Careers

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• Development Manager & Sr. Architect
• Senior Software Developer
• Mobile Software Developer
• Virtual Desktop Architect

Development Manager & Sr. Archtiect

Description:

Chango is seeking an energetic, self-motivated and intelligent senior architect and development manager to join our experienced team. At Chango you will be pushing the limits of bleeding edge cloud technologies. Chango currently collects and processes over 3 billion page views a day and also bids in real time on several billion advertisements per day. You will be involved in all phases of product delivery from idea generation, through to design, architecture, development, and in addition will take on the role of overall project coordination.

• Own Product Delivery on-time and on-budget
• Lead scrums and stand-ups to prioritize dev team output
• Own product specification and project plan
• Work with dev team to design, architect and develop features
• Own QA process and team
• Work with Operations team to design and tune infrastructure
• Liaise with partner development teams

• Previous experience defining and managing dev budgets
• Minimum 3 years leading agile dev teams
• Experience delivering high transaction volume web services
• Prolific dev skills in Java, Ruby skills an asset
• Demonstrated architecture skill in high transaction volume apps
• NoSQL database architecture experience and asset
• Entrepreneurial - achieve stretch goals under time pressures
• Enthusiastic problem solver and leader

Senior Software Developer

Date: 1 March, 2010
Company: Pushlife
Location: Basecamp Labs, 488 Wellington St. West, Toronto

Description:

PushLife Inc. is a rapidly growing company based out of Toronto Ontario. PushLife is focused on the development of technologies that enable users to seamlessly access, consume and share music, photos and videos from portable devices. Our carrier-grade platform is designed to work on a variety of mobile phone platforms with a strong focus on exceptional user experience. PushLife is looking for talented people and is committed to offering you opportunities to advance your career more rapidly that is possible at most other firms.

The ideal candidate will possess a keen interest in technology along with an entrepreneurial risk-taking and over-achieving attitude. You must have a thorough understanding of software-development best practices and enjoy working on cutting-edge technology and solving challenging problems. You thrive in a small-team start-up environment and always strive to write high-quality code. Your innovation and creativity means you know that understanding the problem you are solving is as important as the code you are writing.

Position Summary

You will be working on our next-generation platform for media playback and synchronization on mobile phones. You will be involved in all stages of a product from idea generation to design & implementation and have real ownership, responsibility and control.

Qualifications

• Incredible coding skills. Your friends and co-workers describe you as a “code warrior”. Your programming ability is way above average, as demonstrated by a string of successful projects. During the interview, we'll give you some coding problems and you will blow us away with your brilliant solutions.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Entrepreneurial spirit, demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast paced environment
• Experience developing software relating to behavioral targeting of advertising or content is an asset.

If you thrive on solving some of the most complicated technology problems, its time you join the team at PushLife. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence. In addition to salary, you will be granted stock options as part of the compensation package.

Mobile Software Developer

Description:

PushLife Inc. is a rapidly growing company based out of Toronto Ontario. We are focused on the development of technologies that enable users to seamlessly access, consume and share music, photos and videos from portable devices. Our carrier-grade platform is designed to work on a variety of mobile phone platforms with a strong focus on exceptional user experience. PushLife is looking for talented people and is committed to offering you opportunities to advance your career more rapidly that is possible at most other firms.

The ideal candidate will possess a keen interest in technology along with an entrepreneurial risk-taking and over-achieving attitude. You must have a thorough understanding of software-development best practices and enjoy working on cutting-edge technology and solving challenging problems. You thrive in a small-team start-up environment and always strive to write high-quality code. Your innovation and creativity means you know that understanding the problem you are solving is as important as the code you are writing.

Position Summary

You will be working on our next-generation platform for media playback and content acquisition on mobile phones. You will be involved in all stages of a product from idea generation to design & implementation and have real ownership, responsibility and control.

Qualifications

• Incredible coding skills. Your friends and co-workers describe you as a “code warrior”. Your programming ability is way above average, as demonstrated by a string of successful projects. During the interview, we'll give you some coding problems and you will blow us away with your brilliant solutions.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Entrepreneurial spirit, demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast paced environment
• Experience developing software for mobile phones (BlackBerry, Android, JavaME) is a definite asset.

If you thrive on solving some of the most complicated technology problems, its time you join the team at PushLife. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence. In addition to salary, you will be granted stock options as part of the compensation package.

Virtual Desktop Architect

Description:

Lead the design and development of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS) strategies and roadmaps for a clients in multiple industries.

Provide demonstrated thought leadership subject matter expertise to guide the client organization to optimal VDI / DaaS solutions.

Can work with senior client executives in a consultative manner.

Will need to lead the gathering or requirements, architecting solutions, and development and execution of proofs of solution.

Establish technical architecture for client’s environment that addresses security, reliability, availability, capacity, latency, and non-functional concerns.

Able to assist in re-architecting/remediating client applications so they work with VDI/cloud environments or are able to take become cloud native architectures.

Effectively develop and communicate technical solutions to unique client issues.

Evaluate and select VDI/DaaS providers and tools.

Define and plan integrations between VDI/DaaS providers, tools, and client’s existing infrastructure.

Identify opportunities for new business and current client expansion.

• BA/BS degree in engineering, computer science or related field or equivalent education and experience.
• Experience architecting and implementing VDI and/or DaaS solutions in large enterprise organizations spanning multiple geographic locations, domains, and environments.
• Experienced with application virtualization and related tools
• Hands-on experience with desktop virtualization technologies including: VMWare, Citrix, etc.
• Proven track record with a minimum of 10 years software engineering and/or solution architect experience in a consultative role in a customer environment with experience at the enterprise level.
• More than three years experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare, ESX and Xen.
• Full lifecycle experience with at least one VDI and/or DaaS solution in large enterprise environment.
• Flexible, continuous learner and knowledge sharer, excellent communicator, works well in team environment, appreciates challenge, comfortable and effective working in new areas that require experimentation and rapid problem solving.
• Available and willing to do extensive travel. Opportunities available for international travel.
• This position may be located anywhere in the continental United States and does not require relocation.