FanCandy is looking for a talented and enthusiastic software engineer to join our team for a great, ground floor opportunity.
Our product is aiming to deliver the ultimate social andcompetitive experience for gambling and sports fans everywhere. This positionwithin the team is focused on the development of the platform which providesAPIs and Technologies that underpin the features being developed for theservice. Wewill leverage your knowledge of and interest in design patterns and frameworksto directly shape and influence system architectural choices. You will bepart of a strong and tightly-knit development group collaborating, influencing,and growing your technical and domain expertise working with sports luminariesand key business stakeholders.
We are headquartered everywhere and nowhere. FanCandy is avirtual organization, with members of the team scattered across the globe. Ifthe sound of eliminating your daily commute appeals to you, please read on.
Our ideal candidate is a coding ninja with a positiveoutlook, superb communication, organization and management skills and thecreative and technical prowess to handle whatever crazy ideas we can throw atyou.
Responsibilities - Build exciting new experiences on Fancandy'sweb and mobile websites
- Work with other leads and production staff toestablish engineering tasks and schedules.
- Contribute to setting the technical directionfor the team.
- Balance time between managing and contributing throughprogramming.
- Evaluate and mentor engineers on the team.
- Serve as a partner in the team's leadership.
- Interface with external teams to gatherrequirements, assist with integration, and provide visibility into the platformdevelopment roadmap.
Requirements - .NET platform, architecture andfundamentals experience
- Distributed systems experience
- Security considerations (encryption, denial ofservice, online payment) experience
- Architecture (cloud, client / server) experience
- Knowledge of network and server security issues
- A passion for games, sports, or gambling (allthree a huge plus)
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- self-starter who can take direction, butmore importantly figures out what to do without being told
- Can handle pressure professionally and canbecome more engaged as situations get tighter.
Desired - Experience building web or mobile products for awide range of platforms
- 5+ years of experience with C or equivalentweb-based development
- Experience with Python, Javascript, XML, JSON,CSS, Ajax, HTML5, jQuery or jQTouch
- Experience building, debugging, andmaintaining large scale distributed web applications
- Database development experience (MySQL, Oracle,PostgreSQL)
- Leadership potential or previous leadership experience
- Excellent verbal and written communicationsskills
- Agile development exposure
- UML diagramming experience (class, sequence)
- Familiar with higher-level network protocolssuch as HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, FTP
- Active user of Twitter/Facebook
- Previous startup experience
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in ComputerScience, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
FanCandy is an equalopportunity and affirmative action employer.