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Junior Software Developer - Production
About Us
Nerd Corps Entertainment, established in 2002, is one of North America’s largest
privately owned animation studios, boasting a diverse portfolio of award-winning
original properties such as Slugterra, League of Super Evil, Storm Hawks and
Rated A for Awesome. With six shows in production, there is always a genre or
character to keep you interested and challenged. But we’re more than just an
animation studio. Our 400 creatives build stories, worlds, and experiences for
kids that cut across platforms from television to online, games, toys, mobile—
wherever kids are spending time. We handle all stages of our process in-house,
from the IP creation and development to post-production, finance, sales and
distribution, licensing and consumer products, and interactive development,
making us a rarity in the industry. Our studio near Vancouver’s trendy
Commercial Drive is a vibrant mixture of rookies and veterans, where those fresh
out of college can continue learning from mid-career and senior artists, and
where every level of experience can make the most of their talent on some of the
best kids shows and games in the world.
Leo, Gemini, Emmy…been there, won that.
Come work for an award-winning studio and make cartoons, not war.
Department: Software
Location: Vancouver
About the Position
As the junior software developer, you are an integral member of Nerd Corps’
small, fast-paced software development team who provide creative web-based
solutions to enhance our 3D animation production pipeline. Working closely with
the Scrum Master, you will be involved in designing, developing, documenting
Position: Junior Software Developer – Production
Department: Software
Date: 04SEP14
and maintaining high-quality, complex, reliable applications using a web
interface.
You are a quick learner who strives to meet our production needs in an efficient
and effective manner. This entry-level position requires you to be proactive,
possess a broad knowledge of modern web technologies and have a passion for
creating scalable and innovative web-based applications for the television/3D
animation industry.
Responsibilities
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Develop and maintain in-house client/server web-based tracking/project
management systems and various production pipeline tools
Assist the software team to oversee issues with the render farm
Liaise with production staff to implement new tools and processes to aid
their needs
Invent, analyze and optimize algorithms or data structures to improve our
current systems
Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing
production tools
Qualifications
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B.Sc. in computing science or equivalent experience
Solid foundation with software development methodologies, client/server
paradigm and object-oriented paradigms
Good working knowledge of web-based technologies including Python,
PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX/JSON and HTML/CSS
Strong SQL skills and knowledge of relational database design.
Experience with MySQL is preferred
Experience with MVC development framework such as Django
Must be able to write clean and maintainable code
Ability to take direction well and execute on a project with limited
supervision
Quick learner with excellent organizational skills and strong
communication skills
Not essential but would be great assets
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Experience with CSS and Javascript framework
Understanding of Agile development process such as Scrum
User Interface design experience
Knowledge of C++ or Java
Understanding of web services such as REST
Knowledge of writing APIs
Position: Junior Software Developer – Production
Department: Software
Date: 04SEP14
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Background in computer graphics to help understand the production work
performed at Nerd Corps.
Knowledge of 3D applications such as Autodesk Softimage, Maya, Nuke
Knowledge of or experience developing public large scale web
applications
THANK YOU to all those who express interest in being a part of the Nerd Corps
team. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we receive, we may be
unable to reply to all applicants. If we feel that you may be a good match for one
of our current openings you will be contacted.
APPLY HERE: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?cj=oROvZfwT&s=UBC-CS
Position: Junior Software Developer – Production
Department: Software
Date: 04SEP14