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Company: Xpree – prediction market software
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Description: Xpree is a leader [*] in providing software to enable corporations to tap their collective intelligence.  Using prediction market based technology , Xpree’s solution is a fun game enabling the players to bet on future events and metrics.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will serve as our primary engineer for our core suite of products. You will be responsible for leading the development effort on our core technology platform, and working closely with our sales and business development groups to architect new products. Our core technologies include a sophisticated Prediction Market engine. This role provides a great opportunity to develop engineering and leadership skills in a fast-growing startup, in a quick-changing new market.

Responsibilities include:

- Design, develop, test and deploy core technologies, in PHP/MySQL/Java/Flash
- Work directly  with customers, leads and our sales team to design new solutions
- Manage the delivery and integration of customer projects
- Ensure the efficient and smooth running of the service
- Write tools to measure and improve the service performance

Requirements:

Personal skills:
- Self-managed, proactive, problem solving work style and the ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Able to evaluate and learn new technologies, applications and skills quickly.
- Education: BS, MS or PhD in computer science, information systems engineering or other strongly related field (or equivalent experience).
- Good communication and team skills – must be able to articulate points clearly to team members and customers
- Experience with stock-market application development highly desired
- Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Engineering Skills:
- 6+ years software engineering experience
- Experience in all phases of product development life cycle, including requirements definitions , development, testing, maintenance
- Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented analysis and design concepts
- Significant background in the following: application servers, web servers and distributed or load balanced systems.
- Experience with database application development (MySQL): Schema design, performance tuning – a plus.
- Languages required: PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby. Good understanding of C/C++
- Strong  knowledge of Web services, HTML/JavaScript/CSS, XML/DOM/XSLT and parsers. Flash knowledge a plus.
- Strong Unix system administration skills, ability to write shell scripts, cron jobs, etc
- Experience with tools such as CVS, Eclipse, and testing tools.

Xpree

Reliable Enterprise-Grade Software
Qmarkets was written from day one as a site for massive use by a large number of users & organizations.
As such, Qmarkets is fully scalable in design (relying on Drupal’s core capabilities), allowing us to easily grow by simply adding more servers to our hosted solution.

Looking for a host for Qmarkets took a while, since we wanted to get a reliable & secure hosting services.
Eventually we found A-Plus, which came highly recommended for high-end telco-grade web sites (recommendations by CNET & PC Magazine, amongst others).
At APlus we use their dedicated servers hosting plans, that gives Qmarkets the required strength & security to provide you with the best service on the web.

Easy To Use User Interface (with AJAX)
On top of providing a reliable service, we at Qmarkets believe that user interface must be clear and simple.
That’s why we provide you with an easy to use AJAX interface, to allow fast information reload & an intuitive user interface.

We have simplified the task of asking questions (new markets), and even better – trading in markets has never been easier.
At Qmarkets, no training or preliminary knowledge of prediction markets is necessary in order to participate.

Pure “LAMP” (Linux – Apache – MySQL – PHP)
LAMP is an industry buzzword that represents web sites written using the leading “standard” open source [technologies] out there – Linux OS, Apache Web Server, MySQL Database & PHP development language.
Qmarkets software was written using the best of breed open source technologies & frameworks out there, to ensure site stability, performance & support.

In addition, we built our site on top of the Drupal CMS (“CMS” stands for “Content Management System”), which provides the core infrastructure & utilities for developing a robust enterprise-grade site.
Drupal was our choice after reviewing all the top CMS systems our there (Joomla & Xoops came close). [*]
Drupal is a well know CMS platform, that won many prizes. It is great for its stability, robustness & flexibility, which allows extending it and adding new modules & features without ever needing to change the core of Drupal.

Open Source Technologies
On top of the discussed technologies, the Qmarkets software is using some excellent open source technologies & libraries.
We would like to use this [opportunity] to give them their credits for the wonderful job they did:
- JQuery Javascript Library – Excellent & Robust Javascript capabilities for UI
- XAJAX – Ajax Library – Elegant & Simple integration of PHP & AJAX. We also use their backbutton plugin
- Blix Template – Provide excellent base templates for Drupal

I corrected 2 typos in their text.

[*] What about WordPress, Noam?