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Software Architect

Location: Los Gatos, CADepartment: VISUALPLANT / New Products

Type: Temporary to Full TimeExperience: Experienced

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VISUALPLANT is a platform for content providers to manage and distribute their media on the Internet. We are building a new monetization service to help content providers finance their infrastructure and bandwidth costs with a simple, brilliant new patent-pending method.

We are seeking a senior-level Software Architect / Manager to plan and manage development of the service from the ground-up based on business requirements. Your role will be to work with the Founder, software developers and designers to implement the strategy from stage 1 to beta launch and beyond. This is a ground-floor opportunity in a start-up at the center of the biggest, most-rapidly expanding segment of the Internet: video. Compensation includes significant equity.

Qualities:
We want a motivated quick-study with a proven track-record of technical successes (commercial successes also welcome), solid work ethic and resourcefulness (can get things done without inflated budgets). No 9-to-5 gig here; you can work long hours with the Founder to solve problems. You are motivated to elevate yourself 5 rungs on the career-ladder in the next 2 years and define Internet video 3.0.

Duties include:

- Work with Founder to plan and implement technology supporting business plan.

- Hire and manage software developers, UI designers and testing resources.

- Write, review and release code using version control system.

- Document all code classes and database architectures.

- Work with Founder to help document self-service APIs and FAQs.

- Integrate with 3rd-party APIs as/when appropriate.

- Attend trade shows, contribute to marketing plan and participate in sales calls.

Required experience:

- Computer science degree and expert-level working knowledge of at least 2 or 3 object-oriented development languages. Prefer PHP, Ruby-On-Rails and/or Python, but will consider other options.

- Ability to architect a system for massive, dynamic scalability.

- Internet Video delivery standards, including files, formats, players and content delivery networks.

- Restful Webservices.

- Javascript widget development.

Preferred experience:

- Amazon Web Services, including FPS and simpleDB

- Jeroen Wijering's open-source Flash player framework

- FaceBook app development

- iPhone app development

MUST HAVE SOLID REFERENCES

MUST BE BASED LOCALLY IN SILICON VALLEY, CA.

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