Jobs

Location: Anywhere

URL: http://www.opencongress.org/

OpenCongress.org, a public resource website for tracking the U.S. Congress, is seeking a web programmer to join our open-source development team.

OpenCongress is going wiki. We’re excited to give our user community the ability to contribute wiki knowledge about Congress.

The main purpose of this role is to integrate MediaWiki alongside our existing Ruby on Rails code. The ideal candidate would have significant working experience with both semantic MediaWiki and Ruby on Rails. Experience with a postgres database is good too, but not required.

This is a part-time position lasting at least three months, with the potential to continue on. Applicants can telecommute, but being based in either NYC or D.C. is a plus. Applicants can work for us days or nights – we’re open to various arrangements – but days are preferred. Salary will be negotiated depending on experience and availability.

OpenCongress is a young project and growing rapidly. The site is a non-profit, non-partisan project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation (PPF). Our mission is to open up government, combat corruption, and increase civic engagement. We work with top-notch talent committed to building a new degree of transparency in government. Our development process is user-focused, collaborative, and agile.

For more, please visit ::

http://www.opencongress.org/

http://sunlightfoundation.com/

http://participatorypolitics.org/

To apply: Send a brief note about yourself, why you want to work on OpenCongress, and some links to code you’ve written to David Moore, Project Manager: drm@ppolitics.org.

Location: Anywhere

URL: http://inklingmarkets.com

Inkling is looking for a Rails contractor (1+ months) to work on some interesting projects with our current design/development team. We want people with strong Rails skills and who can write beautiful code, but we also really appreciate people who are good writers (substance over grammar), could communicate well with our clients if asked to do so, and have an eye for good design. We are working with some pretty cool technology over here, which has included building out our REST API, abandoning Subversion for Git, moving to Memcached and Sphinx, etc. and there will be plenty more fun things to work on as we continue to ride on the leading edge of what Rails can do.

Inkling was started in Dec 2005 through Y Combinator (ycombinator.com) and in our humble opinion, our service offering, Inkling Markets, is the best prediction markets software service available today. And it’s been that way for almost 3 years now, because it’s easy to use, runs fast, and remains reliable (full Rails test suite and Selenium to top it off).

We’re in Chicago, but you don’t have to be. Position also has the possibility to become full time if you’re looking for some more stability in your life.

To apply: Write jobs@inklingmarkets.com with Rails Developer as the subject. Please send along a resume, references and anything you think would help introduce yourself: where you blog, anything open source you’ve developed, your favorite beverage, etc.

Location: Washington, DC

URL: www.dcigroup.com

DCI Group is a strategic public affairs and global issues management firm. We use a campaign-style approach to help corporations, trade associations, and nonprofit organizations address their most critical communications and public policy challenges. Expertise and results are what we deliver to our clients. We constantly seek fresh angles and unique opportunities, which position our clients for success.

Our team includes public affairs strategists who’ve held positions at the most senior levels within government, politics, and corporate communications. Each has extensive experience in managing complex issue campaigns. They choose to work at DCI Group because they want a different kind of career experience and the highest quality client relationships. Our team members are motivated by our business approach, where our success is predicated on our clients’ success.

DCI Group is currently seeking to fill the position of Web Strategist & Designer in our Web Services division.

Job Responsibilities:

The Web Strategist & Designer will be responsible for advising stakeholders of best practices and strategies for their Web properties. This includes:

•Staying current with, and incorporating the use of, the latest tolls for online advocacy and messaging

•Educating and advising client teams on most effective uses of their Web properties

•Integrating online best practices with client wishes/needs

Responsibilities also include the design of and front end build out of web sites for DCI clients. This involves:

•Designing website comps in Photoshop for client approval

•Cutting and coding of approved comps using CSS and html/xhtml

•Working with programmers to make sites functional as well as test and work out any bugs

Requirements:

At least five years previous experience in a similar position required, preferably with online messaging/advocacy campaigns.

The ideal candidate would possess the following skills:

•Ability to work as part of a team with DCI programmers, website project managers, and graphic designers and be an integral part of the work flow.

•Working knowledge of Photoshop, CSS, html/xhtml, and JavaScript.

•Ability to take design and format it into a WordPress or Drupal site is a plus, but not required. Flash skills and knowledge of ColdFusion and/or PHP are also a plus but not required.

To apply: For consideration, please apply here: https://home.eease.com/recruit/?id=56017

Location: Washington, DC

URL: www.dcigroup.com

DCI Group is a strategic public affairs and global issues management firm. We use a campaign-style approach to help corporations, trade associations, and nonprofit organizations address their most critical communications and public policy challenges. Expertise and results are what we deliver to our clients. We constantly seek fresh angles and unique opportunities, which position our clients for success.

Our team includes public affairs strategists who’ve held positions at the most senior levels within government, politics, and corporate communications. Each has extensive experience in managing complex issue campaigns. They choose to work at DCI Group because they want a different kind of career experience and the highest quality client relationships. Our team members are motivated by our business approach, where our success is predicated on our clients’ success.

DCI Group is currently seeking to fill the position of Account Manager in our Web Services division.

Job Responsibilities:

General responsibilities include: ensuring client teams’ online campaign needs are met while offering strategic opportunities for improvement.

The Account Manager will be required to:

•Act as the primary point of contact between client teams and Web Services

•Maintain all client Web properties to ensure current, accurate content in conjunction with client teams

•Analyze and communicate client requirements for new development of websites, social media, and e-mail campaigns

•Stay current on new and emerging technologies, and how those can best serve DCI and our clients

Requirements:

Two to three years previous experience in a similar position required, preferably with online messaging/advocacy campaigns.

The ideal candidate would possess the following skills:

•Working knowledge of online content management systems, WordPress and Drupal is strongly preferred.

•Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously and to work as part of a team with DCI’s video and graphic designers and be an integral part of the work flow.

•Basic working knowledge of html and PhotoShop.

•Ability to effectively communicate complex technologies to unfamiliar stakeholders.

•Flash skills are a plus but not required.

To apply: For consideration, please apply here: https://home.eease.com/recruit/?id=56018

Location: Downtown Chicago, IL

URL: http://www.firstdibz.com

Sr. Applications Developer (Java)

Our company, FirstDIBZ (www.firstdibz.com) offers rewarding opportunities for motivated, creative, and results-oriented technology professionals based on our niche market application and proprietary technologies.

We have a highly-specialized full SDLC team which uses core Java language programming to create customer-facing web applications for internal and external use. Our team designs, creates, and implements best solutions to meet business objectives and needs, implementing new and emerging technologies to support the development cycle.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop server side components specific to financial transaction systems using Java and related open-source/enterprise technologies.

• Collaborate with other members in performing full lifecycle software development, including gathering business requirements, design, coding, documentation, testing and QA, release and implementation, and maintenance.

• Research, test and recommend new technologies to support development objectives.

• Assist in the translation of business requirements into supporting documentation, following appropriate development methodologies and standards, and developing reliable, scalable, and quality applications.

• Increase the performance, reliability, and efficiency of legacy systems.

• Respond to and resolve release/deployment and client issues.

Technical Requirements:
1. 5+ years Java language (current) with 2 years of Java 5/6 (Generics and Annotations)
2. 5+ years current Object Oriented Programming experience
3. Database Application Development experience (Oracle / MySQL)
4. Extensive use and knowledge of varied design patterns
5. SOA (service oriented architecture)
6. Dependency Injection framework experience
7. Web Application framework experience
8. Application Clustering / Architecture (scalability knowledge)

To apply: Send a resume with introductory email to hr@firstdibz.com