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Senior Front-End Developer

Do you want to work for a leading provider of social networking applications with:

  • Over 5 million monthly active users
  • Over 68 million installs
  • Over 30,000 new profiles daily

 

Then join SNAP! SNAP Interactive builds AreYouInterested.com (AYI), a social dating application that leverages data from Facebook and other API’s to match people who share similar interests. We work at the intersection of Social, Big Data, Location and Mobile. Our environment is fun and relaxed, our products are ambitious, and our engineers are some of the brightest in NYC.
 
Position Summary:
As a SNAP Senior Front End Developer, you will use your expertise in visual design, information architecture, interaction design, code execution and a solid understanding of current rich internet application and web technologies to deliver polished web products that leverage social networking in a dating context. Our flat management structure allows you to own your projects in a SCRUM/Agile environment and have an impact in guiding a product with over 50 million registered users. Our creative environment encourages exploration of cutting edge technologies that will keep our products and your skills at the forefront of our industry.
 
Responsibilities:

  • Converting product requirements into a well thought through, cleanly coded end product
  • Contribute to the corporate branding and brand guidelines
  • Rapidly prototype and evaluate front-end designs
  • Working in a team environment, collaborating with back-end developers, lead designers, and product managers
  • Working independently with minimal supervision
  • Staying abreast of new technology to maintain the highest standard of work with extreme attention to detail

 

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Ability to transform complex layout (PSD and/or Wireframes) into pixel-perfect presentation-layer (front-end) HTML/CSS/JS templates
  • Familiar and comfortable with HTML5, CSS3 and the concepts of Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation. At least 3 years’ experience with HTML and CSS
  • Solid experience with Javascript
  • Experience with jQuery or other Javascript frameworks
  • 3+ years as a Senior Developer
  • 5+ years of professional experience with web development in production environments for high traffic web sites
  • At least 3 years’ experience with server-side languages (PHP) and JavaScript frameworks (jQuery)
  • Experience utilizing data-driven websites and Content Management Systems
  • Solid understanding of web browser technologies and cross-browser compatibility
  • Solid understanding of web standards, accessibility and SEO best practices
  • Experience with Subversion for Source Control
  • Experience with common APIs (Facebook, Google, Amazon EC2/S3, Twitter, YouTube, etc) preferred
  • Familiarity with formal QA methodologies, processes and techniques preferred
  • Mobile web development experience preferred

 

Other Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer programming, computer engineering or related field preferred, or comparable job-related experience and training. Industry knowledge and experience required
  • US work authorization (All applicants must possess proper US work eligibility and authorization documents)

 

TO APPLY:
Email Resume to JOBS+SI [at] SNAP-INTERACTIVE.COM

 

SNAP Interactive Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering a progressive, team-oriented work environment, exciting career opportunities and excellent benefits. The responsibilities listed above are not intended to be comprehensive. Other duties may be required as needed.

 

* Learn More About “Life at SNAP”Download Detailed PDF Here

* Learn More About “SNAP Benefits & Perks”Download Detailed PDF Here

iOS Engineer

Do you want to work for a leading provider of social networking applications with a best-selling iOS app. in Apple’s App Store? If so, join SNAP!

 

SNAP Interactive has:

  • Over 5 million monthly active users
  • Over 68 million installs
  • Over 30,000 new profiles daily
  • Massive amounts of dynamic user data
  • One of the top 5 iOS apps in the Social category of Apple’s App store

 

SNAP Interactive builds AreYouInterested.com (AYI), a social discovery application that leverages data from Facebook and other API’s to match people who share similar interests. We work at the intersection of Social, Big Data, Location and Mobile. Our environment is fun and relaxed, our products are ambitious, and our engineers are some of the brightest in NYC.

 

As one of our two iOS engineers, this is a highly visible position within SNAP and will have direct impact on product and feature decisions. As our iOS Developer you are expected to have a solid in-depth understanding of iOS platform SDK and real-world experience launching successful apps in the Apple’s App store. This position is full-time and is conveniently located one block from Penn Station.

 

Competitive compensation includes:

  • guaranteed bonus + discretionary bonus
  • stock options
  • annual training stipend of $2,000
  • monthly hackathons & regular employee-hosted tech talks
  • free snacks, fun outings, twice-monthly massages, and Knicks & Rangers tickets

 

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing mobile products
  • Create innovative applications for the iPhone
  • Drive complete features from requirements through to deployment and experimentation
  • Collaborate closely with our Mobile team consisting of our mobile product manager, designer and iOS native developers to define, code and ship new features
  • Participate in code reviews on GitHub to ensure the creation of high-quality, robust code by all team members
  • Maintain and improve our continuous integration process
  • Work within an Agile environment

 

Required Experience & Skills:

  • 3+ years of iOS programming experience
  • 3+ years mobile application development
  • 4+ years of object oriented programming based development
  • Have deep knowledge of Apple’s iPhone SDK and relevant expertise in iOS 6
  • Be an Objective-C expert
  • Mastery of Xcode, Instruments, Interface Builder
  • Extensive experience with OO design patterns
  • Have shipped at least one amazing iPhone app
  • Have passion to design, build and polish great, simple, fun mobile applications
  • Extensive experience with OO design patterns
  • Be self-motivated and comfortable working independently or in a team while owning a project from start to finish
  • Have experience in a light-weight, rapid turnaround, agile engineering environment
  • Be a passionate advocate of concise and simple code, designs and applications
  • Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
  • Experience with consumer facing UI development
  • Love for writing high quality code while shipping great apps
  • Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
  • Be a self-starter with a hands on attitude

 

Qualifications:
US work authorization required. H1B transfers will be considered
TO APPLY:
Email Resume to JOBS+SI [at] SNAP-INTERACTIVE.COM

 

SNAP Interactive Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering a progressive, team-oriented work environment, exciting career opportunities and excellent benefits. The responsibilities listed above are not intended to be comprehensive. Other duties may be required as needed.

 

* Learn More About “Life at SNAP”Download Detailed PDF Here

* Learn More About “SNAP Benefits & Perks”Download Detailed PDF Here

PHP Web Developer

Do you want to work for a leading provider of social networking applications with

  • Over 5 million monthly active users
  • Over 68 million installs
  • Over 30,000 new profiles daily

 

Then join SNAP! SNAP Interactive builds AreYouInterested.com (AYI), a social dating application that leverages data from Facebook and other API’s to match people who share similar interests. We work at the intersection of Social, Big Data, Location and Mobile. Our environment is fun and relaxed, our products are ambitious, and our engineers are some of the brightest in NYC.

 

SNAP Interactive, a publicly traded company, has a new opening for a Senior PHP Developer. This position is full-time and is conveniently based one block from Penn Station.
Competitive compensation includes:

  • guaranteed bonus + discretionary bonus
  • stock options
  • annual training stipend of $2,000
  • monthly hackathons & regular employee-hosted tech talks
  • free snacks, fun outings, twice-monthly massages, and Knicks & Rangers tickets

 

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Advanced PHP expertise with at least 3 years of object oriented PHP5 development
  • At least 3 years of experience with MySQL
  • Expertise in CSS, HTML, Javascript and Ajax
  • Experience with jQuery or other Javascript frameworks
  • Comfortable programming from scratch. Not dependent on frameworks
  • Solid understanding of common security practices including XSS and preventing SQL injectionsPrevious experience with modern software development tools such as issues tracking systems, distributed source control and unit testing
  • Previous experience with exotic MySQL topologies preferred
  • Experience with MySQL slaves preferred
  • US work authorization (All applicants must possess proper US work eligibility and authorization documents)

 

Pluses:

  • Passion for other cutting-edge technologies such as MongoDB, Hadoop, and Solr
  • Experience with common APIs (Facebook, Google, Spotify, and Twitter) a plus
  • Professional experience at a high-traffic, consumer web sites (>1 million visits)

 

TO APPLY:
Email Resume to JOBS+SI [at] SNAP-INTERACTIVE.COM

 

SNAP Interactive Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering a progressive, team-oriented work environment, exciting career opportunities and excellent benefits. The responsibilities listed above are not intended to be comprehensive. Other duties may be required as needed.

 

* Learn More About “Life at SNAP”Download Detailed PDF Here

* Learn More About “SNAP Benefits & Perks”Download Detailed PDF Here