by Ronald Barron | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior UX Researcher
Location: Flexible
Type: Full time
Workplace: hybrid
JobDescription:
Xsolla Web Shop is a versatile eCommerce and LiveOps solution for mobile games, enabling direct-to-consumer sales of in-game items and effective player engagement strategies.
Web Shop is a comprehensive solution that provides online web stores for Game Development Companies. These stores enable companies to sell in-game items to players, offer personalized promotions, and even provide gifts. As a third-party solution, Web Shop is more than just a web page; it is a suite of products that offer an effective and cost-efficient way for companies to manage their stores outside the game, eliminating the need for internal development. Players can easily purchase specific items through Xsolla Web Shop and have them delivered directly to their in-game accounts.
Role Overview
As a Senior UX Researcher for the Web Shop Solution at Xsolla, you will play a crucial role in comprehending and elevating the user experience for both Game Development Companies and players. Your expertise will draw from a comprehensive range of knowledge sources, including product strategy, product analytics and metrics, market insights, client feedback, and direct communication with globally recognized Game Development Companies.
RESPONSBILITIES
-Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and developers, to identify areas for research and cultivate a collaborative environment.
-Emphasize the importance of involving product owners and designers in the research process to ensure a holistic understanding of user needs and seamless integration of findings into the product development cycle.
-Lead and execute user research initiatives, encompassing usability studies, interviews, and surveys. Uncover user insights, including needs, pain points, behaviors, tasks, and preferences of both game development companies and players.
-Effectively integrate user research findings into the design and development processes. Utilize techniques such as presentations, workshops, and brainstorms to ensure a seamless and collaborative workflow.
-Infuse a client-centric approach into every stage of the design and development process, ensuring that user feedback and preferences are at the forefront of decision-making.
- Advocacy for User-Centric Culture
-Advocate for a user-centric culture within the organization, emphasizing the value of user research and ensuring its seamless integration into decision-making processes.
-Fuel the team’s passion for a client-centric approach, instilling the belief that understanding and prioritizing the client’s perspective are fundamental to delivering exceptional user experiences.
-Experiment and introduce innovative research methodologies to continuously raise the standard of user research within the organization. Stay at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technologies impacting the UX landscape. We welcome the exploration of unmoderated tests, AI instruments, user platforms, and various tools, as long as they effectively address research needs and align to our specific audience
- Mentorship and Collaboration
-Mentor and guide junior members of the UX research team, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment. Share your expertise and contribute to the professional development of the team.
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience as a UX researcher, preferably in e-commerce, B2B ecosystems, digital products, or related to the game development sphere.
- Expertise in conducting a variety of user research methodologies, including usability studies, interviews, surveys, and more.
- A robust portfolio showcasing successful projects and the impact of user research on product development.
- Demonstrated experience integrating user research findings into the design and development processes.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and developers.
- A genuine passion for a client-centric approach, with a track record of infusing this ethos into design and development processes.
GOOD TO HAVE
- Experience conducting user research on a global scale, understanding regional differences in user behavior and preferences.
- Previous experience or familiarity with the gaming industry, including an understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities within this space.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Design, Computer Science or a related field. Relevant certifications are a plus.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and the ability to adapt research processes to fit an Agile development environment.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Software Engineer (US Remote Available)
Location: USA-
Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world’s leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it’s our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we’ve won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your “million data points”. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you.
Role:
The Developer Platform Infrastructure organization develops robust and resilient platform solutions for building, testing and deploying Splunk’s enterprise software. The teams are fast-paced, high-velocity, and use state-of-the-art technology. The focus is always on automation, solving complex challenges that span across multiple groups within Splunk, ensuring smooth and expedient services to Splunk users.
This is an incredible opportunity to utilize your existing system design, SaaS, cloud experience and drive the growth at Splunk.
Responsibilities:
- Lead/contribute to engineering efforts from design to implementation, solving complex technical challenges around scalability, reliability and resiliency.
- Demonstrate service ownership and provide support to internal customers and stakeholders
- Design and build advanced CI/CD infrastructure and pipelines; help teams debug and build projects and workflows
- Develop tools and services that enable developers to quickly build and test software rapidly in a secure fashion
- Mentor early career engineers provide technical and cultural guidance
- Build a great customer experience for engineers using our Infrastructure.
- Provide self-service access for engineering teams to deploy, scale and access infrastructure.
- Participate in a regular on-call rotation in support of services owned by the team.
Requirements:
- CI/CD and tooling expertise. Cloud, container and virtualization experience. Innovating and scaling secure services on-prem and different cloud providers is a plus. You will use Kubernetes, Docker, Azure/AWS/GCP, Gitlab, Ansible.
- Data structures and algorithms. A solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and RESTful APIs.
- Observability infrastructure expertise to ensure 24/7 operational excellence and data driven decision making.
- Ability to work with multiple programming languages. We have code in several languages, ranging from Go to Python.
- Desire to learn and adapt. You will constantly be learning new areas and new technologies.
- Passion. Our customers are passionate about Splunk, and we want the same from our engineers. We want you to be excited and have utmost ownership of your projects.
Education:
- BS/MS degree in EE or CS or a related technical field or 5 years of progressive experience.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Staff Software Engineer – RubyOnRails (Remote US Only)
Location: CA-Costa Mesa
About us, but we’ll be brief
Experian is the world’s leading global information services company, unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. We are thrilled to share that FORTUNE has named Experian one of the 100 Best Companies to work for. In addition, for the last five years we’ve been named in the 100 “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes Magazine.
Staff Software Engineer (RubyOnRails), Experian Consumer Services
*This is a remote role, however Experian would prefer candidates located in the Eastern Time Zone, or able/willing to work EST hours.
Job Description
The Staff Software Engineer will play a key role in the design and development of key initiatives within the Insurance domain in Experian Consumer Services. Insurance is one of the fastest growing areas within Experian and we are looking for a strong Software Engineer who thrives in a fast-moving environment. The candidate will work very closely with product owners, architects, and engineering teams to deliver high quality, scalable, secure cloud-based technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, Development and Testing of key applications within Insurance Engineering.
- Development of technical solutions that are built for quality, scale and performance.
- Collaborate with the business, product management and PMO on product roadmaps and quarterly planning sessions.
- Participate in code and design reviews to minimize rework and catch issues early in the process.
- Ensure stable Production operations with focus on uptime, performance, security and reliability.
- Work efficiently as a part of a global team of engineers ensuring effective collaboration, communication, and delivery.
- Write secure, clean, and maintainable code, following industry best practices and coding standards.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior team members.
Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field preferred or equivalent amount of experience, knowledge, and skills.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience working with RubyOnRails, building and maintaining scalable secure web applications.
- Experience with React and Nodejs.
- Proficiency in database technologies, such as MySQL and experience with data modeling and query optimization.
- Experience with testing frameworks like RSpec.
- Strong knowledge of web services and APIs, including RESTful architecture.
- Deep understanding and hands-on experience with ElasticSearch, including indexing, querying, and performance optimization.
- Able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment and achieve results amidst constraints.
- Deep understanding of best design and software engineering practices, design principles and patterns and unit testing.
- Ability to mentor junior team members.
- Ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams in an Agile development environment.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Product Designer
Location: Remote US
About Us
Udacity is on a mission to change lives, businesses and nations through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. We offer a unique and immersive online learning platform, powering corporate technical training in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Autonomous Systems, Cloud Computing and more. Our rapidly growing global organization is revolutionizing how the enterprise market bridges the talent shortage and skills gaps during their digital transformation journey. Udacity is proud to be backed by respected investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, Bertelsmann and Drive Capital, among other leading VC firms, and provides a powerful and differentiated solution inside of a $32b total addressable market opportunity. Udacity has more than 100 enterprise customers including Airbus, Bertelsmann, BNP Paribas, Leidos, Mazda, and the United States Air Force.
As a Product Designer, you will be a part of the founding design team to head large strategic projects across Udacity’s product experience. You will have influence over all aspects of the customer experience across all product touchpoints. You will grow a team of world-class designers, and you will have the opportunity to work within our established systems and brand while re-evaluating and rethinking the patterns which brought us to today. As the Design Lead for Udacity, you will be running research, directing and contributing to visual and interaction design, building, managing, and mentoring a team of embedded generalist designers, collaborating with other team discipline leads, and presenting work and progress to Udacity executives. The ideal candidate will be driven to build and scale new products and services that our customers love and demand.
Responsibilities:
- Shape the vision of a product that requires both emotional and bottom-line appeal.
- Design simple, elegant, data-driven, user-centric experiences that delight our various users.
- Translate customer insights into concepts, personas, user journeys, storyboards, system maps, user flows, wireframes, visual design comps, prototypes at varying levels of resolution with Sketch, Framer, Adobe CS, InVision, Zeplin and other contemporary design tools.
- Work closely with product management, design, and engineering to guide and deliver new product experiences and iterate on launched product experiences across Udacity’s platform.
- Provide direction and guidance for the Udacity Design System, continuing to build on existing foundations and envisioning its future by keeping up with trends in product design.
- Challenge members of our team to think boldly and deliver delightful product experiences.
- Work with Data and Research teams to collect any data necessary to inform design direction.
- Work primarily within Sketch on a Mac.
What we value:
- 5+ years experience designing consumer and B2B software product experiences, for mobile and web, in a SaaS business environment.
- A track record of success in the leadership of design professionals.
- Experience owning a customer-centric product design process from concept to launch.
- An eye for world-class digital product design, with an uncompromising attitude towards delivering polished, pixel-perfect designs on sometimes tight deadlines.
- Expert-level understanding of design tools like Sketch, Framer, Zeplin, InVision, and Adobe CC.
- Experience in UX, UI, visual, and end-to-end product design
- Familiarity with web-based coding tools and languages such as HTML, CSS, Javascript.
Pluses:
- Experience conducting customer research from insight panels to usability tests.
- Background developing interaction prototypes and motion design.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Software Engineer II, Platform Security
Location: Remote – USA
About the Role
Abnormal Security is looking for a Software Engineer II to join the Platform Security team. The Platform Security team owns the Security and Privacy platform services and infrastructure to uphold industry standards for the company’s security posture and customer data protection. This role will design, develop, and release Secure Service to Service communication frameworks and toolings, Customer Data Security & Privacy workflows, and then integrate them with Security Operational analytics and auditing services to monitor, protect, and secure Abnormal infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have
- Ability to translate Security and Privacy requirements into technical requirements.
- Ability to facilitate and drive cross team collaboration with product engineering teams to adopt security best practices and secure-by-design platform services and components.
- Ability to provide white glove support to engineering teams to migrate legacy systems into Platform Security solutions.
What you will do
- Own and lead the Platform Security features, services, and components for Abnormal microservices such as Zero-Trust networking, Secure Service to Service communications, Customer Data Security & Privacy, Secret Management, etc
- Design and develop secure and scalable customer integration frameworks and toolings to integrate Abnormal ecosystem with external applications such as Salesforce, Slack, Github, Zoom, etc to enable Secure by design Multi Product Platform.
- Integrate Platform and Infrastructure components with Security Operational analytics and auditing tooling such as Okta, Dazz, Splunk, SIEM.
- Utilize prior industry experience to contribute and deliver the Platform Security team and the Platform & Infrastructure division roadmap.
- Reconcile Platform and Security requirements to build a secure platform while enabling global engineering teams to deliver high quality software at high velocity.
- Contribute to vendor review and selection for related software purchases in key problem areas.
Must Haves
- BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or other related engineering field.
- 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.
- Experience with system design and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with Golang and Python programming languages.
- Proven track record of leading feature development and delivering high quality software.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of Authentication & Authorization and Network Security problem space, best practices, and related technologies.
- Understanding of distributed computing, CAP theorem, and system design tradeoffs.
- Ability to differentiate must-have versus nice-to-have Security and Privacy requirements.
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