Vacatures in Development

How do you store half a billion photos & videos? How do you serve 300 million webpages each day, with every page rendered in less than one second? And how do you port Hyves applications to the iPhone, Android and Blackberry-cellphones after that? Working at one of the largest websites in the Netherlands is not a small challenge.

Working at the development-department at Hyves is characterized by a high degree of innovativeness, creativity and fundamental hard-core computer science topics. From OpenSocial to object stores, from service layers to cross-platform native C++: at Hyves you will work with all modern object-oriented programming and -frameworks.

But all the technique aside, it's more fun to code 80% instead of documenting 80%. And to write a code for 10 million Hyvers instead of 8 intranet users. You want to spend the rest of your life writing Access scripts, or build an application that runs on 3000 servers? We thought so.

PS. Check also our Technology hyve (only Dutch): http://technologie.hyves.nl

The mobile developer will design, code, test and deploy applications for mobile phones and tablet devices using the following technologies:
HTML5/Javascript/CSS/PhoneGap and Java/Objective C/C#. Mobile social networking applications includes applications for location based services, photo browsing & uploading, messages, chat and other social networking features.
The mobile team develops 3 platforms natively, iPhone, Android and Blackberry, and we consider the mobile website the 4th main platform with which we aim to address the other part of the mobile and tablet platform spectrum.
We believe that great mobile applications are developed by people who have the skills to control the whole technology stack, client and server, therefore development in the mobile team also includes building the backend API's and smartly scaling the serverfarm for mobile apps.

Technology overview

Hyves runs a substantial operation in terms of volume, with over 6,1 million monthly visitors on the web, and 1,6 million on mobile, 7,5 million chat messages every day and ±3500 servers. The main technology stack is PHP, Python, NGINX, MySQL and Memcached running on Gentoo. High-volume key-value stores such as Redis take care of persistency, Node.js is used for real-time updates; Hadoop is used for massive parallel processing. The services we provide include toolbars (FF/IE), desktop clients (Qt C++), several mobile clients (iPhone/Android/Blackberry) and the OpenSocial API.

Hyves operates according to a SCRUM Agile development process. The focus is on great and working code and applications, so UML and deliberation are means to an end. Deploy cycles are short and the progress is fast: Ideas you have today, can be online in weeks. The software you write will be used by millions of people every month.

Technology overview

Hyves runs a substantial operation in terms of volume, with over 6,1 million monthly visitors on the web, and 1,6 million on mobile, 7,5 million chat messages every day and ±3500 servers. The main technology stack is PHP, Python, NGINX, MySQL and Memcached running on Gentoo. High-volume key-value stores such as Redis take care of persistency, Node.js is used for real-time updates; Hadoop is used for massive parallel processing. The services we provide include toolbars (FF/IE), desktop clients (Qt C++), several mobile clients (iPhone/Android/Blackberry) and the OpenSocial API.

Hyves operates according to a SCRUM Agile development process. The focus is on great and working code and applications, so UML and deliberation are means to an end. Deploy cycles are short and the progress is fast: Ideas you have today, can be online in weeks. The software you write will be used by millions of people every month.