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Job Title: Software Development Engineer, Firefox Extensions

Company Name: Ask.com
Location: Oakland, CA
Profession: Software Design/Development

Job Description:

Software Development Engineer, Firefox Extensions
Software Engineering/Product Development | Oakland, CA, United States

Software Development Engineer, Firefox Extensions
 
Join one of the fastest growing web search properties on the Internet: Ask.com combines world-class search technology with one-of-a-kind search tools to help people get what they are looking for faster. Ask.com, a wholly-owned business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), is one of the leading general search engines on the Internet. The Ask Network of sites has more than 174 million worldwide unique monthly users according to June 2009 comScore data. Ask.com syndicates its search technology and advertising solutions to a network of affiliate partners.
 
Ask.com part of IAC InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI).   Fortune magazine recognized IAC as the most admired company in the Internet Services and Retailing industry for 2007 and 2008.
 
Do you have a dozen or more Firefox extensions installed?  Do you dare to work with Firefox internals? Have you developed a cool extension for Firefox and, more importantly, are you truly passionate about the browser technology, open source technologies and the web in general?  Are you an expert JavaScript developer? Do you regularly read Ajaxian.com articles?
If so, you might want to consider this exciting opportunity at Ask.com. You will be part of a small team and will help design, brainstorm, develop and troubleshoot browser extensions.
Required Technical Skills

    * Extremely sound software design and object oriented programming skills
    * Can easily can identify and work with efficient algorithms and data structures
    * Strong background of internet technologies, WWW and networking (protocols)
    * Extensive experience with browser technologies and internals, with an emphasis on Mozilla and Firefox browsers
    * Expertise in JavaScript and web technologies for the browser (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS)
    * Must have experience working with prototypal inheritance in JavaScript, along with closures, DOM, namespacing and functional programming
    * Experience working with real world web 2.0 technologies – Ajax, JSON.
    * Experience developing and working with TCP and HTTP protocols in various environments (development, debug)
    * Strong programming experience in one or more dynamic (perl, python, etc.) and static languages (C++, Java)
    * Experience working with syndication technologies such as RSS and ATOM
    * Comfortable developing and debugging on Mac, Linux platforms and familiarity with Firebug  and YSlow extensions

 
Highly Recommended

    * Comfortable working with open source libraries and components; getting involved and possibly helping them out if necessary.
    * Strong background and emphasis on high performance algorithms and code
    * Experience working with multi-threaded application development and state management
    * Comfortable with caching technologies and session management (cookies, server based sessions, etc.)
    * RESTful server API development
    * Able to quickly prototype ideas if necessary
    * A team worker, able to work in a fast paced environment
    * Able to give rough work estimates and strive to complete projects per the project schedule. Able to work with project management to help them with the schedule of the project.

 

    * Sense of humor

Attributes / Behaviors

    * Smart
    * Curious
    * Creative
    * Analytical
    * Passionate
    * Accountable
    * Adaptable
    * High Attention to Detail
    * Strong Commitment to Team

Required Experience

    * 5 yrs industry experience
    * BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.

Location:  Oakland, CA


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