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Livestream is an innovative and fast growing video company with its head office based in New York, which delivers over a billion minutes of video per month. Livestream's mission is to build a next-generation live cable operator. One that is global, social, user friendly, reaches all devices and is accessible to anyone interested in broadcasting an interactive live video experience.

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about software development, take pride in what they build, are quick learners and love to work in a challenging and fast-paced environment. As part of a start-up competing in a world-scale market, you will be expected to work hard and will have the ability to release often and see your work be used by millions of people.

Responsibilities:

• Implement the next generations of our website, which includes the livestream website (http://www.livestream.com), the livestream account center(https://secure.livestream.com) and twitcam website (http://twitcam.livestream.com) and other livestream content publishing and admin tools.

• Continuously improve the performance and scalability of the code base to support the growth of our high-traffic platform.

• Interact on a daily basis with the team in US for project discussions, understanding requirements and progress updates.

Requirements:

• Strong relevant skills with 4 – 6 years of experience preferred.

• Strong knowledge of Ruby language and rails framework. The ideal candidate also masters another language such as PHP or Python.

• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX and JSON.

• Proficient knowledge of object oriented development and OOPS concepts.

• Experience in javascript libraries like JQuery etc.

• Strong knowledge of OOP and design patterns, such as MVC.

• Knowledge and experience in relational databases preferably MySQL.

• Understanding of RESTful architectures and experience working/interacting with web services.

• Unix/Linux development experience preferred.

• Good communication skills & strong team player.

• Ability to work in fast-paced environments with weekly release schedules.

• Experience with version control systems.

Applications are now closed.