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- All applications MUST include a cover email and a resume.
- Make sure to indicate which position you are applying for in the subject line of your email.
- All positions are located in Menlo Park, California, unless indicated otherwise.
- All positions require, at minimum, a high school diploma/GED and two (2) years minimum of college level courses or two (2) years relevant work experience. (Additional requirements are listed in the individual postings.)
- You must meet the minimum skill level requirement indicated for the position before applying.
- Xfire is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Full-time Jr or Senior Web Developer
(Updated Sept 26th, 2008)
Please e-mail your resume AND MEANINGFUL COVER LETTER to jobs@xfire.com with job code "#1340 - Web Developer" in the subject. Thanks and we'll look forward to hearing from you.
- The Xfire Webdev Team
Senior Software Engineer
Xfire is looking for an experienced, extremely smart software engineer who gets things done. We have a small but extremely talented group of engineers. You must not only be able to learn from them, but also to teach us a thing or two. You must be passionate about video games.
For this specific role, we are looking for someone to help build our server-side infrastructure. In particular, building new scripts, servers, and configuring machines to handle the vast amount of data that our users send to us.
You must be:
Plus if you have:
Please email jobs@xfire.com with job code #1338 - Engineer in the subject line of your email.
Graphic Artist (Contractor)
Xfire is looking for a talented, fast working and reliable graphic artist for regular contract work. This position is open to residents of the United States, Canada and the European Union.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Please email jobs@xfire.com with Graphic Artist Contractor as the title of your email.
Please, make sure you include in your email the following:
Quality Assurance Tester
Xfire is looking for a full time quality assurance tester to join their team in a creative, fast-paced, fun development environment. We are looking for individuals whom have experience with software, website and/or video game testing. They need to be familiar with Win32 applications and general PC hardware. Candidates should to be quick to learn; self motivated and have a passion to be part of a superior product. We prefer people who know and play video games on both consoles and/or PC's. This position is based in Menlo Park, CA. Walking distance from CalTrain; easy access to 101, downtown Palo Alto & Menlo Park. Salary for this position depends on experience. Xfire/VIACOM offers medical, vision and dental benefits to its employees.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
(Updated Sept 26th, 2008)
Web-based international PC gaming community portal run by cool software company seeks equally-cool PHP developer.
Xfire ( http://www.xfire.com ), a division of MTV Digital (under Viacom Inc,) and based in Menlo Park CA 94025, is looking for another rockin’ full-time web developer to help us maintain our lead in the gaming community-o-sphere.
Got skills? What we NEED:
- PHP – you know it, we use it, nuff said.
- HTML and CSS – Firefox2/3, IE6/7/8 and all their quirks, in particular.
What we’d also LIKE (for bonus points), experience with or having:
- Strong debugging skills – be a problem-solver!
- MySQL – how did you think we store 12 MILLION users, in a spreadsheet?
- Perl – is for masochists. We're masochists. So?
- Javascript – gotta have those bells and whistles
- AJAX – now with rounded corners!
- PHP Source-level debuggers – any, your choice
- C++ - because sometimes you need a machine gun.
- Dreamweaver - okay not really, just kidding. NO DREAMWEAVER!
What we’re OFFERING:
- competitive salary based on experience
- Full-time W-2 position with all the benefits and job security a big corp can offer
- Casual startup-style smack-talking work environment
- Hard work, without over-working (not another Silicon Valley sweat shop, but fires do break out from time to time)
- Active encouragement for you to grow as a developer, expanding in time into technical areas which interest you (MySQL, Perl, AJAX, C++) in a high-load high-performance application environment
If you’re a:
- Junior developer, please have a relevant college degree or at least be an active student, PLUS be prepared to show proof of natural aptitude as a developer (side projects?)
- Intermediate-level developer, please have 1-4 years relevant professional experience, and snippets of previous code.
- Senior developer, please have 5+ years relevant professional experience, and at least one major project or product with which to impress us.
This is application-scale web development with full front- and back-ends for both user-facing and internal purposes, not just writing static pages. We’re looking for someone who can follow instructions, yet still ask pertinent questions and offer insightful solutions, and generally contribute to the collective wisdom and creative vision of the Xfire development team.
You.. yes, you, the person reading this right now.. could be a part of the future of the www.xfire.com gaming portal, turning page mockups into specifications and taking them through development and QA into public release and follow-up performance tuning. You could be working closely with designers, artists, testers, other programmers, and the team lead. You could be working with cutting-edge technology in the web sector (no, we can’t tell you what that is yet or, yes, we’d have to kill you.)
But none of that will happen if you don’t apply for the job...
TO APPLY:
Please e-mail your resume AND MEANINGFUL COVER LETTER to jobs@xfire.com with job code "#1340 - Web Developer" in the subject. Thanks and we'll look forward to hearing from you.
- The Xfire Webdev Team
Senior Software Engineer
Xfire is looking for an experienced, extremely smart software engineer who gets things done. We have a small but extremely talented group of engineers. You must not only be able to learn from them, but also to teach us a thing or two. You must be passionate about video games.
For this specific role, we are looking for someone to help build our server-side infrastructure. In particular, building new scripts, servers, and configuring machines to handle the vast amount of data that our users send to us.
You must be:
- extremely smart
- self-motivated
- creative
- able to write code for a compiler and for your co-workers
- knowledgeable about client/server systems
- knowledgeable about Linux
- knowledgeable about high level programming in C++, especially with the STL
- knowledgeable about scripting languages
- motivated to make things better. Everyone wants to write new code; we need someone who can also improve old code.
Plus if you have:
- knowledge of asynchronous (aka event-driven) programming
- knowledge of Perl, PHP, or other interesting languages
- knowledge about web site infrastructure
Please email jobs@xfire.com with job code #1338 - Engineer in the subject line of your email.
Graphic Artist (Contractor)
Xfire is looking for a talented, fast working and reliable graphic artist for regular contract work. This position is open to residents of the United States, Canada and the European Union.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
- Get a chance to design the Xfire client and website house creatives and expose your work for millions of gamers worldwide.
Please email jobs@xfire.com with Graphic Artist Contractor as the title of your email.
Please, make sure you include in your email the following:
- Links to samples of your work (please, do not send large attachments)
- Short resume including your gaming resume if you are a gamer
- Average hours of availability per week
Quality Assurance Tester
Xfire is looking for a full time quality assurance tester to join their team in a creative, fast-paced, fun development environment. We are looking for individuals whom have experience with software, website and/or video game testing. They need to be familiar with Win32 applications and general PC hardware. Candidates should to be quick to learn; self motivated and have a passion to be part of a superior product. We prefer people who know and play video games on both consoles and/or PC's. This position is based in Menlo Park, CA. Walking distance from CalTrain; easy access to 101, downtown Palo Alto & Menlo Park. Salary for this position depends on experience. Xfire/VIACOM offers medical, vision and dental benefits to its employees.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Testing regularly scheduled releases of both the Xfire Client and Website
- Learn and become familiar with our website, product, features and functions
- Identify, troubleshoot and document inconsistencies and functionality issues (bugs) found within the Xfire Client and Website
- Work with the Xfire Customer Support team to track and research reports from users
- Develop and execute test plans and testing procedures
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- 2+ years of QA or Tech Support for Video Game and/or Windows applications
- Strong familiarity with Microsoft Office Applications
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
- Sharp attention to detail
- Aptitude to learn quickly and effectively
- Self motivated with a superb work ethic
- Strong knowledge of PC hardware and software installation and configuration a plus
- Test lead experience a plus
- Knowledge of HTML a plus
Xfire, Inc. is the fastest growing online gaming platform and community in the world helping gamers to easily connect, chat and play with their friends online. Xfire is a free service that allows gamers to easily browse for game servers, chat with friends through IM and voice chat, record game videos, as well as download the latest updates and additions to their favorite games. With more than ten million members in over 100 countries, Xfire is an international community connecting gamers around the globe. Xfire is a wholly owned subsidiary of MTV Networks and is based in Menlo Park, CA.
MTV Networks
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 130 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, VH1 CLASSIC, LOGO, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, with all of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 100 interactive properties worldwide, including GameTrailers.com, IFILM, Neopets, Xfire, Y2M, and online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services. MTV Networks also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.
MTV Networks
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 130 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, VH1 CLASSIC, LOGO, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, with all of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 100 interactive properties worldwide, including GameTrailers.com, IFILM, Neopets, Xfire, Y2M, and online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services. MTV Networks also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.