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radiusIM has redefined instant messaging by creating a social IM application that makes it fun and easy for people to chat. The 200k+ radius users love the simple, no-download required platform that lets them talk with all of their friends on AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Gtalk. They also love chatting with new friends that they meet by surfing the map for locals all over the world.
The application is built using AJAX, Java, JSP, C and a little Flash. We utilize all sorts of open-source software like Spring, PostgreSQL and ejabberd to get things done and we have fun doing it!
You’d be full-time at our offices in Manhattan’s lower east side and you’d get to use the products you build every day to chat with your friends and colleagues. radiusIM is a 3rd-year startup that’s fully funded and has a very cohesive team that likes to work hard and have a good time too.
We currently have a number of open positions:
- Application Developer (Java & AJAX)
- Services Developer (Java & C)
- Linux Network Engineer
- QA/Release Engineer
To apply, please send an email to jobs@radiusIM.com. Be sure to include your resume and the position(s) you’d like to be considered for in the email.
Application Developer (Java & AJAX)
We’d love to talk to you about joining the team as an Application Developer if:
- You love creating software and trying out new things.
- You are an expert in Java and love programming in it.
- You are an expert in AJAX. You can talk about the differences between frameworks you’ve used like Dojo and Prototype and can talk about lessons you’ve learned from your AJAX projects.
- You can mock something up in HTML/CSS as if you were just creating a document in Word.
- You have fun solving tough problems and looking for ways to improve your own work as well as the work of others.
- You read all about new things being done in Java, AJAX and other interesting technologies.
- You’ve worked on web products on 2-4 week rapid development cycles (or you’re tired of the multi-month waterfall development cycles and can’t wait to escape them).
- You write test code to unit test the components you build.
- You love starting new projects and learning new codebases.
- You have a bachelors degree in Computer Science or another technical concentration.
- You’ve signed up on radiusim.com, have fully explored the site and have lots of technical questions and theories about how things work.
We’d love to talk to you about joining the team as a Services Developer if:
- You love creating software and trying out new things.
- You are an expert in C and love programming in it.
- You’ve created components in C or C++ that handle very high volumes of messages from a message bus.
- You are in expert in Java and have significant experience with JDK5 and JDK6.
- You love object oriented design yet you are also comfortable with event-driven structural programming patterns.
- You love working with messaging technologies like RV, JMS or MQ and the flexibilities they afford you in creating distributed and scalable services.
- You can talk about a framework or library you designed and created that saved development time when it was reused by other developers.
- You have fun solving tough problems and looking for ways to improve your own work as well as the work of others.
- You read all about new things being done in Java, C/C++ and other interesting technologies.
- You’ve worked on web products on 2-4 week rapid development cycles (or you’re tired of the multi-month waterfall development cycles and can’t wait to escape them).
- You write test code to unit test the components you build.
- You love starting new projects and learning new codebases.
- You have a bachelors degree in Computer Science or another technical concentration.
- You’ve signed up on radiusim.com, have fully explored the site and have lots of technical questions and theories about how things work.
We’d love to talk to you about joining the team as Linux Systems Engineer if:
- You love Linux and get psyched every time you discover yet another way to use it.
- You’ve designed and built production networks for online services that are able to scale and survive individual component failures.
- You’re cool with being on-call. You like being able to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly and pride yourself in keeping those issues from having a significant impact on the site when they do occur.
- You’re an expert at setting up level 2/3 switching gear, firewalls and load balancers. You know fundamentally how each of the devices work and you’re confident that the skills you have from working with one vendors products will be transferable to any other similar products.
- You like the hard-to-solve problems and are happy to work with application developers or even look at code to help identify difficult problems.
- You have a set of favorite network management tools, packet sniffers and methods to make sure things are running smoothly and to identify potential hot spots before they become an issue.
- You love open source. You love the wide array of tools and technologies that the community has built and you love being able to fully understand how they work.
- You love automating routine tasks and setting up automated monitoring. You have numerous experiences where the metrics you’ve collected have helped you plan for needed capacity or identify security threats.
- You love expanding your skill set and learning new things. You find doing research to identify the best tool for the job to be fun and you’re quick to identify the benefits and drawbacks of one approach versus another.
- You like the idea of being part of a small company where you get to do such a broad range of tasks from network design to physically cabling racks to doing occasional sysadmin work like shell scripting and installs.
- You have a bachelors degree in Computer Science or another technical concentration or equivalent technical training and job experience..
- You’ve signed up on radiusim.com, have fully explored the site and have lots of technical questions and theories about how things work.
We’d love to talk to you about joining the team as QA/Release Engineer if:
- You love pulling apart an application looking for ways to break it.
- You’ve developed detailed test plans for multi-layered web applications and can talk eloquently about the different elements that make a test plan complete
- You like iteratively improving the test plan as new functionality is added and the application otherwise evolves. You like to be engaged early throughout the design and build process and love working closely with the development team.
- You have experience managing an offshore testing team, collecting and reporting results.
- You love the details and are very good at documenting the specifics of bugs including how to reproduce them.
- You get the big picture and are comfortable categorizing and rating issues based on their impact
- You’re passionate about quality and are proactive about finding new issues before anyone else does.
- You have top-notch verbal and written communication skills and are able to explain things to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences
- You have experience creating automated functional and performance tests.
- You have a bachelors degree