Fierce With Reality

Current Location: work
Current Mood: hiring

Call Genie is inventing the future of voice-enabled mobile local search, and we need the best software team in the industry to do it. As a member of our team (we have offices in Toronto, Calgary, Oakland, and Aarhus, Denmark), you'll be responsible for a variety of small and not-so-small software applications and components that make our products work together and allow our staff to manage them. You'll also help invent better and cheaper ways for us to scale our applications for greater demand and automate previously manual tasks.

We're looking for people who:

1. are brilliant,
2. get things done on time, and
3. get along well with the rest of our team.

We're very picky about who we hire, and we care a lot more about your problem solving skills and your ability to write well-tested, well-designed, efficient code than we do about how many years of experience you have with which specific technologies. That said, having any or all of the following characteristics would make you more attractive to us:

• A track record of success with more than one language and technology stack. You may be expected to write or maintain code in Java, Python, C#, Groovy, Ruby, JavaScript, or other languages. Java is by far our most widely used language, and recent Java experience involving Spring and/or Hibernate is particularly valued.
• Experience with agile methods such as Scrum and XP, especially as a leader or on a self-organizing team.
• Past successes in picking up new domains quickly, cultivating relationships with internal and external customers, and applying domain-driven design to solve customers' underlying problems.
• Experience in any of the following is a definite asset: VoiceXML, telephony protocols, GIS and mapping, search engine technologies.
• Test-driven and/or behaviour-driven development experience, and superior testing skills.
• Strong refactoring, object-oriented design and patterns expertise.
• Extensive SQL experience, including a clue about good data modeling, query optimization, and object/relational mapping issues.
• Experience with aspect-oriented programming.
• Continuous integration, source control, and project build expertise, particularly involving Maven, Ant, Ivy, and Subversion.
• Skill and interest in mentoring junior and intermediate developers.
• A regular habit of reading up on the latest technologies, and a track record of applying them to help projects you've worked on.
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly, evaluate them critically, and recommend or teach them to others.
• Passion, enthusiasm, and a commitment to succeed.

We don't expect every successful candidate to have every one of those qualities, but they're all pluses. And successfully convincing us that there's an important point that we left off that list, and bringing to us relevant experience in it, would make you particularly attractive. In return, we offer competitive compensation, a good work/life balance, and the opportunity to help shape the direction of tomorrow's systems.

Interested?

If you're a high performer in search of a great opportunity, and would like to join an all-star team of other high performers, please send a copy of your resume in confidence to hr@callgenie.com, and let's talk!

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Current Mood: working

HP7: Who has the death flag?

Current Location: m6p 1g2
Current Mood: hiring

The Feedroom is the industry's leading provider of broadband streaming video. Our customers include many of the largest names in media and twelve of the Fortune 50; you can see some examples on our site at http://www.feedroom.com.

We're looking for the very best software developers to join our team to develop the next generation of the company's core digital asset management system. You'll work with some of the best software talent in the business on a fast-paced agile team, doing "green field" development in the hottest new technologies (Flex and Apollo, with a RESTful back end) for a project with a great deal of visibility. Our offices are located in Toronto's downtown core, not far from Union Station, and convenient to the subway, the GO train, and the Harbourfront streetcar. You'll work in an agile project room filled with sharp coworkers, with a panoramic view of Toronto Harbour downtown Toronto.

We're looking for people who

1. are brilliant,
2. get things done on time, and
3. work well with the rest of our team.

We're looking for "A list" developers who are "generalizing specialists." We're going to be developing high-performance, mission-critical enterprise software that needs to be rock solid and very, very scalable, and we expect you to either come to us with a track record of successfully developing such systems, or prove to us that you're sharp enough to get up to speed on the problems involved very quickly. We're very picky about who we hire, we're unapologetic about that fact, and we care a lot more about your problem solving skills and your ability to write well-tested, well-designed, efficient code than we do about how many years of experience you have with which specific technologies.

That said, having any or all of the following characteristics would make you more attractive to us:

• Recent enterprise Java or Ruby experience, particularly with frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, and Rails.
• Familiarity with Magnolia, Alfresco, OpenCMS, or other content management systems, especially their internals.
• Workflow management experience with a framework such as openwfe-る or jBPM.
• Real-world SOA (or ROA) experience, with BPEL an extra plus... and you'll need to be able to explain what you mean when you say "SOA."
• An informed opinion about the relative merits of REST vs. WS-*, and the ability to clearly articulate it.
• Extensive SQL experience, including a clue about good data modeling, query optimization, and object/relational mapping issues.
• Experience with aspect-oriented programming.
• Security expertise.
• Experience with agile methods such as Scrum and XP, with experience in leadership or in self-organizing teams a plus.
• Test-driven or behaviour-driven development experience, and superior testing skills.
• Continuous integration, source control, and project build expertise, particularly Maven, Ant, Raven/JRake, and so forth.
• Strong object-oriented design, patterns, UML, and refactoring expertise.
• Experience with dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy, especially used inside the JVM.
• Operations and high-availability engineering experience.
• Interface design and usability expertise.
• Experience with Flex, especially in concert with Apollo, and especially especially in concert with Cairngorm, Flexible Rails, or the like.
• Other experience with ActionScript, Flash, OpenLaszlo, and related technologies.
• Experience with AJAX, DHTML, applets, and other technologies for creating rich client experiences.
• Skill and interest in mentoring junior and intermediate developers.
• A regular habit of reading up on the latest technologies, and a track record of applying them to help projects you've worked on.
• A facility for quickly learning and applying new languages and other skills.
• Superior communications skills.
• Passion and enthusiasm.

We're willing to consider relocation packages and/or sponsorship for the right candidates. If you're coming from the U.S., we'd prefer that you have at least a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or some other field that qualifies you for a NAFTA visa.

We offer extremely competitive compensation, a good work/life balance, and the opportunity to help shape the direction of tomorrow's systems. If you're a high performer in search of a great opportunity, and would like to join an all-star team of other high performers, please send a copy of your resume in confidence to techjobs@feedroom.com, and let's talk!