Career opportunities with BC Media Works
 
BC Media Works provides leading-edge technology to several of the largest news media companies in the world. Our technology evovles from the creative input and enthusiasm of our amazing staff. Our entrepreneurial work environment encourages innovation, team work and colloborative development.

BC Media Works offers challenging employment where successful employees get to see the results of their effort appear live in some of the most popular online sites and print media. We offer regular company social outings and events, a comfortable work environment with excellent equipment, peer and management encouragement and mentoring, extended health benefits package and aggressive salary and financial rewards for top performers.
 
We are currently looking for talented individuals for the following positions:
 
Web Applications Developer
Flash Applications Developer
PERL/UNIX Developer
Junior Web Developer
Data Warehouse Developer
 
Successful candidates must have an exceptional work ethic, be energetic self-starters and extremely detail-oriented with a constant customer focus in their work. These are all long-term positions with the potential to quickly evolve into a senior roles for the right candidates.

These positions are not eligible for contract or remote work. These are in-house development roles working with our existing web application, Flash, and back-end systems development teams within our New Westminster development office and data center.

While the ability to work independently is required, a large portion of the positions require working closely with the team members and testers to ensure the required quality and deadlines are maintained. Excellent language and communication skills are required as documentation and reporting duties make up part of these positions.

 
Web Applications Developer
(Intermediate-Advanced)
Job Code #WB-118
Experienced intermediate to advanced-level web applications developer with the following skills:
  • Proven expertise with creating and presenting dynamic web applications content
  • Expert-level hand-coding HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX
  • Intermediate/expert-level with web scripting and programming languages - either PHP, ColdFusion, or Lasso
  • Intermediate/expert-level writing SQL queries
  • Intermediate experience with MySQL 4 and/or 5
  • Experience with XML or delimited data parsing and manipulation
  • 3-5 years in an web applications development role
Additional requirements:
  • Experience working within a Mac OS X environment
  • Experience with graphic design applications
 
Flash Applications Developer
(Intermediate-Advanced)
Job Code #FL-141
The successful candidate should have the usual collection of skills associated with a successful Flash developer including:
  • Proven expertise with creating and presenting dynamic Flash content
  • Excellent knowledge of and experience with ActionScript
  • Experience with XML or delimited data/variable parsing and manipulation
  • Experience optimizing Flash content and digital assets for maximum serving efficiency
  • Experience hand-coding HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Additional requirements:
  • Experience with video and audio integration and prototype creation
  • Experience with PHP, ColdFusion and MySQL
  • Working within a Mac OS X environment
  • Experience working within a Mac OS X environment
  • Strong graphic design skills
 
PERL / UNIX Developer
(Intermediate-Advanced)
Job Code #PU-176
Experienced PERL / UNIX Developer with the following skills:
  • 3 or more years of UNIX or Mac OS X software development experience
  • Excellent Shell/PERL/CGI scripting
  • Excellent SQL knowledge
  • Substantial SQL database experience, with MySQL experience greatly preferred
  • Experience with high availability database server configuration and replication
  • Solid working knowledge of Linux OS
  • Solid understanding of regular expressions, XML, and delimited-text processing
  • Knowledge of Unix/Linux/Mac open source applications and utilities for system monitoring, reporting, configuration, etc.
Additional requirements:
  • Knowledge of automated image processing with PerlMagick, ImageMagick, sips
  • Practical/working knowledge with PHP/HTML for web based/intranet utility development
  • Working within a Mac OS X environment
  • Data warehousing experience preferred
 
Junior Web Developer
(Junior-Intermediate)
Job Code #JW-111
Experienced Junior Web Developer with the following skills:
  • Knowledge of HTML, CSS and DHTML
  • Comfortable with hand-coding source fields
  • Basic knowledge with web scripting and programming languages such as PHP, ColdFusion, or Lasso
  • Basic knowledge of the SQL language and database driven web applications
Additional requirements:
  • Experience working within a Mac OS X environment
  • Experience with graphic design applications
  • Quick thinking, learning and troubleshooting skills
 
Data Warehouse Developer
(Intermediate-Advanced)
Job Code #DW-304
The successful candidate should have the usual collection of skills associated with a successful Flash developer including:
  • Solid knowledge and experience with ActionScript and dynamic Flash content creation
  • Experience with DHTML, hand-coding HTML, XML, some JavaScript
  • Strong graphic design skills
Additional requirements:
  • Experience with video and audio integration
  • Prototype creation and product innovation abilities
  • Working within a Mac OS X environment