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Tapulous was founded on the belief that the iPhone and the App Store represent a huge shift in mobile connectivity and that the next big technology wave will be all about mobile. We were the first Company built in this new space. To date we have successfully attracted 15 million unique users to our portfolio of applications headed by Tap Tap Revenge, a music rhythm game that is present on 1 in every 3 iPhones and iPod touches and that was the top downloaded game on the entire platform. The company is headed by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs, Apple veterans and backed by a high profile network of angel investors including the first investors in Google, Vinod Khosla, Marc Benioff and Jeff Clavier. The Company is profitable with less than 20 employees and working hard to built the biggest musical-based social gaming network on the iPhone and other next generation mobile devices.

Tapulous is looking to hire a Javascript Ninja to help build the rich web features inside our native iPhone games and applications. Our business is expanding and we need a Javascript Ninja to compliment our growing team. Tapulous applications are increasingly becoming a hybrid of native and web content, with the objective of combining the strength of each technology to deliver an amazing gaming experience for the end user.

You will join a fun, hardworking, and highly-motivated engineering team chock full of former Apple engineers, game developers, graphic designers, and client Javascript developers. We pride ourselves on the quality of our products, both at the high level of what the user sees, as well as the professionalism of the code that builds that end-user experience. Together with this team you will identify, specify, prototype and release exciting new features for our existing titles and new titles under development.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Participating in our weekly process, loosely based on Scrum methodology, which includes setting goals, working towards completing them, keeping the team apprised of your progress, and showing off what you’ve accomplished at week’s end
• Working on the web pieces of new features in our games and applications, which could include any number of cool things to do with location, social networks (ours and 3rd party networks like Twitter and Facebook), music, user generated content, RSS feeds & mailing lists, and personalized content like feeds, messages, avatars, etc.
• Writing especially tight and compact code to improve the speed of delivery over a mobile network
• Collaborating with backend engineers to optimize scaleability and efficiency
• Fighting minor fires in live code that pop up as a result of our rapid growth

Requirements:

• Deep experience developing fast, concise, reusable Javascript (for example, through developing Javascript widgets, extensions or plugins)
• Deep knowledge of Javascript, AJAX, JSON, DOM and related technologies

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with JQuery
• Strong user interface design skills
• PHP fluency

This job is based in our downtown Palo Alto office, which is 2 minutes walk from the Caltrain. We are surrounded by dozens of shops, restaurants, and bars. Our retail location means that fans drop in every day to say hi and sign our guest book. For employees who commute via Caltrain, we provide 3G cards to make your train time productive time.

To apply, please send your resume to becky@tapulous.com