Squidoo is hiring a developer

You're an expert at client side technologies, and you will handle most of the day-to-day feature development of the site, working with our crack team of designers, sysadmins and editors.

This is a full-time position. Telecommuting is possible, see below.

If you're looking for a job, look elsewhere.

We want someone who is passionate about the work, about pushing the envelope, about not just the code that gets written, but the way it's done. The process matters to you, we hope.

This is a very special little company. We are each extraordinarily self-directed and self-motivated. Nobody actually has a direct boss, really. On the other hand, we work extremely well as a team and cede authority to each other with regularity.

We pride ourselves on alacrity, on doing things quickly and well, but not better than the mission requires.

What would you do if the people you work with got out of your way? That's what we can offer.

Here's what we expect you to be a proven expert in:

PHP 5
JavaScript/Ajax
MySQL
XHTML and CSS
OOP

Significant experience with:
Linux
Subversion or CVS
Prototype and Scriptaculous JavaScript libraries
REST and SOAP APIs

Big pluses for experience with:
Large scale, high volume, high availability applications
C, Java, Python, or Ruby
Memcache

And it would be great if you could build Facebook apps and were pretty good at Scrabble.

After three months of successful work, we'll pay the person who referred the hire $3,000 in cash. If you refer yourself, we'll pay you.

We'd prefer someone who was within an easy drive of our offices ten miles north of New York City. However, if you want to telecommute, the deal is:
--you need to be in our office 20 days during the first three months.
--after that, you can show up three days a month.
--travel is your expense. We'll pay for a cheap hotel room, though.

Pay is negotiable, based on individual circumstances, etc.