Forget uploading resumes or filling out forms on some job board. Backend-as-a-service company Parse is inviting potential hires to apply via its Parse API. In what initially looks like an added barrier to entry, the company is hoping its cheeky and geeky move will attract the sort of developers who think in JSON.
With a successful IPO behind it, LinkedIn has its sight now set on bringing more developers to its fold. In April, we covered how LinkedIn is increasing its reach via widgets that you can plug into your site and expanding its Developer program. LinkedIn has added to that by announcing two additions to its LinkedIn API: searching Jobs and Companies.
Athletic shoe and apparel giant Nike recently announced that it is looking for a fellow to help ignite an open data revolution within the company. Nike’s vice President of Sustainability, Hannah Jones, announced the fellowship and a partnership with Code for America during a session at SXSW 2011. Nike has exposed internal data in the past and hopes to create a situation where other companies might follow suite for a greener future.
Technical Evangelism, a fairly young discipline, may contain fewer than a thousand people today. A few folks may be doing it part time and others who think that they are doing it when they are really not. Overall, it’s a really fun job: you get to meet smart people, learn new technologies, create fun demos and travel to various conferences.
Group event community site Meetup is looking for someone to join its team and the role is API-specific. The API Engineer is not the one who makes the company’s Meetup API work. Rather, the job is responsible for spreading Meetup to “every mobile device and hyperlocal web site.” That’s quite the task. So, what are the requirements of an API Engineer?
Just about every web developer must now be comfortable at least consuming APIs, if not creating them. This trend now shows itself in job titles including “API” and “mashup,” and more often in the requirements and experience section of job listings.
If you’ve ever dreamed of a government that’s more connected to its citizens, there’s a new fellowship that could use your technical smarts. Code for America is seeking applications for its program in Boston, Philadelphia, D.C., Seattle and Boulder to connect city governments with Web 2.0 talent.
The headline of the AppNexus job description jumps out with a question: Have you built RESTful APIs?? It’s the newest requirement for job listings, already known for their acronyms requiring OOP and MVC. You not only need to be able to consume web services. Now you have to have experience creating them.
It can be hard to find good news regarding employment thanks the recent financial downturn. Apparently no one told Amazon, who have a post on their Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog announcing that they have lots of positions to fill.
There are so many jobs listed for developers familiar with the Paypal API on GetAFreelancer that the site has a category dedicated to it. And that’s not all–there are over 300 API-related listings on the site, which connects freelancers with people who need programmers and designers.
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