FLEX Developer for Fastest Growing Music Startup - 36+ million users - Contract/Perm
Do you love music and programming? Playlist.com is looking for Flex Developers to innovate, lead and create new features for our ever evolving next gen music products.
With over 35 million registered users (and an average of 75,000 new users per day!), playlist is one of the fastest growing sites on the internet. Playlist reached 20 million users faster than both MySpace and Facebook. With over 1 billion pageviews per month and are ranked in the top 200 sites in the U.S. Playlist allows users to search, create, and share their favorite music from around the Web.
Our viral flash player allows users to easily embed and share their music playlist on any social network, blog or website.
Playlist is the #1 most downloaded widget on the internet, with over 1.25 billion players loading every month!
With such explosive growth over a 2 year period, Playlist has become a leading force in today's new music industry. We believe that the playlist is the new album and that Playlist.com is sure to become the ultimate online destination for searching, discovering and sharing music!
We have a creative, fun and collaborative work environment. We work hard, play hard and have fun through our love of music and frequent team events. Our team enjoys daily catered meals, plenty of great snacks and playing with our mascot, Izzy the dog.
We offer competitive salaries, stock options, and a great benefits package! Our headquarters is in Palo Alto, 1 block from Caltrain.
Join the team that will change the future of the music industry!
We're looking for an experienced Flex developer to work on developing exciting new features of our next generation music products that are used by the over 35 millions Playlist.com users. Create exciting next generation user interfaces and features for our Flex widgets (Over 20 million embedded on the Web and growing rapidly!) The ideal candidate would have proficiency in Adobe Flex, Rich Internet application development, and a strong working knowledge of usability-focused interfaces.
Responsibilities
Some exciting projects you’ll work on:
- Help design an ubiquitous Playlist experience across social networks, Playlist.com and installed clients
- Develop an installable AIR playlist client
- Implement video and steaming content into our widget
- Develop a configurator for widget skinning
- Develop a music module accessible to other applications
- Integrate Playlist API's with existing XML & JSON data feeds
- Implement a user login system within our widgets
- Extending processes for feeding data to widgets from various sources
Experience
- Experience with Actionscript 3
- Audio and Video application experience
- Flash Communication Server / Media Server
- Familiarity with applying OOP in a Flash/Flex development environment
- Write organized, well documented, reusable code
- Have a love for Music!
For immediate consideration please email me at: alicia@playlist.com