Answers
Direct, full-time role
Sr. PHP Developer)
St Louis, MO
What We Require
5+ years of programming experience with PHP
Proficient in a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) based architecture
Proficiency in AJAX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, SQL
Understanding of fundamental Internet Protocols (DNS, HTTP, SSH, SMTP, FTP)
Experience building fast, nimble, ad-hoc applications
Knowledge of internet advertising, e-mail marketing, traffic metrics, or affiliate advertising
Creative problem-solving skills and an ability to apply business logic to development requirements
Strong knowledge of object-oriented analysis, design & programming background
Benefits & Perks
Highly Competitive Salaries and Bonus Programs
Medical Insurance; 100% Principle Paid – Free Options
Company Paid Dental / Vision / Rx Drugs Insurance
Unlimited Sick Time (Discretionary)
Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy – 15 Days To Start
401k Savings Plan, Company Match
Tuition Reimbursement Program
Proven skills building high-performance, large-scale, distributed server applications - you have a portfolio of web apps you’ve played a key role in shipping
Expert knowledge of Javascript, HTML, and CSS
Experience with modern frameworks like Backbone or Angular
Experience with a Javascript unit-testing frameworks, such as Jasmine, Qunit, and Browserstack.
Familiarity with a server-side language such as PHP or Java
Experience working with REST APIs
A passion for automation, including writing unit and integration tests
A desire to move fast, ship things, make our customers happy, and get things done
A history of open source contributions and/or personal projects you’ve shipped
B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field, or related experience
About our team
You'll be part of a team focused environment, working with many other talented and driven developers
Everyone’s voice is heard and you’ll feel the satisfaction of delivering enterprise level software to a global user base
We are a development family and work together to solve engaging real world problems
Career development is a point of focus – take advantage of the ability to learn new technologies and grow your skill set within individualized career paths
More reasons to join Answers: (Varies by region)
Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
Private office space, garage parking, and other office-related benefits
Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
Company paid group dental and vision insurance
Company paid life and disability insurance
Liberal employee performance bonuses
Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
Flex Hours (Varies by dept)
10 holidays company paid
401k savings plan
ANSWERS.COM - Email: amanda.blume@answers.com
Software Developer - JAVA SPRING XML - Answers, Ann Arbor, MI
As an Answers.com (ForeSee Product Line) Java Developer, you’ll work in small talented teams on products that are used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. From day one, you’ll have an impact on the way Answers does business, the products we offer and the future of the Internet. And with herculean resources at your fingertips, you’ll tackle and solve
incredibly complex programming challenges. With our Ann Arbor team surrounded by the Great Lakes of Michigan, and our global headquarters in Saint Louis, Missouri combined with offices in California, Cleveland and New York .. Answers truly makes America its home.
Please remember our awesome perks like fully stocked kitchens with lots of yummy (and free!) goodies, on-site movies, generous time off for new parents, and of course our world-class monthly field trips and epic annual parties.
Leveraging information at the scale of the worlds web requires ideas from every niche of computer science, including artificial intelligence, behavioral analytics, predictive modeling, machine learning, natural language processing, large-scale system design, networking, security, and user interface design; the list goes on and t's growing every day.
From the worlds leading Q&A platform, to broad reaching media banks, and consumer analytics platforms, many opportunities await you at Answers.
We are mostly a Java shop, though we use other technologies and frameworks as the situation requires. We use as many leading edge technologies as we can while remaining responsible and delivering dependable software solutions to our customers.
Responsibilities
Contribute to your development team's successful implementation of new software and maintenance of existing systems
Coordinate with the Quality Assurance team to provide rock-solid code and deployment/implementation details
Work with the Product team to devise forward thinking solutions to complex problems
Handle mutli-tasking and context switching in a fast paced environment
St. Louis, MO
Sr. PHP Web Developer
Answers.com
Meaghan.Cale@answers.com
This is a mid to senior level position building and maintaining our numerous high traffic Facebook apps. You would be part of a team responsible for writing backend php / mysql, and frontend html / css / javascript. We are a very agile team doing incremental deploys multiple times a day. Your code will impact millions of users and you will also be able to monitor how your code impacts revenue for the company.
About you:
Follow industry leader blogs and twitter feeds to stay current with new techniques and technologies at your disposal as a developer. Are a fast learner and can pickup new things quickly, be it a technique, framework, or language. May or may not have worked on a high traffic site yet, but the idea of doing so excites you rather than intimidates you.
Required Skills:
jQuery
HTML - tableless
CSS - above average (we don’t support IE6)
OOP experience - common design patterns: Singleton, Factory, MVC, etc
MVC framework experience
Preferred Skills:
LAMP development experience
Above average javascript knowledge
Social media aware (have an active facebook / twitter / google+ account)
Bonus Skills:
Facebook app or api experience
High traffic experience and optimization for it
Good debugging skills
Js mvc experience (backbone.js)
Experience with some "html5" aspects like local storage and pushstate
jQuery plugin or javascript library authoring
Can come up with interesting product ideas (we're always looking for new app ideas)
Have a good UX/UI sense
Have used media queries to create responsive layouts
Contribute to open source projects
Native mobile experience (iOS, Android)
St. Louis, MO
Front-End Web Developer
Answers.com
Meaghan.Cale@Answers.com
Answers is seeking a Front-End Web Developer with a deep knowledge of — and experience with — HTML5, CSS3, and Sass; a very keen awareness of good UX; and a dedication to best practices and working successfully in an agile team environment. The successful candidate will be focused on implementing optimal and reusable elements in a fast-paced, rewarding, and goal-oriented environment. This position will be located in our St. Louis, MO, office.
Responsibilities:
* Writing semantic HTML for back-end developers to implement
* Writing Sass-based CSS for multiple mobile and desktop platforms and browsers (IE8+)
* Involvement in multi-team project planning, bringing sound UX practices to projects
Requirements:
* Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, and Sass
* Understanding and knowledge of JavaScript/jQuery
* Ability to collaborate effectively with other UX team members, back-end developers, business team stakeholders, and product managers
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, moving from planning to a first iteration/MVP quickly
Required Personal Skills:
* Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills
* Ability to work in a team setting
* Strong initiative, capable of working on a self-sufficient basis and identifying areas of potential technical improvement
* Self-management, capable of prioritizing and executing multiple tasks and projects
* Problem solving, ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues
Preferred:
* 2+ years experience in front-end development
* Experience with Sass
* Experience with/enjoyment for creating and using reusable web component systems, as well as atomic/OO CSS systems
* Experience with MVC frameworks
* Experience with git or other version control system in a team environment
* Experience with Scrum/Agile development
Job Benefits:
* Develop technology that reaches millions
* Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded
Compensation:
Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)
More reasons to join Answers:
• Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
• Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
• Private office space, garage parking, and other office-related benefits
• Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
• 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
• Company paid group dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• Liberal employee performance bonuses
• Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
• 10 holidays company paid
• 401k savings plan
St. Louis, MO
QA Engineer
Answers.com
Meaghan.Cale@answers.com
The primary duties of this position will include manually testing web applications, Answers.com in particular. This will entail using MySQL to verify data and Linux to deploy and verify code. This is an entry-level position at Answers with room for vertical growth. This is a great way to get your foot in the door of a fast growing and evolving web technology company headquartered in Saint Louis.
Summary of essential job functions:
Quality Assurance Engineers will test daily releases, write regression test plans for new products, and work closely with developers to ensure quality on the Answers.com website.
Minimum requirements:
A Bachelors / Associates degree in CS/IS/CE. This requirement can be supplemented with experience.
Ability to compose SQL queries for testing and debugging.
Comfortable working in the Linux / Unix command line.
Can understand the big picture for end-to-end data flow and regression testing.
Hunger to learn and grow as a QA Engineer in a fast paced tech startup atmosphere.
Preferred:
The ability to accurately review PHP / JavaScript code and understand the algorithms behind the change. Limited web development experience is a plus.
Experience working in a LAMP stack environment.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
Job Benefits:
* Develop technology that reaches millions
* Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded
Compensation:
Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)
More reasons to join Answers:
• Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
• Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
• Private office space, garage parking, and other office-related benefits
• Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
• 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
• Company paid group dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• Liberal employee performance bonuses
• Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
• 10 holidays company paid
• 401k savings plan
St. Louis, MO
Answers.com
Java Developer
Meaghan.Cale@answers.com
Answers’ is seeking a Java Developer to work with the core technologies powering our infrastructure. The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team devoted to the design and development of high-traffic web applications, backend processing systems, various supporting tools, and administrative front ends. This position will be located in our St. Louis, MO office.
The ideal developer will work closely with product and engineering management to satisfy user interface requirements, and work with QA to design tests and walkthroughs.
Responsibilities:
Contribute architecture input to new system components and maintenance/rewrites of legacy systems
Write thorough, comprehensive, technical and high-level documentation
Engineer and implement new product features for web-based applications using Java and Spring MVC
Optimize and enhance web applications with tens of millions of page requests, high volume data logging and processing needs, and high performance requirements
Required Experience:
Java development
CSS, HTML, JavaScript
Demonstrated knowledge of OOP concepts
RDBMS concepts and schema design
Spring/Hibernate
Tomcat Application Servers and Apache Web Servers
Good working knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, TCP/IP)
Troubleshooting ability (e.g., should be able to debug a system from front end to back end)
Understanding of common data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON and XML
Detailed knowledge of system requirements for large-scale, high traffic, fault tolerant, 24x7 websites, supporting a service-oriented architecture
Proficient test planning for web applications
Client-server architectures
VCS (preferably perforce, git)
Preferred:
4+ years experiences in design, development and operation on web applications or websites from the front end to the back end.
Expertise in data structures and algorithm evaluation
Hands on experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and testing frameworks (e.g., junit)
Build tools (ant, maven, gradle)
Scrum/Agile development process
Continuous Integration systems (Hudson, Bamboo)
IntelliJ IDEA
Knowledge of non-relational data storage systems (e.g., Cassandra)
LAMP Development
Detailed knowledge of daemons and cron jobs
Experience with other languages/systems
BS/MS degree
Job Benefits:
Develop the technology that power millions of daily unique visitors
Collaborate within a team of fervent business and technology enthusiasts
Work with the largest internet players, building software that significantly impacts vertical markets
Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded
Compensation: Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)
More reasons to join Answers: (Varies by region)
Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
Private office space, garage parking, and other office-related benefits
Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
Company paid group dental and vision insurance
Company paid life and disability insurance
Liberal employee performance bonuses
Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
Flex Hours (Varies by dept)
10 holidays company paid
401k savings plan
St. Louis, MO
Answers.com
PHP Developer
Meaghan.Cale@Answers.com
nswers’ is seeking a Software Development Engineer to work with the core technologies powering our infrastructure. The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team devoted to the design and development of high-traffic web applications, backend processing systems, various supporting tools, and administrative front ends. This position will be located in our St. Louis, MO office.
Responsibilities:
* Contribute architecture input to new system components, rewrites of legacy systems, etc.
* Write thorough, comprehensive technical and high-level documentation
* Engineer and implement new product features for web-based applications using LAMP
* Optimize and enhance web applications with tens of millions of page requests, high volume data logging and processing needs, and high performance requirements
* May require an on-call rotation to support production
Requirements:
* Experienced LAMP developer (Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP)
* Proficient test planning for web applications
* Detailed knowledge of daemons, cron jobs, and system requirements for high traffic, fault tolerant, 24x7 websites, supporting a service-oriented architecture
* Experience with MVCs
* Basic XML, TCP/IP, NFS, YML, mod_JAVA, and Apache application server knowledge
Required Personal Skills:
* Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills
* Strong initiative - capable of working on a self-sufficient basis and identifying areas of potential technical improvement
* Self-management - capable of prioritizing and executing tasks
* Problem solving - ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues
Preferred:
* 4+ years experiences in design, development and operation on web applications or websites from the front end to the back end.
* Expertise in data structures and algorithm evaluation
* Experience with Test Driven Development
* Scrum/Agile development
* Experience with other languages/systems
* BS/MS degree
Job Benefits:
Develop the technology that power millions of daily unique visitors
Collaborate within a team of fervent business and technology enthusiasts
Work with the largest internet players, building software that significantly impacts vertical markets
Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded
Compensation:
Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)
More reasons to join Answers:
• Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
• Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
• Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
• 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
• Company paid group dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• Liberal employee performance bonuses
• Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
• 10 holidays company paid
• 401k savings plan
Answers - St. Louis or Mountain View (VISA) Mobile Android Developer
The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team devoted to the design and development of the Android and Google Glass applications, the backend API systems and various supporting tools.
You will work closely with product and engineering management to satisfy user interface requirements, and work with QA to design tests and walkthroughs. The engineer will also work closely with the iOS team to provide consistent feature set and user experiences across different platforms.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement new features in our Android mobile app. Responsible for thorough testing of the Android app in different devices Contribute to business and marketing strategies towards the goal of million downloads in 2014. Contribute to the design of UX and UI in the Android app Contribute to the UX design and the technical implementations of the new Google Glass app. Write thorough, comprehensive technical and high-level documentation Mentor junior engineers in company standards and development practices to help them become quality software developers Requirements:
3+ years programming experiences with Java 2+ year programming experience with Android Detailed understandings of the Android ecosystem and the challenges in testing. Proficient knowledge of the database technologies. MySQL preferred. Proficient knowledge of the LAMP stack development. BS in Computer Science
Preferred: 5+ years experiences in JAVA 3+ years experiences in Android 1+ year experience in LAMP development MS in Computer Science.
What's the gig: Develop the technology that powers 180+ million monthly unique visitors Collaborate within a team of fervent technology enthusiasts Work with the largest internet players, building software that significantly impacts vertical markets Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded Compensation:
Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)
Resumes/questions can be routed to abby.wilhelmi@answers.com.
Answers - St. Louis or Mountain View (VISA)
Mobile Android Developer
The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team devoted to the design and development of the Android and Google Glass applications, the backend API systems and various supporting tools.
You will work closely with product and engineering management to satisfy user interface requirements, and work with QA to design tests and walkthroughs. The engineer will also work closely with the iOS team to provide consistent feature set and user experiences across different platforms.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement new features in our Android mobile app.
Responsible for thorough testing of the Android app in different devices
Contribute to business and marketing strategies towards the goal of million downloads in 2014.
Contribute to the design of UX and UI in the Android app
Contribute to the UX design and the technical implementations of the new Google Glass app.
Write thorough, comprehensive technical and high-level documentation
Mentor junior engineers in company standards and development practices to help them become quality software developers
Requirements:
3+ years programming experiences with Java
2+ year programming experience with Android
Detailed understandings of the Android ecosystem and the challenges in testing.
Proficient knowledge of the database technologies. MySQL preferred.
Proficient knowledge of the LAMP stack development.
BS in Computer Science
Preferred:
5+ years experiences in JAVA
3+ years experiences in Android
1+ year experience in LAMP development
MS in Computer Science.
What's the gig:
Develop the technology that powers 180+ million monthly unique visitors
Collaborate within a team of fervent technology enthusiasts
Work with the largest internet players, building software that significantly impacts vertical markets
Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded
Compensation:
Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)
Answers Direct, full-time role Sr. PHP Developer) St Louis, MO
What We Require
5+ years of programming experience with PHP Proficient in a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) based architecture Proficiency in AJAX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, SQL Understanding of fundamental Internet Protocols (DNS, HTTP, SSH, SMTP, FTP) Experience building fast, nimble, ad-hoc applications Knowledge of internet advertising, e-mail marketing, traffic metrics, or affiliate advertising Creative problem-solving skills and an ability to apply business logic to development requirements Strong knowledge of object-oriented analysis, design & programming background
Benefits & Perks
Highly Competitive Salaries and Bonus Programs Medical Insurance; 100% Principle Paid – Free Options Company Paid Dental / Vision / Rx Drugs Insurance Unlimited Sick Time (Discretionary) Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy – 15 Days To Start 401k Savings Plan, Company Match Tuition Reimbursement Program