Mozilla Corporation - Sr. Web Developer

Bret Reckard <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:15:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.jobs
Organization Mozilla Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mozilla is looking for a motivated and experienced full-time
developer to help make the web better. You will build web applications
to support our products and empower our growing community. Our teams
are small, motivated and focused. We face unique challenges in user
experience requirements, localization and scalability often having
to solve tough problems when integrating all three.

Web developers we'd like to work with:
- 3+ years of JavaScript software development experience
- 4+ years of web development in PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl or equivalent
- Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- Phenomenal debugging principles, tenacity and energy
- Strong understanding of web application scalability principles
- Tendency to write tests (unit and functional) even if you don't want to
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Previous experience with DHTML, CGI, CSS, AJAX and other web applications
- Familiarity with web frameworks like CakePHP, Rails, Pylons, etc.
- Cheery, polite and rational team player

Mozilla web applications are used globally by millions of
people, so this is the perfect opportunity to show the world what you
and your code can do. You can expect appreciative community members to
heap praise on you for your efforts, or at least help you debug your work.

The Onus is on you to:
- Work towards weekly and bi-weekly deadlines on the development of
high-visibility, high-quality web products
- Proactively recommend architecture changes and suggest new coding
practices
- Work with product team to assess feasibility and priority of new features
- Collaborate with server-side programmers to optimize scalability and
network efficiency
- Assist in testing regularly scheduled releases
- Develop debugging tools as necessary
- Stay up-to-date with competing technologies
- Get stuff done

Bonus Material:
- Experience with localized (l10n, l18n) applications and methods
- You enjoy writing tests (unit and functional)
- Passion for open source, you are not only a user but a contributor
- Great sense of humor

If you are interested, please send an email with your resume or code
samples, or both, to [email protected].  I'd love to hear from you
or one of your friends.

Thank you,
Bret