python,
• MySQL in a RESTful context

This company is based in San Francisco but they also have Mountain View office. This is a contract for 3-6 months with a verry high probability of going full time if there is a mutual agreement between the client and the consultant.

Please contact Anya Tatareno at anya@wildcog.com, 415-269-6293.

My client needs a full time, on-site, salaried Senior LAMP Developer to build a web based Customer Relations Management (CRM) application from inception to production and to integrate closely within their existing website framework. The application will be responsible for managing transactions between our internal staff, external agents and website end users/customers. The application will integrate with their existing website framework in order to allow customers, agents and internal staff to communicate both privately and publicly through the website.

This position requires someone with experience in all components of the development process from inception to production and this role will require intensive work on developing the database, back-end framework and front-end UI implementations based on the business team's requirements and UI designs.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Previous CRM-based (or closely related) development - 3+ years
• PHP - 5+ years
• MySQL - 5+ years
• XHTML/CSS - 3+ years
• Linux/Apache (administration, configuration, optimization)

Desired Skills/Experience:

• JavaScript
• AJAX
• Photoshop
• XML

To be considered, please submit your resume and salary requirements to bg @ capitalmarketsp.com