Jobs at Starfish
  

Opportunity:

Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc., a fast-growing student success company based in Arlington, VA (near Metro), is seeking someone to join a small, dedicated team of software engineers building web applications to help identify students at risk and then connect them to the support resources at a college that can help. We build highly interactive, AJAX-based client applications working with an enterprise-class Java backend.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be a self starter who can take a user story, break it down into tasks, implement it, and then make a suggestion on the next job to do.
• Work comfortably in an Agile development environment where you get a nice wireframe, and then you know the questions to ask to take it from there.
• Work in a team environment collaboratively evolving our agile development processes and approaches to meet the needs of our business.
• Actively making suggestions and communicating with the rest of the team so everyone's aware of what's going on.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• About 5 years of web development experience.
• A deep understanding of web development covering all the usual acronyms. (HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, AJAX, HTTP, and JavaScript)
• Demonstrating your knowledge of cross-browser issues and experience in the wonders of debugging JavaScript is important as is general experience with Firebug.
• Experience with at least one JavaScript framework (jQuery, Prototype).
• Experience with web UI frameworks such YUI or ExtJS is very useful.
• Enjoying work with open source tools. We use Tomcat, Eclipse, Java, Postgres and so on around here.
• Part-timers must supply their own computer, work phone, and high-speed internet access.

About Us:

Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc. (http://www.starfishsolutions.com) is on a mission to help academic institutions address the significant number of students that do not graduate.  Our business-to-business, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions address this problem by identifying which students are at-risk, and then connecting those students to the resources designed to help them be successful. 

We are a well-funded company, run by executives from Blackboard, the worldwide leader in e-Learning.  You get the best of a startup and a well established company, convenient location in Rosslyn next to Metro, low-priced stock options, the excitement of starting from scratch but proven business model, deep connections with industry leaders, benefits, and a competitive salary.  To learn more about our benefits, please visit:  http://www.starfishsolutions.com/pdf/Starfish.Benefits.2009.pdf.

Application Procedure:

• To be considered for this position, please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@starfishsolutions.com.