C# ASP.NET/CSS Developer

If you are looking for an outstanding long term opportunity located downtown Chicago, please take a look at the following permanent, full time position. Local candidates will be given priority consideration. If you are interested, please send me a resume in MS Word format with complete home address, daytime phone with the best time to call, and current annual salary. All candidates must have excellent communication skills and be able to accept this position without sponsorship assistance of any kind. No H-1B visas, 3rd party or corp to corp candidates considered.

ASP.NET Application Developer
Position Title: Software Engineer
Location:  Chicago, IL
Typical Years of Experience:  4+ years


Looking for a motivated, creative web application developer to join their engineering team.  Applicants are expected to be reasonably well versed in various technologies and have a proven ability to rapidly grasp new technologies and apply them to the problems at hand.  Individuals holding this position are expected to be capable of working on tasks in a semi-unsupervised way, not requiring daily direction on how to accomplish their goals.

Responsibilities:
• Design and develop new features in the product with oversight from architectural leads
• Develop task estimates for projects that involve the core components of the system
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback on how product components might be improved
• Provide high level technical support to other groups within the company as needed

Required Skills:
• C#, ASP.NET 2.0+
• XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, AJAX
• Internet Explorer 6+ development
• Ability to design, build, test and integrate individual components into a more complex system
• Ability to diagnose and correct problems in specific components of a more complex system
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a loosely structured, fast-paced environment where success is measured against the ability to deliver on what was promised

Beneficial Skills:
• Firefox 2+, Safari 3+ development
• ASP.NET AJAX
• XML
• SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000+
• Subversion, Firebug, ReSharper


Really looking for a strong 3-5 year developer that is strong with UI Development (creating nice, usable interfaces)
Looking for the following attributes:
*  someone that can be extremely flexible and work in a fast paced environment
*  someone that can excel in a very collaborative environment and doesn't need a lot of hand-holding
*  looking for flexible thinkers that do not need rigorous process to be successful

Very Important when talking with Candidates:
This is a SaaS (Software as a Service) enterprise content management system, and as such, there is only one running instance of the application which is shared by all of our customers.  This single instance is updated every ten weeks with a new version.  Of these ten weeks, one is spent planning, six developing and three testing the release.