Senior Flex Developer

Global Wonder Entertainment, Inc., an award-winning Seattle-based animation company, is developing a next-generation online entertainment product. We are seeking an experienced and talented Flex Developer to lead the effort of expanding a prototype product to a public Beta product release.

This is someone with 5+ years of software development experience using web technologies such as Flex, C#, and PHP. 1.5+ years of Flex 2.0/3.0 development experience is required, along with a strong ActionScript 3.0 background. Solid Computer Science background is required, as is significant experience developing large, scalable web services.

Responsibilities:

• Bringing existing codebase to an alpha release state.
• Integrate designer-centric Flash-authored UI into a code-centric Flex Builder 2.0-authored application.
• Develop client-server communication services between the Flex client and a PHP server environment.
• Develop and improve existing in-house ActionScript-based large multi-resolution scene display, scaling and panning technology.
• Work with program managers to define and scope feature areas.
• Work with designers to make their UI visions a reality.
• Extend schema and architecture work to handle product vision.
• Manage data and application deployments to the server and database environments.
• Maintain and manage the prototype server and database systems.
• Act as a resource to bring the existing team up to speed with Flex and other project-related technologies.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 1.5+ years professional experience with Adobe Flex 2.0.
• Strong ActionScript 3.0 skillset.
• Flash CS3 experience.
• MySQL 5 experience.
• PHP 5 experience.
• Linux and Apache2 experience.
• Rich Internet Application development experience.
• Web and Flex-centric client-server communication experience.
• Motivated and self-directed.
• Experience with Virtual World or multi-user games a plus.
• Experience with social network widget development a plus.
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent.

To apply or for additional information, please send your resume to jobs@globalwonderinc.com.