About Scribd:
http://www.scribd.com
Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world. Since Scribd launched in March 2007, it has become one of the top 100 websites on the Internet with more than 50 million readers each month and more than 50,000 new documents shared every day.
Scribd is changing the way people discover and share original writings and documents on the Web. Our innovative document reader technology, iPaper, enables anyone to easily upload PDF, Word, PowerPoint and other document types to share on Scribd.com or embed on thousands of other websites.
We are a located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, close to CalTrain, BART and MUNI. Our small team is passionate, talented, motivated and fun. You'll often find us holding group brainstorming sessions, eating lunch and dinner as a team, playing winner-take-all ping-pong games and celebrating our successes along the way.
Scribd is venture backed, including Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and several well-known angel investors, and we??????re growing. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, generous equity stakes, flexible work hours, free food from local restaurants and a stocked break room.
The Job:
This is a senior development role on the iPaper product. iPaper is the first full-featured web-based document viewer. For years, the standard in cross-platform document viewing has been Adobe PDF, a desktop software solution invented twenty years ago. iPaper is a new Flash-based document viewing standard that is positioned to shake up this billion dollar industry because it runs completely in a web browser and is faster and lighter than Acrobat. Despite the importance of iPaper, the team that works on it is still very small, and you will have a huge impact on the product.
The Ideal Profile:
This is not a typical Flash programming role. iPaper is an unusually complex Flash application with many highly technical components. We are looking for someone who is a well-rounded computer scientist in addition to an expert Flash developer. This would be demonstrated by a CS degree, knowledge of more traditional programming environments, or projects that show deep engineering ability. We love to see candidates who have worked on impressive Flash applications that they can demonstrate for us. We favor candidates who can show us they have a keen product sense and will contribute good ideas for improving the product.
Responsibilities:
Extend and improve the iPaper product, adding new features and refining existing functionality. Think creatively about the future of iPaper, generate feature ideas, and integrate them into the product roadmap. Architect our internal document format, manipulate SWF byte-code directly, and solve difficult technical problems.
Qualifications:
?????? 1+ years experience with Flash and ActionScript
?????? Experience with Flex, AS 3.0, OOP, and Unit Testing
?????? Strong understanding of Flash's rendering process and optimization
?????? Experience integrating Flash with external APIs and Web Services
?????? Strong computer science fundamentals as evidenced by a CS degree or equivalent experience
?????? Knowledge of XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL or C++ is a plus
This person reports to the CTO.