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)

This is an opportunity to work for a successful software startup company in Downtown, Austin, TX.  Does the product you’re selling matter to you, in terms of presenting a valuable pitch to your (potential) clients?  If you have the confidence to lead a new product launch in B2B as well as inside and outside sales, then this may be the Sr. Account Executive role for you.

Sr. Software Developer
SW Austin, TX

In the forefront of cloud and virtualization technology, this company is creating breakthrough software and highly scalable applications for a vast community of users.  The collaborative Development Team is designing new features in an Agile environment.  In addition to development, this role entails working with customers to enhance product usability.  This an ideal opportunity for a strong Developer interested in working with Python/Java Developer for a company that provides a healthy work/life balance for their employees.

EXPERIENCE

• BS Computer Science/Engineering
• Programming:  OO concepts (7+ years)
• Ability to learn Python & Java (4+ years preferred)
• Web Applications (2+ years preferred)
• Designing/Implementing large scale systems (preferred)
• Open source development  (preferred)
• Agile/Scrum  (preferred)
• Network Protocol Management: SNMP  (preferred)

Please submit your resume to Jessica.Staffing@gmail.com

Sr. Ruby on Rails Developer
West Austin, TX

Are you looking for the opportunity to push boundaries using Ruby on Rails and MySQL within full spectrum software product development lifecycles in a cloud-based Linux environment?  Do you have the capacity to communicate through challenging feature requirements in the production process of debugging issues?  If you are confident in your ability to optimize queries as well as different strategies for caching data and data spelunking, then this may be an ideal opportunity for you to work across technology to build infrastructure and scalable software.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to Development Team to build scalable software
• Refine/Improve framework/infrastructure
• Scale/Grow platform
• Cache data and optimize queries
• Setup multi-tenancy databases
• Develop multiple products
• Complete full text searches (Lucene, Sphinx, etc)
• Use Redis, Resque, SQS, S3, Memcache, and various other tools
• Take on a heavy asynchronous workload
• Make the internal system better

REQUIREMENTS

• Computer Science Degree
• Rails/Ruby (2+ years)
• Performance optimization
• Complex refactoring
• Large database experience
• Javascript/Jquery (1+years)
• SaaS Development
• Rackspace or Amazon Web Services
• Redis & Resque
• DevOps for large scale Rails application
• Debugging and data spelunking skills

Sr. C# ASP.Net Software Engineer
Downtown Austin, TX

Would you consider yourself to be a senior C# ASP.NET Developer?  Do you have hands-on experience with web technologies?  Are you interested in working in a .NET Framework with .ASP .NET web pages/services using Microsoft C# technologies?  If so, a successful startup company in Downtown Austin is need of a Sr. ASP.Net Software Engineer to develop Windows-based enterprise SaaS applications in a fast-paced collaborative Agile environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Software Development lifecycle for multiple projects:
  • analyzing requirements
  • developing designs
  • implementing and testing software/web applications
• Propose solutions; write, modify, and maintain software documentation and specifications
• Unit test code changes
• Administer peer code reviews
• Troubleshoot software applications

QUALIFICATIONS

• BA Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Languages:  C#/.Net, VB.NET, JavaScript, HTML, and SQL
• VB.NET code performance tuning
• HTML/JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, and/or ExtJS with AJAX
• Object Oriented Programming concepts
• Data structures
• Basic language constructs, keywords, compilation, core API
• Linux and C++ (preferred)

DevOps Engineer
Downtown Austin, TX

Do you consider yourself to be a strong software developer, system architect, release engineer, and operations engineer?  Are you experienced with a broad range of technical systems?  Are you interested in working in the social/mobile spectrum?  If so, our client is looking for a well-rounded candidate with a strong desire to be an essential and integral part of a tight Platform/DevOps Team.  The DevOps Team is establishing effective procedures for environment management, testing, and deployment.  Responsibilities in this role entail automation, configuration management, and building infrastructure to support high traffic volumes and extensive datasets.

This DevOps position is with a leading startup that holds an unblemished glowing review from company employees and highly reverd as an outstanding work environment across the board.  The company pays 100% of premiums for medical and dental insurance, 50% for dependents.  In addition to a competitive salary, you will receive a generous portion of stock options, and $500 reimbursement in health & fitness per year.  Talk about an excellent work/life balance!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor load, usage, and availability metrics
• Report trends and potential problems
• Ensure security, reliability, and redundancy of systems/data
• Support applications and API services by enhancing systems infrastructure
• Build data stores and GIS
• Maintain the technology infrastructure:
  • Linux servers
  • web servers
  • MySQL and other storage solutions
  • load balancing and networking components

REQUIREMENTS

• BA Degree in Computer Science/related field or equivalent experience
• Expert in Linux system administration/maintenance
• Command programming languages suited to system administration:  Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.
• DBA skills: MySQL 5.1+ and/or PostgreSQL 9.0+
• Source control (Git), testing, and production deployment techniques
• Automation/Configuration management tools:  Puppet, Mcollective, etc.
• Small-medium-scale server clusters
• Agile/Kanban environment
• PostGIS and/or other open source GIS technologies (preferred)
• Cloud computing or distributed processing (preferred)
• Production NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop, etc
• Software development: PHP, Python/Django (preferred)
• Web/Application server configuration:  Apache HTTP Server, nginx, uWSGI (preferred)
• Message queues:  RabbitMQ, AMQP (preferred)
• Search server configuration:  Sphinx (preferred)
• End-to-end storage system administration (preferred)
• Hardware/Software tuning (preferred)
• Agile Development and Kanban methods (preferred)
• Writing low-level extensions (in C, etc.) to avoid performance bottlenecks (preferred)

Sr. Java Developer
NW Austin, TX

The Sr. Java Developer will play an integral role in defining the direction of product features throughout the process of product management.  This is a unique opportunity to gain experience working with command line, interface, web applications, Swing app, and embedded Linux distribution.  The ideal candidate will have the capacity to design, build, and test core product features.  Additionally, this role requires a great understanding for QA and support.

REQUIREMENTS

• Java (5+ years), Hibernate, Struts, Linux
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• refactoring code
• enterprise switches, routers, firewalls (preferred)
• Struts, Hibernate, JDBC, or Web Services (preferred)
• JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML (preferred)
• Oracle, PostgreSQL, or HSQLDB (preferred)
• Database schema design and administration (preferred)
• Shell scripting, Python, C programming language  (preferred)