Founded in 2006 and based in San Francisco, Flixster independently operates the world's most popular movie communities, used by more than 25 million people every month. Flixster services include destination websites at Flixster.com and RottenTomatoes.com, as well as leading apps on Facebook, iPhone and iPad, BlackBerry and Android-powered devices. Flixster's communities provide the most comprehensive movie information online - including a database of over 250,000 movies; 2.3 billion user reviews; 500,000 critic reviews; and over 35,000 trailers and videos.
Backed by the Warner Bros. Entertainment family, Flixster is building the next generation of digital home entertainment applications. We will continue to expand our services beyond movie discovery to enable digital movie sales and streaming from all of our apps on existing platforms plus many more. We are deep believers that groups of motivated, team-oriented people build the best products (and have the most fun doing it). At Flixster, you will make a big impact as part of our small but growing team. We're passionate, fast-moving and completely committed to building the best products for our users.
We offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits options including a 401(k) plan with a generous Company match.
Your role will be to build end-user features as fast as we can dream them up. You will work closely with everyone on our product development team to turn mockups into reality. Your will work across the full technology stack from front to back, and be completely responsible for each new feature you build - from design to implementation to deployment and maintenance. You will write elegant, maintainable, robust, scalable code every day. The features you build will be used by thousands of people the day after we launch them.
You will work not just on our web applications, but on embedded platforms (browser extensions, set-top boxes, netbooks, etc), and you may be called on to help with our mobile applications as well.
You will work in our backend server team to build, maintain, optimize and scale ALL aspects of our backend systems. This is a key role in helping us to handle the incredible growth we continue to see. You will help solve the complex problems that come out of managing a high-volume site, both in terms of concurrent usage and huge dataset. You will learn new technologies as necessary, and apply them these problems.
In addition to scaling our systems, you will work closely with our product managers and web developers to support all of our end-user features across the 10+ platforms we are deployed on. Your primary customer in this role will be other developers, and you will build data access components for them to easily consume in building useful, fun, usable features. You will write elegant, maintainable, robust code every day.
Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes are big sites with serious traffic: over 35 million enthusiasts use our websites or applications every month. We are the 13 th most-downloaded free iOS app of all time. We have our sights set even higher, and you will help us take things to the next level. As our products and user base continue to grow, it will create unique and interesting technical challenges that you will help solve.
You will be part of a small team that manages all aspects of our systems and network infrastructure. Your role will be to help extend our resilient, fault-tolerant and scalable infrastructure across multiple data centers, and prepare our network to serve millions of additional users.
Collaborating with the rest of the Product Management team to create great user experiences for our web, mobile and TV platforms, you will be involved with all stages of product management, from high-level strategy to important design details. You will focus on growing our user base, on-boarding new users, and driving user engagement. You will be leading projects across multiple platforms to drive conversion, growth and engagement. Your projects will include testing and optimizing registration flows and engagement channels, including email, SMS, app notifications, app requests and app invitations. You will define the product roadmap, specify new features, and inspire the talented Flixster development team. This is an opportunity to have a huge impact. You will create and manage products that introduce millions of users to Flixster and engage millions of already active Flixster users. This is a full time position based at our San Francisco office.