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<p>George, <br>
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Thanks for your time on the phone this morning. I would appreciate it if you could post this position on your job boards. This is a permanent position in Sunnyvale, CA.<br>
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Take care, <br>
Robert<br>
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Robert Rutchena<br>
Technical Recruiter<br>
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Technisource<br>
350 N.Wiget Lane, Suite 250<br>
Walnut Creek, CA 94598<br>
Phone: 925-942-5414<br>
800-346-5948 ext.114 <br>
Fax: 925-946-9247<br>
Email: rrutchena@technisource.com<br>
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Website: www.technisource.com<br>
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Job Description:<br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Software Developer/ Support Engineer</font></b><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">The company:</font></b><br>
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<font face="Verdana">Client is a leading global provider of SMS infrastructure services to the content and applications industry. We make the task of sending and receiving SMS simple, reliable and cost effective, freeing our clients from the commercial and technical complexities that can cost so much time and effort. Companies use our standard and premium-rate outbound and inbound services to provide information, entertainment and communications services to consumers or enterprise staff. </font><br>
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<font face="Verdana">Client is a fast pace, rapidly growing company with offices in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA. Future plans include further expansion across Europe and the Middle East. </font><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Reporting to: </font></b><font face="Verdana">Software Engineering Manager. Depending on projects, you will also report to different project managers.</font><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">The Role: </font></b><br>
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<font face="Verdana">The Software Developer will form part of a ~10 person dynamic and creative software engineering team located in London, Stockholm and California. The main team is in Stockholm and London. Half of the time the software development will be focused on developing software to support integration towards American mobile Operators. The other half will be focused on support towards the Californian organization and the Software Developer will become the team’s US support hub. </font><br>
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<font face="Verdana">Principal responsibilities will include:</font><br>
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<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Verify and work against functional requirement specifications.</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Design technical solutions that match the requirements.</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Write technical specifications that meet the requirements and describe the technical solutions.</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Develop structured, robust and well-documented software according to our standards.</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Assure software quality by developing and executing test plans</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Contribute to the building and maintenance of the support processes</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Handle and resolve incoming support requests on our software</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Make decisions about how to prioritize and relay incoming support requests to the rest of the team</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Support and maintain legacy Perl code (this might require learning Perl)</font><br>
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<font face="Verdana">Software focus:</font><br>
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<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Thread programming</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Networking / socket programming</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Implementation of networking protocols</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Programming against relational databases</font><br>
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<font face="Verdana">The development is focused on the Client SMS gateway service platform, which is hosted within the company organization. The platform is developed in-house by the software engineering team and there is a constant demand for new modules to support new products and features. The evolutionary nature of the platform requires investigation and utilization of new and interesting software technologies, new messaging technologies such as MMS, and new Java technologies such as the java.nio package, JMX, JMS etc.</font><br>
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<font face="Verdana">Project work - The working structure of the department is project based and your role within those projects will vary accordingly. You will be expected to take a high level of responsibility throughout the projects, which will include writing specifications, creating architectures and developing and testing your applications.</font><br>
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<font face="Verdana">Technologies - Java, HTML, JSP, XML, SQL, Perl, Postgresql-databases, MySQL-databases and Oracle-databases.</font><br>
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<font face="Verdana">Travel - The position will include some travel and occasionally you may be requested to spend up to a month at a time overseas. </font><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Required skills:</font></b><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Excellent knowledge of Java development</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Excellent knowledge of network programming</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Working knowledge of JSP development</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Working knowledge of SQL</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Basic knowledge of HTML</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Good knowledge of writing technical specifications and design documents</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Strong motivation and an ability to manage projects with a commitment to quality </font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Ability to work under pressure and flexible to working additional hours where working commitments dictate</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Well structured with ability to work in line with our software development processes</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Proven experience in support processes and software support in general</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Keen interest in technology and Software development</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Good communication skills (written and verbal)</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Fluent in English</font><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Desired skills (not essential):</font></b><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Knowledge of Perl development</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Good knowledge of database tuning</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Knowledge about WebLogic and/or JBOSS</font><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Required Experience:</font></b><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">3-5 years experience working as a Java developer</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">3 years experience working with SQL</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">3 years experience of writing technical specifications</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">2 years working with software support</font><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Desired Experience (not essential):</font></b><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">3-5 years experience working as a Perl developer</font><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Experience within telecommunications in general and SMS-techniques in particular is an advantage</font><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Education</font></b><br>
<font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Verdana">Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related subject</font><br>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Salary: </font></b><font face="Verdana">$70k - $90k</font>
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<b><font face="Verdana">Location:</font></b><font face="Verdana"> Sunnyvale California</font><br>
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