System developer at progressive non-profit (onsite), United States, DC, Washington

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Posted: August 22, 2006

Job title:
System developer at progressive non-profit

Company name: Media Matters

Location: United States, DC, Washington

Pay rate: based on experience

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Media Matters for America is a progressive, nonprofit research and
information center in Washington, D.C., dedicated to comprehensively
monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the
U.S. media. We seek a systems developer to support the evolution of our
website, mediamatters.org, and other initiatives.

This is a dynamic position well-suited to an innovative individual
interested in working on progressive issues in an open-source software
environment. In addition to website development, the position also involves
working with our in-house video monitoring system and other projects.

Responsibilities:
* Help extend our website with new features and enhance its performance.
* Help enhance our systems for media recording, archiving, and retrieval.
* Conduct systems-administration work on our Unix Web, mail, and database
servers.
* Create Web applications to aid internal processes such as editorial
workflow and Web publishing.
* Other projects that fight the spread of conservative misinformation.

Required skills:
* Commitment to the organization's mission and values.
* Experience programming in a Perl environment.
* Minimum of two years of experience with LAMP-style Web development.
* Minimum of two years working on Unix systems administration (apache,
mysql, postfix, courier) and network architecture design.
* Experience with XML and XHTML, familiarity with CSS and HTML 4.0.
* Flexibility with schedule and a willingness to be on call when needed.

Desired skills:
* AJAX.
* mod_perl, mod_rewrite, and mod_proxy.
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

URL for more information:
http://mediamatters.org/about_us/jobs/sys_developer

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4545#contact