SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT
Position Title: Web Developer
Department: Web Presence
Reports To: Lead Developer
Location: San Diego, CA
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, with millions of gamers around the globe having enjoyed the company's products over the years. SOE creates, develops and provides compelling entertainment for the personal computer, online, game console and wireless markets.
SOE has developed and/or published a number of ground-breaking and genre-defining games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, Star Wars Galaxies, the newly announced FreeRealms, DC Universe Online and The Agency.
Based in San Diego, California, with development studios in Austin, Seattle, Denver, Tucson and Taiwan, SOE strives to push the envelope of online entertainment quality, innovation and delivery, thus maintaining a leading position on the cutting-edge of technology.
The Web Developer will develop interactive and social media projects utilizing a variety of platforms and languages including but not limited to Actionscript, Flex, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, JSON, XML, FBML, and XFBML for SOEs game portals. An Interactive Developer is expected to know and follow industry web standards and keep up to date with immerging technologies and their APIs. Additionally, the position will require some presentation-level development for SOE web sites.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Drive, execute and maintain flash development projects for Web Presence using ActionScript versions 2 & 3
Explore, research and adapt to immerging social platforms and their APIs
Further educate and broaden technical knowledge and capabilities of team members
Web site presentation-layer development in collaboration with Art and Design teams
Write complex custom Javascript and Actionscript functions
Slices source artwork for web sites, emails and interactive applications
Adhere to established standards, procedures and best practices for coding and implementation.
Ensure the integration of common site elements such as tracking, ad tags, global includes, plug-ins, etc.
Communicate frequently with project Web Producer to the status and needs for assigned projects.
Formats and implements page content and rich-media emails using CSS, Ajax and HTML as appropriate
Introduces new technologies and functionality for web sites/projects
Assesses competitors web sites for presentation, functionality and usability
Implements Content Management System into web sites and related projects
QUALIFICATIONS
Expert knowledge of X/HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Experience working with dynamic Flash (Flash Remoting, XML)
Experienced in JSP, PHP, ASP, or similar object-oriented server-side scripting languages. JSP experience preferred.
Proven ability to work with members of third party development teams
Ability to multi-task and manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously
Experience using libraries and frameworks like Ajax libraries Jquery - in JavaScript
Experience using Flex 3.x or an abundance AS3 knowledge
Experience working in java and relational database based environment or working and interfacing with server side java engineers.
SPECIFIC SKILLS REQUIRED
Flash, Action Script 3, Photoshop
HTML, CSS, Flex / AS3, Javascript
Object orientated server side languages like JSP and PHP.
Javascript libraries like Jquery
SOE is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace
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