Web UI Engineer (onsite), United States, CA, Palo Alto

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Posted: August 17, 2006

Job title: Web UI Engineer

Company name: Topix

Location: United States, CA, Palo Alto

Pay rate: negotiable

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Topix.net, the first major news site to enable local communities,
nationwide, to talk back to the news for every article aggregated from over
40,000 sources in mainstream news and the blogosphere, is looking for UI
engineers to help us build, maintain and improve the site. 

We’re working on solving problems related to crawling, geo-localization and
subject categorization of the news. Named entity disambiguation.
About-vs-mention discrimination. Heat and tone language detection.
Zero-configuration scalable crawling. All in-memory index serving.
On-the-fly category merging, clustering, de-duplication, and geo-spinning.
Auto-tuning bias weights in our robo-editor. 

We're funded by the 3 largest newspaper companies in the US.  There's no
shortage of ideas and an ever growing user population.	Come and join us.

Required skills:
Good Perl knowledge
Fluent in Template Toolkit, CSS, HTML, JavaScriptStrong coding skills
Able to work well with UI designers, engineers and product mgrs
Willing to do thorough testing of code before release
Self motivated
Has at least 4 or more years of coding experience.
Linux

Desired skills: See above

URL for more information:
http://blog.topix.net/archives/000103.html

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4527#contact