ATHENA Tix is hiring!

We need two motivated developers to work (mainly) out of our DC office and provide the core work for ATHENA Tix. Last week we posted this position to a bunch of jobs sites. If it has not gotten to you yet and you are interested, please let us know.

POSTING: Become the heart of an open source project and help transform the way artists and arts organizations do business.

Fractured Atlas, a national not-for-profit arts services company (http://www.fracturedatlas.org) is developing a state-of-the-art, open source event ticketing system: ATHENA Tix. We are designing this system from the ground up to employ the latest technologies, techniques and ideas in an effort to create a system that lets artists and organizations sell tickets the way they want to. With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, we are developing this system under open source and creative commons licenses.

Our mandate is to create a highly configurable, service-oriented, J2EE application with modern web interfaces. How we get there is as much up to you as it is to us. We want smart, creative Java developers who are interested in getting in on the ground floor of designing a new system. We want people who can help us find out which tools are right and which techniques work and can tell us why. We want people with crazy good ideas about how the system should work and how people should interact with it. We want people who are interested by this project.

Requirements follow. Interested parties should email a cover letter with resume and salary requirements to justin.karr@fracturedatlas.org.

Technical Requirements:
* Expertise with J2EE and J2EE web-facing technologies specifically.
* Comfort with core supporting technologies including Java, HTML, Javascript, SQL and XML.
* Familiarity with specific J2EE technologies including Struts, Spring and Hibernate.
* Familiarity with specific web-based technologies including jQuery and the Google Web Toolkit.
* Comfort administering a development environment and systems (it will be a small shop to start) and using both Windows and UNIX-like operating systems.
* Solid understanding of underlying software development methodologies, including object-oriented design and service-oriented architecture.

Other Requirements:
* Willingness to work on a small team and on an Agile-ish development process.
* Willingness to work in Washington DC or the immediate environs.
* Willingness to participate in an open source community around the project.
* Basic conceptual familiarity with the subject matter: selling tickets to live events.
* Identifiable successfully delivered projects.
* Excellent references and recommendations.

Bonus Points:
* Specific desire in and/or experience with working on an Open Source project.
* An interest in the subject matter: event ticketing.
* Exposure to the Kuali project (http://www.kuali.org).
* Leadership experience (even if outside of software development.