Careers at Askville

             Interested in working for a growing technology company with lots of energy and excitement? Take a look at the exciting opportunities available. At Askville, we have one goal. We hire the smartest and most passionate people we can find. We value efficiency, simplicity, and working smart. Come join the team!

      SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Amazon's New Products Group (owner of the social question and answer website Askville) is looking for rock-star software development engineers to join our team.

Since launching Askville a few short years ago, we have built a thriving community of dedicated users, and built a large and important business. We are an independent, dedicated group of developers who love working in a fast paced startup-like environment. We have a passion for developing the best Web 2.0 user experience possible, and for using the right tools to get the job done quickly, and with the highest possible quality.

We are looking for smart, driven engineers who are passionate about designing great software and great user experience, who want to solve challenging problems, and help others solve theirs. The candidate will be responsible for helping to create innovative and good user experiences on the web building both client-side and server-side technology. The candidate should have experience in designing and programming scalable, high availability systems involving huge data sets. The candidate should also be highly skilled in the art of indexing databases, schema design, performance tuning, database replication techniques, query optimization and handling database complexity. The candidate should also have strong experience in coding algorithms and data structures that produces superior performance. We have built a great foundation and we are looking for someone to help us design and build the next generations, and work with us to take our business to the next level.

Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related degree, or equivalent experience
- Excellent OO design and coding skills in Java
- Experience in Struts, Spring, JSP, JSF, Hibernate, Tomcat, JPA, etc.
- Experience in developing efficient AJAX interfaces with in-depth knowledge of available AJAX libraries and frameworks
- Experience in HTML, JavaScript, CSS and general Web 2.0 techniques
- Preferably, familiarity with scripting languages like PHP and Ruby
- Strong focus on the end-user
- Team player with excellent communication skills

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