(US Based Only) Position: Senior Software Architect / Team Lead
Job Description
Desired Skills & Experience
These factors will make you successful in this role:
(1) Deep Software Technical Skills: You are deeply technical, understand how to break down problems and design extensible solutions. Reverse a linked list? That's way too easy for you. You write recursive programs navigating dependency graphs for fun. You are well grounded in object-oriented design patterns, algorithms, data structures, and development in C#.NET, or Java, etc. You know how to scale systems to a billion calls per day, how to parallelize requests, and how to apply asynchronous messaging. You have experience implementing distributed caching and know how to transform data while preserving integrity and consistency. In short, you could be the Architect or CTO of a large-scale Web 2.0 company. You likely have a BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or closely related field.
(2) API Platform Experience: You understand the challenges of providing REST APIs (like LinkedIn API and Vkontakte API) along with SQL-style interfaces such as Yahoo's YQL or Facebook's FQL. You have experience implementing 2-legged and 3-legged OAuth authentication and authorization. You should understand how to throttle distributed API requests and implement fault-tolerant systems that offer commercial-level availability.
(3) Management and Cross-Organizational Influence: You have demonstrated successful leadership in building and leading small, high-performance engineering teams. You understand the value of relationships and are highly effective at influencing cross-organizational teams to implement internal component APIs to meet the needs of external consumers. You communicate effectively to all levels inside the company and with partners.
In short, you rock! Your team rocks too! If this is you, apply now.
Desired Qualifications
• Engineering Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience
• A minimum of 10 years of software development experience, with at least 3 years designing and building sites that take advantage of social networking technology.
• Understanding Web application development concepts including architecture, design, building, testing, and deployment.
• Experience and Knowledge of social networking technology limitations with the expertise to overcome those technical challenges.
• Experience with APIs from leading social networking sites.
• The creativity and initiative to successfully drive a solution given a clear goal but a limited set of requirements.
• Experience selecting and working with third-party vendors and partners to design and integrate external solutions and products.
• Ability to work effectively in an Agile/SCRUM programming environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skill.
Company Description
Game Face Gaming Inc., energetic, ambitious, financially secure, young public company, based in US and specializes in the space of social networking and online gaming. The company is launching the first major beta version of the online platform within the next couple of months. During this time we are looking to bring Senior Software Architect/ Team Lead to start taking the product and technology to the next level. We currently have about 20 employees and looking to expand further.
Please accept our bid to assign 2 dedicated developers to work on your openAPI project. These developers will communicate you daily through skype and msn messenger. Over 11 years We have been developing Social Networking, Real Estate, Ecommerce websites and many other large scale website portals. Thanks, Sushil Kumar Singh
Hello, i am a Nigerian Based Developer. Kindly contact me and lets discuss more on the project. I can work US time zone and am available on skype 20 hours per day.
Hello - I am new to freelancer. However, I am not new to the software development marketplace.
I am a senior enterprise architect for several Fortune 100 organizations in the US. I have significant experience in enterprise class project management, architecture design frameworks, vendor evaluation, off-shore resource management, etc.
Over the years, I have worked with organizations and jointly developed architecture approach to document and to communicate architecture artifacts among different stakeholders to gain buy-ins. We also developed architecture process & artifact framework to introduce system architecture processes/artifacts early on in enterprise strategic projects. The goals are to reduce risks, enhance ability to generate project estimates and to support IT & business alignment.
I am very interested in working with your organization. I am confident that I will be able to add significant value to your organization in a consultant/advisory role. And also, I have access to large and highly skilled IT team. If required, I can draw on this resource to make sure that required work is done with the quality and in a timely manner.
Please see my attached resume for more details. Let me know if you have any question or need more information. Thank you for your consideration.