Booyah is hiring!
Step 1: Read "Who We Are" and make sure you know what you might be getting into.
Step 2: You've come back?! Maybe you should read it again?
Step 3: Check out our current listings. If you think you just might be our type, please email us at jobs@booyah.com — we'd love to hear from you.
Engineering & Design
Web Developer
Responsibilities
- Develop Booyah.com's interactive web application, corporate web site, and internal web based tools
- Build business partner facing analytics tool, advertisement campaign management portal
- Update and maintain standards-based HTML/CSS throughout Booyah's web application, corporate site, and internal web tools
- Web performance tuning and scalability
Requirements
- 5 years experience developing MVC web applications, ideally with established large scale consumer facing sites
- Extensive Ruby on Rails and/or Java web server development
- Expert in HTML/CSS, with knowledge of current best practices
- Expert level skills in AJAX and/or Flash
- Expert in Javascript and DOM manipulation
- Familiarity with JQuery, Prototype, or other JS library
- Solid understanding of usability principles
- Solid knowledge of web performance tuning and caching
- Strong scripting abilities in Python, Shell and/or Perl, Ruby
Plus
- Good eye for aesthetics and proficiency in Photoshop
- Deep understanding of HTTP protocol and load balancing. Exposure to CDN services.
- AJAX push/Comet
- GWT or Ext Library
Data Architect
Responsibilities
- Manage MySQL on the Linux platform in Production, Staging, QA, and/or Development environments including installation, configuration, optimization, automation, backup, recovery, upgrades, schema changes, etc
- Capacity planning, design and implement scalable MySQL infrastructure (master-slave, sharding)
- Create processes to ensure data integrity and identify potential data errors. In other words, help figure out appropriate monitoring techniques
- Quickly troubleshoot server problems and develop and deploy preventive measures to maintain high availability
- Develop data warehouse application for analytics system
Requirements
- 7 years production database administrator experience, ideally on MySQL or Oracle with established large scale Internet sites
- Strong scripting abilities in Python, Shell and/or Perl, Ruby
- Solid knowledge in database performance tuning, partitioning/sharding and messaging systems
- Great communication skills to influence overall system design
- Extensive data warehouse and analytics knowledge and experience
Plus
- Solaris server system administration experience
- Game development experience
- Performance modeling and measurement algorithms
Graphic Illustrator/Designer
Booyah is looking for a talented and passionate Graphic Illustrator/Designer to help establish and execute on the visual look of our upcoming iPhone application. The ideal candidate has strong ideas on UI and Icon design, a unique personal style, and a vision necessary to carry these ideas forward in a visually exciting way. The ability to create interactive prototypes in Flash is a big plus. Excellent communication skills are a must, as the Illustrator will be working closely with a variety of departments to make their ideas come to life.
Requirements
- Strong background in traditional illustration or other artistic mediums
- Graphic design skills with Adobe Photoshop or equivalent application
- Awareness of current trends in UI art design, interactive design, and competitive software to identify opportunities to enhance the user experience
- Ability to observe, understand and translate feedback to actionable insights and user interface improvements
- Ability to manage and act as UI lead on specific projects, including taking ownership of project deadlines and deliverables
Plus
- Prototyping skills with tools such as Adobe Flash
- Icon UI visual/art design
- Advanced artistic and graphic design skills with Adobe Photoshop or equivalent
- Experience with web design technologies such as XHTML, CSS, javascript, etc.
Project Manager
The Booyah team is looking for a highly organized individual with outstanding communication and project management skills. The ideal candidate has prior experience in mobile, web, or game development and has domain expertise in how engineering, design, QA, and marketing interact. Self-direction, teamwork, and execution are critical, as well as the ability to anticipate issues and find effective solutions.
Duties
- Coordinate with engineering, design, marketing, and QA to facilitate communication
- Work with department leads to determine resource and priority assignments, schedules, and product plans
- Drive team meetings to reach decisions effectively
- Assist the Chief Creative Officer and CEO with creative and organizational tasks as necessary
Requirements
- 2+ years experience in the mobile software, games, or web industry
- Strong instinct and understanding for consumer-facing products and unique value for users
- Experience managing teams and delivering high quality products on time
- Knowledge of the software development process, project management practices, and performance management
- Proven experience managing schedules and employees to achieve desired results
- Creative problem solving and lateral thinking
- Great inter-personal skills and oral and written communication skills
- Incredible attention to detail and follow-through
Plus
- Avid gamer across multiple platforms (casual and traditional)