Mathiaz

About You You love nothing more than developing web applications and writing clean and efficient code. You have a mind for both product and user experience, have great communication skills, and enjoy working with a tight-knit development team. You are a generalist who learns quickly and on the fly and who can easily adapt to a wide variety of programming challenges.

You are as comfortable optimizing a MySQL query as you are getting CSS to work in IE6. You either have experience with or are excited to learn all parts of our stack: PHP, Smarty templates, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Google Maps API, and Facebook Platform. Your Responsibilities Design and implement features that help improve the Zimride user experience Optimize code for speed and reliability Brainstorm ideas with the team and help shape the product roadmap You Must Have B.S., M.S., or PhD

in Computer Science or equivalent Experience with, or ability to quickly learn, object-oriented PHP programming Experience working with relational databases Great oral and written communication skills Ability to thrive in a startup environment Bonus Points For Experience with MySQL query optimization Experience working with the Facebook Platform and Google Maps API Experience with mobile development Previous work with social networks Contributions to open source projects Passion for sustainability and/or transportation Programming Challenge (Optional) Calculate the detour distance between two different rides. Given four lattitude / longitude pairs, where driver one is traveling from point A to point B and driver two is traveling from point C to point D, write a function (in your language of choice) to calculate the shorter of the detour distances the drivers would need to take to pick-up and drop-off the other driver.