Web Engineer / Web Developer

Job Code: L365-770-08

 

About Live365:

The Live365 radio network reaches millions of listeners worldwide, offering greater breadth and depth of high-quality streaming music, talk, and audio than any other network. Featuring 260+ genres of music produced by 5,000+ broadcasters and music tastemakers from over 150 countries, the network boasts a roster of artists and radio producers ranging from the Atlanta Symphony, Pat Metheny, David Navarro, and Carlos Santana, to commercial and public radio stations, to individual DJs who program stations in every musical style. In short, Live365 is programmed by real people with a deep passion for music.

Live365's end-to-end broadcast platform empowers individuals and organizations alike by giving them a "voice" to reach audiences around the globe. Through easy-to-use tools and services as well as royalty coverage, anyone with a computer and Internet connection can create his or her own Internet radio station and reach a global audience with minimal cost and effort.

Led by a small, dedicated team of talented individuals, Live365 has succeeded in a highly competitive market thanks to a diversified business model that includes listener subscriptions, broadcasting subscriptions, and advertising revenues. Live365 has broadcast continuously since 1999, survived the .com collapse, and is expanding. Working for Live365 means having a voice in the company's decisions and a chance to have impacts on its performance. You will also be a part of a community that has a real mission-giving a voice to the individual and providing a venue for all kinds of music and audio content, not just "commercially viable" artists and genres.

Live365 is a founding board member of the Digital Media Association (DiMA), and a member of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS). Based in Silicon Valley, Live365 pays royalties to labels, artists, songwriters, and publishers through established royalty collection organizations including ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and SoundExchange.

 

Job Description:

Live365 is enhancing its front and back-end technology. You will be working every day in Javascript, HTML, XSLT, Perl, and AJAX. This position requires someone that is smart-working and an excellent problem-solver. You will work very closely with UI designers, product managers and other engineers. We run an international development effort and you will need to have high degree of collaborative skills.

As an ideal candidate, you should possess a good command of interactive design principles, cross-browser development techniques, and browser degradation strategies. If you are excited about streaming audio/mobile technology, and want your work to be used by 4 million music fans and thousands of broadcasters each month, this is the job for you.

 

Qualifications:
  • 3-4 years working as a engineer at a commercial website
  • Experience optimizing cross-browser, cross-platform front-end code
  • Hands-on programming experience with AJAX, Perl, CSS, XML, XSLT, DHTML, and SQL. Familiar with web server platforms, protocols, and applications including Apache, Unix, DBI/Oracle, and Eclipse preferred (Java a plus)
  • Good understanding of relational SQL or object-oriented database technologies
  • Experience with VSS/CVS systems and bug management
  • Experience with e-commerce/billing/subscription web technologies a plus
  • Experience with multi-language localization and global deployment a plus
  • Experience with music/entertainment websites a plus
  • Excellent English verbal and written communication skills required (additional languages a plus)
  • Flash ActionScript a plus
  • Non-PC platform experience a plus (e.g. Mac, mobile, CE devices)

 

Responsibilities:
  • Hands-on daily programming, closely following product specifications for a high level of quality and end-user satisfaction
  • Develop Javascript/DHTML prototypes to demonstrate proofs of concept and to enable rapid iterative testing of design ideas
  • Work alongside project managers, database and software engineers, web producers and graphic artists to move a project to completion
  • Use your expertise in system architecture and cross-browser, cross-operating system compatibility to advise and lead project implementation
  • Develop and maintain the main www.live365.com website
  • Work closely with the Quality Assurance Team in debugging and problem resolution
  • Estimate time for project milestones, track time, and stick to tight deadlines while adhering to user requirements and quality standards

 

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience preferred

 

Benefits:
  • 401(k)
  • Medical, dental, vision coverage
  • 3 weeks PTO
  • 10 Paid Holidays

Please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@live365.com or fax to (650) 345-7497. Please indicate the job title and job code in the subject line of your email or fax. Thank you.