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Job title

Applications Engineer for Travel Search Engine

Company C2P Group
Wage Not specified
Location United States, California, Palo Alto
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 6/14/2008
Description
UpTake is a travel information search engine - we help folks decide where to go, where to stay or what to do. We're here to help travelers make informed decisions about what best fits their preferences. We scoured the web to collect 400,000 U.S. hotels and attractions. Then we analyzed and organized millions of travelers' opinions to enable a search based on exact travel requirements and preferences.

We are 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,
* 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 webpagedf-tc

Experience/Skills
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Other desired skills:
Applications Engineer for Travel Search Engine
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