In this edition of Jobs of the Week, we’re highlighting openings for an office administrator at Springboard Atlantic and a lead front-end engineer at Manifold.
Springboard Atlantic works with 19 colleges and universities across Atlantic Canada to try to amplify the economic impact of their research and development capacity. The organization acts as a dating service between industry and academia. It also offers funding and other support for faculty and students creating new companies.
Manifold, which closed a US$15 million ($18.7 million) venture capital deal late last year,provides a single platform on which developers can access a range of services, thereby simplifying the process of building digital products. Software developers often need an array of services that they can incorporate into their products to accelerate the development process. But finding and accessing all these services can be cumbersome.
The Jobs of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.
Here are excerpts from the job postings:
Halifax
Springboard Atlantic
We are looking for an Office Administrator to join Springboard Atlantic's central office team. Springboard Atlantic is a not-for-profit corporation that represents the network of 19 post-secondary institutions doing research in Atlantic Canada. The central office is a team of 5 who are based in Halifax, NS and Fredericton, NB and support this network. We are a diverse team who work together to fulfill an exciting mandate and we are passionate about innovation and getting ideas to market.
The Office Administrator reports to the President and CEO and is responsible for the efficient administration of Springboard’s central office. This primary role will encompass all general office administration including receptionist duties, meeting coordination, and member support. There will also be time dedicated to supporting our President and CEO. In addition, the administrator will be tasked with data management that supports our needs. If you are not already social media savvy you will have the opportunity to learn and support our communications strategy.
This job might be for you if:
You communicate clearly. You write well. You speak eloquently. You can explain just about anything to anyone, in writing, in person or on the phone.
You have very strong computer skills, and you are especially good with excel.
You are obsessed with details and organization, you like to figure out how to make processes better.
You are comfortable working with minimal supervision. You are capable of prioritizing multiple tasks efficiently and working individually and in a team. . . .
Read the full job description here.
Halifax
Manifold
Lead Front-end Engineer, React/Redux
At Manifold, we’re an ambitious and well-funded startup, making it compelling for developers like you to break your deployments free from the closed ecosystems of cloud providers. We connect applications, wherever they are hosted, to independent cloud services made by developers who care.
We are looking for an experienced, collaborative front-end engineer to inspire us, teach us, and bring our React architecture and coding forward.
Our partially distributed engineering team is fun-loving, knowledgeable, and extremely productive. We’re organized to let you explore and grow a variety of skills and capabilities, with many opportunities to make a significant impact. Many of us have strong ties to the open-source world, and have experience building tools at companies like Heroku, Red Hat, and Canonical.
We value diversity and supporting a distributed culture. Gender diversity is currently about one quarter. About half of the company work outside of the home Halifax, Canada office, including the product and engineering leaders.
Responsibilities
Help lead a friendly, supportive engineering culture that encourages you and the entire company to improve as engineers, teams, and people.
Be a model and mentor for building well-architected, performant, well-tested, and understandable code.
Prevent and manage technical debt. Help us find the right corners to cut for speed, and the right problems to invest in for maintainability.
Be passionate about our mission, and help us imagine Manifold’s future. Work closely with design and product in short design-first iteration.
Be curious. Learn, practice, share, and improve our knowledge and best practices in technologies, security, engineering, design and collaboration. . . .
Read the full job description here.
