Flex / Starling Developer

Title: Flex / Starling Developer
Location: Cambridge, MA
Description:
As a Flex developer at Labtiva, you'll help develop literature management and discovery tools for scientists worldwide. Our mission is to revolutionize the way researchers work with scientific literature.

If you're interested in joining us, you'll have:
-Track record in developing applications in Adobe Flex/AIR frameworks - please provide links to/ or samples of your work
-Strong experience with RIA development
-Thorough understanding of object oriented programming, data structures, design and access patterns (including MVC)
-Excellent communication skills

The candidate we're looking for is:
-Obsessed with creating beautiful, intuitive, and immersive user experiences for the web and desktop
-Comfortable working with large existing codebases as well as architecting new projects from scratch
-Able to work within tight time lines and deliver above expectations
-Able to solve problems creatively in a fast-paced agile environment, delivering solutions often in terms of hours/days
-Excited to work on a small team in a start-up environment

The ideal candidate would also have:
-Prior start-up or freelancing experience
-The athleticism to sprint 100 meters in under 10 seconds (just kidding)

We:
Are a small, dynamic, high-speed, low-drag team based in Boston and Zagreb. We aim to become the premier online resource for finding and working with academic information, and to establish ourselves as the market-leading information management tool in the life sciences and academia. We are funded and backed by an industry leader.

Our product:
-Is a research management tool for scientific and academic literature.
-Comprises both a desktop application as well as an advanced cloud-based web application.
-Is awesome. And we genuinely believe it has the potential to change the way researchers work with scientific literature.

Compensation is highly competitive + equity + benefits. If you think you're a good fit for us (or you just really like bullet points), apply by sending us your resume to the e-mail address below.

Position Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: Competitive
Skills: Starling, Flex/AIR
Company: Labtiva
Contact person: Meghan McTaggart
Contact information: jobs@labtiva.com