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Working for a startup has to be one of the best jobs around. Flexibility, challenging work, cool colleagues, and a tangible connection between your input and the company’s output—what’s not to like? Here’s two opportunities that are recruiting now (and both, in case you’re wondering, are paid):

1. C++ Programmer for part-time work, possibly leading to full-time employment

Speech Graphics Ltd, a technology startup in Edinburgh providing lip-sync middleware and services to the video games industry, is seeking a talented software engineer for a consultant position, possibly leading to full-time employment. The candidate will assist in the development of a commercial middleware application to perform automatic lip-synchronization for video games. We seek someone with the following qualifications:

• C++ programming
• GUI design experience
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• High technical and aesthetic standards

The following is also very desirable:

• Experience developing a commercial product
• Cross-platform development (e.g., wxwidgets)
• Experience with computer animation

Speech Graphics offers an exciting, rewarding work environment in a highly interdisciplinary field—at the interface between speech technology and the dynamic video games industry. As we are still a small company, your contributions can have a great impact. Interested parties should send a CV to Michael Berger at berger [AT] speech-graphics.com

2. Summer internship (three months from May–August 2011) for developer with PHP and JQuery experience

Read4Sure are a Scottish web startup developing a cloud-based Intellectual Property (IP) management tool for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). “Hawk IP” will have a creative and dynamic interface designed for ease of use by non-experts.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic developer to help build the service. This post would suit a talented student or recent graduate who can rise to the challenge of an agile environment—a constantly evolving spec, low paperwork burden, and an opportunity to contribute to the design and direction of the product.

We’ll be developing in PHP (Kohana framework) and extensively in JQuery, so experience in these is a definite plus. Linux and MySQL admin skills are desirable but not strictly necessary. We want good quality work, fast.

The position will be in our Linlithgow office, right on the historic High Street and a few hundred metres from the Palace and loch. It is a couple of minutes walk from the train station (20min from Edinburgh, also direct from Glasgow, Falkirk, Stirling, Dunblane etc.) and intercity bus stops.

Interested? Please send your credentials and a covering email explaining why you think you’re right for us, and why this post might be right for you, to careers [AT] read4sure.com.

P.S. Any questions about these job listings? Please let me (Hilary) know either in the comments below or by emailing hilary [AT] startupcafe.co.uk.