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Rockstar Front-end Web Developer (JavaScript/AJAX, XHMTL, & CSS)

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Want to help build the world’s best discovery engine? Want to become a key member of a small, high-caliber team?

Currently in private beta, YourVersion gives customers the best way to discover and share personalized, relevant web content related to their interests. YourVersion is located in downtown Palo Alto, California.

The CEO and founder of YourVersion, Dan Olsen, has over 16 years of high-tech experience and led product management for Quicken and Friendster. He has a technical background, a Stanford MBA, and has advised many early-stage web startups. He is passionate about building successful, large-scale consumer sites and recently gave a presentation at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo entitled Web 2.0 Product Management: Optimizing Metrics and Viral Growth

For more details, you can view Dan Olsen’s LinkedIn profile.

Rockstar Front-end Web Developer (JavaScript/AJAX, XHMTL, & CSS)

Responsibilities
- Create a great product that our customers love
- Work directly with CEO to design features that help users discover great content
- Work with PHP/MySQL developers to deliver functionality
- Ensure features are compelling, easy to use, and follow good UI design principles
- Ensure features work properly across A-grade browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari)

Requirements
- At least 3 years coding customer-facing features
- Experience developing for large-scale consumer websites
- Proven experience writing cross-browser, standards-compliant XHTML and CSS
- Proficient with JavaScript, AJAX, DOM, JSON, and XML
- Experience with Prototype, Scriptaculous, YUI, or equivalent frameworks
- Thrive in fast-paced environments with quick iterations
- Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills
- Go-getter: you figure out what needs to be done vs. having to be told
- Can see the big picture but also zoom down into details
- Proficiency using Subversion (SVN)
- BS in Computer Science, Graphic Design or equivalent

Bonus points for
- Startup experience
- Passion for the discovery/recommendation engine space
- Strong Fireworks, Photoshop, and/or Illustrator skills
- Strong UI design skills
- Experience developing Firefox extensions (XUL)