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GNOME Developer, Online Services

Posting Date: January 2009
Job Location: At home with broadband, in an American/European time zone. This job involves international travel three to four times a year, usually for one week.
Job Summary: You will design and implement the desktop integration for a compelling new suite of web based services for Ubuntu users, providing a meaningful user experience for a new generation of ultra-mobile computing.
Reports To: Technical Architect, Online Services

Key responsibilities:

Use open source development methods to create, select and adapt software to produce innovative user experiences and create compelling desktop user interfaces for Canonical online services

Required skills and experience

Extensive experience with the GNOME development platform, desktop environment and technologies such as GTK+, Cairo and X11
Extensive experience with open source development tools such as GCC, GNU Make, Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
Experience with Ubuntu and Debian packaging tools such as APT, dpkg, debhelper, and CDBS
Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation, delivering according to a schedule.
Good personal skills in order to develop strong working relationships with team mates, members of upstream projects, and Ubuntu developers.
Strong English communication skills, especially over phone, email, and IRC.
Proficient with UI design, paper prototyping
Proven skills in practical usability testing
Test driven development, ability to create executable tests.