Careers at Tunerfish

Do you love television and building web applications? Tunerfish is the place for you. We are the place to share your love about what you watch with others and we are looking for developers to help grow our application.

You'll be working in a very small team who loves to iterate quickly and exceed expectations. Even better, the team is a part of Comcast Interactive Media -- so while Tunerfish is small, you'll have the resources of a large company behind you.

We are looking for someone who lives to get things done, is smart and understands web applications. And whether your favorite show is Arrested Development, True Blood or A.L.F., we won't hold it against you.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build highly scalable software used by millions of users
• Code primarily in PHP
• Be passionate for well-designed, highly maintain-able code
• Thrive in a very agile development process with weekly releases
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Interface with other team members to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Identify and communicate best practices
• Ability throw Nerf darts and eat free lunches

Skills/Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2+ years of Internet product development experience
• Extensive experience programming in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX, CSS, SQL
• Solid Object-Oriented Programming experience
• Strong desire to ship a high quality product on time
• Excellent communication skills
• Independent, organized, and able to work on multiple fast-paced projects at the same time
• Experience with REST, JSON, and API/Web-Services
• Details-driven in User Interface
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science required

Join The Social Entertainment Revolution!

Do you love television and building iOS applications? Tunerfish is the place for you. We are the place to share your love about what you watch with others and we are looking for developers to help grow our platform.

You'll be working in a very small team who loves to iterate quickly and exceed expectations. Even better, the team is a part of Comcast Silicon Valley -- so while Tunerfish is small, you'll have the resources of a large company behind you.

We are looking for someone who lives to get things done, is smart and understands mobile development. And whether your favorite show is Mad Men, Twin Peaks or Mister Ed, we won't hold it against you.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build app software for Apple mobile platforms.
• Code primarily in Objective C
• Be passionate for well-designed, highly maintain-able code
• Thrive in a agile development world
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Interface with other team members to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Identify and communicate best practices
• Ability throw Nerf darts and eat free lunches

Skills/Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of Internet or mobile development experience
• Extensive experience programming for Apple mobile platforms (iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) up to the current iOS4 SDK
• Solid Object-Oriented Programming experience
• Strong desire to ship a high quality product on time
• Excellent communication skills
• Independent, organized, and able to work on multiple fast-paced projects at the same time
• Experience with REST, JSON, and API/Web-Services
• Details-driven in User Interface
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science required

It’s an interesting time, and the television space is really defining its future. We’ve all witnessed and can appreciate the power that social media has to transform any industry. The story of the convergence of old media and new media has never been so exciting. Tunerfish, the pioneer of social television is expanding its team to include an Information Architect/User Experience Designer.

We design products that will be used by millions of people nationwide and offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, and too many other cool perks to mention.

Responsibilities:

• Clarify complex systems through creating effective information architectures, task analysis, use cases, flow diagrams and concept models
• Examine our existing site and identify and codify architectural elements.
• Identify interaction patterns, document usage guidelines and principles and work with development to create reusable components.
• Facilitate brainstorming sessions that engage and empower stakeholders
• Create low fidelity user interface prototypes that allow stakeholders to walk through a user experience at earlier points in the design process
• Identify areas for market and user research.
• Draft objectives, plans and protocols for all research efforts.
• Create storyboards to effectively demonstrate how our users interact and move through an experience
• Communicate with our internal and external customers through active listening and clear written and verbal communications
• Manage and understand the scope and boundaries of projects.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Professional experience in Information Architecture, Interaction or User Experience Design or related field.
• Understanding social systems
• Demonstration of page level and content-level information architecture (e.g. page structure and content inventory respectively)
• Knowledge of principles of Design Thinking and a willingness and desire to go into the world for inspiration
• A firm understanding of and ability to design within an Agile software development process
• Insight into Content Strategy and how it fits into the design process
• Ability to develop highly iterative and low fidelity prototypes in the early stages of design
• Expertise with Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks and InDesign
• Passion for design and ability to effectively share your point of view and expertise with project team members and clients
• Working knowledge of HTML and iOS and Mobile best practices for accessibility, performance and localization.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to lead, inspire, and nurture teams with direction, vision and planning
• Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills