We’re hiring. No, really, we are. I realize you know three developers who either recently lost their jobs or are fairly confident it’s about to happen, but despite the downturn, we are hiring. Even more striking is that these are new positions – not replacements! That’s right, on the cusp of what some are predicting will be the worst U.S. economic slump since The Great Depression, we are growing our engineering team. Have I made this clear yet?
Why dwell on economic troubles in a job post? Because sometimes we hear that good developers hesitate to look at small companies because they want “stability”. Well I would just like to point out that while most of the major corporations in the country are gearing up for hiring freezes, pay cuts, lay offs, and who knows what else; our tiny little company is as strong as I’ve ever seen it and shows no signs of slowing. Come get your stability while it’s hot.
As for what we’re looking for, I’m just going to republish our standard job description. If you are at all interested, please email hiring@tranxition.com with your half-page résumé. What? You don’t have one of those ready to send? That’s the whole point … we don’t hire by the same standards and methods that Intel does, so you shouldn’t expect the same résumé will work with us that works with them. Take a few minutes and show us why we should hire you, not your bullet points. Of course if you really can’t do it, we’ll take your 3 page list of bullet points as well. We just won’t like it.
Title:
Senior Software Engineer, Full-time employee
The Hook:
Superstars wanted!
Do you have the chops to develop bleeding edge software on leading edge platforms? Do you have a history of getting things done and a demonstrable aptitude for all things software? Do you despise buzzwords like self-motivated and self-starter, but embody their ideals anyway? If so, then you should join our dev team.
The Team:
At Tranxition, our engineers eat and sleep software. We do our best coding in the bathroom and we’re not afraid to admit it. No algorithm is perfect and no architecture is complete, but we know when to call it good enough because perfection is a dream and profitability means we get to come back tomorrow.
We thrive on natural talent and we constantly nurture our talented. We don’t ask management if we can receive training; management asks us which training we want to receive. New technology, old technology, we do it all and we do it well.
Iterative development is our core because it works. Unit testing is not optional because working software is not optional. QA is an integral part of our team for the same reason. We don’t do pair programming because sometimes – we just need to sleep in. Or work from home. Or put in a twelve hour day because this problem needs to be solved and we want to solve it, today!
The Profile:
Our primary concern is to find people smarter than us to join our team. That said, we have a specific skill set that we would love to match and those who do may find themselves at the front of the pack:
· Real-world advanced .NET experience
· Full SDLC (specification through maintenance) experience
· Iterative development experience
· Commercial software experience
· Experience designing and implementing web services
· SQL Server experience
· Active Directory and Group Policy experience
· WMI development experience
· Unmanaged C/C++ development experience
· Experience with Team Foundation Server, MSBuild (or NAnt, Ant), and MSTest (or NUnit, MbUnit, xUnit.net, JUnit)
· WPF, LINQ and PowerShell aren’t foreign concepts
· Reference shelf includes books with “Internals” in the title
· Indigo equals WCF and WinFS is the greatest lost feature since Microsoft Bob
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