System Developer, Opera Community

System Developer, Opera Community

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Requirements

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Responsibilities

Requirements

Ideals (one or more)

How to apply

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News » System Developer, Opera Community

By EspenAO. Thursday, 22. May 2008, 13:06:40

The Opera Community has more than 1 million users, and is growing rapidly. We're looking for an exceptional and experienced system developers to help us grow even more.

You will be working with the Opera Community team to develop and maintain the site and other related cool services. This is a great opportunity for those of you who want to work for Opera and learn from some of the best people in the industry.

Developing exciting new features and services on the Opera Community and related websites
Maintaining the existing Opera Community and related websites
Making sure both new and existing community services scale to handle our ever-increasing user base

Strong Perl skills
Experienced in database design and SQL
Good knowledge of (X)HTML, CSS and Javascript
Good knowledge of web standards
Good working knowledge of English, written and spoken
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Experience with Linux environments

Experience with XML and XSLT
3+ years of industry experience developing web applications
Experience developing large community websites
Good knowledge of Apache mod_perl

For immediate consideration, please apply online.

Originally posted by EspenAO:

The Opera Community has more than 1 million users, and is growing rapidly.

Growth will be more when Opera 9.50 is released.

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Requirements

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By Tamil, # 22. May 2008, 13:09:36

That's why we need more people!

By EspenAO, # 22. May 2008, 13:14:07

I have none of the requirements or ideals but I'm willing to be paid as an example of how not to be.

When do I start?

By Furie, # 22. May 2008, 14:04:53

By Tamil, # 22. May 2008, 14:09:59

Where the working place would be...???

By Sreeramu, # 22. May 2008, 14:29:01

Surely, Oslo.

By Tamil, # 22. May 2008, 14:36:58

Sreeramu: Oslo.

By zoso, # 22. May 2008, 14:37:02

I'm correct.

By Tamil, # 22. May 2008, 14:38:48

If Opera need a spammer. I'll be

By wallpearl, # 22. May 2008, 15:03:22

Yes, the location would be Opera's Headquarter in Oslo.

By Wargamez, # 22. May 2008, 15:03:41

Too damn cold for my liking.

I'll wait till the office in Madrid opens.

By p.mansoor, # 22. May 2008, 15:23:10

Requirements?

Check!

Ideals?

0.5/4?

Oslo? Too cold!

By Andrew Gregory, # 22. May 2008, 15:26:23

If Opera need a spammer. I'll be

Surely you mean, "If Opera need a spammer. I'll be Tamil"

By coxy, # 22. May 2008, 15:26:37

Vote for Tamil

By wallpearl, # 22. May 2008, 15:29:00

By Tamil, # 22. May 2008, 15:54:58

I've always wanted to be a system developer!

By DesertDawg, # 22. May 2008, 17:13:45

to do
* learn programming

By selurus, # 22. May 2008, 19:05:52

Andrew: we have lots of aussies here already. Summer is just fine, winter might be on the cold side, but Oslo is normally generally warmer than most other places in Norway:

http://met.no/English/Climate/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_chart_of_Oslo.svg

By nicomen, # 22. May 2008, 19:32:48

If this was MS based development I'd consider it!

I would be like a fish out of water moving from C# to Perl!

By fritter, # 22. May 2008, 19:59:27

I'm not sure a good candidate really needs "strong Perl skills",
or that really huge experience, provided that one is willing to learn,
from himself and from others.

I think "the ideal guy":

- knows how to work in a team (think "we", not "me")
- strives for top quality (yes, I'm afraid that includes documentation

- knows computational complexity of quicksort in the worst case.
Kidding

Some corollaries:

- It's scary to see how many talented people aren't really talented because they don't document what they do.
- Yes, sure, if you know SQL it's better.

If you want to send your CVs, ok. But I suggest you send or show us cool applications and/or demos you built... (hint!)

By cstrep, # 22. May 2008, 21:11:59

Do the happy images in the bottom help you to have more candidates

By eestlane, # 22. May 2008, 22:59:11

I wish Opera replace "Strong Perl skills" with "Strong PHP skills"

But I know, yes, this page is written in Perl. Then Opera need good monks

By sandalian, # 23. May 2008, 00:47:35

When I gain enough experience I will apply to work with Opera !

By varish, # 23. May 2008, 05:06:42

eestlane: Those happy people have been and/or is working for Opera Community,
including the

By Wargamez, # 23. May 2008, 06:50:16

Who is sitting on the monitors..?? is it Tamil

By Senthilraj, # 23. May 2008, 07:55:33

I want to apply to work with Opera,but I don't gain enough experience.
opera looks to be on a par with wordpress.

香港公司注册is a good site,i think.

By mouston, # 23. May 2008, 08:00:25

I know some Perl (in a sence that I know a little of zillions ways to make things in Perl

)

Mainly, I could help you to improve performance of Linux boxes, databases, mod_perl, perl and SQL code and so on.

By I have no degree in CS, as well as in computing at all. I just have an exprience (is that better?

).

Also, I was aready rejected by you some years ago, perhaps because I'm too old for you.

By vladas, # 23. May 2008, 08:55:02

@vladas There is a lot of old people here, so that shouldn't matter.

By sverre, # 23. May 2008, 09:16:34

vladas: send in some of your work together with the application, maybe you get lucky this time around

By nicomen, # 23. May 2008, 10:39:52

Well! Not my piece of cake exactly but I would like to recommend Tamil , he's the brainiest guy around in the community:cheers:

By flotsam22, # 23. May 2008, 11:00:04

Originally posted by vladas:

I was aready rejected by you some years ago, perhaps because I'm too old for you.

I was rejected because I was too young (read no experience)

By varish, # 23. May 2008, 12:06:00

@nicomen:

Ok. Thanks for your support.
I'll prepare some of my works for demonstartion and send links to them soon.

By vladas, # 23. May 2008, 13:14:54

I just love those funny posts. Nobody else would you post anything, specially critical. Double thumbs up for OPERA!!

By Mixi1, # 23. May 2008, 22:31:22

By p.mansoor, # 23. May 2008, 22:52:08

suwar

By suwar, # 24. May 2008, 04:02:02

i want to do it!... but i need all requirments...
darn. i know how to configure a wifi router!

By Kraid, # 24. May 2008, 21:20:21

I'm the right man you're looking for... Just be patient, i'll try my very best to attain the qualifications needed! Hehe!

By bluedave, # 25. May 2008, 01:59:50

Originally posted by flotsam22:

I would like to recommend Tamil

By Tamil, # 25. May 2008, 14:49:51

yeah! tamil, you would be perfect!

By Kraid, # 26. May 2008, 00:01:13

Oslo is veryyy expensive! £5 for a pint of lager, but you do get free schnaps..Personally I prefer aqauvit

By yorksaint, # 26. May 2008, 05:26:19

It's not that expensive compared to people's salaries though.

By nicomen, # 26. May 2008, 09:45:34

but you do get free schnaps

What? Wait a minute... they have a free alcohol programme in Oslo? That's a real community service!

By fritter, # 26. May 2008, 12:45:17

lol.

By Kraid, # 26. May 2008, 13:05:13

Well, if you are out with me, you probably get a Gammeldansk for free

By nicomen, # 26. May 2008, 15:30:09

I have no degree in CS! :'(

By danitro, # 27. May 2008, 04:43:41

Every developer job I've had specified that you needed a degree and I don't have one. If Opera are the same - you'll just need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have enough commercial experience to cover this fact.

By fritter, # 27. May 2008, 18:45:58

Will Opera accept a person without degree but having abilities (or even enough experiences)?

By sandalian, # 27. May 2008, 19:12:55

If you are planning on applying without a degree - make sure you really do know how to code in PERL. I don't know the level of developer Opera are looking for but if you don't have a degree I'd say you'd need at least 2 years experience actually working as a developer for another company writing PERL.

By fritter, # 28. May 2008, 14:38:39

probably....
*sigh*

By Kraid, # 28. May 2008, 17:08:44

Then I will wait for Opera opening job for PHP developer one day

By sandalian, # 28. May 2008, 20:49:07

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