by Ronald Barron | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Application Developer (Remote)
Location: Rolling Meadows United States
Job Description:
Introduction
Indulge your passion for problem-solving and embrace the thrill of addressing risk head-on at Gallagher’s global brokerage team. Join a family of diverse minds, united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. As part of our team, you’ll be the architect of protection, safeguarding businesses and empowering their ambitions. Together, we’ll build a legacy of trust and triumph in the dynamic world of risk management.
We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.
Overview
The Senior Application Developer reports to the Application Development Manager of Affinity and will assume responsibility for custom web development within Affinity. The team develops enterprise caliber software applications on the Microsoft platform. The team is led by managers with software development backgrounds and strives to use modern practices and technologies to develop software the right way. There is a dynamic team environment that encourages collaboration among developers to make the whole team better.
You will be responsible for supporting existing applications and implementing process improvements, formulating and defining systems scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements under general supervision. You will be responsible for supporting acquired custom applications by analyzing, understanding, and converting these applications into our enterprise platform.
This position can be entirely virtual/remote/work from home and you can sit anywhere in the US.
How you’ll make an impact
- Self-navigate existing custom solutions and make enhancements to them
- Directs, prepares, designs, codes, tests, debugs, and maintains complex computer programs
- Under general direction, formulates and defines system scope and objectives
- Work with users to support business applications, and investigate operational problems/system requirements
- Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems considering capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results
- Refine business requirements from which programs will be written
- Design, code, test, debug, and document those programs
- Responsible for completion of development projects
- Solve user inquiries that arise during day-to-day operation
- Regularly provide coaching, guidance, and training to less-experienced analysts/programmers
- Develop business cases, requirements, and performance metrics
- Provide administrative and project support to the team
- Participate in after-hours system related functions such as production support, conversions, upgrades, and implementations
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and technology staff, including offshore personnel, to ensure that communication is open and ongoing
- Provide guidance to infrastructure teams with respect to hardware requirement for new and existing systems
- Ensure compliance with IT Policy, Sarbanes-Oxley and SOC2 requirements
About You
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field
- 5 or more years related experience, including the following:
- .NET Core, Standard, Framework
- PHP, LINQ and Entity Framework (EFCore), MVC
- Modern JavaScript libraries (JQuery, AngularJS, React, Blazor)
- Experience with JSON, XML, YAML, POCO objects and Datasets
- Relational database experience, including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle
- Stored procedures, T-SQL, temp tables, transactions, database performance tuning
- Experience with JIRA & Azure DevOps: repository (TFS/GIT), boards (track work), and pipelines (build solutions).
- Experience with automated build and deployment processes (Octopus, TeamCity)
- Experience with automated unit testing and test-assisted development (xUnit, NUnit, MSTest)
- Web analytics (Google: analytics, tag manager, data studio)
- Experience with agile software development methodologies
- Experience with integrations between Salesforce and internal/external systems
- Experience with common development design patterns such as factory, repository, singleton, inversion of control (IoC), and strategy
- Solid understanding of systems development and project delivery life cycle
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office
Preferred:
- Azure experience, SQL Server 2016 and beyond,
- Experience integrating with API’s
- Experience with Telerik or similar UI components
- Experience with ReSharper
- Experience with domain driven design
- Experience with Salesforce Financial Services, Insurance Industries and Marketing Cloud
- Experience with Microsoft D365
- Understanding of systems development and project delivery life cycles
- Formal project management training or certification
- Experience with Microsoft Visio and Project
- Knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley requirements, SOC2
Work Traits:
- Strong applications analysis and issue resolution (trouble shooting) skills
- Strong user and client relationship management skills
- Excellent written and oral communications with ability to work effectively and provide feedback to senior level managers and vendors
- Self-starter with strong work ethic and ability to excel in fast paced, high demand environment
- Competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of applications systems analysis and programming activities
- Proven ability to independently manage tasks and priorities, accurately estimate work and meet deadlines
- Commitment to quality and excellent customer service to end users
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneous
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Software Engineer – New Grad
Location: New York United States
Job Description:
SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry.
We’re building an awesome entertainment ecosystem where fans have effortless access to incredible live experiences, while sports teams, venues, and shows have unprecedented access to their audiences – because everyone should expect more from the ticketing industry.
Open roles for new graduates
We are looking for the best and brightest Spring/Summer 2025 College Graduates to help us make live entertainment even better! Experience is preferred, but not required – in fact, we look forward to supporting you by teaching you new technologies and mentoring you in software development craft as a member of our world-class engineering team. This is a hybrid work style role (50% of the week) on-site at our corporate office in NYC.
We have roles open in the following technologies:
- Backend (Python, Go, C#)
- Frontend Web (Typescript + React)
- Mobile (Kotlin, Swift)
- Platform (AWS, Docker, Python, Go)
What you’ll do
- Solve unique and challenging customer problems
- Work with leading-edge tech in the cloud or on web and mobile
- Help scale our software as we grow our booming business
- Take on the challenges of building software for a many-sided marketplace
- Empower decision-making at a rapidly growing data-driven company
- Run experiments and evaluate new technologies that will determine the future of our business for years to come
- Build performant, beautiful, inclusive user interfaces that delight our users and enhance our brand
What you have
- You are a college student graduating in the spring of 2025, ideally in Computer Science or a related degree
- Experience in building software. We’ll be interested in hearing about what you’ve built and how you built it
- Problem solving abilities, adept at handling technical challenges. SeatGeek engineers create custom solutions to unique ticketing problems, including venue mapping, inventory tracking, and event matching. We’ll be excited to hear about the problems you’ve solved
- Passion for software craftsmanship and product. You hold yourself and your code to a high standard
- Commitment to your teammates. You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different experiences and take pride in mentoring and learning from others
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Director, Web Strategy
Location: Remote – USA
Job Description:
Position Overview:
The Director of Web Strategy is responsible for developing and executing a strategic vision for the company’s website(s). This role ensures the website is a powerful and efficient platform that supports all marketing efforts, aligns with business goals, and enhances overall user engagement. The Director of Web Strategy will collaborate with various teams, including R&D, design, content, Product & Corporate Marketing, and Revenue Marketing, to optimize the website’s performance and ensure it meets the needs of all stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Website Vision and Direction:
- Develop and implement a strategic vision for the company’s website(s) that aligns with overall business goals and marketing strategies.
- Ensure the website is a powerful platform that supports all marketing efforts and enhances user engagement.
- Analytics and Performance:
- Monitor website analytics to track performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Use data-driven insights to guide decision-making and strategy adjustments.
- Technology and Platform Management:
- Manage the technical aspects of the website, including hosting, CMS, and integrations with other systems.
- Ensure website security and compliance with industry standards.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with IT, design, and content teams to implement website projects.
- Coordinate with marketing, sales, and other departments to ensure the website supports their needs.
- Content Strategy:
- Develop and manage the content strategy to ensure it aligns with business objectives and provides value to users.
- Performance Analysis and Reporting:
- Track and analyze the performance of digital marketing campaigns.
- Provide insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
Key Competencies:
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and execute a long-term vision for the website that aligns with business and marketing goals.
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in managing website technologies, including CMS, hosting, and integrations.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Strong analytical skills to monitor website performance and make informed decisions based on data insights.
- Collaboration: Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Content Management: Knowledge of best practices in content strategy and management to enhance user engagement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Computer Science, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
- Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in web strategy, digital marketing, or a related field.
- Proven track record of developing and executing successful website strategies.
- Strong understanding of content strategy and digital marketing best practices.
- Experience with web analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) and marketing automation platforms.
- Excellent communication and project management skills.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Freelance Part-Time Digital Project Manager
Location: Remote Remote US
Type: Part-time
Workplace: Fully remote
Job Description:
Digital Project Manager Role
Do you love creating order from chaos, taking projects to completion, solving problems, and working with experienced leaders? Do you also love using digital tools such as JIRA, Omni Plan, Google Spreadsheets, and others to get projects done faster, easier, and more efficiently?
Lone Rock Point is searching for an innovative and tech-savvy Digital Project Manager to assist our team in key projects coordination. In addition to assisting various teams, you will work to ensure that all project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track. The ideal candidate desires to utilize and develop project management skills while also utilizing technology to work better.
A candidate should have a background in business skills, management, and analysis. You should be comfortable managing multiple tasks and have a problem-solving aptitude. If you are looking for a forward-thinking, technology-focused work environment, this could be the opportunity for you!
This is a fully remote role. U.S. Citizens only. And please, no recruiting agencies.
Requirements
Responsibilities
The Digital Project Manager will be responsible for scheduling and attending meetings, creating a project plan, managing due dates and more. The ideal candidate will be excellent at working through barriers, tenacious and highly skilled in disseminating data to create it sequentially. A high frequency of communication, prompt response time and experience working with teams will contribute significantly to the success of the Digital Project Manager.
- Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders
- Ensure resource allocation
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
- Manage changes in project scope, schedule, and costs
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various departments about strategy, adjustments, and progress
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Drive project completion by solving problems and overcoming obstacles
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Manage and track progress on sprints and epics
- Contribute to task estimation and sprint retrospectives
- Keep informed on development progress and communicate expected deliverables
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution
- Monitor progress and adjust as needed
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement
- Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
- Measure project performance
- Run reports and set up reporting systems
Requirements
- Great educational background
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools (including Jira), methodologies, and best practices required
- Proven working experience as a project manager in the information technology sector
- Solid technical background, with understanding or firsthand experience in software development and web technologies
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid organizational skills including diligence and multi-tasking skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Proven experience in project management.
- Ability to collaborate with organizational leaders
- High frequency of communication with stakeholders
- Prompt response time and high availability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Job Description:
Kiavi is one of the nation’s largest private lenders to residential real estate investors (REIs). We harness the power of data & technology to offer our customers a simpler, more reliable, and faster way to access the capital they need to scale their businesses.
Formerly known as LendingHome, we’re committed to helping REIs revitalize the approximately $25 trillion worth of aged U.S. housing stock to provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the country.
Combining our technology and industry expertise, Kiavi has grown to a team of over 400 and has won many awards over the years including Forbes Fintech 50, Finovate Awards, Best Digital Mortgage Platform, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and many more.
- Loans Funded: $22 billion in loans funded
- Homes financed: 71,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country
- Geography: 31 states + D.C. where we lend to REIs so they can revitalize neighborhoods
- Employees: Over 400 employees with competitive benefits and perks
This position can be based remotely in any of our approved hiring regions. Our hybrid distributed workforce philosophy allows us to find the best talent in the country and build diverse teams, while allowing our colleagues to work from the location that works best for them. For those who prefer to work in-office, we have locations in San Francisco and Pittsburgh. We also plan to use these spaces to bring together teammates to drive creativity and innovation.
Your day to day
- Engineer: Architect and own large parts of our complex loan origination platform and associated web applications.
- Maintain a high quality bar: Champion code quality through peer-reviewed designs and code, focusing on test automation using unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
- Reduce Technical Debt: We allocate a certain percentage of each team’s time to tackling engineering initiatives focused on reducing tech debt. Every engineer contributes to these initiatives.
- Execute: Focus on delivering high impact initiatives that provide value to the customer on a daily basis.
- Collaborate: Work closely with our design and product teams as well as with our business stakeholders to build the right solutions for our customers.
- Customer-first: Ensure that our customers are successful and happy.
- Define Technical Strategy: You’ll own technical strategy for broad or complex requirements and come up with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for frontend, backend and full stack engineers. It all depends on where you can have the most impact. The product-oriented teams are cross-functional and are able to work quickly without taking dependencies in order to deliver the most impact in the shortest amount of time. These cross-functional teams operate like small independent business units with their own goals that align with the company goals.
- Experience: You are a proficient software engineer with 5+ years of professional experience.
- Product focused: You take pride in building high-quality, user-friendly products.
- Problem solver: You excel at understanding and breaking down complex problems. You pay attention to detail.
- Great communicator: You are candid and honest. You can adapt your communication style to different audiences and you can effectively communicate in writing and in person or on a video call.
- Self-driven: You make things happen. You show a strong desire to succeed and are looking for opportunities to learn and grow.
- Productive/Impact-oriented: You are able to get a lot done quickly. You are willing to introduce new processes and technologies to the team that will improve productivity across the whole engineering team.
- Leadership: You show the ability to grow into a company leader. You will work with other leaders across the company to build company culture and to help shape the company’s future.
Nice to have
- Programming Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript and Kotlin although we are generally language agnostic. We expect that if you’ve learned more than one programming language you can learn ours.
- Frontend Frameworks: React and GraphQL
- Backend Frameworks: Rails, Node.js, Kafka
- Databases: Postgres, Redis
- Service Oriented Architecture: We are shifting from being a monolithic Rails application to a distributed set of services. Experience having done this in the past is super useful to us.
- AppSec: We handle customer’s private information and we move billions of dollars around. Having experience with application security is important to us.
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