Do you want to be part of something bigger and be early on the ground floor? Do you love to play and share mobile games? If yes, then keep reading...

We are seeking a contract Jr. Software Engineer with a desire to build robust, scalable, and exciting web and mobile applications. You will  be part of a team that works on diverse, site-spanning projects involving our mobile and client platforms,  video, web services, security, user-to-user interaction, and more.  We desire someone who is comfortable writing clean and efficient code, and has passionate opinions about user interface and interaction.
This may lead to a Full Time positon.

Responsibilities:
• Participate in technical design efforts of our Spazzmania App ensuring that the design is well documented and meets scalability and performance requirements
• Participate in the implementation (e.g., coding, testing, debugging) effort
• Analyze and research data analytics
• Build large scale web applications for desktop and mobile
• Familiarity with (and excitement about!) recommendation engine and the search/information retrieval space in general

Qualifications:
• 2-4 years of experience with the LAMP stack.
• 2-3years of experience with a well-known MVC framework (CakePHP strongly preferred).
• Solid understanding of REST APIs.
• Strong experience with PHP
• Strong Object Oriented Programming skills
• Expert knowledge of SQL databases, web servers and performance optimization
• Excellent verbal and written skills, with proven ability to communicate complex ideas and to design and document projects in a clear, concise way
• Results-oriented and proactive with proven leadership skills
• Linux/Unix experience is essential
• Experience with JSON & XML.
• Skilled in setting up a LAMP environment on virtual private server platforms.
• Experience with version control systems such as Subversion, Git
• Self motivated and committed to quality while having respect for the sense of urgency that exists at all startups

Education and Nice To Have's:
• BS and/or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Recent experience building highly scalable enterprise system a big plus
• Have worked with affiliate networks
• Familiarity with programming for mobile platforms and/or other JSON APIs

About US:
Spazzmania is an iPad app discovery engine that finds games you wanna play on the App Store. Spazzmania combines the gaming research, video reviews and social networking elements all in one place.
www.spazzmania.com

• Location: Los Angeles
• Compensation: TBD
• This is a part-time job.
• This is a contract job.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Do you want to be part of something bigger and be early on the ground floor? Do you love to play and share mobile games? If yes, then keep reading...

We are seeking a part-time contract Software Engineer with a desire to build robust, scalable, and exciting web and mobile applications. You will  be part of a team that works on diverse, site-spanning projects involving our mobile and client platforms,  video, web services, security, user-to-user interaction, and more.  We desire someone who is comfortable writing clean and efficient code, and has passionate opinions about user interface and interaction.
This may lead to a Full Time positon.

Responsibilities:
• Participate in technical design efforts of our Spazzmania App ensuring that the design is well documented and meets scalability and performance requirements
• Participate in the implementation (e.g., coding, testing, debugging) effort
• Analyze and research data analytics
• Build large scale web applications for desktop and mobile
• Familiarity with (and excitement about!) recommendation engine and the search/information retrieval space in general

Qualifications:
• 2-4 years of experience with the LAMP stack.
• 2-3years of experience with a well-known MVC framework (CakePHP strongly preferred).
• Solid understanding of REST APIs.
• Strong experience with PHP
• Strong Object Oriented Programming skills
• Expert knowledge of SQL databases, web servers and performance optimization
• Excellent verbal and written skills, with proven ability to communicate complex ideas and to design and document projects in a clear, concise way
• Results-oriented and proactive with proven leadership skills
• Linux/Unix experience is essential
• Experience with JSON & XML.
• Skilled in setting up a LAMP environment on virtual private server platforms.
• Experience with version control systems such as Subversion, Git
• Self motivated and committed to quality while having respect for the sense of urgency that exists at all startups

Education and Nice To Have's:
• BS and/or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Recent experience building highly scalable enterprise system a big plus
• Have worked with affiliate networks
• Familiarity with programming for mobile platforms and/or other JSON APIs

About US:
Spazzmania is an iPad app discovery engine that finds games you wanna play on the App Store. Spazzmania combines the gaming research, video reviews and social networking elements all in one place.
www.spazzmania.com

• Location: Culver City
• Compensation: TBD
• This is a part-time job.
• This is a contract job.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Existing and currently operating hyper-local, social web start-up with a unique online service is looking for a lead Drupal/PHP developer to join its management team as the company's senior developer and possible Chief Technology Officer (the latter depending on the applicant's experience). Developer, at first on a part-time basis, will initially only acclimate him or herself to the existing code base and develop a limited number of additional features to existing beta application, as well as, and more importantly, be a part of the company's management team in investor pitch meetings to raise the company's first round of capital. Upon raising the company's first round of capital, the position will become full-time. More details and the identity of the company will be provided later.

Compensation for initial, part-time development work will be $65 per hour and, as a member of the company's management team, applicant will also receive stock equity in the company. Applicant should have at a minimum at least three years of PHP development experience and at least two years of Drupal development experience, as well as strong experience dealing with web 2.0/social media based applications. DEVELOPMENT SHOPS SHOULD NOT APPLY; THIS IS A POSITION FOR AN INIDIVIDUAL DEVELOPER/EXECUTIVE.

Only serious entrepreneurs/developers who want to work at a start-up should apply. Applicant must absolutely have a "die-hard, go for broke, home run, work long hours" attitude and possess a strong, personal desire to grow a start-up into a dynamic company through a liquidity event irrespective of the monetary outcome, i.e., applicant should be motivated both financially, as well as simply by making great products and services for consumers.

Please send e-mail cover letter and resume to developerjob@live.com **In the written content of your e-mail, please provide answers to the following questions or else we will not be able to consider you for the position:

1) How long have you been developing in Drupal?
2) How long have you been developing in PHP?
3) Approximately how many development projects have you worked on as a lead developer?
4) Approximately how many development projects have you worked on using Drupal as a lead developer?
5) Please provide at least three URLs of websites that you have built as lead developer using Drupal.
6) Can you do both back-end, as well as basic front-end coding?

Requirements/qualifications for the position are as follows (applicant must have ALL of these qualifications; otherwise, we will not be able to consider you for the position):

- Must be able to and have experience developing custom Drupal modules
- Must be able to do both back end and basic front-end coding.
- Minimum 3 plus years PHP development/coding experience
- Minimum 2 plus years developing online applications using Drupal (must be able to show examples of sites that you developed using Drupal and references related thereto)
- Minimum 1 plus years experience as a "lead" developer (must be able to show examples of sites that you were the lead developer on and references related thereto)
- Experience developing social media and Web 2.0 applications (must be able to show examples of sites that you developed with social media and/or similar Web 2.0 features).
- Strong technical background in LAMP environment
- Must be able to write excellent code and applications that are modular and built for scale.
- Excellent communication/people/social skills and be able to participate in investor pitch meetings.
- Must be able to meet deadlines.
- Must have references.
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related field from reputable university or equivalent work experience.

Additionally, but not required:

- Experience with mobile based applications a plus, but not required.
- Experience with coding geared towards SEO a plus, but not required.
- Previous experience working at a successful start-up or established web company is preferred, but not required.

** Not required, but if you have done any, please provide/describe any contributions that you have made to the Drupal project, such as modules.

• Location: Los Angeles
• Compensation: $65 per hour
• Telecommuting is ok.
• This is a part-time job.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
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Seeking a detailed, customer service oriented, network administrator. MUST HAVE 3 YEARS MINIMUM WINDOWS SERVER MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE. This is a fast paced environment providing network and desktop support for our clients. Communication is a key detail, proficiency in both written and verbal are absolutely essential. Attention to detail in taking notes and documenting work is also essential.


Skills
Server 2008, Terminal server 2008, Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010, Active Directory, Group Policy Management, SQL Server a plus,


Notes
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY UNLESS YOU MEET THE 3 YEARS OF ACTIVE PERSONAL MANAGEMENT OF WINDOWS NETWORKS REQUIREMENT.
If you have 3 YEARS OF ACTIVE PERSONAL MANAGEMENT OF WINDOWS NETWORKS, we look forward to hearing from you. Select the link below to apply directly.
http://www.scvjobs.com/jobdetails.cfm/4764/Network-Administrator

• Location: Santa Clarita
• Compensation: $45k-$65k Contract to hire.
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SideReel helps users find, track and watch shows online. With over 10 million monthly unique visitors and 2.5 million registered users, SideReel's library includes something for everyone: popular network and cable TV shows, movies, and hundreds of Web TV series too. If it's online, it's on SideReel.
SideReel creates and distributes recaps, recommendations, news, reviews and gossip for popular TV shows at reeltv.sidereel.com.
For partner inquiries with regard to SideReel's original content email: reeltv [at] sidereel.com
SideReel also curates the best of Web TV at sidereel.com/_webtv.
SideReel is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI). For more information please visit http://www.rovicorp.com.
We're working hard so that SideReel.com continues to be the best place to find, track and watch television online. SideReel is run by an agile 25-person team within our parent company, Rovi Corp. Our offices are located south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, equity, benefits and a great place to work.

How we work:

■Test driving our code in pairs
■Quick daily standups to guarantee good flow of communication
■Agile software development that's pragmatic, not dogmatic
■Everyone tests, builds, and ships. Step up and own a deployment - if it breaks, fix it. Waiting for the X person to come and fix the Y problem just isn't how we work.

Requirements:

■Shipped some Rails sites before - we love fast learners but are really looking for someone to hit the ground running
■We use jQuery and Javascript throughout our site, so if you're solid there it's a big plus
■Have a great attitude - we enjoy working together, and hope you would too

Skills that'll land you first in the queue:

■Front-to-back Rails development
■Caching (via Memcache) & performance in Rails
■Rspec/BDD
■Cucumber/Integration testing
■Bonus points if you've shipped a high-traffic Rails site or published a Gem or Plugin

To learn more about Sidereel visite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTrPHM1eGeg

• Location: San Francisco, CA
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I am a programmer with years of experience in Microsoft technologies, and am looking for someone who is experienced in the Linux world, such as Apache, Linux, RedHat, CentOs, Perl, PHP, Python, or anything alike, willing to train/tutor me.. Off-site tutoring through gotomeeting is preferrable..

• Location: Torrance, CA
• Compensation: DOE
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We are looking for a LifeRay programmer that can develop a e-magazine site within LifeRay. This would include video, photos, PDFs, etc. With client side updating of content.

We are an interactive agency with high profile clients. We need someone ASAP.

Would like to see sample of work.

Please email as soon as possible.

• Location: Remote
• Compensation: Depend on skills
• Telecommuting is ok.
• OK to highlight this job opening for persons with disabilities
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Job Summary: GFI Software is an award-winning provider of IT solutions for small- and mid-sized businesses, with over 10,000 channel partners and hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide. Its GFI MAX product line consists of two hosted software solutions for IT support companies and managed services providers, the GFI MAX Remote Management service and the GFI MAX Mail hosted email security service. These SaaS services are mission-critical, high-volume, and technically complex. The Software Engineer will join a small, highly talented team responsible for the GFI MAX Mail application, and will be a key contributor to the introduction of new GFI MAX service offerings, as well as the ongoing development of the existing software. The successful candidate will be passionate about delivering high-quality software that is both technically sophisticated and easy-to-use for our end customers.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Java development for core back-end application -- a high-transaction, geographically distributed SMTP application that provides the foundation for the service's hosted spam and virus protection, email continuity, and email archiving
• Java development for customer-facing web-based control panel, with a focus on back-end web services, servlets and JSP
• Creation of unit and integration tests
• Documentation of developed software
• Participation in QA


Personal attributes:
• Enthusiastic and motivated to produce software with a positive impact
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Able to handle multiple projects
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team
• Accustomed to fast-paced environments
• Team-oriented


Education / Experience:
• 5+ years in software development
• 3+ years in server-side Java
• Substantial experience with JSP and servlet development
• Experience with MySQL, JDBC, and database frameworks (Hibernate, Spring, etc.)
• Experience developing in a Linux/Unix environment
• Experience with established agile software development methodologies and with test-driven development
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP and SMTP protocols
• Experience with Java NIO and concurrent packages helpful

• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• Compensation: $105,000 - $120,000
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Job Summary: GFI Software is an award-winning provider of IT solutions for small- and mid-sized businesses, with over 10,000 channel partners and hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide. Its GFI MAX product line consists of two hosted software solutions for IT support companies and managed services providers, the GFI MAX Remote Management service and the GFI MAX Mail hosted email security service. These SaaS services are mission-critical, high-volume, and technically complex. The Java Developer will join a small, highly talented team responsible for the GFI MAX Mail application, and will be a key contributor to the introduction of new GFI MAX service offerings, as well as the ongoing development of the existing software. The successful candidate will be passionate about delivering high-quality software that is both technically sophisticated and easy-to-use for our end customers.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Java development for customer-facing web-based control panel, including back-end web services, servlets and JSP pages, and front-end HTML / JQuery / CSS
• Java development for core back-end application -- a high-transaction, geographically distributed SMTP application that provides the foundation for the service's hosted spam and virus protection, email continuity, and email archiving
• Creation of unit and integration tests
• Documentation of developed software
• Participation in QA


Personal attributes:
• Enthusiastic and motivated to produce software with a positive impact
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Able to handle multiple projects
• Accustomed to fast-paced environments
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team

Education / Experience:
• 5+ years in software development
• 2+ years in server-side Java
• Substantial experience with JSP and servlet development
• Experience with MySQL, JDBC, and database frameworks (Hibernate, Spring, etc.)
• Experience with established agile software development methodologies and with test-driven development
• Significant experience with Linux helpful
• Good TCP/IP networking experience and understanding

• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• Compensation: $85,000 - $100,000
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Job Summary: The GFI MAX business develops and delivers hosted software solutions for IT support companies and managed services providers. The two main product lines are the Remote Monitoring and Management system and the hosted email security service. Both of these services are SaaS offerings that run 24*7 and service thousands of customers worldwide. The deployment platform is Linux-based servers utilizing MySQL databases and PHP and Java application environments. It is critical to the success of the business that these services are available, secure and performant. At present, systems administration, code deployment and infrastructure engineering are handled by members of the product engineering team and we now need to add experienced and talented devops engineers to take responsibility for these activities, working closely with development staff and bringing knowledge and expertise in high-volume, mission-critical applications. The successful candidate will be passionate about delivering high performance, stable systems that can underpin the achievement of our ambitious business growth targets.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participate in product delivery projects working closely with development and test staff on delivering low latency, high performance applications
• Plan, manage and provide systems infrastructure and application support
• Responsible for availability, security and performance of all operational systems supporting GFI MAX services
• Develop and/or implement robust deployment procedures for application code
• Analyze operational systems characteristics and behaviour, identify opportunities for improvement, and research and implement solutions
• Develop, implement and test robust disaster recovery procedures
• Produce configuration / installation instructions and documentation for use by Systems Engineering and Technical Support staff
• Manage the architecture and design of the company's operational systems
• Ensure accurate change control and configuration management of systems



Personal attributes:
• Client-centric mentality
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Attention to detail and focus on quality
• Logical approach to issue identification
• Flexible approach to working, including on-call responsibilities
• Enthusiastic and motivated to drive change through technology
• Strong communication skills to effectively liaise with both IT and non-IT staff
• Ability to manage multiple varied activities
• Must be able to work alone and as part of a team
• Ability to work well under pressure


Education / Experience
• LAMP and Java application and Linux/Unix operating system support for 24x7 business completely dependent on its operational platform.
• Apache web farms running high-volume database-driven applications -- ideally RHCE qualified
• Excellent TCP/IP networking experience and understanding
• Strong MySQL experience including database tuning, high availability, replication and optimization
• Understanding of load balancing principles and algorithms and approaches to scaling out of systems, dynamic capacity allocation and throughput optimization
• Experience with tools for automation of deployment, monitoring and management of systems
• Scripting and systems-related programming skills
• VMware virtualization
• System design documentation
• Network, OS and Application monitoring tools.
• Incident and other reporting including system specification and recommendations

• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• Compensation: $95,000 - $115,000
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• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.