This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
| Home | Search | Employers | About | Login | | Syndicate this! |
|
| Posted: | April 15, 2008 |
| Company name: | OpenAir Inc. |
| Location: | United States, MA, Boston |
| Pay rate: | 80-100K, experience dependent |
| Travel: | 0% |
| Poster represents: | an employer |
| Terms of employment: | Salaried employee |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Onsite: | no |
| Description: |
Summary -
Full time applicants and US Citizens only please. Unique telecommuting opportunity for mature self driven independent senior developers experienced with Open Source tool sets. If you are a hard worker and have always desired to work in a community like environment with minimal management oversight this is the job for you. OpenAir provides business process/workflow software and we are looking for individuals who enjoy the rewards that not only come with corporate success, but also by having their work really make a significant impact to the product. Evolve often minimally-defined client business requirements into professional quality OpenAir solutions which satisfy not only that client, but have the flexibility and customizability to be used by clients with differing business processes and needs. These solutions may require the conceptualization, design and implementation of a full-blown OA Module, they may require evolving the system with architectural extensions or they may dictate a minimal tweak to existing functionality. Fully scope out the impact of an implementation by considering all of the necessary changes and any impact they may have on other parts of the product. Work in the OA development environment which is defined by ASP deployment, a rapid release cycle and based on the Extreme Programming software development discipline combined with the OA operating principle of customer service orientation. This environment mandates that bug fixes impacting clients take precedence over both quick on-demand enhancements and longer term planned development initiatives. It also means that quick on-demand enhancements often take precedence over previously planned initiatives. The rapid release cycle insures that features that are pushed out past a release date because of this operating principle can be addressed in either the next scheduled release or slip-streamed in the interim. This environment insures that we have a high level of confidence in setting client expectations. Essential Job Functions: Technical Leadership -Act as a technical lead on a variety of projects to drive requirements all the way through to implementation. Work closely with key stakeholders both internally and externally as needed to deliver solutions in a timely manner. Work closely with management to: 1) identify issues, and solutions proactively. 2) Educate peers and staff with regards to the application as well as new technologies that may help drive the product forward or promote efficiencies 3) Stay abreast of new technologies and trends that may impact the product or company and share these with your peers. 4) Assist management in cross training existing and new staff so that we can expand the engineering department and provide growth opportunities for all engineering staff. 5) Requirements definition -Help users flush out business requirements to the point where they can be translated into usable technical specifications. Guide those who define these requirements towards technical solutions that promote code reusability, maintainability, and features/enhancements that benefit as large a portion of the client base as possible. 6)Solution Design/Development -Design and develop technical high quality solutions that promote code reusability, maintainability, and build features/enhancements in such a way that benefit from a single request can be shared by as large a portion of the client base as possible. Fully scope out the impact of an implementation by considering all of the necessary changes and any impact they may have on other parts of the product.Balance these criteria and review approach to management and peers to ensure the designed solution meets these objectives. Perform this task with minimal QA support and wile adhering to agreed upon code development, version control, and deployment practices as defined in the OpenAir backoffice site. 7)Production Support - Respond in a timely manner to technical, application specific, and application workflow related issues. Assist support staff in diagnosing and resolving customer issues as quickly as possible. Always place production support related issues as a higher priority than other work. 8) Communication - Provide timely, accurate, and professional verbal and non-verbal communication to all staff of OpenAir. Appropriate professional representation of OpenAir in any forum with those individuals who already have relationships with the company or those who are looking to develop a relationship with the company is expected. 9)Documentation - Provide timely, accurate, and professional documentation that details technical solutions and changes applied to the OpenAir application and supporting software tools. Assist support staff in creating and reviewing documentation required for support purposes. Essential Job Responsibilities: 1) Leading/Supporting Change - Guides peers and staff through changes in the business organization; sustains people's confidence by keeping them informed and develops strategies for dealing with resistance to change. Researches new technologies that can be leveraged for improvements to the application or towards improvements in efficiencies. 2) Accountability - Structures work to maximize efficiency and harmony of operation for achieving end result. Holds self and others to high standards of quality by taking steps to ensure all projects and tasks are completed on schedule with limited post deployment support issues. 3) Communication - Demonstrates effectiveness when communicating orally and in writing. Handles issues in professional manner. 4) Coaching - Takes time to develop others by providing guidance and supportive feedback. Provides appropriate tools, and direction to peers when in a mentoring role Critical Thinking - Takes a logical approach to analyzing problems, developing solutions, and organizing work. Exercises sound judgement Essential Corporate Drivers: 1) Work at a high level of productivity with minimal management oversight 2) Provide end to end software solutions with minimal QA support. 3) Always prioritize Production Support as the highest priority. 4) Make decisions and design solutions that are primarily focused towards benefiting the needs of the many rather than those needs of the few. 5) Make decisions based on the guiding principal that it is the customer experience that is the core of our business and success. 6) Have the courage to take calculated risks that benefit the company. Review these risks whenever possible with peers and management to ensure as many factors are taken into consideration prior to acting upon these risks. 7) Provide the experience and leadership to challenge everyone so that solutions will continue to pay dividends long after initial release. |
| Required skills: | Perl, CVS, mySQL, Linux, Apache. Previous management experience and/or exposure to business process software. |
| Desired skills: |
Perl, CVS, mySQL, Apache, Linux.
|
| URL for more information: | http://www.openair.com/ |
| Contact information: | Richard Irving - recruiting@openair.com |