Careers
Do you look beyond the obvious,
like a challenge, and enjoy working with experienced,
talented colleagues? Interested in joining a small
company with a relaxed work environment? Magic
Hour Communications is a unique combination of
marketing, creative and technical folks who do
it all -- analyze a company's business and marketing
needs, devise the information architecture, design
the UI and graphics, write content, create rich
media and program the Web site, create videos,
CD-ROMs, print. To get an idea of the quality
and range of our award-winning work, check out
our portfolio.
Salary and benefits are outstanding:
three weeks vacation, 100% individual medical
coverage, 401(k), profit sharing, etc Magic Hour
is located in Watertown, MA. Preference given
to Boston-area applicants.
Current openings:
Senior ASP.Net Engineer
Reporting directly to the CTO, the software engineers
will be a key member of the small team building
the next generation of our Web content management
system which is already in use by thousands of
people at dozens of clients. A strong passion
and thirst to keep up with new industry trends
and standards, learn new things and grow in architectural
design and coding capabilities is a must. You
will work closely with an internal QA person.
Some other necessary qualifications
are:
· Good understanding
of, and experience in, ASP.Net, Javascript, HTML
and CSS is a must.
· Experience with version
control systems such as VSS or SVN is a must.
· Strong knowledge of
SQL is a must. MSSQL 2005 experience.
· Experience with C#
is a strong asset, as well as VS.NET 2005. Some
experience working with the design-time surface
of VS.NET as opposed to declarative asp.net page
design using the editor.
· Some experience with
AJAX.
· Experience/knowledge
of Web cross-platform (PC/Mac; IE/FireFox/Safari)
development/compatibility issues
· Experience to iterative
rapid prototyping.
· Experience in developing
multi-site hosting ASP.NET code.
· Experience with web
parts or modular portal infrastructures.
· NHibernate or other
.NET ORM experience.
· Experience with third
party or community based .NET frameworks like
log4net.
· Ability to design working
ASP.NET pages in very short time frames.
· Familiarity with concepts
such as session persistence, URL rewriting, .ascx
component design, third party component libraries
like telerik, infragistics, devexpress.
· Ability to work in
a small team and be able to work cross functionally
in the QA, database query design and architecture
areas.
· Strong interest and/or
experience in WEB 2.0 type technologies is important.
· Exposure to VS.NET
2008 Beta and LINQ.
· Strong exposure to
object oriented design and development is necessary
Also, experience with an ASP.NET
content management systems, such as dotnetnuke,
rainbow portal or mojo portal is a plus.
Magic Hour Communications offers
a small, relaxed environment in which to work
on some great projects with other talented people
for world-class clients. Benefits include three
weeks vacation, full health, dental and disability
insurances, 401k, etc.
To apply, send your resume,
including salary history/expectations and date
of availability to develop at magic-hour.com Absolutely
no calls and NO recruiters.
Web Production Associate
Magic Hour is looking for a person to work 10-20
hours/week building Web pages with our easy-to-use
content management system. Experience building
Web pages with Dreamweaver or other software is
important, as well as a good understanding of
laying out attractive, usable pages.
You may also be asked to help
out with other work in the office, such as online
research and updating a database.
You don't have to be a programmer
or highly experienced; this is a good entry-level
position. Please send your resume to jobs at magic-hour.com
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