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  • Production Support Analyst (NW Austin)

    JOB DESCRIPTION

    Maintain and support applications and their operating environments within published SLAs. Assist in the testing of changes to applications and the operating environment. Ensure the guaranteed availability of applications for the client and assist in problem management and resolution. Support offsite business recovery and technology disaster recovery testing. Assist in ensuring technology management policies are adhered to; may provide technical solutions on application problems. Make decisions/recommend solutions that can affect overall outcome of job assignments. Provide Tier 3 application support to Customer/Technical support help desk.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Systems and Client Support: Running with day-to-day business issues that arise on production systems.

    • Analyzing problems, discovering limitations and solving these problems to the requirements of a fast moving business.The problems manifest from Production Monitoring, User Queries, Ad-hoc Support, other Application Support and Problem Resolution.

    • Dealing directly with the customer support through User Requests and Queries. This will include ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
    • Provide overnight/weekend support for the applications for high priority tickets and ability to be on call rotation 24/7
    • Co-ordinate and Support client testing as requested by other technology groups
    • Deployment and Troubleshooting applications in the Production
    • Manage and Create Automated Jobs and Processes
    • Track production related bugs and update status to Customer Support
    • Create Knowledge base for Customer Support

    QUALIFICATIONS

    • 3+ years working in a Windows/.NET developer primarily and other development languages support capacity
    • Flexible and adaptable with good communications skills.
    • Good Analytical/Problem solving skills
    • Level head, even demeanor.
    • SME Support
    • Application development using .NET, tcp protocols, XML webservices and REST API
    • Application administration for .Net applications web, windows services and console
    • Experience with Windows Server and Automation tools
    • Experience with handling productions systems and understanding of Network environment like Load Balancer, Routing, etc.
    • Development experience with Oracle and SQL server is a plus
    • Payment or Financial Industry Experience is a preferred or experience with large volume transaction processing
    networks.

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  • Sr. Data Scientist (Downtown Austin)

    About The Role:
    The primary role of this position is to provide leadership in developing data science
    solutions to optimize operations and revenue in retailing business, and to ensure that
    the techniques and methods are appropriate, effective and leading-edge. Specific
    responsibilities of the position include:
    ▪ Optimizing products matching, classification, and assortment
    ▪ Developing price/demand models and optimizing business revenue
    ▪ Building pricing solutions and local pricing strategies
    ▪ Working closely with engineering team and building competitive advantage with
    innovative technology/methodology
    ▪ Developing research agendas and implementation plans
    ▪ Conducting research into new or alternative methods and techniques
    Requirements:
    The primary requirement for this role is demonstrated expertise in operations research
    and statistics. In addition, incumbents in this position will possess the ability to solve
    analytic and software problems, think creatively and work effectively with teams of
    professionals engaged in tackling real-world business problems.
    • Ph.D., or master degree with 5 years industrial experience in Operations
    Research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, or
    related discipline.
    • At least 3 years performing substantive design and analysis work in demand
    modeling, revenue management, or pricing optimization.
    • Solid understanding in Big Data technologies and applications (Hadoop,
    MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, etc.)
    • Solid experience in database management (MS SQL, MySQL, Postgres, etc) and
    developing analytic solutions using statistical tools (e.g. R, SAS, or similar)
    • Strong programming skills with a solid understanding of object oriented
    languages and principles
    • Solid hands on coding data science solutions in Python, Java, C++, or similar
    • Sound presentation skills and visualizing complicated data science results in
    Tableau, Microstrategy, or similar
    • Strong team player
    • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
    • Curious and interested in learning about the core challenges facing The Home
    Depot, then crafting hypotheses to test.
    Our Benefits
    Competitive base and bonus package.
    Restricted Stock awards and Employee Stock Purchase Program
    Very competitive Benefit Package that covers you and your family on day one.
    Open and Flexible PTO
    401 (k) and after one year, eligible for matching company contribution
    Stocked Kitchen with frequent breakfast taco’s and a catered weekly lunch.
    Work Life Balance
    Located in the heart of downtown Austin.
    Start Up Culture. Big Company Benefits.

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  • Sr. Manager of Software Development in West Austin, Texas

    We have a client in West Austin who is looking for a Sr. Manager of Software Development. This is a high profile position with an elite company and this person would be managing some of the best developers in town.

    If you are interested, please send your resume to shea.biddingnetwork@gmail.com.

    Key Responsibilities:

    Overall management and mentorship of a team of 6-10 software developers
    Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into individual release assignments
    Work closely with the product management team to determine the optimum feature sets for products
    Definition and continued refinement of the software development and delivery processes
    Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a look out for new technologies and work with management and development team in bringing new technologies.
    Effectively coach developers on new technologies and programming techniques.

    Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role:

    Bachelors degree – preferably in computer science – or similar experience
    Demonstrated ability to inspire and mentor a technical team
    Proven results-oriented person with a track record of delivery
    Ability to adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements
    Core competencies in Java, XML, SQL, HTML
    Experience with other web technologies such as DHTML, Javascript, iBatis, Freemarker, Hibernate, Spring, or Tapestry is a plus
    Experience with large distributed applications is a plus as is building/operating highly available systems
    6+ years of overall development experience and 3+ years of software management experience.
    Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithm, enterprise systems, and asynchronous architectures.
    Works well in a team environment and be able to effectively drive cross-team solutions that have complex dependencies and requirements
    Strong strategic vision, presentation and technology leadership skills.
    Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

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  • Senior DevOps Engineer – Downtown Austin

    We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers with AWS/EC2 experience skills to join our development team. As part of the core engineering team, you will work closely with a group of hard-working, super smart engineers in a fast-paced, challenging environment. As our DevOps Engineer, you will be helping to design and implement scalable systems that keep backend infrastructure running smoothly.

    Responsibilities & Project Work:

    • Working with the team to design and build scalable systems that support high traffic web services and back-end tools and applications
    • Planning and executing projects to improve production infrastructure
    • Performing and automating production deployments
    • Monitoring, maintaining and optimizing production systems
    • Working closely with developers and other staff to solve operational issues with our services, tools and apps
    • Scheduling, coordinating and communicating maintenance windows
    • Ensuring the security of our critical systems
    • Other duties as assigned

    Requirements:

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline
    • Experience administering large-scale web applications on modern platforms (Apache, PHP, Rails, Django, etc)
    • Experience automating large scale deployments with moder
    • configuration and deployment management systems (Puppet, cfengine, Chef, Capistrano, Fabric, etc)
    • Experience administering mission-critical Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc) and Windows production servers
    • Production experience build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures, sharding, Nginx, RabbitMQ)
    • Ability to maintain, monitor and optimize production database servers (MySQL, Hadoop, Hive, H-Base)
    • Ability to carry out monitoring and performance metrics analysis using common monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti, Munin, Ganglia, Hyperic, etc)
    • Knowledge of best practices relating to security, performance, monitoring
    • Proficiency in Python, Ruby and shell scripting preferred
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

    Senior DevOps Engineer

    Austin, TX

    Sr. Systems Administrators are also needed for a variety of roles currently open.  We are also looking for candidates to place with a client that is building their very own Data Center, in the near future.  These companies are among the most reputable and well-funded startups in Austin.

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  • Senior User Experience Architect

    Sr. User Experience Architect

    We’re a growing company with a dynamic environment. One of the only constants around here is that things change (and change often).

     

    From a practical point of view, you have to be comfortable with:

     

    • Creating layouts, color palettes, user interface elements, icons, prototypes and project documentation

     

    • Illustrating user flows through the experience (tree level view), which collectively provide a map of the experience (forest for the trees view)

     

    • Generating prototypes (lo fidelity wireframes, hi fidelity comps, html, flash, paper) that communicate the total (or discrete parts) of the experience

     

    • Communicating the intention of your design recommendations in ways other than written use cases

     

    • Demonstrating expert proficiency in the tools of your trade.

     

    We’ll take it for granted that as a seasoned visual designer, you’re familiar with stuff like Photoshop and Illustrator and Fireworks and Visio or Omnigraffle.

     

    In an ideal world, your humble beginnings are rooted in art school or graphic design or architecture. Then somewhere along the line you discovered fields like 

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  • Software Engineer (iOS) – Downtown Austin

    This is an established and very successful startup in Downtown Austin looking for an iOS Developer.

    Responsibilities:

    Works closely with product and UI/UX to design both practical and innovative native iOS applications
    Works on development of native large-scale iOS applications with a keen attention to detail and bug-free code
    Utilizes technical knowledge to write and complete software tasks and projects
    Researches new technologies and incorporates them into new systems and products
    Takes initiative in leading projects and collaborating with others
    Tests, integrates, writes, troubleshoots, and debugs software applications
    Responsible for the architecture and implementation of critical software components
    Work to improve the efficiency and functionality of current systems and products
    Update current products and develop new ones to product specifications
    Other duties as assigned

    Requirements:

    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, physics or engineering
    3+ years of professional software development
    1+ years of experience developing native iOS applications in Objective-C with experience in: Memory management/ARC, Core data, Synchronous and asynchronous constructs such as Blocks, NSOperationQueues, etc, Networking, Categories, Delegates Local and Push notifications
    Experience with automation, continuous integration, unit test, change management and configuration management
    Contributed to the release of at least one medium to large-size application in the app store

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    If this interests you, please email your resume to shea.biddingnetwork@gmail.com

  • Java Technical Lead – Austin Startup

    We have an established startup in Austin looking for a Technical Lead.

    The core requirement is a strong background in Java development. This company is offering strong pay package and great benefits.

    If this interests you, please email your resume to shea.biddingnetwork@gmail.com

    Requirements
    To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with:

    • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field of study
    • 8+ years of experience with Java based RESTful Web Services
    • In-depth knowledge of UNIX, Windows, JVM, web and application servers.
    • Strong knowledge of J2EE (EJB, Servlets, JSP, XML, JDBC, JMS).
    • Strong knowledge of Design Patterns.
    • Strong knowledge of database systems, and proficiency in SQL.
    • Strong knowledge of SOA architectures and deploying production enterprise level software
    • Experience with web-based Social Media applications is a plus.
    • Lead software engineering projects providing clarity, direction, and code to drive new initiatives to successful launch

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  • iOS UI Developer Role

    Brand new Start-up here in Austin.  Well funded, and this would be a leadership role.

    Submit your resume and portfolio to Shea.BiddingNetwork@gmail.com or Bidding.Network@gmail. Thanks!

    What were looking for:

    Were looking for a motivated iOS developer to be a part of a small development team
    out of our design office in Austin TX. While the request is straightforward, the work will
    be challenging as you work along side our Design team to:

    Design, implement, and maintain our SDK’s that allow developers to integrate their
    apps with our physical products.
    • Create a suite of consumer facing software products that re-think the iPad as a design
    tool.

    •

    You are:
    • Obsessive about implementing the best possible design and experience. While you’re
    not a designer, you love collaborating with them and understand the value of design.
    • Giddy when talking about gestures, cross device interactions and custom UI
    components. While you’re a pro at building these, you know when its best to use
    standard components.

    Willing to push the envelope and get your hands dirty through iterative prototyping.
    We don’t always work on things that are straight forward and expect you to dive into
    things outside your comfort zone to figure out what’s possible.
    • Confident but not cocky. We don’t expect you to know everything, but we do expect
    you to be honest about it when you don’t.
    • In the Austin TX area or are willing to relocate.

    •

    You Have:
    • 2+ years implementing with Objective-C as a primary language
    • Basic understanding of application performance, tuning, and debugging
    • Understanding of XCode, Interface Builder, Instruments, and other tools
    • Experience and consistency with unit testing mobile applications
    • At least one application or game title in the App Store
    • Experience with iOS and Cocoa Frameworks and related design patterns
    • Working knowledge of agile development processes
    • Eye for detail and great communication skills.
    • Understanding of user interaction differences between iPad and iPhone.

    Bonus Points:
    • Experience working with bluetooth connectivity and device to device applications.
    • Experience working in OpenGL ES and/or Core Graphics
    • Basic understanding ARC memory management and GCD.

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  • Frontend .NET/WCF/C#/Windows Programmer/Analyst (NW Austin, TX)

    Frontend .NET/WCF/C#/Windows 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

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  • Senior .Net Programmer/Analyst (NW Austin, TX)

    Senior .Net Programmer/Analyst
    NW Austin, TX

    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 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.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    • 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 (5+ 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