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Media Service Provider has been working with ISPs and the music industry to offer ISP customers groundbreaking levels of access to digital music—and a groundbreaking user interface to match.

Tasked with delivering an innovative, browser-based music application to a large audience, it’s critical that we are able to deliver a reliable, responsive and fun user experience across a range of modern browsers (no IE6!). As a key addition to our development team, you’ll be central to this effort.

The role would suit a Javascript guru who enjoys the challenge of developing a real thick-client application in the browser. It may equally suit a GUI application developer with solid experience on other platforms (Cocoa, C#, Java, Flash, GTK, …) who’s confident in their ability to pick up the necessary Javascript skills.

Required skills:

• Solid software development background
• Strong object-oriented design and programming skills (in the context of stateful, longer-running GUI applications would be particularly good)
• Foundations of web development: HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript and the DOM
• User interface development

And some nice-to-haves:

• ‘Thick client’-style javascript application development
• Javascript frameworks (we’re using Dojo toolkit)
• Browser-based unit and integration testing
• RESTful web service APIs (mainly consuming them, but API design and implementation experience could be handy too)
• A feel for usability issues
• Server-side development with Ruby
• Source control with Git
• An interest in music!

In return we can offer challenging problems in an interesting field, opportunities for growth and to get involved with other aspects of our offering, at a fast-moving company based in the east end.