This week, we’re rerunning a few of our recent postings for our Jobs of the Week column.
We’re highlighting openings we’ve posted in the past month from MASITEK, Leadsift, Dash Hudson and Repable.
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 start-up communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.
Moncton
MASITEK is looking for a product development engineer to develop and launch new and/or improved products to the company’s product line. He or she will play a major role in new product development activities such as research, design, and testing to bring products from concept to market.
MASITEK is a six-year-old company that produces hardware to help food and beverage producers prevent damage to containers and other accidents that can jam and delay a production line. Its main product is like a fake bottle with pressure-sensitive devises. It detects pressure points and logjams on the production lines of food and beverage producers to reduce stoppages and improve productivity.
The engineer will also work with the company leadership and the technical team to support the research and development road map and creation of design documents. MASITEK is looking for someone with strong problem-solving abilities that can be applied to electromechanical design challenges. This person must provide technical and project leadership across multiple engineering product development stages. A full job description is available on the job posting.
Halifax
Leadsift is seeking a software engineer to work in a team of developers on diverse projects. The company is looking for someone who will demonstrate a knowledge of critical thinking and problem-solving. Proficiency with Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is required, and LeadSift wants someone who understands Django Web Framework, and Javascript MVC frameworks.
LeadSift is building a sales intelligence platform that searches social media to help corporations understand people’s buying intentions and find the best candidates for a sale. It assesses a prospect's interests, mindset and willingness to buy. The LeadSift system identifies these prospects while they’re considering a purchase and connects them with the companies best positioned to meet their needs.
The software engineer must contribute to planning sessions, where tasks will be estimated and prioritized, and must collaborate with other programmers to design and implement features. This person must have excellent debugging skills and an understanding of cross-browser development.
The successful candidate will be part of a strong, hard-working engineering team in a startup environment, and learn hands-on about Leadsift’s industry and customers.
Sales Development Representative
Dash Hudson, which is looking for a sales development representative, helps clients analyze their Instagram and SnapChat data. It collects data on how major brands are connecting with customers on Instagram. The photo-sharing app is one of the most popular social media tools available but before Dash Hudson they were unable to analyze what effect Instagram posts were having with customers. It is now moving into providing the same service for SnapChat users.
The successful candidate will be a critical piece to the growth and development of Dash Hudson's sales process. He or she will manage a creative and customized outreach strategy to potential customers in verticals such as fashion, beauty, luxury, travel, food, publishing and consumer electronics. Through developing and maintaining the early stages of the sales pipeline, this person will contribute to the overall success of the sales team.
The position carries three main responsibilities: first, managing lead generation; second, overseeing custom outreach process, and third, being responsible for performance and tracking.
The company is looking for someone with a desire to learn and improve processes, with strong written and verbal communication skills, and who is self-motivating.
Toronto
Repable is looking for someone who can lead the development of an SaaS app used by the largest eSports teams in the world. This person will have a complete static mockup along with front-end assets, including a UI/UX team to help make changes on the fly. Repable has an experienced DevOps team to help with deployment, and a product manager, who can help translate mockup into functioning code.
Repable, which is based in Moncton and Toronto, collects and analyzes data on eSports, or competitive gaming, a fast-growing international phenomenon. It’s estimated some 200 million people watched competitive gaming in 2016.
The full-stack developer must build a tool that interfaces with some of the world's largest social networks. He or she will be consuming many social APIs (including Repable’s own), and use the resulting content to make the lives of eSports teams better.
Repable is looking for someone experienced in frameworks, APIs, eSports, MySQL, and JavaScript.
The winning applicant will work with people who have done this before, including world-class venture capital firms, and receive a competitive startup salary and stock options.
