Below is a job description I've received yesterday. I really wish this recruiter good luck in finding a person with all these qualifications, who's ready to work in expensive San Diego with a net monthly income of $5500. The best part in this ad is is that this superstar will be allowed to work with senior engineers (I assume they are super-duper stars). If anyone wants this job, and can explain why, I'll get you in touch with the recruiter.
This job requirement serves as a good illustration of why AJAX programming will remain a skill set of elite. It's just way too much to know for an average software developer. But if you're up to the challenge and have all the skills listed below, you can make a quick buck this year (much better than $125K) while the AJAX hype still going strong.
On the side note, we are trying to find good Swing developer (just expert level Swing skills and nothing else), paying similar salary range. No luck so far... There are plenty of Java experts, but they do not not Swing well enough, which is a logical result of the fact that desktop programming has been the Cinderella of Java for too long.
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Your Role
We're looking to hire a Senior Eclipse Engineer that will be a key member of
our extremely bright and small developer team. We only hire superstars
and we're working on some groundbreaking technology in the AJAX space.
Our company is venture-funded and located in San Diego, CA.
What You'll Do
As a key member of the team, you'll be responsible for configuring, integrating, deploying, testing, packaging, upgrading defining, prototyping, and developing techniques and applications for state-of-the-art web development tools.
Candidates should have experience developing state-of-the-art, interactive user interfaces using technologies such as AJAX/_JavaScript, ActionScript, Java, and C#. Expert experience with the Eclipse development environment is a must and your having written extensions to Eclipse is preferable..
Responsibilities
As a member of our small team, you will work closely with senior software engineers to create developer tools and other related technologies.
Job Qualifications
Expert in _JavaScript
Track record of developing Eclipse plugins
Experience with Eclipse graphical frameworks: SWT and JFace
Expert Java design and development knowledge
Java/C++/XPCOM/COM/ActiveX.
Systems concepts, including multithreading, remote procedure calls, compilation/translation, including parsing, optimization, and code generation.
Traditional static web technology, including HTML and CSS.
Client-side dynamic web technology (AJAX), including _JavaScript, DHTML and DOM.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
Familiarity with other popular web app frameworks, including PHP, ASP, ASP.NET.
Connected to the development community through forums, blogs, user groups, etc.
Skills: JAVA Expert
C++ Expert
AWT Expert
_JavaScript Expert
J2EE Helpful
HTTP Expert
SQL Expert
Servlets Expert
UI Expert
_JavaScript Expert
Win Expert
ASP Helpful
JSP / EJB Helpful
Apache Expert
Tomcat Expert
JAVA Applets Expert
XML/XSL Expert
SOAP Expert
DOM Expert
HTML/XHTML Expert
TCP/IP modules Expert
Sockets Expert
Desirable (not required) Qualifications
Gecko/Mozilla/FireFox hacking.
Experience in developing a Eclipse RCP-based product
Experience in building developer tools
Skilled in object-oriented design techniques (e.g. Design Patterns)
Use of agile development methodologies (XP, Scrum, etc.) and unit testing
Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and other graphics editors
Experience with DHTML, CSS, SVG, and the like
Technical leadership or management experience
Have worked on open source projects, preferably your own
Understand first hand the pains of building a large scale web application
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I'm confused on a couple of items with the ad:
