Software / QA / DBA - New York

We are looking for exceptional software developers to join us in building real-time distributed web applications to gather the investment ideas that drive Two Sigma’s quantitative trading models. In this role, you will be working closely with researchers and relationship managers to develop compelling features and real-time metrics to facilitate the generation of investment ideas and strategies. Your work will be highly visible within the Firm and will be critical to the support and success of our electronic alpha-capture business.

Successful candidates will have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer science and experience using several programming languages, including Java, C or C++. Ideal candidates will also have experience with Swing, GWT, Ajax, jsp, JavaScript and Tomcat. Previous work on scalable websites, load balancing and streaming web content is highly desirable.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=169

Our software developers hail from a broad range of backgrounds and experience levels, coming together to work as one highly motivated, dynamic technology team. They face a wide array of technical challenges, including those involving high-performance distributed systems and real-time applications. We're always looking for new talent to join this energetic team of high achievers, a group that includes PhDs from top universities, as well as other accomplished professionals.

Our developers all have at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science and experience using several different programming languages including Java and C++. Successful candidates will typically have strong analytical and organizational skills, exceptional programming skills, a true love of building quality software and a team spirit. Large-scale systems experience is highly desirable. Finance experience is not necessary.

Please submit your resume through: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=181

We are seeking a talented team lead to head our growing group of Quality Assurance analysts. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the QA schedule and devising and executing strategies for improving QA process throughput. You will work to increase QA test coverage while significantly reducing the current QA release cycle.

Successful candidates will have strong Java skills with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or an engineering discipline. Candidates should have at least 2-5 years of experience in a Linux/Unix environment, using various programming languages (Perl, Python, WinRunner, Java), as well as demonstrated experience working with automated testing. Finance experience is not necessary.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=279

We are seeking an experienced and talented quality assurance analyst to work on improving the quality of our software. As a QA analyst, you will use your skills to engineer the reduction of time-to-release while significantly increasing test coverage. You will work alongside our software developers, forming an integrated team that will produce business-critical software to meet tight deadlines. You will use your prior testing experience in this role, which may require considerable manual operation.

Ideal candidates will have a bachelor's degree in computer science or an engineering discipline; Java and/or scripting language programming skills; at least 2 years of professional work experience in a Linux/Unix environment, using various programming languages (Perl, Python, WinRunner, Java); and demonstrated experience documenting test plans and procedures for testing distributed and real-time systems. Successful candidates will also have strong analytical and organization skills, a team spirit, and an insatiable appetite for verifying software correctness.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=194

Two Sigma seeks talented Java programmers who design and implement services-oriented distributed systems to help us scale both our automated trading platform and our software development organization. Candidates who understand the transformative effect a carefully crafted set of services can have on a business's ability to adapt and develop, will have the opportunity to help implement and set direction on the next generation development to deliver massive improvements in throughput, latency, flexibility and maintainability. We use Java on Linux, SQL Server, Hibernate, Jetty, REST, JMS, and other tools the team has identified, in our quest to create next generation services that are flexible and fast enough to keep pace with our need to analyze vast amounts of data.

Please submit your resume through our website at: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=182

Two Sigma seeks talented Java programmers to join a team developing our next-generation multi-asset, multi-market, distributed automated trading platform. In consultation with our world class researchers, engineers, and traders, candidates will have the opportunity to design and implement a real-time, flexible, and robust large-scale enterprise system.

We are always looking to incorporate modern software development practices into the group; we make use of Design Patterns and Service-Oriented Architecture throughout the firm. Our team is responsible for day-to-day operations of our software, which gives us hands-on experience with the following technologies: Linux, Java 6, SQL Server, Hibernate, JMS, Tibco Rendezvous, AJAX and JUnit. Developers who join this team will have the opportunity to set technical and architectural direction for the group and the firm.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=184

We are seeking a talented infrastructure software engineer to join our growing technology team. In this role, you will design and implement the software subsystems that form the backbone of Two Sigma’s research and trading software. Your responsibilities will include requirements-gathering, architecting and designing solutions, developing software systems (primarily in Java), defining and collecting goal-focused metrics, and optimizing performance.

In addition to having a strong computer science background and solid Java programming skills, successful candidates will have superior communication and organizational skills, the ability to analyze and optimize data structures and algorithms for efficiency, and an eagerness to write and review large amounts of high-quality software in a small team environment. An understanding of concurrency and distributed computing is preferred, as is general familiarity with existing open-source software packages. Large-scale data visualization experience is a plus.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=275

We are seeking world-class technologists to join our growing High Frequency Trading Technology team. As a performance-oriented developer, you will face a wide array of technical challenges, including those involving the optimization of performance-critical code. You will: develop tools to monitor performance; analyze system performance, identifying opportunities for improvement; prototype and experiment with performance optimizations; and develop, optimize, and harden the performance-critical component of the system.

Successful candidates will have at a minimum a bachelor’s degree in computer science and experience analyzing performance requirements and designing systems that can keep up with very large volumes of real-time data. In addition to experience using programming languages such as Java, C, and C++, the ideal candidate will have a range of technical competencies, including algorithms, data structures, multi-threaded applications, distributed systems, performance optimizations, performance analysis, kernel and device driver work, and hardware architecture. Candidates will typically have strong analytical and organizational skills, exceptional programming skills, a true love of building quality software, and a team spirit. Large-scale systems experience is highly desirable. Finance experience is not necessary.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=269

We seek a bright and talented performance operations specialist to join our growing High Frequency Trading Technology team. In this role, you will design and implement performance instrumentation and reporting, quality assurance, change management, and other operational processes to deliver improvements to Two Sigma’s trading systems while maximizing uptime. In addition to supervising the quality assurance process to ensure that our systems are performing correctly, you will identify and write requirements and specifications for tools to be used to achieve operational excellence. Other responsibilities will include: monitoring the health of the production trading system; diagnosing and fixing issues with intraday transactions, post-trade reconciliation, and the clearing process; and configuring and deploying changes to the trading system, including new features, fixes, and experiments.

A bachelor's degree in computer science or an engineering discipline with Java and/or scripting language programming skills is required. Ideal candidates will have at least 2-5 years of professional work experience in a Linux/Unix environment, using various programming languages (perl, Python, WinRunner, Java). Demonstrated experience working with automated testing infrastructure and procedures for distributed and real-time systems is highly desirable. Successful candidates will have outstanding analytical and organization skills, a team spirit, and an insatiable appetite for verifying software correctness and optimizing performance operations.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=270

Our database administrators are responsible for all aspects of our trading and research databases. DBAs at Two Sigma: work closely with development groups on schema, index and query design to support application development; design data models together with financial experts and software engineers; lead performance monitoring and fine tuning for optimal performance; plan and implement backup and recovery procedures, continually evaluate the merits of available system upgrades and enhancements; take responsibility for all production patching, maintenance and support activity; and lead technical projects as appropriate.

This job is especially challenging because our trading operates around the clock and our research systems run continuously. We use Microsoft SQL Server and several proprietary in-house file and database systems, distributed over multiple sites. Past experience and demonstrated achievement as a database administrator is required. Strong oral and written communication skills are essential. This person's talents for planning projects, advocating ideas, multi-tasking and working with a variety of internal teams will be put to very good use.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=190

At Two Sigma, we aim to amass every bit of information that could possibly influence investment decisions - and to make that information available to our cutting-edge trading and analysis platform. Our data engineering developers are the backbone of this information-gathering mission. Their software collects, parses and cleans terabytes of data used for research and real-time automated decision-making.

Candidates should be highly detail-oriented, have strong programming skills and be keenly interested in building and maintaining large-scale, error-free data sets. No prior knowledge or experience is required. We make extensive use of proprietary in-house filesystems, databases and data flow control systems built in Java, C++, Perl and Awk, with new languages and technologies continuously being evaluated. Our developers all have bachelor's degrees in computer science from top universities.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=185

We are seeking talented software developers to join Two Sigma's growing Core technology team. This group develops and operates the systems that form the cornerstone of Two Sigma’s business. In this role, you will use your exceptional computer science skills to drive the technical development of several new initiatives in Core technology, including scalable, low latency, high performance trading systems in support of an expanding set of business strategies. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact on a key component of the Firm's business.

Our Core developers all have at a minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science and experience using several different programming languages, including Java, C and C++. Candidates should be familiar with basic database concepts and have the ability to construct simple SQL queries. In addition to stellar programming abilities, successful candidates will have strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills. Candidates should demonstrate a true affinity for building quality software, effective communication skills, as well as a team spirit. Finance experience is desirable but not required.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=203

We are looking for highly motivated and talented individuals to join our Research Engineering team. As a member of this versatile group of developers, you will be responsible for enhancing and expanding Two Sigma’s research and trading environments. In addition to implementing features for simulators, you will work on building and improving the Firm’s modeling frameworks.

Our Research Engineering developers come from various backgrounds with exceptional skills in numerical algorithms, statistical models, linear algebra, grid computing, and other advanced engineering topics. Candidates are expected to have at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics or a hard science, and experience using major programming languages, including Java, C, or C++. Successful candidates will typically have strong analytical and organizational skills, exceptional programming abilities, effective communication skills, a demonstrated passion for learning, and a willingness to take on new challenges. Finance experience is preferred but not necessary. An advanced degree in computer science is a plus.

Please submit your resume through our website: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TWOSIGMA&cws=1&rid=260

EXIGIS is the leading provider of on-demand risk management automation services. Our award-winning risk management platform RISKworks™ is transforming the industry. We are young, high-energy, smart and are looking for similar people to join our team!

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Business System Analyst

Responsible for eliciting, analyzing, specifying and validating the business needs of project stakeholders. This includes interviewing stakeholders, gathering and compiling user requirements and analyzing data in support of business cases and proposed projects.

Compiling all the information gathered into an organized business requirements document.

Be able to apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help support the development process, and to ensure that project deliverables are met according to specifications.

Job Qualifications:
• Experience in conducting business analysis for Web applications
• Experience in the entire application development process, including the definition of business requirements and functional designs
• Experience in being the liaison between the business and technical teams
• Excellent documentation skills; experience in building user scenarios, use cases, process flow diagrams/descriptions, business requirements documents and functional design documents
• Minimum 5 years experience as a Business Systems Analyst
• Ability to multi task
• Project Management/Project Lifecycle experience
• Be a team player and be able to work independently
• Publishing background would be a plus

NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We develop, produce and market entertainment, news and information to a global market. NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks.

Benefits:

• Ensure the quality of iVillage.com software products by writing and executing test plans and automated test scripts.
• Write code and program testing protocols and plans.
• Perform manual testing as needed.
• Validate and troubleshoot reported bugs and clearly communicate problems and severity to appropriate IT personnel.
• Triage bug reports from iVillage.com staff, including both technical, non-technical staff and customer service

To Apply for this position, please CLICK HERE

Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADVS), the world’s leading provider of investment management software for over twenty-five years, is seeking a talented Consultant for the Investment Management Group (IMG).  This is a high impact role involving extensive client interactions.  The Consultant is responsible for successful implementation and adoption of Advent's IMG products. This position may be based either in Advent's New York office or our San Francisco headquarters.
 
Job Responsibilities

• Implement Advent software products on-site and drive adoption.
• Analyze customer's business and technical requirements and adapt existing agenda to findings.
• Develop client workflows based on their business needs.
• Install and troubleshoot Advent products.
• Configure and automate products to best meet client’s workflow and procedures.
• Train clients on use and administration of applications.
• Manage time to maximize agenda, and deliver on critical components.
• Travel up to 5 days per week.

Qualifications Requirements

A blend of investment management and technical experience is a must for the job.

•  Industry skills
  • 2+ years of client experience in financial services.
  • 2+ years working with financial services software.
  • Comfort with client back office.
  • Working knowledge of asset management.
  • Series 7, 63 and others a plus.
  • Prior experience using Advent products is a plus.
     
• Technical Skills 
  • Advanced knowledge of MS Office.
  • Working knowledge Microsoft SQL.
     
• Critical Skills
  • Exceptional communication skills.
  • Project Management skills.
  • Client Management skills.
  • Self-Directed.  Must be able to work fairly independently.
• BS/BA minimum.

If you enjoy working with knowledgeable, success oriented people, for a company that both challenges and respects its professionals, and you've got what it takes to be a great IMG Consultant, then apply today.
 
Why work for Advent?

• Experience
  • 25+ years of successfully providing mission critical, reliable, trusted solutions to investment management organizations of all sizes
• Stability
  • 4,500 clients worldwide with over $16 trillion managed with our systems
  • Offices located in San Francisco, New York, Boston, London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Dubai and Beijing
• Innovation
  • Commitment to innovation, which is inspired by client and industry needs
• Reputation
  • Ranked in the top 20 on the list of 100 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times
  • Recognized by CRO Magazine as one of the top 100 Best Corporate Citizens with regard to corporate responsibility and business ethics

This is a full time, salaried staff position with Advent Software, Inc., where highly skilled professionals power the market in automated solutions for investment professionals. A competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package includes equity compensation, 401(k) w/match, employee stock purchase, and domestic partners coverage. For over 25 years, Advent has revolutionized professional money management. Join us as we shape the future of the financial services industry.

Click here to apply.

Local applicants strongly preferred, as no relocation assistance is available.

Principals only please. NO AGENCY CANDIDATES WILL BE CONSIDERED.

Please apply direct to Advent. No phone calls please.
Advent Software, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse workforce.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Junction Networks seeks a web developer for full time employment

We are looking for a web developer who will manage all of the marketing and customer websites:

• http://www.onsip.com/
• http://www.junctionnetworks.com/
• http://pstn.junctionnetworks.com/

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, update and manage multiple public and customer facing websites
• Implement the appropriate web technologies to help with marketing SEO
• Assist marketing team with the development and deployment of new content
• Manage our Drupal CMS infrastructure and hack on the PHP code when necessary
• Work with outside graphic designers on new content ideas
• Modify and manage CSS as needed
• Monitor traffic and work with marketing to increase signup conversion ratios and overall traffic to websites

Requirements:

• A genuine interest in emerging web technologies
• You must understand semantic markup and how it relates to SEO and other non-markup related SEO techniques
• Advanced to expert level HTML and CSS skills
• Very strong background with PHP, Perl, Python, or another high level language is a must
• Drupal experience is a must, hating Drupal 5 is plus
• You MUST be able to take a layered Photoshop document and turn it into a web page

Pluses:

• Experience with other CMSs (Joomla/Mambo, Plone, something else)
• Understanding HTML5 and CSS3 web standards
• A strong understanding of Javascript and WHEN to use it
• Linux experience
• administering Apache on *nix
• Git
• Strong understanding of Google Analytics
• Understanding website speed optimization techniques

Other:

• You must be a team player and ready to work in a small company environment
• Flexibility is key - everyone on our team performs different roles from time to time, as we are a small group

Please submit a cover letter and resume for consideration.

The project manager plans and coordinates Tekserve's IT projects; primarily development of the Tekserve.com website, internal FileMaker Pro database, and related tools. The ideal candidate specializes in identifying opportunities to improve business processes from sales to shipping. The position requires coordinating about 24 active projects at once, while planning the next twelve.

Tekserve is unlike any company you’ve worked at before. Find out how a company with small business values competes to serve Fortune 500 clients and individual Mac users alike. Entrepreneurs welcome.

A TYPICAL DAY

Project planning starts by meeting with staff members to document their pain points and requests. The most important skill is communication and you will be doing a lot more listening than talking. You'll take their consolidated needs to the development team to create solutions. Using this information, you will document the project plan and outline features on a shared wiki. Then you will get the project plan approved by key stakeholders and placed on the IT department's time line. Once the project enters development, you will coordinate communication between the developers and all project members. As the project nears completion, you will write user documentation for the new features and conduct training sessions to teach users.

• Answer questions via email and in person about current and upcoming projects. Document a new bug to fix on a past project.
• Hold a working meeting with three sales managers about conflicting requests their staff have made for a new sales processing layout.
• Check in with the shipping manager about the recent implementation of an upgrade to their systems. You find out new staff members have been hired and schedule another training session.
• Get trained by the rentals manager on how rental reservations are processed. Then finish up your feature requests for a billing project that will affect rentals processing.
• Meet with a MySQL developer to answer questions about an online account database upgrade.
• Test three new project features added today. Find a problem with one section and send the developer screen shots and a description of the problem.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create project plan and outline requested features.
• Work with the intended users, managers, and IT staff to modify project plan until all parties approve.
• Track and report the progress of projects.
• Identify potential conflicts and potential opportunities from overlapping projects.
• Schedule and run project meetings. Distribute appropriate notes & action items afterwards.
• Research and vet third-party vendors for project components.
• Test projects in development and document bugs.
• Write and publish user documentation for projects.
• Hold training sessions for intended users of projects.

TRAITS

• Adapts your communication style to whatever works best for the group your trying to work with
• Learns any business process quickly
• Clear, effective, and brief writing style
• Self-motivated with little need for direct supervision
• Determined quiet confidence with an unflappable temperament
• Detail-oriented and extremely thorough
• Comfortable working with internal and external customers from interns to the CEO

PAST EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 2+ years of leading progress in an environment with overwhelming legacy systems that are tremendously interrelated yet poorly understood.
• 2+ years of experience managing teams of co-workers and/or volunteers
• Education or work experience in general business management and operations
• Training or teaching experience with groups of 1-20 learners

PAST EXPERIENCE PREFERRED

• Documentation or technical writing
• User Interface design
• Mac OS & iPhone OS User

COMPENSATION

This is a full-time (40 hours) permanent salaried position. Wages commensurate with experience. We offer great benefits, paid vacation and holidays, employee discounts, and a unique work environment.

Applicant must be in the NYC area or willing to pay their own relocation expenses. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply.

TO APPLY

Send answers to the following questions and a resume to the email address above with the subject line "Project Manager"

• Where did you get your experience "leading progress in an environment with overwhelming legacy systems that are tremendously interrelated yet poorly understood?"
• What was the most important thing you learned about leading progress in that job?
• What experience have you had training new users on new business processes?
• Do you have any experience with documentation writing, user interface design, or Mac OS & iPhone OS use?
• How many people have you managed in the past?
• What was your salary at your last full-time position?
• What are your salary requirements for this position?

Please understand that we are not able to contact all applicants. We will contact all candidates that we are interested in interviewing by September 20th. Otherwise we thank you for applying but you can assume that you are not being considered for this position. We will not accept any unsolicited phone calls about this position.

Junction Networks was founded in 2004 and delivers VoIP communications services using superior telephony technologies to over 10,000 small, medium, and large businesses. The company was founded on the premise that the future of business communications would rely heavily on IP technologies. OnSIP (www.onsip.com) is a hosted business VoIP service. Customers connect phones to OnSIP over the Internet from any location for everything from extension dialing and inbound calls to acd queues and voicemail services. It’s the leading open SIP platform for business.

The service itself is comprised of a SIP platform and an XMPP platform which provide hosted voice/video and hosted im/presence services respectively. These platforms have two public APIs - a Web Services API for service administration and an XMPP API for call control and event notification. On those APIs we have built an administrative web based interface, admin.onsip.com, which allows customers to provision their service in real time and an end-user web based interface, my.onsip.com, to provide call control, presence and instant messaging functionality.

Visit our site at www.junctionnetworks.com.

Position:

* We are looking for people who love writing software and seeing it get used.
* As part of a team, you will do it all - research to releases to bug fixes.
* We are coding at all levels from IP layer on up to through the UI.

Requirements:

* You must seriously enjoy programming.
* We really like working and expect you do too.
* You must be able to work well as part of our group.

Responsibilities:

* Software engineering; research, design, implementation, testing, documentation, and maintenance.
* Solving problems and helping to make the company successful; doing whatever it takes.

Other:

* A strong grasp of object oriented and functional programming concepts is essential.
* SIP and XMPP standards provide the basis for our platform - experience is a plus.
* Additional experience in any of the following is particularly welcome:
- Open source VoIP/IM software (FreeSWITCH, OpenSIPS, Ejabberd)
- C/C++, Erlang, JavaScript, Lua, PHP, Ruby
- Internet Protocol Suite, Linux, MySQL, Git