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We are always looking for great professionals who are tirelessly seeking knowledge and excellence. If you consider yourself an expert in your field, a trend-setter, an out-of-the-box thinker, and an ingenious worker, we want to meet you. Please, check our career site often, as new openings appear and disappear with the blink of an eye.

Front End Developer

We're seeking talented and passionate web developers for our Madrid/Seattle team. Here in Plain Concepts we love challenges and overcoming the impossible, but our greatest love are the latest technologies, versions... Most of you already know about us :) We develop for web, mobile, TV, and games, always trying to create the best user experience.

Description

We look for people that would like to work with HTML5 and CSS3 for different international projects.

As Front-End Web Developer for Plain Concepts, your primary focus will be to build and implement user interfaces, working side-by-side with the Design department to reach the highest quality. You'll be fully responsible of the websites look and feel.

Required knowledge

• Experience with XHTML
• Medium/High knowledge of Javascript
• High knowledge of CSS3
• Knowledge of JavaScript libraries, like jQuery, Prototype, Dojo...

Other valued knowledge

• Knowledge of server-side languages like ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, Ruby, or Python
• HTML5 y CSS3
• C#/.Net
• APIs like Flickr, Google maps, Bing or Facebook
• Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Expression Studio, and Adobe Dreamweaver
• Advanced level of English

Anything else you might bring with you will also be considered.

Software Development Engineer

Be a part of an agile development team which creates different projects with the latest technologies. You’ll also have to impart courses and help our customers at their premises occasionally. We, at Plain Concepts, are a 4X4; we have a really multidisciplinary team. I can guarantee you that you won’t be stranded at a customer office without knowing who are your colleagues. The rest is up to you, your aptitudes and likes.

What knowledge do we especially value?

Every Plain Concepts developer can seamlessly work with the main .NET Framework technologies: ASP.NET, MVC, EF, WF, WCF, Silverlight, WPF, TFS, Azure, Blend... We expect you to be over the average in one or more of those technologies. You should also be able to teach others and transmit your knowledge to them. We don’t expect you to JUST write code: your code MUST be excellent, participating in every design decision and creating a coherent architecture. You should be able to help solve our customers’ problems; although it won’t be your main task, you might need to help in consulting projects with your preferred technologies.

All Microsoft certifications are welcome, but not indispensable. For this position we will value especially your Silverlight and Blend capabilities.

So you speak English perfectly? Cool! That way you’ll collaborate with our US offices. Don’t worry if you don’t, you only need to have C# as your mother tongue and understand technical documentation.

Which aptitudes do we value the most?

You must be a team player, constructively criticizing your colleagues’ work while being open to receiving critics about yours.

You must have a constant interest for learning, and doing so quickly!

You must be passionate about all software development activities.

You must be a good communicator. Having a blog is a plus

Collaborating with the .NET community is preferred: Being part of a user club, speaking at events about .NET, writing on MSDN forums and helping others…

We’d like you to prefer reading “Silverlight in Depth” rather than “The Pillars of the Earth.”

How will the selection process be?

Hard. You’ll be interviewed by everyone from the team you’d work at. They all can decide on your selection.

It is also possible that we’ll like to see the code you write and maybe test some of it.

You can surprise us with an application that you might have developed in your free time for your “geek” pleasure (a Nokia scheduler app developed in Mono, your sister’s flower shop website, the backlog of your wedding preparation, the TFS report that details who is late for your daily ”scrum”, an XNA “Pong”…).

Will I have to travel?

Occasionally. A “Software Development Engineer” shouldn’t be preparing the luggage every day, but traveling shouldn’t be much of a bother.

How much money will I make?

As much as you can justify for, our limits are blurry on either side. This, whenever reasonable, won’t be a problem. If you are a real master, we’ll value it. We want the best in our team.

And salary aside?

You’ll be able to get training, going to Microsoft events , assist to courses…

How will my schedule be?

Whatever works for you: most of us work from eight-ish through six-ish. We have lunch at around 1:30pm and we go home at 3:00pm on Friday. Nobody will ask you to be attached to your chair for hours; we want results, meeting commitments, and satisfying our customers.