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Feb 22nd, 2007

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Company: Travidia Inc.

Location: Chico CA.

Salary: DOE

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Phone: 530-343-6400

TRAVIDIA, the leader in Internet marketing services for newspapers and advertisers throughout North America and Europe, is looking for Ruby on Rails Web Developers. Visit Travidia.com to learn more about us. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a growing company, living in the vitality of the university town Chico, CA with the beauty of the Sierra Mountains and affordable living.

Key Responsibilities include:

Implementation of front-end application templates for a high availability, high volume web-based application.
Work closely with a cross-functional team (UI design, engineering, and product management), using UI and functional spec/prototypes as input.
Translate business requirements provided by Product Marketing into consumer facing UI designs.
Apply an understanding of the inherent limitations of tools and technologies and suggest appropriate trade-offs.
Facilitate and/or communicate design conversations with Product Marketing.
Ensure all designs are documented and reviewed.
Participate in reviews of peer designs.
Identify and fix problem areas in application.
Review improvements suggested by team members and clear with Product Marketing.
Drive UI design and usability innovation

The ideal candidate for this position should have the following:

Proven history delivering consumer facing scalable web applications.
Passion for UI and creating captivating user experiences.
Strong desire to work with Ruby on Rails.
3+ years experience with the software development cycle: product specification, design, implementation, qa, release.
2+ years experience with XML/XSL or equivalent.
Design and documentation of front-end projects of various scopes
Experience working with product management in creating intuitive and cutting edge Web 2.0 interfaces
Deep experience with web browser technologies, especially DHTML, JavaScript, AJAX, and CSS
The ability to collaborate with peers in engineering and marketing as part of a development team, and to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
Bachelors' in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Perform all tasks with an awareness of business timelines.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Interested candidates should e-mail their resumes in Word format to Developer_jobs@travidia.com.
All resumes must include salary history.
Please indicate where you learned of this opportunity.
No recruiters or contract candidates.