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Developer
Location: Palo Alto
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, implement and support end-to-end integrated wiki based text book authoring and publishing system
- Support public school systems, teachers and students to successfully author, collaborate and publish text books
- Work closely with teachers, researchers and students to define the services required for authoring and publishing in a reliable and scalable environment
- Evaluate and select emerging open standards and components to complement widely adopted infrastructure products
Requirements:
- MS in Computer Science or equivalent and strong experience implementing large scale web system & server products
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience mentoring several developers
- Proficiency in Python/Java/PHP/C with experience in systems programming and web-based infrastructure
- Experience architecting modular server side components, including APIs with excellent understanding of component abstraction
- Understanding of security, entitlement and transactional issues for web services, and web-based applications
- Experience/Knowledge in XML, W3C standards, and Content Repository systems like MediaWiki, Django, Jetty, etc.
- Demonstrated experience with interaction and user interface design using YUI/GWT toolsets
Preferred:
- Experience with Linux, Apache, MySQL/PgSQL or any other RDBMS highly desired.
- Previous experience in managing a successfully deployed production quality web systems
- Ability to write design specs and experience in open source forums
- Experience with developing web services based interfaces (REST/SOAP) and end user applications desired