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Connectbeam is a leading Enterprise 2.0 startup that brings award winning social software to the enterprise. It's the first company to combine the concepts of social bookmarking and social networking to deliver a ground breaking and innovative solution to businesses for solving their information discovery and sharing challenges.
Connectbeam is revenue generating, with Fortune 500 customers, and is venture backed.
Connectbeam employees are passionate about building the best in class social software for businesses and enterprises. And customers and media are taking note.
“Top Five Enterprise 2.0 Startups to Watch for 2007” – InformationWeek
”Rising Star of 2007” – InfoWorld
Open Positions
Software Engineer - Toolbar Development
Full-time employee
Mountain View, California
Web Application UI and Graphics Designer
Full-time employee
Mountain View, California
Senior Software Engineer - JavaScript expert.
Full-time employee
Mountain View, California
Software Engineer - Toolbar Development
We're looking for a candidate who has experience in building Browser plug-ins and toolbars. A deep understanding of Browser object models, JavaScript, and CSS is required. Come and become part a team that is building a product which is quickly becoming the application of use for business and enterprise users.
Requirements
- Specific Demonstrable Experience Building IE & Firefox Toolbars
- Prior experience building toolbars for IE directly utilizing base Windows APIs (not .NET)
- Thorough understanding of the Document Object Model and techniques and pitfalls of DOM manipulation
- Good understanding of the browser security models
- Windows Development Experience
- 3+ years experience as a senior developer with in-depth knowledge of the Windows SDK and Win32 API
- Extensive experience with COM, ATL, STL, XUL and Web Services
- Working experience with MSI and web based (ActiveX) windows installation technologies
- Excellent Understanding/Experience with Web Technologies
- Have extensive knowledge and solid experience with XHTML, CSS, and Ajax/JavaScript
- Have experience with REST, XML-RPC, XPATH, and XSLT
Compensation
- Highly competitive salary and stock options
- Full benefits (Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision provided at zero cost to employees, and 401k)
- 3 weeks of vacation, and paid holidays
- Great, friendly, and fun work environment
For immediate consideration, send your resume in confidence to:
jobs@connectbeam.com
Web Application UI and Graphics Designer
We're currently looking for a smart, dynamic, ambitious Graphics Designer to complement our passionate, fun, and tightly networked team of developers and product managers to focus on application UI design and enhancements.
The graphic artist will be responsible for developing web application design layouts, graphics, and other related properties. The candidate must be highly creative, with extensive HTML, CSS, DHTML, and JavaScript experience.
Responsibilities
- Participate in concept development, design ideation, and detailed specification of visual designs for future Connectbeam application
- Successfully communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of user centered design process
- Produce design specifications, storyboards, scenarios, design prototypes
- Create visual designs that address business, brand, market, and user requirements, including design and production of screen layouts, color palettes, typography, and interface elements
- Collaborate with product management, and researchers to refine the user experience, and work with engineers to deliver the final product
- Some corporate website related work and enhancements
- Well organized, with good verbal and writing communication skills, and able to balance multiple simultaneous projects
Requirements
- Experience: 2-4 Years experience as a member of a UI team participating in the complete product development lifecycle of successfully launched web and/or software applications
- Creative skills: Color studies, concept brainstorming, screen layouts, information design, and typography, and must have a great eye for detail
- Design skills: Able to develop new approaches to complex design problems and can convey ideas into tangible form
- Communication skills: Candidates must able to collaborate effectively with others in a cross-functional team, and be able to rationalize and present their design ideas and decisions effectively
- Must be able to prioritize and manage work to adhere to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
- Technical skills: PhotoShop, Illustrator, or similar graphics software
- Hands-on experience with current web technologies (html, dhtml, css, Javascript)
- Education: Background in Graphic Design, Digital Media Design or other visual arts
Preferred Qualifications
- Prototyping skills in Flash and/or Flex, CSS or other dynamic prototyping tools
Compensation
- Highly competitive salary and stock options
- Full benefits (Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision provided at zero cost to employees, and 401k)
- 3 weeks of vacation, and paid holidays
- Great, friendly, and fun work environment
For immediate consideration, send your resume in confidence to:
jobs@connectbeam.com
Senior Software Engineer – Web Application UI JavaScript expert.
We seek a JavaScript programmer with strong CS fundamentals and who has been known to have Firebug, and IE Script Debugger running simultaneously. We are not particular about the years of professional experience but a passion for web technologies and optimizing the user experience is a must.
Opportunity
- Join a passionate, fun-loving, and tightly networked world-class team of developers and product managers.
- Work on short development cycles, and fast-paced web development projects.
- Create great software, working on the latest technology and new and emerging applications in the areas of social networking, user generated content, content tagging, and more…
Responsibilities
- Front-end Web Application development, creating client-side interaction using (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Determine new shared libraries, wrapper classes, and other features to incorporate into the application platform.
- Collaborate with server-side programmers to optimize scalability and network efficiency
- Ensure high volume, high performance, stability, and support of the features that you personally create and contribute.
Qualifications
- Expert in JavaScript, XML, XHTML, and CSS
- 2+ years of JavaScript software development experience
- Knowledge of browser compatibility issues when using JavaScript and CSS
- Requirements gathering and analysis skills
- Comfortable in a Linux, JBoss, Apache, MySQL environment
- Highly flexible and extremely efficient, don't mind multiple iterations on the way to the right answers.
- Highly desirable - social web applications development experience.
Compensation
- Highly competitive salary and stock options.
- Full benefits (Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision provided at zero cost to employees, and 401k)
- 3 weeks of vacation, and paid holidays
- Great, friendly, and fun work environment
For immediate consideration, send your resume in confidence to:
jobs@connectbeam.com
