[Prezi] Full Stack Web Developer- Budapest

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About Prezi:

Prezi is the zooming presentation software that uses an open canvas instead of traditional slides to help people explore ideas, collaborate more effectively, and create visually dynamic presentations.  Founded in 2009, and with offices in San Francisco and Budapest, Prezi provides its users a visually engaging, personalized, way to express their ideas anytime, anywhere. The company’s vision extends well authoring software alone into becoming the inspiration and enabler of world-changing ideas for people, organizations and businesses.

Prezi has enjoyed explosive growth and developed a rapid following of passionate users.  More than 28 million people from over 190 countries use Prezi from their desktops, browsers, iPads and iPhones. Prezi is rapidly adding new users each month, and more than 1 Prezi is created every second.  The company  has over 200 employees, and is backed by premier investors, including Accel Partners, Sunstone Capital (based in Copenhagen), and TED.

Full Stack Web Developer-Budapest

We're looking for Full Stack Web Developers, who are interested in building forward thinking web experiences and interactions to join our engineering team at Prezi. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a growing start-up, building things millions of people will see everyday.  This position is located in our Budapest office.

You should be excited about:

• Joining a team that focuses on the growth of the whole product

• Working in a small, cross functional team with other engineers, designers, data analysts, marketing, product managers.

• Creating customer facing applications

• New technology and design

• Working in a challenging, fast paced and always changing environment.

• Working with big data

Challenges you will be working on:

• You will play an important role in evolving the web presence for Prezi -- a product that helps people share ideas. We have 38 million users at the moment (and growing fast)!

• Designing, implementing and deploying scalable micro services to production as well as maintain existing web applications

• Building responsive, performance driven user interfaces

• Exploring exciting relationships, patterns, answers in our enormous data sets

• Developing high fidelity functional prototypes to validate growth initiatives

• Pro-actively enhancing our web platform

Technical requirements:

• 5+ years experience in developing web applications and web services (e.g. Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, Scala/Play!, Grails/Groovy) 

• 5+ years experience in frontend frameworks and JavaScript libraries (e.g. AngularJS, Backbone, Dojo, YUI, Bootstrap) 

• Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, asset loading, caching, REST, Thrift)  

• Knowledge of web standards and modern browsers (HTML5, CSS)

• Passion for clean, maintainable code

Advantages:

• Knowledge of test automation of backend and frontend applications

• Experience in big data technologies ( Hadoop/Pig)

• Passion for user-centric interface design

• Familiar with scaling online marketing systems (SEO, SEM, and email marketing, amongst others) nice to have.

General requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering – equivalent work experience is acceptable

• Must demonstrate either significant personal or professional experience in software development

• Able to meet deadlines, work within an international environment, exchange knowledge with colleagues, and be up-to-date with new trends

• Ability & willingness to learn fast and pick up new things easily

• Analyze and solve programming tasks independently and pro-actively

• Strong critical thinking skills

• Great communication skills (in English