Software / QA / DBA - Boston

Software Engineer Position Job Description

We are an established engineering company with a world-class offering of optical metrology products looking for a skilled software engineer to contribute towards the development of application code. This is a serious engineering position – not a fuzzy web-development opportunity! The person we are looking for will have strengths in programming applications that interface with peripheral hardware such as cameras, frame-grabbers, motion control systems etc, and a proven record writing creative bulletproof code. Mathematical aptitude (do you know what a fast Fourier transform is?) and experience with optics or image processing is a big plus. This position reports to a senior software engineer, but requires a high degree of self-motivation as well as the ability to work well in multidisciplinary teams. If you meet these requirements and are looking for an opportunity to use your programming skills to write code that does something useful, then please contact us!

Requirements:

• Minimum of five-years of software development experience on Windows platforms using Microsoft C#, Visual Basic.NET Visual C++, Visual Basic 6.0 languages.
• Minimum of five-years of software programming experience in the Microsoft .NET framework. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate hands on experience in programming .NET Remoting applications.
• Experience or knowledge of programming using WCF or/ WPF is a plus.
• Strong experience in instrumentation development.
• Experience in programming computer device interfaces such as general I/O, serial communications, Ethernet card, USB, FireWire etc.
• Bachelor or higher degree in computer science or a relevant engineering or science degree.
• Experience in real time operating system programming is a plus.
• Experience or knowledge of optics, photonics, or image processing is preferred.
• Must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and eager to learn.
• Good verbal and written communication skills are essential.
• US Citizenship or permanent residency required.

Responsibilities:

• Manage software development projects.
• Participate in engineering service projects.
• General maintenance, support, and improvement of existing product application code.
• Write technical documentation such as user manuals for software products.
• Provide technical support to customers and projects on software related issues.

Are you a front end flash developer who's up to the challenge of coding and contributing to an awesome virtual world? Would you like your work to be enjoyed by as many as one million kids every day? Do you enjoy building great games as much as playing them?

Poptropica, one of the most popular and fastest growing virtual worlds for kids, is looking for developers like you to create adventures like this: http://www.poptropica.com/steamworks_island.html

http://www.poptropica.com/skullduggery_island.html

If you share our passion for games and want to channel it into pushing the envelope of game development, read on.

In your role as a Flash developer on Poptropica (www.Poptropica.com ), you will:

* Extend the world of Poptropica with the creation of new quests and character abilities

* Build a variety of game types: platformers, shooters, puzzle games and more.

* Contribute creatively to the game design process, from prototype to completion.

* Work with a talented team to continually innovate and expand a hugely successful virtual world.

* Take your development skills to the next level, building the best games played by millions of people.

Requirements:

* A strong portfolio demonstrating solid game development experience.

You must submit a portfolio with your resume. Resumes that are not accompanied by samples of your work will not be considered.

* At least 3 years experience in AS2 or AS3 with expert level skills.

* Good code organization and knowledge of ActionScript best practices.

* The ability to work well both on a team and independently.

* Experience using object-oriented design methods.

Check out www.Poptropica.com and http://www.poptropica.com/videos.html to experience our world for yourself. If you like what you see, and want to help to make it even better, we'd love to hear from you!

** Please do not reply to this posting. Sonos only accepts resumes and cover letters submitted online at http://jobs.sonos.com/ **

Job Title: Director of Software Development
Location: Cambridge, MA or Santa Barbara, CA
Status: Full time
Travel: Occasional travel within US required

For the right individual, Sonos will offer relocation reimbursement to our Cambridge, MA or Santa Barbara, CA offices.

General Summary:

Direct all aspects of software development at Sonos, leading a team of technical managers and engineers to implement and refine a world-class software engineering process.

Responsibilities:

Lead the entire Sonos software development team, from device drivers and networking to audio reproduction and user interfaces. Direct several teams working on parallel branches of development to deliver excellent software on a variety of platforms and timelines.
Organize, grow, and evolve the software organization as necessary to meet a rapidly increasing demand for more software products, delivered in parallel. Hire managers to lead software functional areas, working closely with HR and recruiters to create compelling job descriptions and identify candidates. Mentor managers in best practices for motivating and organizing their teams, preparing schedules, reporting status, and hiring. Set the hiring bar for software managers and individual contributors.
Anticipate and react to the evolving needs of the software development organization: maintain an up-to-date resource and hiring plan that ensures all software development sub-disciplines are fully staffed and well-managed in an environment of rapid growth and frequent releases spanning multiple platforms.
Nurture a software engineering culture that emphasizes predictable ship dates, exceptionally low defect rates in code delivered to QA and customers, and exceptionally high productivity and career satisfaction amongst team members.
Ensure proper attention is given to preserving a clean and sustainable software architecture. Encourage technical managers to adopt solid designs for long-term maintainability of the code bases they oversee, ease of implementing anticipated future features, portability to multiple platforms, and avoidance of bugs.
Architect the software development life cycle and process, including project phases, milestones, alpha and beta, maintenance releases, integration points with hardware releases, branching and merging strategy across multiple lines of development, etc.
Contribute to the code design by acting as a sounding board for the development team as they determine the best ways to implement the product’s desired feature set, and what technologies to use.
Conduct 1:1 meetings and performance reviews. Provide specific feedback to help managers improve their work. Participate in interviewing and make final hiring decisions.
Interface with the QA group to ensure that their requirements for code testability are met and to prioritize their requests. Interface with the hardware group to manage interdependencies between hardware and software releases. Interface with the customer service and support organization to continuously improve the customer experience and lower support costs. Interface with the interaction design group to ensure a usable and attractive user interface.


Required Experience:

A track record of success leading software development organizations that deliver multiple complex software products in parallel on multiple branches of development.
Experience leading both “low-level” (operating systems, device drivers, DSP) and “high-level” (client-server, application software with user interfaces) software development teams, with enough technical depth in these areas to hire managers, drill into project status, and keep engineers “honest”.
Proven ability to rapidly hire, onboard, and mentor excellent software engineering managers.
Recent experience leading a team delivering commercial, end-user oriented software (embedded, shrink wrap, or released to the web).
Familiarity with the C/C++ programming language.
Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline.
Ten years of software engineering experience, including experience hiring and managing technical leads or managers.


About Sonos, Inc:

Music lovers are the heart and soul of Sonos. We’re a company created by music lovers, for music lovers. And everything we do ¬- from the products we design to the way we run our business -- expresses that passion.

It’s an incredibly exciting time to be at Sonos. In fact, there’s never been a better time in history to be into music—both as a consumer and as a business. Sonos is aggressively launching new award-winning products to make all the music on earth available all over the house. Customers and reviewers alike are raving about our company and our products. And the people who work here are, too.

It takes the best and the brightest to create a revolutionary product like the Sonos Multi-Room Music System. We have experts from every discipline—consumer electronics, software, networking, audio, sales and marketing, and design. And, as our business explodes worldwide, we’re always looking to add more talent to our team—which is where you come in.

Sonos® is the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home. The Sonos Multi-Room Music System is the first, wireless multi-room music system that lets you play all the music you want all over your house – and control it all from the palm of your hand. Sonos liberates the music stored on a computer so it can be enjoyed all over the house. In addition, by partnering with audio services like Audible.com®, Last.fm, Napster®, Pandora®, RadioTime, Rhapsody®, SIRIUS® Internet Radio, and more, Sonos gives music lovers instant, computer-free access to millions of songs, thousands of radio stations, audiobooks, and more. The award-winning Sonos Multi-Room Music System is available at more than 4050 retailers in over 60 countries worldwide; or direct from Sonos at www.sonos.com. Sonos is a privately-held company, headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with offices in Cambridge, MA, Hilversum, Netherlands and Penang, Malaysia.


** Please do not reply to this posting. Sonos only accepts resumes and cover letters submitted online at http://jobs.sonos.com/ **

Summary
The market leader in clinical information system for oncology is looking for an experienced application delivery manager. The SaaS Operations Manager is a unique opportunity for a high-energy, detail oriented leader to help grow our business as we seek to deliver our software as a service. This position has tremendous influence and visibility and reports directly to the Vice President of Technology. The SaaS Operations Manager will be responsible for the managing the delivery of SaaS software to IntrinsiQ’s clients.
Responsibilities
• Works closely with product management, development and quality assurance teams to understand customer needs and define software projects.
• Responsible for the delivery of the SaaS service level agreement. Works with product team to define and execute 24 x 7 customer support plan. Act as an escalation point for resolving client related issues.
• Works across the organization to align sales, marketing, professional services and account management in the delivery of our SaaS solutions.
• Works closely with the professional services team to understand the needs of each client implementation. Coordinates the on-boarding of new customers.
• Leads the SaaS change management procedures.
• Develop project metrics and reporting process to track progress. Responsible for reporting progress to senior management.
• Contribute to the process of developing and enhancing company standards and practices on how the professional services team delivers implementations for our clients.
Qualifications
• Minimum 5 years experience in a technical leadership role. Hands-on software development experience is a plus.
• Experience managing and supporting a critical client facing web application.
• Experience in issue management and conflict resolution.
• Great organization, collaboration, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to work across the organization and collaborate with sales, services, marketing and account management.
• Ability to balance client demands with strategic objectives.
• Ability to work across the organization to manage expectations and foster collaboration.
• Experience with planning, definition, scope management, client communication, issue tracking, and status reporting.
Additional Qualifications
• Healthcare IT background is a plus.
• Knowledge of Scrum, XP, MSF Agile or similar methodology.
Location
Waltham office through 2010 and then relocating to Burlington MA.
Interested?
• Email IntelliDoseCareers@intrinsiq.com
• Include a resume, cover letter, and compensation requirements.

** Please do not reply to this posting. Sonos only accepts resumes and cover letters submitted online at http://jobs.sonos.com/ **

About Sonos, Inc.



Music lovers are the heart and soul of Sonos. We?re a company created by music lovers, for music lovers. And everything we do ? from the products we design to the way we run our business ? expresses that passion.

It?s an incredibly exciting time to be at Sonos. In fact, there?s never been a better time in history to be into music ? both as a consumer and as a business. Sonos is aggressively launching new award-winning products to make all the music on earth available all over the house. Customers and reviewers alike are raving about our company and our products. And the people who work here are, too.

It takes the best and the brightest to create a revolutionary product like the Sonos Multi-Room Music System. We have experts from every discipline ? consumer electronics, software, networking, audio, sales and marketing, and design. And, as our business explodes worldwide, we?re always looking to add more talent to our team ? which is where you come in.

Job Title: Principal Server Software Engineer, Internet Platform
Location: Cambridge, MA or Santa Barbara, CA
Reporting: Director, Internet Platform
Status: Full-time/Regular
Travel: 5% - 15%

For the right individual, Sonos will offer relocation reimbursement to our Cambridge, MA or Santa Barbara, CA offices.


General Summary:

The Internet Platform group is responsible for the systems and code that support Sonos content partner integration and online firmware distribution. As the Principal Server Software Engineer, you will be responsible for several key systems, including:

Design and implementation of a scalable, high performance server platform that can support our rapidly increasing customer base
Design and implementation of the technical framework that will allow Sonos systems to easily integrate with a multitude of online music services and social networks
Driving the technical direction of the Sonos Music Open API (MOAPI), our web service protocol for connecting to online music services

If you love music, solving challenging software problems and doing things the right way every time, we?d like to talk to you!


Required Experience:

10+ years experience in software development.
Experience with web services (SOAP, XML/RPC, REST, XSTL) in a C# .NET environment
Programming in standard C/C++ and/or C#
Strong history of delivering solid products under tight deadlines.
Familiarity with commercial software development practices (version control, defect tracking, product schedules and deliverables).
Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience working with external partners and customers.
Attention to detail and low defect rate.


Preferred Skills:

Experience with streaming protocols (RTSP, HTTP) and codecs (MP3, AAC, etc.)
Systems design and programming in a Linux environment.
Cross-platform software development (Windows/Mac/iPhone/Linux)


Sonos? is the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home. The Sonos Multi-Room Music System is the first, wireless multi-room music system that lets you play all the music you want all over your house ? and control it all from the palm of your hand. Sonos liberates the music stored on a computer so it can be enjoyed all over the house. In addition, by partnering with audio services like Audible.com?, Last.fm, Napster?, Pandora?, RadioTime, Rhapsody?, SIRIUS? Internet Radio, and more, Sonos gives music lovers instant, computer-free access to millions of songs, thousands of radio stations, audiobooks, and more. The award-winning Sonos Multi-Room Music System is available at more than 4050 retailers in over 60 countries worldwide; or direct from Sonos at www.sonos.com. Sonos is a privately-held company, headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with offices in Cambridge, MA, Hilversum, Netherlands and Penang, Malaysia.

** Please do not reply to this posting. Sonos only accepts resumes and cover letters submitted online at http://jobs.sonos.com/ **

Senior Software Test Engineer, to 90k plus bonus


We are working with an exciting software company south west of Boston, who specializes in a cloud technology platform and applications used by Fortune 2000 companies worldwide.

They are ramping up in hiring quite a bit, and are looking to add on a Software Test Engineer to their team. This person will be a key player in their R&D team, designing and implementing various test methods and frameworks.

The right candidate for this position will want to take on a leadership role in terms of driving the quality of the product, will have experience in implementing automated tests for Web Services (in Java), work in both Windows and Lnix environments, and some experience in JUnit, Selenium, and JMeter.


Plusses:

Startup-like environment with exciting culture and opportunity for professional growth
Work in an Agile Development environment
Get the chance to become the recognized expert in your product
Enjoy absolutely top notch benefits package and bonus




PLEASE: No 3rd party consulting firms, contractors, non-local candidates, and/or candidates not authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.

Please send your resume for confidential consideration (ref job #2261). It's not necessary to apply to more than one posting from Lynx, and if you're already working with a Lynx recruiter, please contact them directly.

Lynx stands out as one of New England's leading recruiting firms. Our two decades of relationship-building in the Boston-area software community can open the doors for you with key decision-makers.

Visit www.lynxinc.com for more current job listings and hot job alerts.

Hi, we're a funded software startup working to help people get a little bit greener in their daily lives. We're looking for someone solid to work on the front-end of our application, written in Ruby/Rails with touches of jQuery and extensive Facebook integrations.

Here's what we're looking for:

- You love doing the front-end work, building the designs in a solid skeleton, adding CSS to make it beautiful and JS to make it work seamlessly.

- You have good taste, who knows that usable != ugly.

- You have lots of experience in XHTML/CSS/JS. You will own this part of the application, so you need to be rock-solid in this.

- You have experience in startups, ideally riding the rollercoaster of fast growth.

- You know your way around Linux, at least enough to not blow yourself up.

Here are things we'd love to see:

- You have experience working with Ruby and Rails in production, non-toy environments

- You have experience building non-trivial applications with jQuery

- You have experience building Facebook integrations and applications.

- You know your way around Photoshop, and can do real design work, if necessary

- You contribute to open-source software projects

- You write a blog

- You live in Greater Boston. We'll consider remote arrangements, but you'd have to be damn good.

Super bonus points:

- You are going green, or are trying to.



What to do:

If you are interested, I'd love to hear from you. Here's what to do:

Send over all that apply:
- A link to your blog
- A link to your Github repository
- A link to your Hacker News id
- A link to your LinkedIn profile

along with:
- resume
- why you want to work in a startup
- your five favorite unix commands.

Cheers!

Hungry Fish Media
Hungry Fish Media is an innovative online performance marketing startup focusing on product-side e-commerce. We combine an interactive advertising agency with in-house brand creation and impeccable customer service, allowing seamless development, marketing and support of our products. Creating brands overnight that compete with established competitors and creating millions of satisfied customers are our specialties.
At Hungry Fish Media, our employees are empowered to innovate and execute ideas quickly. Team members across all departments pitch ideas ranging from new product development to the build-out of our collaborative work space. Everyone is encouraged to share, discuss and create constructive feedback loops. Receiving feedback and resources quickly allows our employees to champion ideas, take true ownership of projects, and see them to completion.
While growing rapidly into a mid-sized company, Hungry Fish Media retains an atmosphere that is both positive and electric. Speed and hard work are valued and rewarded. Compensation is extremely competitive, with frequent opportunities for the assumption of responsibility and the self-shaping of career advancement. Team-wide lunches, after-work gatherings, and 24/7 access to a pantry stocked to the brim with food and drinks round out HFM as an exciting place to work.

Director of Technology
The Director of Technology will be a detail-oriented, self-motivated, and experienced leader responsible for the development of HFM’s technological tools and the management of the Technology Department. Responsible for the build-out of the department, the Director of Technology will have the opportunity and resources to draw top talent from nearby Harvard and MIT, as well as from top-tier software companies.
With lofty goals and a desire to accomplish them quicker and more effectively than most companies would think possible, HFM requires a candidate capable of implementing structure and developing HFM’s empowering culture. The ideal candidate must have the technical aptitude to guide development, the finesse to champion a motivated and positive team, and the ability to bridge communication between the technology team and the rest of the company.

Responsibilities include:
• The immediate build-out and management of the development team.
• The allocation of department resources to projects.
• The implementation of structures for project management that ensure quality, scalability, flexibility, and robustness.
• The development and maintenance of all of HFM’s websites, marketing tools, and back-end systems.
• Providing HFM’s Managing Partners with the technical expertise needed to make strategic decisions.

Required Qualifications:
• A Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or related field from a top-tier university.
• Experience managing software development teams at a mid- to large-size company.
• Experience architecting, building and deploying large web applications.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organization and time management.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working in the e-commerce, direct response or online marketing industries.
• Experience working in both start-up and large-company environments.
• Experience motivating employees
• Experience recruiting employees from top-tier universities and software companies.

Embedded Software Engineer - Object Oriented Design - Test Driven Development - SOLID - C++ - Agile
Amesbury, MA

Fluidnet was founded in 2002 by a group of medical device professionals who collectively have over 100 years of industry experience and product innovations. The company is headquartered just north of Boston, providing access to a rich medical device community and first-rate research and development skills and facilities. Fluidnet is relentlessly dedicated to exploring, listening to, and responding to the unmet needs of nurses, doctors, patients, and healthcare IT professionals.

Virtually every patient admitted to a hospital receives intravenous medications or fluids, but the infusion pumps used for this have numerous limitations. Fluidnet has designed and tested an innovative infusion pump that will revolutionize clinical workflow around infusions by moving beyond these limitations. The pump design brings state-of-the-art consumer electronics components (e.g. a large touchscreen and several wireless modalities) to a life-critical medical device, providing an opportunity for advanced embedded software to have a palpable impact on patients and caregivers.

We are creating a team to build the embedded medical device software for the Fluidnet pump in a high performance Agile SW development environment. We are seeking a software engineer with 5+ years of experience and a solid background in the following critical areas:

Strong Object Oriented Design skills, and working knowledge of SOLID design principles, especially in C++
Experience working with Test Driven Design, especially Google Test and Google Mock
Experience working in an Agile development environment

Also a plus:
Experience with Boost libraries; design patterns; and IOC containers

Although experience working in a high-performance Agile SW development team is desirable, a willingness to immerse yourself in an Agile team is a must. Experience working with embedded medical device software is similarly desirable, but an understanding of the development challenges associated with multi-threaded, real-time code is essential.

This position is located in our Amesbury, MA development facility, offering a great work environment and free parking. Please provide your cover letter with a short description of the Agile/XP practices that you believe would be most important for a team developing embedded medical device software and why, and send along with your resume.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is renowned for excellence in patient care, biomedical research, teaching and community service. Located in the heart of Boston's Longwood Medical and Academic Area, it hosts nearly three quarters of a million patient visits annually in and around Boston.

Under supervision of the principal investigator, participates in the development of cutting-edge software applications and suites dedicated to solving the most pressing and complex challenges in translational biomedical science. The Research Assistant III works closely with senior members of the software team and will contributes to all facets of programming and application building. Specific projects may include front-end web interface/web service development, back-end computational programming, algorithm/tool development, or process scripting. Additional responsibilities consist of specification/documentation writing, broad-scope and unit-level quality assurance and testing, and diligent code and application maintenance. A Research Assistant III is expected to manage project timelines and deadlines and organize team support over multiple project tasks.


BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related field is required. Specific experience with Java/C++ and Perl (or an equivalent scripting language) is required. Experience creating and managing relational databases and familiarity with UNIX environments is necessary. Prior web development experience (PHP, HTML, Ruby on Rails) is required for this position. Familiarity with biological data is highly desired. At least two years’ programming experience is required. Candidate must show a demonstrated aptitude for learning and programming in new languages, possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, and must have some project team management and organization skills. Applicants with prior experience developing scientific software and biomedical informatics applications will be given preference.

We offer a competitive compensation/benefits package with a generous earned-time program, 401(k)/403(b), subsidized T-pass program, health and fitness facility, and more! Equal Opportunity Employer.

TO APPLY, please go to www.bidmccareers.com and enter requisition #10-1132.

Do you take pride in providing a high-level of service? Do you enjoy the feeling of accomplishment in solving a problem with only partial information? If so, Visalia is looking to hire their next all-star to head up the support efforts for one of our most prestigious clients – and this person could be you.

We are currently seeking an Applications Support Analyst to join our growing team!

As an Applications Support Analyst, you will be involved in the support of a suite of products that manages the promotional efforts for one of the nation’s largest consumer packaged goods companies. Success in this position will result in meeting the needs of over 2,500 end users across the country. You will interact directly with users to provide level 2 and 3 support, research issues and make recommendations for application enhancements. Other responsibilities include authoring and executing ad-hoc reports, providing break-fix/minor application modifications and interfacing with the client’s help desk personnel. The ideal candidate for this entry level position will also have the opportunity of transitioning to a development role within the team.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 1-3 years in a software/systems support or analyst role
• Proven SQL skills (Oracle PL/SQL preferred)
• Web application development experience in C#/ASP.NET
• Tenacious problem solving both in capability and attitude
• Self-starter with a desire and ability to learn new concepts and technology quickly
• Entrepreneurial-minded with the ability to make decisions both independently and collaboratively
• Flexible and eager to pinch hit at a moment’s notice
• Strong interpersonal skills with a keen sense of meeting customer service needs
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

 

All positions are are full time and based out of our downtown Boston, Massachusetts location.  Each applicant must possess prior authorization to work in the United States. Applicants requiring employer sponsored visa programs will not be considered.  Due to the volume of responses, you will only get a reply if your skill set and experience warrants an interview.

Leading international organization is looking to hire a Senior Web App developer to expand its reach into the online space. In this position you will work with leading minds to create a rich platform to distribute information around the globe.

Skills Required:

-3+ years of Java server development experience using EJB and Oracle.

-Experience with web development tools and languages including Java Script, HTML, Hibernate and Seam are a big plus.

-Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a high caliber team environment.

As a Software Engineer for Visalia you will be involved in the development of a suite of products that manages the promotional efforts for one of the nation’s largest consumer packaged goods companies. You will be responsible for application enhancements as well as implementing new functionality, including prototyping a new order management system for the field sales force's tablet PCs. Our development environment is .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and Oracle 10g

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years in software development with full SDLC experience
• Experience developing ASP.NET applications using C#, Ajax and JavaScript (jQuery) with Visual Studio 2008
• 3+ years of .NET 2.0 experience mandatory (.NET 3/3.5 experience a big plus)
• Java/JSP experience a plus
• Experience working within an application framework developing web-based line of business applications
• Knowledge and aptitude for designing, developing and understanding object-oriented solutions
• MCSD/MCAD/MCTS/MCPD or ability to achieve within 6 months
• Experience authoring and debugging complex SQL (Oracle PL/SQL) including stored procedures and triggers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Consulting (not contracting) experience a plus
• Tenacious problem solving both in capability and attitude
• Self-starter with a desire and ability to learn new concepts and new technologies quickly
• Willingness and desire to work a fast-paced and sometimes unpredictable schedule
   

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, highly motivated and self-managing. Someone who has worked for a IT consulting firm but is tired of the travel and is looking to make a transition to a more permanent work environment would do well at Visalia. The candidate will need to hit the ground running and their ability to quickly adapt and learn the business processes will be paramount to their success.

 

 

All positions are are full time and based out of our downtown Boston, Massachusetts location.  Each applicant must possess prior authorization to work in the United States. Applicants requiring employer sponsored visa programs will not be considered.  Due to the volume of responses, you will only get a reply if your skill set and experience warrants an interview.

X2 Development Corporation is a leading innovator in the K-12 education software market. Our web-based product suite, X2 Aspen, simplifies data management by integrating a cutting edge student information system with other key applications, including attendance, gradebook, scheduling, and special education.

X2 Aspen was created by a team of highly skilled developers who built an architecture by working directly with school districts to deliver targeted services and solutions. We are a young, dynamic company poised for significant growth by focusing on service. From development, implementation, data conversion, trainings, and daily technical support, our employees are unmatched in their dedication to helping school districts succeed.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with customers to ensure their success with our software application suite. This job combines several key responsibilities into one position including training, project management, and customer advocacy.

• Foster and maintain relations with existing customer base
• Ensure successful use of the Aspen system for accounts
• Manage implementations of additional modules of the Aspen system
• Manage high level customer support issues
• Help plan and manage annual X2 community conference
• Provide end-user training at customer sites when needed


Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors degree
• Strong technical skills
• 3+ years experience in high-tech/software industry
• 2+ years client relationship management experience
• Training experience a plus
• Great organizational and management skills
• Must have the ability to multi-task
• Gifted communicator – both written and oral
• Knowledge and experience with SQL databases
• Ability to travel locally up to 50% or as needed
• Driven, gutsy, smart, and confident
• A genuine commitment to customers and customer service

X2 Development offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as a flexible schedule and casual work environment. This is a wonderful opportunity to work in a highly-skilled product development team and contribute to a dynamic and innovative product. Salary range is competitive, based on experience, and is negotiable. We are located in Hingham, accessible from Boston via commuter boat or MBTA bus line with plenty of free parking available. Please send your resume to jobs@x2dev.com to apply. Principals only; please no phone calls.

X2 Development Corporation is a leading innovator in the K-12 education software market. Our web-based product suite, X2 Aspen, simplifies data management by integrating a cutting edge student information system with other key applications, including attendance, gradebook, scheduling, and special education.

X2 Aspen was created by a team of highly skilled developers who built an architecture by working directly with school districts to deliver targeted services and solutions. We are a young, dynamic company poised for significant growth by focusing on service. From development, implementation, data conversion, trainings, and daily technical support, our employees are unmatched in their dedication to helping school districts succeed.

We are seeking a Software Application Trainer to join our team. Candidates for this position should be hard working, self-motivated, outgoing professionals that are driven and eager to work in a fast-paced environment. The Software Application Trainer will work closely with customers to ensure their success with our software application suite. This job combines several key responsibilities into one position, including training, project management, and customer advocacy.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with customers to ensure their success with our software application suite by facilitating onsite and distance training.

• Provide end-user training at customer sites
• Develop training classes and curriculum technical training classes of the X2 Aspen system
• Develop additional training tools to foster user learning
• Foster and maintain relations with existing customer base
• Help plan and present education courses at annual X2 user community conference

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors degree
• Strong technical skills:
o SQL knowledge required
o XML or HTML knowledge required
o Java knowledge preferred
o Camtasia, Macromedia Captivate or Breeze, Microsoft Live, WebEx a plus
• 3+ years training experience
• Must have demonstrated expertise in educating customers
• Great organizational and management skills
• Must have the ability to multi-task
• Gifted communicator – both written and oral
• Ability to travel locally up to 50% or as needed
• Driven, gutsy, smart, and confident
• A genuine commitment to customers and customer service

X2 Development offers a flexible schedule and a professional yet casual work environment. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a stable, growing company and contribute to a dynamic and innovative product. Salary is very competitive, based on experience, and is negotiable. We are located in Hingham, accessible from Boston via commuter boat or MBTA bus line with plenty of free parking available. Please send your resume to jobs@x2dev.com to apply. Principals only. Please, no phone calls.

Calsoft Labs(http://www.calsoftlabs.com) is looking for a senior software engineer to join a small team working on embedded software development projects. The best candidates will have a Bachelor's or MastersDegree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, combined with five to ten years of practical product development experience. We provide an environment where self-motivated engineers with strong coding abilities can join our team, providing solutions on time and with quality.

Required experience:

At least five years of C++ program design and development
Significant exposure to graphics programming
Experience with audio and video streaming and encoding/decoding
Embedded processor experience on ARM and related platforms
Embedded operating systems experience with Android, WinCE or Linux
Deep understanding of computer architecture and object oriented design and coding
Strong debugging skills and principles

Additional experience that will enhance your value to the team:

Adobe Flash internals experience
Adobe Flash content authoring and design
Javascript programming
Web browser internals
Actionscript and Javascript fundamentals
Android application development
Android multimedia programming
Linux kernel and driver development
OpenGL, OpenMax and/or OpenVG
GUI design and implementation
Font systems
XML
Network programming
USB
Java
JTAG debugging and BSP experience

Salary to be commensurate with experience.

Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility customers make better choices and employees make better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.

We represent an opportunity to work with bright peers and embark on challenges that stem from rapid growth and building a business around market-changing technology. Endeca offers the resources and reach of a larger company, with great opportunities for those that love innovation, fast growth, and want to make a difference every day.

Position Overview

We are seeking an accomplished, innovative, and multi-talented UX Architect and leader to serve as the UX Architect-Product Lead for Endeca’s Platform product team. This team focuses on designing, building, and evolving Endeca’s platform including our proprietary MDEX engine that enables meta-relational indexing and analysis of varied information assets and tools for developing, implementing, managing, and extending innovative enterprise search and discovery applications The UX Architect-Product Lead will help the team define the user experience requirements for the next generation of our platform, design and optimize the user experience for all developer interfaces and tools, and help accelerate user adoption of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the leadership of the platform development teams and platform product managers to define user experience requirements for the next generation Endeca’s information access platform and tools
• Plan, lead, and execute user experience work streams & programs to optimize product quality and user experience for key platform product areas based on human centered design principles and Endeca’s evolving UX best practices, principles, and knowledge base, within an agile product development process
• Help hire, mentor, and manage UX team members to support the platform product development team
• Plan, lead, and conduct user research and create explicit user models (e.g., personas, scenario flow models, mental models, task models) that characterize people's information access, decision support, and discovery needs and behaviors in key business-user domains/verticals
• Create UI design artifacts – e.g., UI wireframes- to guide development teams and provide UI development oversight to ensure realization of designs and UX-usability quality/effectiveness
• Conceive, design, and help optimize the usability, effectiveness and adoption of reusable and extensible UI assets for Endeca -- e.g., UI components, UI application templates and frameworks, etc. – that enable Endecans, partners, and customers to rapidly create and extend compelling and effective discovery applications based on the Endeca platform
• Conduct and collaborate on iterative UX/UI design evaluations (e.g. user testing) and user adoption & impact measurement activities to inform continuous product improvement and UX best practices
• Contribute to the articulation and evolution of Endeca UX best practices, thought leadership & knowledge base (e.g., Endeca UI Design Pattern Library), and innovation

Requirements

• 10 or more years in user experience consulting, UX architecture-UI design, and UX strategy/leadership in business and product development environments
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional development teams; experience working within an agile software product development process
• Advanced degree or equivalent in information architecture, information design, interaction design, HCI, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, or related field
• Strong background in and knowledge of the software development process; background in Computer Science or Engineering a plus
• Skilled and knowledgeable across all facets of user experience/human centered design with outstanding expertise in user experience strategy, research, & interaction design
• Experienced and knowledgeable about designing user interfaces for enterprise software platforms, application frameworks (e.g., portal technology), and B-B/B-E/B-C applications
• Experience working or designing interfaces for business intelligence platforms/applications, complex database applications/systems, and content management systems
• Practical knowledge of emerging user interface/web technologies and advances in search and discovery research and UI best practices
• Skilled in user research and modeling and user assessment methods
• Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills


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About the Company

Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility customers make better choices and employees make better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.

We represent an opportunity to work with bright peers and embark on challenges that stem from rapid growth and building a business around market-changing technology. Endeca offers the resources and reach of a larger company, with great opportunities for those that love innovation, fast growth, and want to make a difference every day.

Position Overview

We are seeking an accomplished, innovative, and multi-talented UX Architect and leader to join our leading edge UX team and serve as the UX Architect-Product Lead for Endeca’s Application Frameworks product team, focusing on search and discovery solutions for E-Business (e.g., e-commerce, media and publishing, etc.). This e-business applications frameworks prod team focuses on designing and building application frameworks, UI templates, UI components, and discovery solutions that enable enterprises to solve critical information visibility and discovery problems inside and outside the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead, and execute user experience work streams & programs to optimize product quality and user experience for key product areas based on human centered design principles and Endeca’s evolving UX best practices, principles, and knowledge base, within an agile product development process
• Help hire, mentor, and manage UX team members to support the application framework product development team
• Plan, lead, and conduct user research and create explicit user models (e.g., personas, scenario flow models, mental models, task models) that characterize people's information access, decision support, and discovery needs and behaviors in key business-user domains/verticals
• Create UI design artifacts – e.g., UI wireframes- to guide development teams and provide UI development oversight to ensure realization of designs and UX-usability quality/effectiveness
• Conceive, design, and help optimize the usability, effectiveness and adoption of reusable and extensible UI assets for Endeca -- e.g., UI components, UI application templates and frameworks, etc. – that enable Endecans, partners, and customers to rapidly create and extend compelling and effective discovery applications based on the Endeca platform
• Conduct and collaborate on iterative UX/UI design evaluations (e.g. user testing) and user adoption & impact measurement activities to inform continuous product improvement and UX best practices
• Contribute to the articulation and evolution of Endeca UX best practices, thought leadership & knowledge base (e.g., Endeca UI Design Pattern Library), and innovation

Requirements

• 10 or more years in user experience consulting, UX architecture-UI design, and UX strategy/leadership in business and product development environments
• Experienced and skilled working with cross-functional development teams; experience working within an agile product development process is a plus
• Advanced degree or equivalent in information architecture, information design, interaction design, HCI, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, or related field
• Skilled and knowledgeable across all facets of user experience/human centered design with outstanding expertise in user experience strategy, research, & interaction design
• Experienced and knowledgeable about designing user interfaces for enterprise software environments and application frameworks (e.g., portal technologies, CMS systems, etc.)
• Practical knowledge of emerging user interface/web technologies and advances in search and discovery research and UI best practices
• Skilled in user research and modeling and user assessment methods
• Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills
• Experience with business analytics, dashboards, and complex database, business intelligence, and content management systems a plus
• Experience with B-B and B-E (“behind the firewall”) applications a plus

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Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility customers make better choices and employees make better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.

We represent an opportunity to work with bright peers and embark on challenges that stem from rapid growth and building a business around market-changing technology. Endeca offers the resources and reach of a larger company, with great opportunities for those that love innovation, fast growth, and want to make a difference every day.

Position Overview

We are seeking talented, innovative & well rounded Visual Designers for our leading edge User Experience (UX) team to work on a variety of software products for enterprise, e-business, and public sector. Our visual designers need to create innovative, effective and compelling visual design frameworks and assets that bring interaction designs and user interfaces to life, promoting a great user experience and product adoption. Our visual designers have opportunities to go well beyond basic “look and feel”, working on products and solutions that envision information and promote user discovery.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with interaction designers and cross functional development teams within an agile development process
• Iteratively create compelling effective, flexible, and extensible visual design frameworks and assets for a variety of software products and tools
• Create, present, and be able to thoughtfully compare varied visual design approaches for user interface problems
• Define all visual elements for solutions including color palettes, typography, visual effects, UI templates, icons and other graphical components
• Create visual design artifacts (e.g., specs, mockups) that effectively guide development teams
• Develop and maintain visual style guides for Endeca products
• Consult with and assist UI developers to ensure effective implementation of visual designs throughout the development process


Requirements

• 3-5 years experience working as a visual designer for interactive solutions (web or non-web) in consulting and/or software product development environments
• Outstanding skills in visual design and information design
• Highly proficient with standard visual design software tools (e.g., Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
• Appreciation for how visual design fits into a human centered design and development process
• Practical understanding of basic and dynamic user interface presentation technologies (CSS, HTML, RIAs, etc.) and experience working with UI developers
• Excellent communication and time management skills
• Experience with one or more of the following software product areas: business intelligence & dashboards, e-commerce, media & publishing, etc.
• Experience working within an agile product development process, a plus
• Formal training/degree in visual design, information design, or related field, a plus

Applicants must submit, or provide location for, a work portfolio sample as part of the application process.

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Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility customers make better choices and employees make better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.

We represent an opportunity to work with bright peers and embark on challenges that stem from rapid growth and building a business around market-changing technology. Endeca offers the resources and reach of a larger company, with great opportunities for those that love innovation, fast growth, and want to make a difference every day.

Position Overview

We are seeking several accomplished, innovative, and talented Interaction Designers for our leading edge UX team to help design the next generation of dynamic discovery applications and software products. Our Interaction Designers have opportunities to solve challenging discovery problems for people inside and outside the enterprise, help grow Endeca product capabilities and the product portfolio, and define UI design best practices (e.g., see the Endeca User Interface Design Pattern Library). You will be part of a team with the challenge and opportunity of designing great user experiences for varied end-users as well as application templates, components, and tools that enable others to build effective Endeca powered solutions. We are looking for Interaction Designers who readily grasp and can help realize and expand the power of Endeca’s platform to enable innovative, valuable, compelling, and personalized discovery experiences. (These positions will be based in our Cambridge, MA office.).


Responsibilities
• Collaborate with UX Architects, Visual Designers, and Product Development teams within an agile product development process to optimize product quality and user experience
• Iteratively design highly effective, compelling, and adoptable Endeca powered search and discovery applications for enterprise, ebusiness, and the public sector
• Design innovative Endeca UI frameworks, templates, components, and tools that enable others to rapidly build and configure discovery solutions
• Create effective UI design artifacts – particularly UI wireframes- to guide development teams
• Provide UI development oversight to ensure realization of designs and UX-usability quality/effectiveness
• Work as the interaction designer for selected customer projects to design solutions for strategic problems that will inform, improve, and extend Endeca products
• Help conduct/collaborate on user research, iterative UI design evaluations (e.g. user testing) to inform continuous product improvement
• Contribute to the articulation and evolution of Endeca UX best practices, thought leadership & knowledge base (e.g., Endeca UI Design Pattern Library) and UI innovation

Requirements

• 5-7 years in interaction design and user experience consulting in a mix of business/consulting and product development environments
• Outstanding skills in interaction design & information architecture
• Expertise and experience designing user interfaces in one or more of the following areas: enterprise search and analysis applications (e.g., business intelligence solutions, dashboards, etc.), e-business applications (e.g., e-commerce, media and publishing, etc.), application frameworks (e.g., portal technologies, CMS systems, etc.), and business/developer tools
• Experienced and skilled working with cross-functional software development teams within an agile product development process
• Advanced degree or equivalent in information architecture, information design, interaction design, HCI, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, or related field
• Knowledgeable about all facets of user experience/human-centered design
• Practical knowledge of emerging user interface-web-presentation technologies
• Able to collaborate effectively with visual designers and UI developers to optimize solutions and user experience
• Strong communication skills and time/project management skills
• Experienced and skilled with UI wireframing/prototyping tools (e.g., Axure)

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