Employment Opportunities

About us:

The Weather Underground Inc., founded in 1995, is one of the most popular and comprehensive weather sites in the world, boasting over 60 languages. The wunderground.com site specializes in real-time delivery of current weather conditions, detailed forecasts, and severe weather advisories; it remains the market innovator for web-based weather delivery including historical conditions, city searches, weather stickers, personal weather stations, marine weather, astronomy, and user-uploaded WunderPhotos.

We are looking for developers who can assimilate themselves into our lithe but productive development environment. We are a cohesive unit, capable of self direction but gathered around a collective purpose and a sense of site ownership. Our philosophy involves minimal meetings, low management overhead, high creative input, and agile development practices which allow us to leanly dominate in a highly competitive market.

Responsibilities:

• Learn existing code base (C/C++ on Linux)
• Work in a team environment to brainstorm, architect, write, and debug software
• Upgrade existing features
• Build new products
• Support existing and new products

Required Skills

• Expertise in data structures and algorithms using C and C++
• Strong UNIX/Linux background
• Understanding of code scaling and efficiency
• HTML

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Javascript, and UNIX shell scripts
• Understanding of Flash, ActionScript

Benefits & Information:

• Competitive salary
• Health care package
• Generous stock option program
• Fun and casual place to work

Start date: Immediate

Send a link to an HTML version of your resume to jobs@wunderground.com. If you don't have an accessible version of your resume, email a copy as an attachment. Please make sure your email has the subject of "Software Developer".