DevOps Engineer
NW Austin, TX

Do you have a keen eye to identify and satisfy operational requirements and make appropriate improvements?  If you’re a motivated Developer that is constantly looking for innovative ways to maintain and improve existing operations tools and procedures, this DevOps position is an opportunity for you to push your career in the right direction.  In this role, you will be provisioning tasks in a cloud-hosted deployment environment in order to maintain and extend product operations and development tools infrastructures.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan/Implement operations development
• Improve hosted services and development tools
• Develop/Maintain server and infrastructure automation (Puppet and Chef)
• Collaborate with development, support, and security teams
  • 24/7 on-call rotation schedule with the other members

REQUIREMENTS

• Commercial product development (3+ years)
• Groovy, Ruby, and Bash
• Deployment automation tools:  Puppet and Chef
• Linux administration
• Git, Maven, SBT
• Amazon EC2 and other AWS tools and technologies
• MySQL deployment and configuration.
• SQL queries
• Data Analysis of tools (Graphite and Carbon)

SQL Database Software Engineer
Downtown, Austin TX

Do you possess an expert level understanding of relational databases (design and performance tuning), specific to Microsoft SQL Server?  The SQL Database Software Engineer in this role will own the company’s database portion of their architecture.  The objective in this position is to design, develop, and implement complex database systems, tools, and applications and ensure overall customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Microsoft SQL development and administration
• Database performance optimization
• Design, program, and implement databases
  • apply database design principles
• Design and troubleshoot the data access layer of applications
• Design, implement, and optimize databases (physical/logical)
• Use data modeling tools with stored procedures
• Data Warehousing
• Writing queries
• Work in close cooperation with:
  • a team of software engineers and QA engineers
  • Architect: to evolve and meet customer demands
• Gather business requirements
• Serve as backup to Operations DBA
• (ad-hoc querying assistance)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in the industry
• Mastery of Microsoft SQL Server and T-SQL (current versions)
• installation, development, and administration in (non)clustered environments
• ETLs/reporting using Microsoft’s BI stack: SSRS, SSIS, SSAS  (preferred)
• Linux administration (preferred)
• Big Data technologies:  Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra etc. (preferred)
• Exposure to financial industry

Sr. UI Developer
Downtown Austin, TX

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop products for the greater good? If so, we have a growing and very successful startup, located in Downtown Austin, that can provide that all around feel-good feeling at the end of the day. This is the right opportunity for someone that seeks passion in their day to day work in design and development.

The Sr. UI Developer in this position will develop front-end design to help craft new applications. The company environment provides an opportunity to become a well-established UI Developer with the ability to work side by side with colleagues. In close collaboration with creative, product, and engineering teams, the shared objective is to create an amazing user experience for customers.

The ideal candidate will have a sharp eye for detail, an appreciation for organized code, and a high tolerance for detecting bugs.
REQUIREMENTS

Sass, Twig, client-side XSL, jQuery promises, REST, and Git sub modules

JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, DOM, and server-side scripting languages (PHP, Python, etc.)

Sr. Java Technical Lead
Downtown Austin, TX

Do you possess the leadership and communication skills to take on the role of Technical Lead?  Can you oversee the development process in creating applications and services?  Would you confidently take on the challenge of solving a wide variety of business problems in developing innovative technologies?

This Senior-level Software Engineer position is for a technical expert in enterprise Java that excels in developing multi-tiered Web applications.  This a remarkable opportunity for a talented Engineer to lead a team in building new enterprise applications and consumer products.  The company offers:  competitive base/bonus packages with benefits, Equity grants and flexible PTO, with many more great perks and rewards!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluate/Process/Adopt new technologies
• Enterprise Java Applications:

• Architecture
• System Design
• Scalability
• Reliability
• Performance
• Create detailed architecture and design:
  • Translate technical requirements, but complex and functional
  • Implement critical parts of complicated systems
• Lead and coach a team of Software Engineers

Requirements:

• Computer Science BA Degree
• Java application development (5+ years)
• Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns
• Java, SQL, HTML, XML, JSON
• Relational Database Concepts
• Data Modeling
• Open Source technologies:  Spring, myBatis, Freemarker, Solr and RabbitMQ
• Web Technologies:  JavaScript, jQuery and REST services
• GIT, Maven, JIRA, JUnit, TeamCity, Confluence or similar
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Sr. Technical Writer
West Austin, TX

Do you consider yourself to be a strong Senior-level Technical Writer that is able to expand and constantly improve  documentation for customers?  Does a healthy collaborative environment and work/life balance matter to you?  Do you have experience working with Agile in your development process?  In addition to a great company culture, our client can offer you the opportunity to work with an open source product that has an active user community, in order to impact thousands of dedicated users on a daily basis.  This Sr. Technical Writer position may be the opportunity for you to challenge your ability to adapt, contribute, and succeed in a rapidly changing, early stage software startup company.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Documentation of  innovative product features and offerings
  • ensure documentation consistency/quality/usability
  • collaborate with a small team of writers
  • manage publication/maintenance via web-based platforms
  • proof-read
  • apply trade reviews
• Gather content
  • direct installation
  • use of products,
  • collaborate with engineers and subject matter experts

• Synthesize/Integrate complex information:
  • meet deadlines
  • complete multiple projects independently/quickly
• Install/Use/Explore complex software products
• Develop concepts and tools:
  • source code management
  • code review
  • continuous integration
• Work with Product Management, Development, and Services Teams to execute documentation delivery

QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong Senior-level Technical Writer
  • Original writing samples, including those written for a technical audience
• Documented writing for technical or software-related publications (4+ years)
• BA/BS or equivalent work experience
• Authoring/Developing XML-based documentation:
  • strong experience with XSLT/XSL-FO
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Network management domain experience (preferred)