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Sitemasher is a start-up company focused on making it easier for companies to manage their online presence. Sitemasher created a new patent pending online tool that will drastically reduce the time and cost associated with Building, Managing and Optimizing sophisticated websites.

What does this mean? It means that we’ve eliminated the current obstacles that exist in creating powerful websites like the requirement for programming and the need for bloated expensive technology to run a website. Businesses can now change and update their website easily and focus on their business. Sitemasher is also a browser based tool that is completely collaborative and includes all the latest Analytics and SEO features.

Sitemasher is in search for a Senior Software Engineer (aka Widget Master) to join our organization on a Permanent Full-time basis. This individual will help drive the design and implementation of our web application. This individual of course has a passion for development and may be known to his or her peers as the Widget Master!

The company’s culture is an invigorating and stimulating environment with smart colleagues and challenging/flexible work, giving all of us the opportunity to do some of the best work of our careers. Located in the fabulous and trendy Kitsilano area, we also strive to take on an environmental and socially responsible mentality. Our ideal candidate is an individual that embraces these ideals, is a creative, multi-dimensional person who just wants to get to business and would jump at the chance to join a “Work Hard, Play Hard” team.

Learn more about the responsibilities and requirements of this position here. If this is an ideal position for you, please send your resume and cover letter to Courtney at Jobs@sitemasher.com.

Vision Critical is the world’s leader in providing technology and expertise to help companies recruit, engage and learn more about their own customers. We think fat binders of research results are boring so we figured out a way to make it more exciting. We’ve developed software to do internet based market research with lots of photos, videos, audio and 3d simulations.

Our extreme growth has created an immediate opening for a:
Programmer

Programmers provide advanced scripting and technical expertise to support our account managers and technical support team in meeting the needs of our clients and their custom panel requirements. They are also responsible for building panels’ creative based on design as well as newsletters and emails.

Responsibilities:

• Provide scripting and technical support to the Services Department.
• Panel skinning (convert design into actual website)
• Newsletters (convert content into HTML for emails deployment)
• Manage shifting priorities and timelines.
• Assist in the development tools and processes for internal use.

Requirements:

• 1-2 years working experience with: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and Object Oriented Programming.
• Experience with managing multiple projects with varying and changing priorities.
• Team work and clear communication.
• Strong problem solving ability.
• Attention to detail.

Desired Skills:

• C#, ASP.NET, XML, PHP, MS-SQL, MySQL
• Familiarity with MS Office and related software
• Experience with Adobe Photoshop

Would you like to find your place in a company that values a work life balance and knows how to have fun? An opportunity where are you are challenged more than Donald Trump’s newest apprentice, but in the evenings you can join in our corporate sports teams and/or company band? Since January of 2006, the employee count has increased over 150% in all areas of the company. We have been selected by Rocket Builders “Ready to Rocket”, a technology company with the greatest potential for revenue growth.

Interested applicants are invited to apply online at www.visioncritical.com or email your resume in PDF format to careers@visioncritical.com.

Zefr Media is a rapidly growing entertainment firm in Yaletown with 10 years of history in the gaming software industry. We are looking for a Customer Retention / Internal Marketing Manager for one of our large sports-related clients. This role will focus on members of the client’s website ensuring that they remain loyal and active by conducting various cyclical and one-off marketing initiatives. The ideal candidate will be an expert in web marketing metrics and have proven experience in developing relationships with various segments of a member database.

Required skills:

• A passion for sports and gaming
• 3-5 years of Internet based retention-marketing skills
• HTML and page layout skills, experience with WYSIWYG web editors
• Writing experience
• The ability to work well unsupervised as well as with a team
• Experience in developing and executing annual budgets
• Excellent time management & organization skills
• A creative vision for leading edge promotions
• Bachelor’s degree in Communication, Marketing or related equivalent experience
• Online gaming experience (sports betting, poker or casino)

Full job description available here. Salary range is $40K - $50K PLUS performance incentives & additional perks. Please email jobs _at_ zefrmedia.com with a resume and a cover letter telling us why you are the perfect person for this role. We look forward to hearing from you!

At FCV, we combine our skills in strategy, technology and design to deliver solutions that help our clients succeed. Our employees bring a wealth of knowledge and a wide variety of skills and backgrounds that together make us successful. We have professional and fun working relationships and enjoy working on dynamic, challenging projects for a range of clients in various industries. We’re always interested in meeting smart, highly skilled, driven people who are interested in working with us.

We currently have an opening for a Web Developer to join our team, reporting to a Senior Developer. You will work with a talented team on web development projects that contribute to the success of our clients by increasing their sales and improving the customer experience on their web sites. You have the ability follow our code standards and code in ASP.NET, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and refining requirements with the team, implementing and maintaining a wide range of dynamic and interactive websites.
• Optimizing for speed and compatibility; adding features that contribute to the website without sacrificing quality.
• Assist clients with the formulation of their web strategies.
• Apply your deep understanding of typography, illustration, storyboarding and iconography when working on web projects.
• Work within project management schedules to meet deadlines.
• Collaborate with other members of our team to ensure consistency with the overall goals of each project and client expectations.

A full list of required skills and experience is available here and you can apply online.

At FCV, we combine our skills in strategy, technology and design to deliver solutions that help our clients succeed. Our employees bring a wealth of knowledge and a wide variety of skills and backgrounds that together make us successful. We have professional and fun working relationships and enjoy working on dynamic, challenging projects for a range of clients in various industries. We’re always interested in meeting smart, highly skilled, driven people who are interested in working with us.

We currently have openings for talented designers reporting to a Creative Director. The successful candidates will be responsible for developing user interfaces, graphics, and print work to create compelling user experiences for our clients.

Responsibilites:

• Collaborate with other Designers and Creative Director to ensure designs are consistent with client expectations and overall project goals.
• Effectively translate and elaborate existing mock-ups into subsequent web pages.
• Design web graphics using Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and demonstrate an understanding of client-side web development tools such as Javascript and HTML.
• Alter and convert creative designs in Photoshop to effective, optimized and functional HTML without using the program’s “export as HTML” functions.
• Work with clients and/or other designers to explain design concepts and manage design feedback.

Required Skills and Experience:

• A portfolio of design work that demonstrates your capabilities.
• CSS experience.
• Experience building websites with DHTML, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, JSP.
• Significant experience with Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash.
• Experience applying theories related to colour schemes, use of space, text placement, usability and visual flow.
• Education in New Media or equivalent.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to meet deadlines in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to focus under pressure and deal with ambiguity.
• A sense of humour.
• A positive attitude.

Apply online.

Nitobi is seeking an experienced software engineer specializing in web application development with a focus on AJAX, DHTML and modern web architecture and interaction. The candidate will perform web application engineering, user interface construction and integration into Nitobi web page tracking technologies such as RobotReplay.

This position requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. The qualified candidate will have advanced knowledge in DHTML, DOM Manipulation, Event Handling, and AJAX. This position requires practical experience with object oriented programming in JavaScript, including creating custom objects with custom methods and properties. Experience with error handling and debugging of JavaScript code is also required.

This is a great position if you are excited about leading the AJAX/Web2.0 field and could be great for a new grad or intern position. You will be working directly with the development team and CTO to improve the quality and usability of our software. You will constantly be looking for ways to help developers implement our components faster and build better software. Being obsessed with usability and high quality software is definitely going to help. If you are excited about learning from leaders in high performance web software and AJAX user interface components this position is for you. If you want this position do something cool like blog about this position and why you may want it, and show off some cool web app you’ve built and that’ll make our heads spin and come running to you!

Visit Nitobi’s website to read more about the responsibilities and required skills of this position and to apply online.

Are you:

• Fresh out of business school and looking to make your mark on the world?
• The type of person who isn’t satisfied unless you are faced with a challenge?
• Looking for an opportunity to fast track your career and earn a six figure income within 2-3 years?
• Looking to join forces with a fast growing company that will recognize the contribution you are making?

If you’ve answered yes to these questions, then we want to talk to you!

Mentorship Program? What’s that all About?

If you think you have what it takes to be a superstar, why not learn from someone who’s already done it? Named as one of Vancouver’s Top 40 under 40, our CEO is looking for our community’s best and brightest to join Dyrand’s team of sales and marketing professionals. We all know that starting from scratch is hard work, and while there is no such thing as an overnight success, effective mentoring can significantly reduce the amount of time it takes you to succeed in your chosen field of expertise.

Read more….

Redwerks is looking for someone different. We’re not a traditional company and we want to engage someone who doesn’t think like other developers. You’re creative, entrepreneurial and have life experience outside of web development.

Our work: semantic web software
Your work: PHP, MySQL, XHTML/CSS, and JS+AJAX

The last thing we want is someone who just wants to sit in the corner and code. We’re a growing start-up and need someone who embraces a fun and demanding start-up atmosphere. We’re pushing to a beta launch in a few weeks and want someone who is excited about getting on board.

There’s one catch. This isn’t a full-time job… yet. For the right person, this will ramp up into a key position directly under our CTO within the next 1-3 months. But you’ve got to gel with our team first and that means a slow increase in hours and responsibilities and compensation. For the right person, this will be an incredible opportunity.

To apply, send your CV to lisa@redwerks.org. No phone calls, please.

Webnames.ca is hiring a full-time Assistant Systems Administrator to assist in administering and maintaining the company IT infrastructure. The candidate is expected to participate in a team environment. The candidate must possess excellent troubleshooting skills; a high attention to detail; the ability to follow specific guidelines and criteria; excellent time-management and organizational skills.

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day systems administration and support of the company servers, networks, workstations and laptops.
• Perform systems upgrades e.g. server upgrade, workstation upgrade, hardware upgrade and related duties.
• Review Microsoft security advisories and apply service packs/patches to the Windows servers, workstations and laptops accordingly.
• Perform and manage the daily and monthly system backups.
• Maintain email and spam filter systems.
• Enforce antivirus and security policies.
• Setup and update account information for office end-users.
• Assist/conduct testing/implementation of new systems and services as required and directed by the Systems Administrator.
• Evaluate/review new features, services, software and hardware as required and directed by the Systems Administrator.
• Provide support to office end-users.
• Sharepoint administration such as assisting users, creating new sites and managing user permissions.
• Liaise with software and hardware vendor for troubleshooting complex issues.
• Respond and provide resolution to tier2 escalated issues from the customer support department.

Full list of ideal qualifications are listed here. Position is full-time based on a 40-hour work week. Hours to be determined by Systems Administrator, and may be anywhere between 8am and 5pm. Extra hours may be required at times.

Excellent benefits package after a three-month probationary period. Salary commensurate with experience. Email your cover letter and resume to tech@webnames.ca before May 16, 2008.