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Software and Web App Engineers

Posted: 2008-05-14
Company name: CastTV
City: San Francisco
State: CA
Country: USA
URL: http://www.joblicator.com/company/casttv/20
Contact Info: Email: casttv@joblicator.com Phone: 415.869.8841
Travel: 0%
Onsite: Yes
Description:

CastTV is working to build the web's best video search engine.

We are hiring entrepreneurial folks looking to make an impact and help build an amazing product.

Software Engineer / Software Architect (Data Acquisition)

CastTV is looking for an entrepreneurial Software Engineer / Software Architect to focus on Data Acquisition. This person will work on various data acquisition technologies required to build the web’s best video search engine. You will develop scalable web crawlers for finding online videos and other data. You will use various techniques, including machine learning, to extract data from vastly different web content. You will also be involved with data-mining, normalization, augmentation, and de-duplication projects.

Web Application Engineer

CastTV is looking for a smart, pragmatic, driven Software Engineer to build fast and elegant web applications and interfaces to our video search/discovery technology.

Required Skills:

QUALIFICATIONS for
Software Engineer / Software Architect:

* Background in Computer Science or related discipline
* Experience with information extraction. Previous experience with crawlers/parsers. Understanding of machine learning.
* Strong understanding of HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and other areas of web videos.
* Programming experience in Ruby or similar languages.
* Demonstrated ability to initiate and develop large portions of products. We are a small company and need doers!
* Passion for online video. You like watching videos/TV/sports/news, and you won't settle for anything less than developing the best product for searching for videos.

QUALIFICATIONS for Web Application Engineer:

* 2+ years of building web applications.
* Ruby on Rails Javascript / AJAX / DHTML Hand-coded HTML / CSS
* Facebook App experience a plus
* Demonstrated ability to initiate and develop large portions of products. We are a small company and we need doers!
* Ideally, prior experience working on your own projects / products and/or contributing to the open source community.
* Passion for online video. You like watching videos/TV/sports/news, and you won’t settle for anything less than developing the best product for searching for videos.

Employment terms: Salary
Hours: Full-time