This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re focussing on the Halifax area, including a new posting on the Entrevestor Job Board from Hacket’s Cove, N.S.-based transmitter developer Nautel.
Nautel is a manufacturer of high powered radio frequency products that are primarily suited for broadcast, navigation, industrial, and plasma rocket applications.
The company, which is looking for a Product Management and Marketing Specialist, has sold its radio broadcast transmitters in 177 countries.
Entrevestor and Qimple operate the Entrevestor Job Board, which helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and start-up communities.
Hackett’s Cove
Nautel
Product Management & Marketing Specialist
Nautel is looking to fill an opening for an entrepreneurially minded, motivated individual with a flair for crafting messaging and positioning a brand within a marketplace. The successful candidate must help to develop marketing programs and events and work on demand generation and product launches. He or she will approach each of these tasks with a keen eye for detail. This person will be continuously engaged with the sales team, and understand the technical capabilities and benefits of Nautel products. The successful candidate will be an expert on competitors’ strategies and customers. Qualifications include an MBA or a Bachelors in Marketing and technical acumen gained through experience or technical education. Alternatively, the candidate may have a technical degree complemented by business experience. Multiple languages, and communication skills would be an asset. This role will require international travel.
Halifax
STI Technologies Limited
STI Technologies is looking for a UX designer to work within its R&D/Innovation team. Qualifying traits include an analytical sensibility, good business sense, strong research ability, a passion for technology, and exceptional problem-solving skills. This role will be responsible for customer retention, researching customer behavior, recommending improvements, site architecture and navigation, and user flow. The successful candidate must also create user interfaces and functional specification documents. Qualifications for this position include a bachelor or college degree, and three to six years’ experience in a similar role.
Proposify
Proposify is seeking an experienced marketer/growth hacker to join their small team in Halifax. The ideal candidate would fit in with Proposify’s corporate culture of customer service, inter-departmental communication/cooperation, respect and humour. The applicant should have a track record of driving revenue for SaaS companies, be data-driven, analytical, innovative, creative, and posses a diverse set of skill to drive growth. This includes SEO marketing automation, conversion optimization, and consumer psychology. Responsibilities for the role include using data and analytics to develop insight for improved decision making, and drive growth related to revenue, retention and referrals. Qualifications for this position include five plus years’ experience in a similar role.
Gracenote
Gracenote is looking for an applicant to fill the position of web developer in its Halifax office. The successful applicant will work independently alongside a technical team, and write web, desktop, and mobile applications. They will be responsible to expose themselves to relevant industry applications (IIS, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence, Fisheye, etc.) and technologies (NuGet, Gradle, MongoDB, etc.). Qualifications include a Computer Science Degree or equivalent, five-plus years’ experience working with the following – Java and/ore NET (C# and VB), HTML, XML and SQL Server. Experience with third party and open source tool such as Hibernate and Spring would be considered an asset.
Norex and Pursu.it
Halifax-based web development company Norex and Pursu.it, its division that operates a crowdfunding site for elite athletes, are searching for a ruby engineer. This person will be in charge of developing a scalable crowdfunding platform used around the world – including payment processing and localization for international clients. The successful candidate will work closely with Norex’s Lead Developer, Lead Designer, Project Manager, and Partner to create a white label crowdfunding platform that will be used for Pursu.it and available to other social organizations around the world. The position requires object-oriented programming, and experience in Javascript, HTML5 & CSS3 and PostgreSQL. Ruby and Ruby on Rails experience is preferred.
Clean Simple
Clean Simple, whose platform improves communications in commercial cleaning services, is looking for a talented Software QA lead to join its team. This person will design and implement the company’s Quality Assurance Program with the expressed objective of ensuring the best possible performance for both its Mobile and Web software. The successful candidate will be given creative control over the design of Clean Simple’s QA program with the mandate of thoroughly de-risking and refining products in development. He or she will collaborate with development and design teams to plan and execute testing across a variety of world-class applications on the newest web and mobile technologies. Clean Simple is looking for someone with three to five years of experience in a similar role.
Dadavan Systems Ltd.
Working within the technical team on web-based projects, the Front End Developer’s main responsibility is to produce, modify and maintain web-based user interfaces. The successful candidate must also work closely with server-side developers to understand and use their server-side code to develop complex, interactive and database-driven websites. Dadavan is seeking a candidate with experience designing and implementing web applications that are part of larger, multi-tiered distributed applications that include server and database components and processes.
QRA Corp
QRA develops software to help engineers build flawless products. The company is searching for an experienced software engineer with confidence and talent. It is seeking candidates with a minimum of three years of progressive web and client/server software development experience. A formal education in Computer Science or Engineering is a major asset.
Vmo Solutions
VMO is searching for a lead developer based in the Halifax area with three to five years of experience. The successful candidate should be a self-motivated and independent senior level developer who is current with modern web and cloud-based technologies. The position calls for programming for mission-critical real-time systems, transforming the way airlines operate today. On occasion, the developer will also be tasked with communicating with clients to address open issues with beta and production software.
BML Web Development and Communication
Intermediate Full Stack Developer (JavaScript+PHP)
BML, which is developing BuyMyLemonde.com, a youth fundraising website, is looking for talented full stack developer to join its team. The candidate will have to construct, develop, code, debug and maintain web site applications. He or she will also have to define software design methodology for the development and implementation of internet-based applications to support all aspects of web site functionalities. The company is looking for someone with a minimum of three years of PHP web development experience and Javascript development.
Athletigen Technologies
As part of the product development and engineering team, the Java Developer will be expected to play a critical role in shaping Athletigen’s technology offering. This will involve participating in building a state of the art DNA analytics engine using different technologies such as Java, Hibernate, Spring AOP, Spring IoC, python, R, big data systems and REST services. Minimum Qualifications include in-depth knowledge of data structures and Java Collections including, Maps, Sets and Graph implementations. The candidate should have a very strong knowledge of Java Language including, inner, nested and anonymous classes, private constructors, final methods, overloading, and overriding.
