Thursday, April 14, 2011

Co-op opportunity at Screenplay

Students: Here’s an opportunity to gain valuable industry experience using both your engineering skills and your Chinese language skills. This is a paid internship position through Co-op, and the student hired for this internship will be translating a lot of documentation into Chinese/Mandarin as well as applying engineering skills such as Java, Python or C#. This company, Screenplay, is looking for someone with a good understanding of web technologies, objective oriented design, and willingness to tackle challenges and learn new things. Find out more about the employer:

SCREENPLAY, INC.
A 3411 Thorndyke Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119
T 800 742 1439 x 105
D 206 812-2191
F 206 587-2217
U screenplayinc.com


Screenplay Labs
Software Internship Description

Screenplay Labs is creating a new international distribution and conditional access network to distribute entertainment content to localized cable and IPTV operators around the globe. We are looking for energetic, motivated team members that can contribute their language and engineering skills to help us succeed in this fast paced industry.

Internship: Chinese Localization Software Developer

This position is 3 month full time internship starting in June.

Responsibilities

Our new team member would be responsible for localizing technical documents, UML and Function diagrams and other deliverables to our partners in Beijing, including translation during conference calls and meetings. While helping us communicate and collaborate using an agile SDLC, this team member would also assist as a junior developer, investigating and implement solutions using Screenplay Labs C2ME platform for Roku, social network sites like Facebook, and distribution partners like RCDb.

This position will work hand in hand with rest of the team, localizing our solution for the Chinese entertainment market.

Required Skills
- Familiarity with one of the following; Python, Java, C#
- Good understanding of web technologies, Object Oriented design
- Ability to read, write and speak Chinese (Mandarin).
- Willingness to tackle challenges and learn new things

Bonus Round
- Familiarly with SQL and RDBMS in general
- Social networking protocols like Facebook Open Graph
- Experience programming MVC web sites
- Interest Movies, Music Videos, Video Games, or Television content