Location: Chicago, IL
URL: www.jellyvisionlab.com
The Jellyvision Lab, Inc. is a small (60 people or so), creative, focused, and driven company, with a strong vision for bringing interactive communication to the web for Fortune 500 partners. Founded by the same folks who created the hit YOU DON’T KNOW JACK® game series, the Lab has expanded Jellyvision’s roster of engaging personalities beyond virtual game show hosts to virtual teachers, insurance agents, salespeople, advisors… you name it. We're a digital marketing agency that has pioneered a new approach to interactivity called Interactive Conversation that allows machines to communicate more like people. Not in that AI robot sort of way, but in a radio/television, written-by-writers, performed-by-actors sort of way.
THAT’S LOVELY… BUT WHAT’S THE JOB?
The primary responsibility of this job is architecting, building, and maintaining internally used toolkits. Secondary responsibility is assisting with basic Linux systems administration. This position requires understanding of a wide variety of applications, API’s, middleware, and security. THIS IS NOT A WEB DESIGNER JOB.
You will also participate in platform architecture decisions and be a key player on the hosting operations team. Please read on for more specifics…
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Build and maintain web-based tools to manage creation and configuration of cloud-based systems and technologies
• Database management (MySQL and SimpleDB)
• Basic data modeling
• Identify tasks for automation and build tools around them
• Network monitoring system configuration and management
• Architect and build new provisioning tools
• New technology research (e.g., HTML 5, NoSQL)
SKILLS
• 3-5 years LAMP development experience along with basic Linux administration (we have sysadmins, but you need to be comfortable working on Linux servers at the command line)
• Expert level operational understanding of a majority of the following technologies:
◦ PHP
◦ AJAX/Javascript/JSON
◦ CSS 2/3
◦ Flash and ActionScript 3
◦ MySQL queries and data modeling
• Architecture. You should be able to:
◦ Rapidly design, deploy and maintain multi-tiered web apps based on broad definitions.
◦ Define security policies around data handling
• Ability to self-manage and multitask in a fast-paced environment. Things change often at Jellyvision, and it's imperative that you're able to juggle multiple tasks, track changes, AND maintain attention to detail.
NICE TO HAVES…
• Ruby on Rails experience
• Flex SDK experience
• Understanding of Amazon Web Services, specifically: EC2, EBS, S3, SQS,SimpleDB and RDS
• Understanding of network monitoring/management systems
• Knowledge of other programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Ruby)
YOU SHOULD ALSO…
• Be a life-long learner
• Be disciplined…in your engineering
• Be imaginative…in your engineering
• Understand urgency, and when to apply it
• Write clear, easy to understand documentation
• Be able to read through and understand code for troubleshooting purposes
• Have a willingness to calmly own and resolve unexpected incidents that occur in a hosting environment
• Be a great communicator: written, verbal, Skype, video conferencing, smoke signals, sideways glances
ANYTHING ELSE?
Yes. We only hire nice, bright, funny people who are willing to work hard. Jellyvision is a group effort and you must be capable of working collaboratively with creative, technical, and occasionally sales types. Everyone at Jellyvision shares a commitment to excellence and a desire to work in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere. Please check out www.jellyvisionlab.com to learn more.
ARE THERE ANY PERKS? Yes, we love perks.
- Competitive pay and a flexible schedule.
- Benefit-y benefits. 401K with matching and fully covered medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Casual dress. Come in a sweatshirt, jeans, whatever, like everyone else here.
- Creative work environment. We are lucky to work in a place that is full of intelligent, talented and innovative folks. Although most hours the place is deathly quiet (we're a focused bunch), this is punctuated with hilarious outbursts and general merriment, which makes a nice way to spend the day.
- Free food. Every week, we stock our kitchen with free healthy foods - sandwich, cereal and snack type things - that's fair game to all employees while it lasts.
- Easy transportation. We’re really close to the "L" and the Halsted (#8) bus (right by the new Apple Store and Mega Whole Foods if that’s your kind of thing), and we have a transit FSA that allows you to dedicate pre-tax dollars to public transportation expenses. Since a number of our employees like to bike to work, we also have showers and lockers in the office.
- Free parking. While we support using public transportation and muscle power to get to work, we know that driving is the only way to get here for some folks and we don’t want finding a parking space in our rapidly developing corner of Lincoln Park to be a headache for anyone.
- Did we mention our yoga class? We bring a pro instructor right to the office. Fully subsidized by Jellyvision and fully optional, btw.
- Oh! And you should know that we have a massage chair. And not just any massage chair, my friend. It’s the HumanTouch HT 5320 WholeBody™ Massage Chair. Feeling a little stiff? Sit down. Relax. Feel better? Good. Okay, back to work.
To apply: INTERESTED? Great, we look forward to reading your application. Make sure it includes: 1) A cover letter that highlights three reasons you think you’d be great for the gig, focusing on how your past work experience has prepared you for this kind of posi
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