[SVLUG-Jobs] Sr. UI Engineer - PHP/Linux - San Jose

[Tim Ahern]

Our venture-backed enterprise software startup is currently looking for a
contract Senior UI Engineer/PHP Developer (need software engineer vs.
website development/design) to help their engineering team complete the
development of first product - currently scheduled for delivery at the end
of Q1 2007. The initial small team has delivered the first alpha and looking
to meet their aggressive development milestones. Client’s Tier 1 target
customers have expressed significant interest in this server management
software product and looking forward to the next release.

The Web UI engineer will develop a new web-based front end to the server
management software. The current interface is written in PHP, but it will be
your recommendation on which languages, tools and patterns to use. Within
the wider technical team, you will design and implement the presentation and
application layers and work with the rest of the engineering team in
extending the SOAP server to meet both your and customer requirements.

Required Skills/Experience:
- Experience developing enterprise, or device management (or other data
driven) browser based user interfaces from scratch, including developing use
cases, working with marketing and customers to refine requirements.
- Experience developing user interfaces for system management and
administration.
- Experience and ability to take ownership of the entire front-end,
including the selection of appropriate technologies and patterns. Will be
responsible for the next generation of UI architecture.
- Experience designing interfaces for multiple users that require
authentication/authorization.
- Experience of C/C++, PHP. SQL, or Java would also be useful.
Preferred skills/experience:
- Prefer experience in consultants who have developed and supported
commercial products on more than one operating system.
- Linux system software development experience.
- Experience developing shrink wrapped cross platform products.
- Experience of all stages in the product development cycle from initial
design through to QA and release.
- Experience developing SOAP or XML-RPC servers and clients, including
authentication and authorization.
- Experience developing or using system management software.
- Experience developing database applications (in C/C++) for major RDBMS
(Oracle/MySQL/SQL Server)
- Experience developing an enterprise product around a database, including
administration and management tools, backup, recovery, etc
- Experience as a system administrator, end-customers are systems
administrators.
- Experience with developing for scalable, high available systems.

This is an initial 2 month contract role to get the product through the next
release Q1 2007 with the potential to extend beyond for further development
tasks. May also consider FTE employee.

We are also looking for backend developers as well as QA people all with
Linux experience.

for more information, email resume or contact:

Tim Ahern
Recruiting Partners
- Executive and Technology Staffing Solutions -
tim.ahern at recruitingpartners.com