Vacation 2.0

OVERVIEW:
Looking for an outstanding application engineer with strong web tier development skills to work closely with VP of Product Development. Candidate has desire to have direct influence on the direction and quality of the leading travel search engine.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develop application features, develop and maintain frameworks for web-tier development, contribute to interaction and visual design of user features, performance measurement and tuning, A/B testing.

EXPERIENCE:
Candidates will have 2-5 years web application development experience at a high traffic consumer web site, can shift gears quickly, have the ability to do rapid prototyping of new features in parallel with design, and have deep experience with most of the following technologies:

• UI-tier technologies: XHTML, XML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, prototype library, scriptaculous library, cross-browser compatibility, hands-on experience with mashupable widgets such as Google Maps, Flickr Photo Widget, just to name a few
• Mid-tier technologies: Web Services, XML, SOAP, SAX, Ruby on Rails, Active Record and/or J2EE technologies including EJB, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, etc.
  
• Design/Prototyping Tools: Photoshop/GIMP, Flash (nice to have)
• Debugging Tools: YSlow and Firebug
• Other: SQL, UNIX, Ant, Maven, Rake, jUnit
• Nice to have: Front-end optimization experience, converting visual designs/wireframes into webpage