Dynamic Flash

We’re currently looking for two Junior Web Developers to join the infamous Yahoo! web development team in London. Email steve@dynamicflash.com with a subject of Y! Junior Web Developer position attaching a recent CV if you’re interested.

Job description follows after the break.

Yahoo! Junior Web Developer — Job Description

As the world’s number one Internet brand Yahoo! delivers news, entertainment, information and fun to over a half billion people every day. Our European web development team, based in London, is seeking standards-savvy front-end developers to work on Europe’s busiest sites.

You should be able to provide examples of your work showing use of progressive enhancement techniques (e.g. unobtrusive scripting), and clear separation of structure, presentation and behaviour layers.

Required Skills

• Hand-coded (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Solid knowledge of standards-based, accessible, cross-browser web development
• PHP programming skills
• User-level experience with BSD/Linux
• Experience using version control systems such as CVS & Subversion

Desirable Skills

• Client– and server–side performance optimisation techniques
• Search engine optimisation
• Experience in developing web applications with rich client interfaces using AJAX, drag and drop, and other DOM Scripting techniques.
• Experience with JavaScript libraries, especially the YUI
• Experience of Web Services (eg REST, SOAP, XML-RPC)
• Knowledge of web site internationalisation issues and experience developing web sites in multiple languages particularly in Europe.
• Use of the following technologies: XML/XSLT, Perl, Microformats, JSON, Flash/Flex
• Experience developing functionality/applications by assembling existing code modules

Responsibilities

You will work closely with Information Architects, Visual Designers, User Researchers, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to ensure that our web based products in Europe provide the best possible experience for our users.