Software Engineer – Platform

Posted on January 7th, 2011 by

Animoto is looking for great software engineers to build out the Animoto Platform. These services operate at scale to power internal applications such as Animoto.com, the Animoto iPhone app, the Animoto Facebook app in addition to external APIs. We want to significantly expand the Platform’s capabilities in 2012 and need excellent engineers to help.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve the services that power Animoto
  • Code primarily in Ruby
  • Write scalable and efficient code
  • Work closely with product managers, back end engineers, front end engineers, support team

Requirements

  • Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals
  • Disciplined approach to testing and writing maintainable code
  • Extensive programming experience (Ruby skills a plus)
  • Experience interacting with and designing APIs

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: PPO Health Insurance Plan 100% paid for employee and dependents, participation in employee stock option plan

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About ckorhonen

Chris Korhonen is the British-born UX designer here at Animoto. Chris has over 10 years of experience developing for the web and before joining Animoto he was at American Express developing their online services and driving strategy. Chris has a lot of hands on experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, Ruby and Java and recently published a book on using APIs to create mashups using Adobe Flex and Air. You can follow him on Twitter.

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