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Marketing Analyst (Downtown Austin, TX)

Marketing Analyst
Downtown Austin, TX

Does the combination of (SEO/SEM) marketing, writing SQL script, and process-oriented data analysis summarize your skill set?  Do sales funnels and engagement metrics appeal to you?  And are you ultimately looking for a software product that you find personally motivating and rewarding to market?  This Marketing Analyst position is a diverse role with a company that is producing products that serve the better good for their target audience.  In this position, you will impact the marketing budget and the overall growth of the company.  

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Marketing Analytics: analytics platform and customer ROI metrics
  • Improve company CPA
  • Write SQL script
  • Data Manipulation, PPC, SEO/SEM
  • Increase site visitation and enrich user experience
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Creative/Design Teams
  • Match Ad Spends with  budget/customer goals


QUALIFICATIONS

  • Marketing Analytics (2+ years)
  • statistical software: R, SAS, or STATA
  • SQL
  • SEO tools and advertising platforms: Google AdWords and PPC
  • Perl, Python, Ruby (preferred)

Sr. Marketing Manager (Downtown Austin)

Sr. Marketing Manager
Downtown Austin, TX

Does the quality of the product you are marketing make all the difference to you?  Are you looking for an opportunity to take pride in your work and the company you represent?  Do you have the leadership and insight to improve a company’s customer experience across marketing channels?  The Sr. Marketing Manager in this position will reach loyal customers and make a positive impact in the community it serves.  

Qualifications:

  • Consumer Marketing (5+ years)
  • Lifecycle Marketing
  • Customer Engagement (Salesforce or CRM)
  • Analytics Platforms
  • Customer ROI Metrics
  • Online/Social Media Outreach

Sr. Software Product Marketing Manager (Downtown Austin)

Sr. Software Product Marketing Manager
Downtown Austin, TX

The Sr. Software Product Marketing Manager will lead sales and go-to-marketing strategies/development, as well as the product positioning/implementation for the company.  The ideal candidate will have the ability to effectively communicate product offers to customers, sales, trade press, and industry analysts.  The company is a very successful startup and their products give you that – doing it for the better good – feel-good-feeling!

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Plan/Execute product launches
  • Collaborate with: product managers, sales department, and corporate marketing
  • Develop competitive marketplace strategies/campaigns:
    • market research/analysis
    • drive awareness
    • product messaging
    • accelerate customer demand
    • channel/direct sales tools
    • pricing, positioning, messaging, education, and competitive differentiation


REQUIREMENTS

  • Software Product Management/Solutions (5-7 years)
  • BA/ BS in marketing, business or related fields; MBA is highly desired

Sr. Software Product Marketing Manager (Downtown Austin)

Sr. Software Product Marketing Manager
Downtown Austin, TX

The Sr. Software Product Marketing Manager will lead sales and go-to-marketing strategies/development, as well as the product positioning/implementation for the company.  The ideal candidate will have the ability to effectively communicate product offers to customers, sales, trade press, and industry analysts.  The company is a very successful startup and their products give you that – doing it for the better good – feel-good-feeling!

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Plan/Execute product launches
  • Collaborate with: product managers, sales department, and corporate marketing
  • Develop competitive marketplace strategies/campaigns:
    • market research/analysis
    • drive awareness
    • product messaging
    • accelerate customer demand
    • channel/direct sales tools
    • pricing, positioning, messaging, education, and competitive differentiation

REQUIREMENTS

  • Software Product Management/Solutions (5-7 years)
  • BA/ BS in marketing, business or related fields; MBA is highly desired

Mid-Level (RedHat/CentOS) Linux System Administrator (NW Austin, TX)

Mid-Level (RedHat/CentOS) Linux System Administrator
NW Austin, TX

Does the comfort of the environment you work in matter to you?  Our client believes in creating a flexible, collaborative work place.  Employees get awesome perks, such as a paid cell phone plan, 3 weeks PTO, and paid lunches/events.  Our client also offers amazing health/dental benefits, in addition to competitive pay and a matching 401k plan.  The Mid-Level Linux System Administrator (desktop support for Windows, Linux, OS X desktops) position will play a key role on their team.  The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate strong technical troubleshooting ability, as well as strong communication and critical thinking skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design/Maintain secure and reliable RedHat/CentOS computers
  • Manage VMWare cluster in a remote data center and system backups
  • Develop/Deploy critical infrastructure initiatives
  • Documentation
  • On-call support/monitoring
  • Develop/Manage vendor and IT procurement processes


REQUIREMENTS

  • BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience with systems engineering certifications:
    • (Red Hat and/or MCSE)
  • RedHat/CentOS Linux administration (3-4 years)
  • Apache, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres
  • Networking, Cisco switches and firewalls:
    • DNS,NFS, NIS, LDAP
  • Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
  • VMware ESX and vSphere
  • Shell scripting (bash, awk, perl, python)

 

Technical Lead: Sr .Net Programmer/Analyst

Technical Lead:  Senior .Net Programmer/Analyst
NW Austin, TX
Submit your resume to Jessica.Staffing@gmail.com

Want to get creative?  Do you consider yourself to be a strong leader in a collaborative technical environment?  Do you have reliable experience and good  judgment to plan and accomplish goals?  This Technical Lead position is for a Sr. .Net Programmer/Analyst with a working background in relational databases and client-server concepts that can develop/code software applications and oversee testing to help solve fixes for a successful startup company.  The job will require 30% design, 20% development, 50% management, and candidate will play part of on-call rotation for production issue escalations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead development activities:
    • Coordinate/Report status:  design, unit test, code, source control
  • Review/Analyze/Modify programming systems:
    • encode, test, debug, and install
  • Write/Review manuals for users
    • describe installation and operating procedures
  • Develop Web/Windows Applications:
    • .NET 3.5 or .NET 4.0 C#
    • Oracle databases
    • adhering to Security Guidelines


REQUIREMENTS

  • Software Development (7+ years)
  • Application Architecture Design/Development
  • Systems Architecture/Infrastructure
  • Lead software projects Agile/Scrum
  • Proven track record for applying iterative development approaches
  • Relational database development (Oracle or MS SQL)
  • Design Patterns
  • WCF, LINQ, & XML
  • Multithreading concepts and Asynchronous communications

Frontend .NET Programmer/Analyst

Frontend .NET Programmer/Analyst
NW Austin, TX

Do patterns in design and object oriented concepts strike your curiosity?  Do you have the drive to improve in your profession by working in a challenging environment?  Our client is a leading software startup, interested in a strong mid-level Frontend .Net Programmer/Analyst with the confidence to develop and improve software applications.  This position entails 20% design and 80% development.  If you believe yourself to be an exceptional contributing team player that can improve the quality of software products, then this may be the ideal position for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • WCF C# Window Services Software Application Development:
    • translate business requirements or external customers  into product designs
    • adhere to coding standards
    • fix bugs in code
  • Provide application software development services (or technical support)
    • develop program logic for new applications
    • analyze/modify logic in existing applications
    • code, test, debug documents and implements
    • maintain software applications
    • create stored procedures, queries, and functions
    • analyze requirements
  • Work in a team environment with shared goals and deliverables:
    • coordinate with DBA
    • suggest technical alternatives
    • streamline processes and systems
    • lead/guide other technical professionals
    • actively play part of on-call rotation for production issue escalations
  • Write technical specifications and other forms of documentation
  • Create unit test coverage for new and existing service features
  • Completes project assignments and special projects


REQUIREMENTS

  • Software Development (3-5 years)
  • BA in Computer Science (or equivalent)
  • C# .NET (3+ years)
  • Object Oriented Programming (3+ years)
  • WCF windows (1+ years)
  • Relational Database Development (Oracle or MS SQL)
  • .NET technologies and frameworks (WCF, NHibernate, Log4Net)
  • Agile Development /Test Driven Development
  • Unit Test Coverage (MSTest or NUnit)
  • Code Debugging/troubleshooting
  • Multithreading Concepts and Asynchronous communications
  • Design Patterns

Sr. Java Developer (NW Austin, TX)

SR. JAVA DEVELOPER
NW Austin, TX

An attractive Sr. Java Developer position is available with an established company (not a startup) in NW Austin, TX.  This position offers the opportunity to create distributed application services in front-end User Interface, translate (functional/technical) requirements into detailed architecture and design, and work with Management and Development Teams by introducing new cutting-edge technologies.  As a contributing member to a leading company in the industry, the ideal candidate will possess expert technical skills in architecture and design, with the objective to assist in finding technical solutions and deliver applications.  This position is a great challenge for a Team Player that thrives in a fast-paced environment and has the confidence to drive cross-team solutions that have complex dependencies and requirements.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Java Development (5+ years)
  • Building/Operating highly available systems
  • Data Structures, Algorithms, and Enterprise Systems (required)
  • Java, SQL, XML, SOAP, DHTML, Javascript (required)
  • DHTML, SOAP, Hibernate, Spring, Tapestry (preferred)
  • Experience with large distributed applications (preferred)
  • BA in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, (MSCS a plus)

Director of Quality Assurance (Downtown Austin, TX)

This Director of Quality Assurance will work within an agile development team to size, implement and execute test plans primarily through the use of the latest automation frameworks and exploratory testing techniques.  The ideal candidate should possess strong communication and planning skills and should be as comfortable coding as clicking.

 

Key Responsibilities

●     Work and collaborate with product owners and key stakeholders to assist in capturing test requirements as part of story/requirements definition and to synthesize loose requirements to form test criteria

●     Lead a team of 5-7 onshore QA engineers and 5 offshore QA Engineers.  Excellent strategic, visionary skills and ability to communicate with Product Management, Development Leads and the CTO.

●     Test individual system components: web application, databases, APIs, utilities in isolation and at various states of integration.

●     Triage and prioritize defects, reproducing, analyzing causes, and creating high-quality defect reports

●     Prepare test plan and procedure documentation along with preparing and executing Test Automation Scripts.

●     Plan, author, debug, and execute automated tests.  This includes post-run analyzing and accurately reporting the results.

●     Develop or modify automation frameworks as necessary.

 

Qualifications

 

Technical

●     3+ years of experience managing and directing teams in an automated software testing environment, and 5-7+ years of relevant QA experience.

●     Extensive test automation experience beyond WYSIWYG tools, ability to create and maintain automated functional tests in a scripting language.

●     Expertise in one or more of the following languages: PHP, Java, Python, C#, VB Script, or Perl.

●     Ability to see the “big picture” of a complex system.

●     Demonstrated experience in implementing tests in a open source automation framework: Selenium/Watir, Fit/Fitnesse.

●     Demonstrated experience implementing and executing tests in a unit test framework.

●     Understanding of web applications: HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, HTTP protocol, cookies/sessions, browser differences, web servers.

●     Knowledge of SQL and necessary database fundamentals to execute queries and interact with relational data.

●     Unix expertise: using a shell and the file system to maintain an environment and troubleshoot problems.

●     Familiarity with continuous integration.

 

 

Non-Technical

●     Passion for testing and quality.

●     Curiosity, patience and desire to learn.

●     Critical thinking about product behavior and user impact.

●     Strong root cause analysis experience.

●     Schedule estimation (of tasks), and on-time delivery against those schedules.

●     Strong understanding of QA processes and concepts including test case preparation, and testing methodologies, agile a plus.

●     Ability to design and plan the development of test software.

●     Ability to quickly learn and become proficient with complex applications, understanding their interactions with other installed products, and how they operate within an overall system.

Sr. (C#.NET) Application Engineer (NW Austin, TX)

Sr. (.NET) Application Engineer
NW Austin, TX

There’s a great advantage to working with a small focused team at a leading startup.  In addition to working in a stimulating creative culture in a casual environment, this is the ideal opportunity for a self starter to learn new technologies and trends.  In collaboration with brilliant Engineers, the Sr. .Net Engineer in this key role will bring C#.Net development expertise to the team to help find solutions to complex obstacles, generate new ideas into code, and serve as a highly valued member of the company.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Software Design:  development, implementation, and delivery
  • Unit/System-level Testing
  • Application Design/Development Implementation:
    • high performance design
    • coding in C#.Net
    • caching mechanisms
    • state management
    • error logging
    • scalability
    • environment configuration
    • proper industry standard testing procedures

REQUIREMENTS

  • C#, HTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML, SQL (5+ years)
  • Full Stack capabilities (Database to User Interface)
  • Enterprise software deliverables
  • Design/Usbility
  • BS or BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience