Careers
VestMatch, Inc. an angel-backed early-stage startup based in Foster City, CA, is looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about what they do, have an intense customer focus, and seek to make a significant contribution to building our products, technology, and company.
Senior Web Designer/Developer
We are looking for an experienced Web Application Designer/Developer to join our Engineering team and drive the UI feature design and implementation. The candidate should have a strong aesthetic sense and the ability to develop clean, standards-compliant, cross-platform and cross-browser lightweight presentation-layer code.
Job Description:
- Lead the design and development of the VestMatch UI features.
- Work with customers and product management to define feature priorities and project milestones.
- Be innovative in using web standards and open source solutions to build enterprise scale web application suite.
- Work closely with server-side developers and partner system interfaces.
- Project leadership working with other development team members and offshore development team.
Qualifications/Skills:
- 5+ years experience developing highly scalable web applications including 3+ years of hands-on Javascript programming experience.
- Solid understanding of XHTML, JavaScript and CSS. Demonstrated ability with tableless CSS design.
- Knowledge of browser compatibility issues when using JavaScript and CSS. Experience developing websites for cross-browser support.
- Intimate knowledge of current web standards and demonstrated approach to standards-driven application design.
- Experience developing client-side Javascript code using one or more of the following Javascript libraries: Prototype, jQuery, ExtJS, MochiKit, Script.aoculo.us or YUI
- Knowledge of Flash with particular expertise in several of the following areas: ActionScript 3.0, Flex 2.0, Flex Charts, Flash Media, Flash/JavaScript interactions and Flash compilers.
- Prior experience with MVC frameworks (such as Struts, JSF, Spring-MVC or Tapestry). Knowledge of JSP and JSTL (and other standard tag libraries) is a plus.
- Good knowledge of database concepts and UI design patterns
- Excellent debugging, problem solving and testing skills
- Understanding of basic SEO techniques and best practices
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
- Great team player and be able to deliver under pressure.
To apply, please submit your resume to careers@vestmatch.com (principals only).
Senior Java Developer/Architect
This is an opportunity to join a startup at an early stage and help drive the product architecture, key component design and development of the VestMatch core application platform.
Job Description:
- Lead the design and development of the VestMatch platform features.
- Work with customers and product management to define feature priorities and project milestones.
- Be innovative in using J2EE and open source solutions to build enterprise scale web application suite.
- Develop integration modules with other Finance related applications and partner systems.
- Project leadership working with other development team members and offshore development team.
Qualifications/Skills:
- Domain knowledge of financial applications. Experience integrating financial services applications a plus.
- Extensive experience in Java server technologies, including message-oriented middleware, XML, web-services and object relational mapping frameworks.
- Solid design and implementation skill using J2EE technologies and open source solutions such as Apache, Spring Framework, Hibernate, ActiveMQ and MySQL/Oracle databases.
- Working knowledge of Java development tools such as Eclipse IDE, Ant and JUnit.
- Experience with database schema design and some exposure to stored procedures development.
- Exposure to Social Networking APIs such as F8 or Open Social is a definite plus.
- 7+ years of industry experience with leadership role preferred. Must be able to handle the design and implementation of major system components independently.
- A good appreciation of fault-tolerant software design. An understanding of what it takes to build highly scalable and high performance applications.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
- Great team player and be able to deliver under pressure.
To apply, please submit your resume to careers@vestmatch.com (principals only).
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