Kloudhire

Description

Services to be performed

looking to hire a results-oriented developer and QA to assist in producing and maintaining tools for advanced eBook production as well as to help define and test new features.
This role will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and deploying internal tools and services to support the content team, and will collaborate with multiple stakeholders to accomplish our end goal: to provide the best possible customer reading experience.
This role will also be responsible for ensuring that the built-in dictionary products that Company provides to our customers meet the very highest standards.
The successful candidate will be methodical, analytical, objective, and goal-focused with a driving need for accuracy and attacking difficult problems

The successful candidate will:

Be results-oriented, with a creative approach to problem solving
Have a strong bias for action, and a take charge attitude
Apply the latest technology to develop innovative solutions for producing eBooks and assist in quality assurance
Create design proposals and proof of concept samples for review with internal stakeholders
Fully test and document new and existing code, and generally maintain the highest standard for code quality
Be able to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders
Rigorously test dictionaries to ensure compliance with established standards.
Be able to provide recommendations and improve the existing process and functionality for better customer experience
Think creatively to resolve content issues and identify scalable solutions that enable delivery of a high quality product.
Help to establish process and quality guidelines to ensure quality levels of company dictionaries are consistently maintained
Maintain meticulous reporting and tracking, present findings to internal and external stakeholders.
Be able to work cross-functionally to communicate errors, perceived errors or product improvements in various types of company dictionaries. We are a fast-paced environment and encourage end-to-end ownership and innovation.
If you are a strong developer with experience and passion for developing great web applications

Required skills

Bachelors degree in computer science, or similar required
Web development experience
Hands on expertise in Ruby/Python/JavaScript/Java
Expertise with advanced XML manipulation and technologies, including XPath, XQuery, and XSLT
Experience with database management and development (MSSQL, SQLite, MySQL or other, no-SQL database systems)
Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners to get things done
Experience working with digital text (e.g., website editing or design, digital content, digitization, etc.) strongly desired, including familiarity with HTML and CSSPreferred skills
Experience with web-service technologies (REST, SOAP)
Familiarity with Node.js, C#
Hands on Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3
Experience with site management and deployment, particularly with AWS