Hello! I am not a headhunter, just a lone programmer whose shop needs
more man-hours than I can generate. I'm posting this to Flashcoders,
Flexcoders, and Flash_Tiger because I know there are more smart
freelancers on these lists than on every craigslist in the world.
My small interactive media company wants to build a fairly ambitious
internal project -- a framework for building product configurators with
potentially complex constraints. We'd be using AS3 and almost certainly
Flex. Unfortunately, I'm the only programmer, and I'm up to my ears in
deadline-intensive work. We hope to hire a contractor (consultant,
freelancer) to collaborate with us on the design and handle 99% of the
implementation.
This is a framework we're going to have to live with for a long time, so
we're eager to get it right. That's why we want to hire someone with
better-than-average design and coding skills. Behold, our ideal contractor:
* At least five years programming experience, and enough AS3/Flex
experience to feel confident. I don't buy the "years of experience
myth," but I do buy the value of _general_ programming experience.
* Experience with, or at least eagerness to use, unit and functional
testing.
* Experience building/populating applications from XML declarations.
(This is a classic Flash thing, so probably goes without saying.)
* Enough object-oriented experience to know how to keep a design from
exploding into a pattern souffle.
* A clear and eloquent coding style. We love descriptive variable names
and doc comments.
* Ideally, framework experience: we want to generate mini-applications
by binding external data into a Flex/AS3 scaffolding.
* Domain-specific knowledge like boolean satisfiability or relationship
graphing would be great, but not required.
No restrictions on location, telecommuting is fine. I am NOT in charge
of compensation, but it would be competitive, bearing in mind that it
would be a moderately large project under minimal time pressure.
Excellent English preferred. You'd be keeping in touch via email, IM,
and phone, and performing regular checkins to our source control system
for code reviews.
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you!
Alan MacDougall
The Phoenix Group
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