Wanted: Flash MX Engineer for position in San Francisco

SUMMARY
We're looking for an innovative and creative Flash engineer. The ideal
candidate has the technical skills to build data-driven Flash
applications and the creative chops to solve UI design problems. Strong
Flash experience and problem solving ability are requirements. UI
design, rich media and motion graphics skills are highly desired.

ABOUT FLUID
Fluid is a SF-based digital design and technology services firm. Our
roots date back to 1990, and we've been developing web-based sites
and applications since 1996. Since 2000, we've specialized in Flash-based
applications powered by open source backends. We have done tons of
work in Java and also have a deep expertise with LAMP. In addition
to heavy engineering, we have equally deep creative and project
management groups.

We are all passionate about doing great work, evidenced by the awards
our work has received. Most notably, we won the best business
application of the year award at MAX 2003, for our Flash/Tomcat/MySQL-based
Avery Photo ID System desktop application. We've also won
Communication Arts awards for past design work. A project we did for
Avery Dennison was just featured in Newsweek and Good Morning
America. Current clients include Schwab, Yahoo, Amerada Hess,
Macrovision, United Tote, Macromedia, Avery Dennison and The North
Face. We're always doing interesting work and it's a fun, bright and varied
group of people.

We've got a great work environment with high ceilings and lots of light.
We're on the corner of South Park, so there's tons of good grub, bars
and public transit from BART to Muni to CalTrain. We've also got a full
benefits package including a great health plan, 401K and even credits
for home networking costs.

More information can be found at our website: URL .

POSITION
Flash MX Engineer

Responsibilities:
- Design and engineer Enterprise-class, data-driven Flash MX-based applications.
- Work with senior visual designers and creative directors to design and create compelling, highly usable interfaces.
- Work with server-side developers to define and enable end-to-end communication.
- Write specifications and other documentation.
- Estimate development time accurately and meet deadlines.

Required Skills and Capabilities:
- Minimum 4 years UI programming experience with object oriented languages.
- Minimum 2 years Flash experience. Strong knowledge of ActionScript, Flash MX and MX2004 components and XML.
- Expertise with general web technologies, including HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SSL and ActiveX.
- Background in sane development practices, including formal object modeling (UML), unit testing, version control and bug tracking systems.
- Examples of past work exemplifying technical skills and abilities.
- Ability to write and communicate professionally, with a strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work self-directed and in small teams, to provide direction and receive it.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- A sense of humor and good attitude.

Desired Skills and Capabilities:
- Experience leading development teams.
- User Interface design experience.
- Motion Graphics experience.
- XML Schema design.
- Flex, Flash Communications Server and/or web services development experience.
- Strong knowledge of and ability to work with rich media formats.
- Director/Lingo and CDROM Development experience.
- Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java, Perl/Python/PHP development background.

SALARY
Based on experience and ability.

INSTRUCTIONS
Please email a note describing your background, why you're interested,
why you're qualified and your resume to URL (sorry for
the impersonal email address but our regular alias is deluged by SPAM).
During the course of the interview process, we'll request code and
documentation samples to review with you.

Sorry, but absolutely no recruiters.