Lead Web Developer (onsite), United States, MI, Detroit

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Posted: May  2, 2008

Job title: Lead Web Developer

Company name: Crain Communications

Location: United States, MI, Detroit

Pay rate: negotiable

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS – ChicagoBusiness.com, the award-winning local
business website powered by Crain’s Chicago Business, is seeking candidates
for the position of Lead Web Developer.  Along with its sister site,
ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com, ChicagoBusiness.com delivers approximately 2
million monthly page views, and boasts a user base of over 200,000
registered users and subscribers.  In addition to serving as the online
home of Crain’s Chicago Business, continuous breaking news items, daily
multimedia features, and over 3 million monthly email alerts help to cement
ChicagoBusiness.com’s status as the nation-wide leader in the local
business publishing space.

Job Title:		 Lead Web Developer

Job Responsibilities:
Assist in the design, development, and implementation of online initiatives
for ChicagoBusiness.com and ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com.  Day-to-day
responsibilities include:

1.  Consulting with internal business units in defining technical
requirements and possibilities in order to achieve business and editorial
goals and implementing those requirements;
2. Continued expansion of our custom built content-management system.
3. Integration with technical partners, fulfilling such mission critical
functions as ad serving, print circulation, traffic analytics, email
delivery,  and content mobilization.
4.  Insuring the timely delivery of major business and editorial
initiatives;
5.  Assist with ad inventory projections and management;
6.  Project and personnel management of contractors and 3rd party vendors.
7.  Staying abreast of current and emerging technologies, and the best
practices of implementation thereof.
8.  Manage simultaneous initiatives of varying scope and priority.
9. Develop and manage long-range projects involving new business
opportunities and new editorial offerings.
10. Knowledge of industry best practices for Web user interface and user
experience processes. General design qualities thereof.

Job Requirements:
The environment is a standard perl-based LAMP stack running on CentOs
(Apache 2.052 / MySql 5.0.54 / Perl5.8.8).  Production architecture
consists of one database server and three application servers load-balanced
across a network storage appliance.

Required technical skills include:
1. Expert perl knowledge, including OO perl, regular expressions, list
idioms (map, grep, Schwartzian Transform, etc), and deeply-nested data
structures.
2. Advanced knowledge of MySQL operations, including  inner/outer joins,
database indexing, schema development, and data optimization and
optimization troubleshooting.
3. Client-side coding, including HTML, css, javascript, and ajax. 
Experience with javascript frameworks (prototype, scriptaculous, dojo,
jquery, etc) is an asset.
4. HTTP protocols and communications, including custom apache
configuration.	SOAP/REST is desirable, and those candidates with mod_perl
expertise are highly sought. 
5. Unix operation and shell scripting.
6. Version Control (CVS/SVN)
7. Mod_rewrite in addition to mod_perl
8. Upcoming needs such as caching and performance tuning
9. Issue tracking in addition to SCM

User Experience and Design skills required. Here are some examples of that:


1. Expertise in Information Architecture, including the ability to
implement and measure IA changes which have a positive business and
usability impact
2. Consulting with all stakeholders in the maintenance of a flexible and
extensible site taxonomy
3. Understanding of web analytics including the ability to create, define
and measure metrics that are directly correlated with business and
editorial objectives
4. Experience with the design and implementation of A/B testing programs
related to advertising and circulation initiatives
5. Extensive knowledge of web standards, including best practices for cross
platform web development; experience with mobile platforms desirable
6. Web design experience, including an understanding of the effective use
of such elements as color, typography, and whitespace.
7. Wireframe and mockup creation
8. Understanding of the creative workflow including such topics as color
management and video encoding; familiarity with Adobe software helpful
9. SEO implementation and tracking

Previous experience with publishing and content management highly
desirable.

Crain Communications Inc is one of the largest privately-owned business
publishers in the U.S. with over 30 leading business, trade and consumer
titles in North America and Europe. As an authoritative source of vital
news and information to industry leaders and consumers worldwide, each of
the company's newspapers, magazines and electronic news sites have become
required reading in their respective sector of business and consumer
market. Providing unmatched value and award-winning editorial excellence,
the company is respected for its dependable journalism which readers have
relied upon for over 90 years. 

Crain Communications offers a competitive salary, a generous benefits
package, profit sharing, and a friendly work environment. This is a great
time to join our organization -- a profitable, well established publishing
leader.  

To apply for this position please visit our website at www.crain.com and
search under the employment section.

We thank you for your interest in Crain Communications and invite you to
visit our website as positions are updated regularly.  Crain Communications
is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


Required skills:
Please see job description for specifice perl is one of the required skills

Desired skills: Please see job description

URL for more information: http://www.crain.com/apply.htm

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/8584#contact

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