Business Analyst/Solutions Architect for profitable SaaS CompanyNew Job posting

Business Analyst/Solutions Architect for profitable SaaS CompanyNew Job posting

Our client is a profitable and rapidly growing software as a service company headquartered in the Boston area and is currently looking for a senior business analyst/project manager in the professional services group. While reporting to the Senior Director of Professional Services the position will entail managing all aspects of solution implementation from gathering requirements from clients to planning and executing on deliverables.

Senior and Junior J2EE Engineers (3 positions) for Boston based health care software company

Health care software company headquartered in downtown Boston is looking for senior and junior J2EE engineers to help build enterprise products used by major clients to manage health care services for providers and individuals. Working with a team of talented developers, the senior engineer will help lead the design and hands on development of an industry leading suite of software products. The company has been in existence for about ten years and is hiring due to continuous growth.

Director of Tech Ops (Hands-On)

We encourage creativity, value innovation, demand teamwork, expect accountability and cherish results. If you are a take charge, take initiative, get stuff done individual we want to talk to you! We have high aspirations for the company and are looking for the right people to help fulfill the dream. We strive to continually improve every aspect of the company and use cutting edge technologies and processes to delight our customers and rapidly increase revenues.

Our employees receive a generous benefits package, and enjoy working with and learning from the best and the brightest in our dynamic industry. We recognize and reward outstanding performance, and encourage growth. So whether you’re right out of school or at the height of your career, come join our team!

We are looking for a results-driven Director of Technical Operations who is passionate about leading edge technologies such as Hadoop, Solr, Cassandra, and JMS to join our team of outstanding professionals building the next breakthrough in B2B information services.

The ideal candidate is driven to build highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and easy to administer physical and network infrastructures. You are pro-active and organized, diligent about documentation, can’t sleep unless nagios has everything covered, and don’t feel a job is done until it’s automated for the next time.

Responsibilities

The Director of Technical Operations is responsible for directing a team of systems engineers who provide support and maintenance of our 24×7 SaaS solution to our customers as well as to internal groups including engineering, marketing, sales and QA.
Monitoring systems, databases and networks for proper operation and performance.
Providing a 7×24 on call support for the operations infrastructure.
Establishing recommended configurations for the applications operating environment, including computer hardware, storage, software and configuration necessary to properly host our applications.
Ensuring that our technical staff is current and trained on the latest technologies as well as new releases of third party software required for our products.
Establishing standard processes for diagnosing issues, tracking status and escalating issues within and outside the group. Establishing product and process improvement plans to reduce support effort and increase product availability and scalability.
Establishing operational objectives, strategies and work plans to improve current operations as well as planning for future products and customer requirements.
Establishing and assuring adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans and performance requirements.
This role involves technical implementation and cross-functional collaboration to meet our business goals in a fast-pace environment.
Working together with engineering teams on design, reliability and maintenance issues.
The candidate is expected to be self-motivated, proactive and solution-oriented. They must be willing to mentor and challenge their staff, lead technical projects, assist team members in meeting their individual goals and to promote a positive attitude and work culture.
The Director of Technical Operations has overall accountability for the work of their team, supporting their staff, coaching and mentoring team members in their diagnosis and root cause analysis techniques, while at times, also directly leading the trouble shooting efforts for complex systems.
Qualifications

Network engineering: Candidate should possess an understanding of configuring and maintaining switched networks including VLANs, Layer3 switch routing, link aggregation and general troubleshooting. Familiarity with HP ProCurve switching is key.
Cisco ASA Security: Candidate should have experience with Cisco ASA v8.x operations including installation, general configuration, Site2Site IPSEC VPN, NAT/PAT, access lists and failover.
Experience with load balancer concepts including HA, VIPs, SNAT and TCL-based load balancer scripting.
Fundamental knowledge of core Enterprise LINUX (Red Hat/CentOS) with a focus upon building, maintaining, securing and performance tuning systems.
Infrastructure Engineering: Proven experience capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure architecture. Understanding of scaling horizontally and vertically web, application and data systems. Understanding of network planning including subnets, DHCP, DNS and Active Directory. Knowledge of systems hardware planning.
Experience with virtual infrastructure platforms is a must.
Big Data experience – knowledge of SOLR, Hadoop and Cassandra concepts, installation, tuning and monitoring.
Experience with J2EE platforms, specifically JBoss. Knowledge of JBoss installation, JVM tuning and troubleshooting.
SNMP-based NMS monitoring systems for performance trending analysis as well as Nagios platform alerting.
Telecom management, VOIP systems and reporting.
Experience with heterogeneous environments, specifically Windows Server and Enterprise LINUX platforms.
Experience with CapEx planning, contract/vendor relations, and asset inventory management.
Nice to have: Microsoft SQL and MySQL basics including permissions, log management, back-ups and tuning

SW Development Manager (Hands-On)- Stealth Mode Startup

Software Development Manager
Location: Boston, MA

We’re a stealth mode startup backed by Atlas Venture and Nextview Ventures. In less than six months, we plan to turn the mobile gaming economy on its head! Gamers will have a totally new kind of gameplay and developers will unlock new revenue streams that dwarf those coming from today’s archaic banner ads. We know how to build and scale disruptive technology companies and we want your help.

About Us
We are a team of smart individuals who come from companies like Google, Endeca and Kayak. Each day begins with at least one video game and each week finishes with a bucket of cold beers. In between, we’re working tirelessly to build a truly novel and groundbreaking company. We are creators and builders with a “do whatever it takes” mentality, and we’re recruiting a core team who will constitute the foundation on which monumental success will be built.

Who we’re looking for:
You’re excited to lead a team of developers to build out an amazing product for the video game industry. You take pride in doing things the “right” way and you’re willing to build and mentor a talented development team. You’re excited to play a key role in product development and you’re eager to work closely with both the product team and a beta-user community to make the product perfect. You love the idea of working at a startup because it means your fingerprints will be on everything we build.

Your skills:

Proven success as an engineering manager (2+ years) with a track record of building quality product and high performing teams
5+ years of J2EE experience
Strong leadership with ability to inspire and motivate engineers
Experience with Grails and Groovy are a plus
Experience in developing n-tier web applications with cutting edge Java technologies
Experience building RESTful web services
Proactive, great attention to detail, results-oriented problem solver, and ability to meet aggressive deadlines
Experienced in delivering highly scalable consumer facing software, video games, software development kits or online services
Previously shipped mobile titles on Android is a plus
Knowledge of and experience with the Spring Portfolio including the Spring Framework and Spring MVC
Experience in Agile development methodology such as Scrum and agile development tools such as Rallydev or Jira
Strong Relational Database skills including design and optimization
We are located in Kenmore Square. We’re a small team of a little over 10 people where you’ll get startup equity and big company benefits. We’re aggressively hiring so drop us a line!

Senior PHP Developer

We are seeking a mild-mannered Senior PHP Developer ready to dust off super hero cape and get to work! With a recent $12.2 in financing, We are taking a leadership position in the mobile offers and local rewards programs market. As part of a fast paced, dynamic team, your extraordinary powers will be put into action with a wide range of development, implementation, and maintenance activities for our loyalty shopping platform.

Challenges will include development of platform infrastructure components in support of application content, applications content in the form of meta-data and page templates, data feeds design, implementation, and handling, platform performance optimizations, and development and deployment of dynamic shopping sites, customer portals and other marketing services.

Your noble skills will be used to:

Design, develop and deploy platform code and applications content for our platform
Work closely with product management to define and refine product requirements
Lead feature design, estimation and oversee work of junior developers
Skills/Requirements

Ability to discern powers of your colleagues and make best use of the team’s skills.
5+ years of experience building and deploying medium-large scale web based applications using Tomcat (or similar) and Apache
Demonstrated experience with the ability to lead and mentor other developers
Strong experience with PHP and LAMP stack
Experience with PHP development frameworks such as Symfony, design patterns
Strong experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.
Good diagnostic and debugging techniques
Product development lifecycle including specification and quality assurance
Solid verbal and written communications skills
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field
Sense of humor
Passion
Your desire to serve for the good of others will have resulted in additional experience such as:

Experience with Smarty or another PHP template framework
Experience with XML and JavaScript
Understanding of memory & thread management
Experience with Web Services, SOAP, AJAX, etc.
Experience with e-commerce applications, shopping search or targeting, ad networks, analytics/reporting/data Warehouse applications, mobile applications, online affiliate marketing, SEO/SEM, and email marketing
We seek people who share our values of customer focus, high-quality standards, dedication, independence, and a fun work environment. Everyone is empowered and responsible for innovating, building, producing and putting their ‘super powers’ to work on behalf of our clients.

Full Stack Python Developer

Are you comfortable working from the database to the DOM?

Our technology monitors the full stack, so we like engineers who can work across all its layers. You’ll join our small, agile team and work to build smarter end-to-end web app performance monitoring.

Our stack is a typical “big data” system: we have a data faucet and processing pipeline that does a ton of writes (Cassandra, Hadoop, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Python, C/C++), a backend that does a ton of reads (Python), and a powerful interface (jQuery, D3, Backbone).

We work on elegantly answering questions about performance that web developers face each day. Our work is distributed, agile, and test-driven.

Front End Web Developer (Cool Boston Startup)

We strive to provide an elegant and powerful interface for exploring mountains of web application performance data. Summarizing and visualizing it all is a big challenge, and we’re looking for a front-end engineer to help us develop new charts, visualizations, and features.

We’re looking for someone who is as passionate as we are about building clean interfaces (with Backbone, jQuery, LESS, HTML5) and cool charts and graphs (D3, Protovis, SVG). If you can dig into the backend occasionally (Python), or are interested in building your backend chops, that’s great too. You’ll join our small, agile team and work to build smarter end-to-end web app performance monitoring.

We work on elegantly answering questions about performance that web developers face each day. Our work is distributed, agile, and test-driven. We’re based in Boston, MA, with an office in Providence, RI. If you’d like to join our team, please get in touch!

Location: Boston or Providence
Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Experienced
Job Responsibilities
Build our frontend interface’s application logic and data models (jQuery, Backbone)
Implement charts, graphs, and other cool visualizations (D3, SVG, LESS)
Work with design and engineering to bring data and features to life
Requirements
Front-end experience with substantive JS interface development
Experience with the latest in web standards like HTML5, CSS, SVG, etc (no worrying about legacy browser clients: our product is for web developers)
Bonus
Proficient in Python, or fast learner
D3, Protovis, or SVG experience
You love and use Backbone.js

Senior SW Engineer | Java-J2EE

We’re a stealth mode startup and in less than six months the mobile gaming economy will be turned on its head! Gamers will have a totally new kind of gameplay and developers will unlock new revenue streams that dwarf those coming from today’s archaic banner ads. We’ve made bold promises like this before, and we’ve delivered: founding, building, and then selling AisleBuyer to Intuit Inc. We know how to build and scale disruptive technology companies and we want your help.

About US

We are a team of smart individuals who come from companies like Google, Endeca and The Mathworks. Each day begins with at least one video game and each week finishes with a bucket of cold beers. In between, we’re working tirelessly to build a truly novel and groundbreaking company.

We have problems ranging from research to implementation. Some days we’re researching and designing new ways to identify and prevent needles in multi-terabyte haystacks and other days we’re hacking the Android SDK to optimize device performance. We’re looking for strong engineers to help us solve the hard problems.

Who we’re looking for:
You love games and software, have side projects that you can’t wait to show off and are looking for a place where your contributions matter. Maybe you enjoy finding vulnerabilities in systems or maybe the thought of building a service that handles 1M concurrent users at 10k requests per second makes you giddy with excitement. In any case, you take pride in doing things the “right” way and you’re excited to play a big role on a small team.

You’ve got skills:

Strong foundation in Java/C++
Strong analysis, debugging, and design skills
Experience developing n-tier web applications (J2EE, Spring, Grails, Groovy are a plus)
Experience building mobile titles (Android a plus)
Degree in CS or a related field
We arelocated in Kenmore Square. We’re a small team of less than 10 people where you’ll get startup equity and big company benefits. We’re aggressively hiring so drop us a line

Software Client Services Engineer

We are a leading Semantic Web (Web 3.0) technology company, seeking Software Client Services Engineers with 0-4 years of experience. Our Software Client Services Engineers help apply our software suite for specific customer challenges.

We’re looking for smart self-starters with strong analytical and problem-solving skills who enjoy picking up new technologies, thrive on independence, and are motivated by the prospect of finding an excellent solution to a tough problem.

As a Software Client Services Engineer you will use your skills to:

Quickly understand difficult technical and business challenges facing our customers and find unique and practical solutions.
Work with customers (often Fortune 500 companies) in diverse and exciting industries such as the pharmaceutical, financial, and retail industries.
Create solutions that tackle challenges in domains such as drug discovery and research, competitive intelligence, marketing/sales, and data governance.
Use and extend the Anzo product suite to rapidly build customer solutions.
You will work with state-of-the-art technologies for bringing data together, for extracting data from natural language, and creating new, dynamic ways to interact with large amounts of data.
You will build extensions to the Anzo product for specific customer scenarios often including Java services, modern HTML/JavaScript user-interface components, as well as advanced data models like ontologies.
Manage implementation projects to ensure smooth communication with the customer and timely completion of project tasks.
Participate in various parts of the business by collaborating with product management, development, and sales as required to improve and showcase the Anzo products.
Desired Experience
Computer Science degree with 3.4 GPA or more.
Software development or coding experience.
Professional services or customer interface experience.
Strong communication, presentation and writing skills.
Ability to analyze customers’ business problems and apply technology solutions.
Any of the following experience is also desirable:

Experience implementing software solutions in the field.
Experience implementing business intelligence software packages such as QlikView, Business Objects, Cognos, Tableau, or Hyperion.
Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
Experience with any of the following technologies: Semantic Web (RDF, SPARQL, OWL), BPM software, drools or other rules systems.
This position is located in our Boston, MA office.

This position requires some travel.

About US
We are an industry-leading semantic information management company. Semantic Web technologies bring a revolutionary flexibility to data management within the enterprise and on the Web and are some of the most exciting technological innovations since the advent of the Internet. We are a high-energy, high-tech company that is experiencing rapid growth. Our team comprises some of the world’s leading experts in Semantic Web technology. Our recent industry recognition includes winning the 2012 KMWorld Promise Award, the 2012 BioIT World Best of Show Award, and being selected as one of Information Management’s Top 40 Vendors to Watch.

Senior QA Automation

We encourage creativity, value innovation, demand teamwork, expect accountability and cherish results. If you are a take charge, take initiative, get stuff done individual we want to talk to you! We have high aspirations for the company and are looking for the right people to help fulfill the dream. We strive to continually improve every aspect of the company and use cutting edge technologies and processes to delight our customers and rapidly increase revenues.
Our employees receive a generous benefits package, and enjoy working with and learning from the best and the brightest in our dynamic industry. We recognize and reward outstanding performance, and encourage growth. So whether you’re right out of school or at the height of your career, come join our winning team!

We looking for a results-driven, highly-technical Quality Assurance Engineer who is passionate about leading edge technologies such as Hadoop, Solr, Cassandra, and JQMS to join our team of outstanding professionals building the next breakthrough in B2B information services. The focus of this position will be to design and implement test solutions to measure and validate the infrastructure and functionality of our data collection and processing sub-systems.

Responsibilities

Work as part of an Agile team to deliver reliable, calable software components
Own and deliver innovative solutions for large scale automated testing strategies, quality assurance, and data analysis
Define test strategies, analyze results and validate functionality
Work with development and testing teams to gather and extract test requirements and use cases, and to ensure adoption and expand the reach of the delivered tools
Fix framework bugs and improve test architecture, including adding required unit tests
Provide framework and test case documentation and training
Contribute to general Engineering practice improvement efforts
Minimum Qualifications

3+ years work-related programming experience
Excellent coding skills in Java, C#, Python, or C++, and proficient skills in one or more common scripting languages (eg: Python, Perl, Ruby, or Bourne Shell)
A passion for coding, specifically designing validation and testability into the code
Ability to translate product requirements into deliverable User Stories
Understanding of n-tier architecture and related testing strategies
Prior experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, etc
Preferred Qualifications

Successfully implemented data validation testing solutions across multiple machines
Comfort working at the Linux command line
Experience working with distributed systems such as Hadoop or Cassandra
Experience doing performance/load/stress testing (eg. with JMeter)
Prior experience with validation tools like SoapUI, kdiff, virtual devices, etc