Hiring! Sr. Web Flash UI Engineer - Interactive TV Position
* UPDATE: POSITION FILLED. Thanks everyone for your help! * I am looking for a top-notch ActionScript developer to join my Web UI Engineering team. The special emphasis is building interactive experiences for the television. In particular experience with developing FlashLite for embedded devices along with a solid engineering background is needed.Here is my job posting:
POSITIONNetflix is bringing its movie service directly into millions of homes with Netflix Ready Devices, partnering with companies such as LG, Samsung, Microsoft, Tivo, and Vizio. The TV-based User Experience team is responsible for building the reference Netflix experience which is launching on a variety of new devices this year. In addition, the team is responsible for prototyping and testing new user experiences, advancing the state of the art for all Netflix Ready Devices for years to come. Over the last ten years, Netflix has developed the world's best personalization and movie finding technology - this team's challenge is to bring it to the TV and create a fantastic experience used every day by our growing subscriber base of over 10 million customers.
In this role you will directly build and engineer the TV-based user experience applying your talent with FlashLite and ActionScript. The engineering effort includes prototyping concepts with the design team, building reference platforms and implementations for our device partners and primarily creating production ready user experiences for millions of customers. As such you will need to have solid engineering skills with a strong background in simple design, agile methodologies and object-oriented development as well as an understanding of what makes a great user experience.
In addition you need to have excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with design, product management and engineering to provide rich interfaces that are highly performant in a constrained environment.
REQUIREMENTS
- Excellent knowledge of FlashLite, ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0
- Strong modular design and object-oriented programming skills
- Rapid prototyping skills
- Solid understanding of web architecture (Flash, Actionscript, DHTML, CSS, Javascript)
- Solid product development experience
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field desirable
DESIRED
- Experience developing for embedded systems and/or TV set-top boxes
- Experience in developing for multiple devices, application types, and browsers
- Experience with C++ and/or Java
Interested?
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