This positionwithin the team is focused on the development of the platform which providesAPIs and Technologies that underpin the features being developed for theservice. Wewill leverage your knowledge of and interest in design patterns and frameworksto directly shape and influence system architectural choices. You will bepart of a strong and tightly-knit development group collaborating, influencing,and growing your technical and domain expertise working with sports luminariesand key business stakeholders.
Responsibilities- Build exciting new experiences on Fancandy'sweb and mobile websites
- Work with other leads and production staff toestablish engineering tasks and schedules.
- Contribute to setting the technical directionfor the team.
- Balance time between managing and contributing throughprogramming.
- Evaluate and mentor engineers on the team.
- Serve as a partner in the team's leadership.
- Interface with external teams to gatherrequirements, assist with integration, and provide visibility into the platformdevelopment roadmap.
Requirements- .NET platform, architecture andfundamentals experience
- Distributed systems experience
- Security considerations (encryption, denial ofservice, online payment) experience
- Architecture (cloud, client / server) experience
- Knowledge of network and server security issues
- A passion for games, sports, or gambling (allthree a huge plus)
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- self-starter who can take direction, butmore importantly figures out what to do without being told
- Can handle pressure professionally and canbecome more engaged as situations get tighter.
Desired- Experience building web or mobile products for awide range of platforms
- 5+ years of experience with C# or equivalentweb-based development
- Experience with Python, Javascript, XML, JSON,CSS, Ajax, HTML5, jQuery or jQTouch
- Experience building, debugging, andmaintaining large scale distributed web applications
- Database development experience (MySQL, Oracle,PostgreSQL)
- Leadership potential or previous leadership experience
- Excellent verbal and written communicationsskills
- Agile development exposure
- UML diagramming experience (class, sequence)
- Familiar with higher-level network protocolssuch as HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, FTP
- Active user of Twitter/Facebook
- Previous startup experience
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in ComputerScience, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
