Thursday, March 1, 2012

Job opening - The Topps Company: Software Engineer

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Location: New York, NY
URL: www.topps.com

At Topps, we're taking a brand iconic in sports media with a rich offline tradition and building from scratch an entirely new way to connect with consumers on the web. We’re a start-up within the walls of a company with 60 years of history and relationships tasked with re-imagining the Topps brand and creating a new space in the sports media universe.
 
We want a true entrepreneur developer comfortable at all levels of the stack helping consumers find new ways to enjoy and interact with sports, teams, players and the Topps brand. If you're a self-starter who loves the notion of working on a small team without legacy infrastructure on everything from setting up servers to pushing code to production, we want to talk.
 
Here’s the position you’ll be playing:
·         Create the technology stack for topps.com
·         Implement clean, elegant user interfaces
·         Dream up new features and functionality and build it
·         Help build a collaborative and creative culture
·         Define the tech DNA of the company

 
These might show up on the back of your engineer baseball card:

·         A degree in computer science or related fields or equivalent experience
·         Familiarity with one or more popular web frameworks such as Rails, Django, CodeIgniter or similar
·         Examples of sites that you've worked on or built

 
The kind of player we’re looking for has:
·         Interest in contributing to open source projects
·         Good instincts and willingness to use data to drive decisions
·         Desire to participate in industry conferences and events
·         Discomfort with the status quo
·         Comfort with change of direction
·         Bias to action

To apply: aalvarado@topps.com



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