About Terapath
A startup in Waterloo, Terapath has assembled a talented and experienced team to commercialize an exciting innovation. In fact, virtually all of us left comfortable positions at successful companies to participate in what we’re building here. Intrigued? Read on. If you’ve got what it takes for this position, we’d love to tell you more.
Position Summary
We’re looking for a maestro of front-end web development to assist with both prototyping and production code. Regardless of whether you like the terminology, you love to build CSS/XHTML applications described by buzzwords such as Web 2.0, AJAX, and RIA. You’ll work closely with our user experience team, helping bring to life new design ideas for usability and concept testing. As part of our development group, you’ll work with the latest & greatest technology to help those ideas grow into fully-functional production-quality web applications for commercial deployment.
Terapath’s agile development methodology will give you the freedom, responsibility and autonomy to explore new technologies in developing our products. We provide daily updates to each other so that overall project status and progress is clearly communicated.
You must have a thorough understanding of software development best practices and should have prior success delivering distributed, internet scale applications. You’re constantly learning and looking for ways to improve. A code warrior, you thrive in a small team startup environment. You’re innovative, creative, and you know that understanding a problem is as important as the code you write to solve it.
Responsibilities
- Develop and unit test application functionality to meet requirements and timelines
- Provide development support during times of rapid concept iteration and testing
- Provide verbal status updates to the entire R&D team on a daily basis
- Provide input into overall application and platform architecture
- Correct defects found during functional and regression testing
- Participate in the planning and deployment of new releases, including feature estimation
- Seek and advocate improvements in Terapath’s software development practices
- Stay up-to-date with best practices in web development
Qualifications
- Proven track record in commercial software development
- Experience with technologies for building RIA’s such as AJAX, Flash, Silverlight
- Experience with the Microsoft Expression suite of tools would be a plus
- Experience with the .NET Framework, C# and related technologies
- Solid experience building multi-tier distributed internet scale applications with a design focus, experience with service oriented architectures a plus
- A positive attitude and a results-oriented work ethicAn ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- An ability to work effectively using agile development methodologies
- An ability to self-monitor progress against project goals and employ corrective actions as required
- University degree, college diploma or equivalent in computer science or engineering
For more information or to apply for this position, please contact Jeff Fedor.