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(SanFrancisco, CA)

About Blurb®

Blurb® is a self-publishing and marketing platform that unleashes the creative genius inside everyone. Blurb’s platform makes it easy to design, publish, promote, and sell professional-quality printed books and ebooks.

Blurb offers a full suite of free bookmaking tools, online book promotion tools, and an online bookstore where authors can sell their books and keep 100% of their profit. Blurb is known for high-quality, creative range, and beautiful books.

Blurb was founded by Eileen Gittins in 2005, and includes a team of design, Internet and media veterans who share a passion for helping people bring their stories to life. Blurb has served more than one million customers and in 2011, Blurb shipped 1.8 million books to more than 69 countries and territories. In 2010, Blurb was ranked the fastest growing media company on the Inc. 500.

Blurb is based in San Francisco with offices in London and our website is available in seven languages. We have fun, work hard, and love helping people discover the thrill of being published.

Senior Product Designer

User Experience Team | San Francisco, CA, United States

Blurb is creating a new generation of book and ebook creation tools. Collaborating primarily with product management and engineering, the Senior Product Designer is responsible for the successful implementation of forthcoming releases of our software products.

Responsibilities:

• Hold the big picture of where the user experience is headed while creating the interaction and information design 
• Create wireframes and mocks to guide engineering, marketing, customer service and content creation through the implementation of software projects
• Participate in design reviews and provide input throughout the creative process for the work of your teammates
• Create and conduct UX research on developing projects: including but not limited to: physical and  digital book creation, content      discoverability, delight in both web and mobile application usage.
• Iterate and improve designs from release to release

Skills and experience:

• You have created, tested, built, released  (and iterated) a      commercial or Enterprise mobile or web application
• You are comfortable with a cross functional, collaborative, lean user experience approach
• You care more about getting the right product out than creating beautiful deliverables
• You are comfortable speaking about the user experience with technical and non technical colleagues
• You want to create great products and stretch the medium
• You are comfortable with HTML5 and can prototype in other UX tools
• You know great products are a team effort and require iteration. Designer aren’t the solutions heroes.

Applicants should submit examples of prior work, preferably by pointing us to available applications or URLs that we can review.

 Apply to:  anial@blurb.com   or

Apply to:  https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=5002781

Job Perks: Benefits ? Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (PPO or HMO options) ? 401(k) retirement plan ? Flexible Spending Account (both medical and dependent care) ? 10 paid holidays ? 15 days paid time off per year (with tenure-based increases after two years) ? Free lunch on Wednesdays

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AGILE/Alpharetta, GA

Senior C#.Net Software Engineer/Architect

Skills: .NET 4.0, C#, SOA or n-tier architecture, web services, desire to architect AND code, strong problem solving skills are critical!

Summary

Our client provides the first cloud-based collaboration platform to deliver on the full promise of business-to-business collaboration. The platform enables each party to create, manage and control its own independent applications and data. This allows organizations to connect worldwide in a collaborative environment that enables easy consumption and exchange of data from app to app, phase to phase and company to company.

The senior software engineer will participate as a member of an agile development team in the design, development and testing of the business application platform using state of the art Microsoft technologies including .net Framework 4.0, WCF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, C#, MVVM, and SQL Server 2008. This individual will become part of the nucleus of senior developers whose role is to design and implement the core components that will serve as the foundation of the business application platform.

Responsibilities

Translate business requirements into technical designs and implementations that complement the existing platform architecture, meet our internal business requirements, and exceed our customers' expectations.

Work with team members to ensure that projects are delivered on time and with a high level of quality.

Assist Product Managers in estimating development and testing time for proposed product features.

Understand the business needs of our customers and provide technical guidance to ensure that our application meets those needs.

Research and evaluate existing and emerging technologies to determine if they meet a specific business requirement and if they complement platform.

Actively participate in daily scrum, and sprint review, and sprint planning sessions.

Actively participate in testing of the application by writing unit and integration tests.

Qualifications:

B.S. or higher degree in MIS, Business, Computer Science or related area.

8+ years experience in software development.

Strong problem solving skills a requirement.

5+ years of experience in the design and development of enterprise-class solutions (preferably using Microsoft technologies); Experience developing SAS/PAAS solutions is a plus.

Thorough understanding of SDLC processes and methodologies and involvement in the complete product development life cycle. Experience with the agile development process is a plus.

Strong experience developing solutions using the .NET framework.

Strong experience with WCF and/or .net Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, and n-tier software design and development; Experience using WCF is a plus.

Strong experience with WPF, Silverlight and XAML is a plus.

Experience developing both WinForms and ASP.NET applications; experience using AJAX frameworks is a plus.

Strong experience C# and Java

Strong experience with development best practices, design patterns and common frameworks.

Strong Object Oriented Analysis and design skills.

Strong knowledge of the design and implementation of relational databases, with hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server.

Strong experience using source control systems; Experience using Team Foundation Server is a plus.

Conscientious about producing the highest quality of work.

Ability to interact and communicate with team members, management, business sponsors, and non-technical clients.

Able to describe solutions and issues to management and technicians who may not be familiar with the subject matter.

Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Compensation: EXTREMELY competitive base + options

Benefits:

20 days of variable PTO (vacation, sick, bereavement, etc.), Additional week of PTO between December 25 and January 1, subject to the Company's needs to support certain critical functions, Health/Dental/Vision Insurance coverage (company pays 75% of premium), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Long-term and Short-term Disability (company provided), Life Insurance.

Employment Type: Permanent

Pay: $120,000 to $145,000 USD
Pay Period: Annual
Other Pay Info: options and great benefits!

Note: Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location. No sponsorship is available unless noted in the description above.

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AT&T/Redmond, WA

Provide Product Development services and work closely with vendor partners, internal Marketing contacts, Supply Chain, & media companies to coordinate voting events from concept through lifecycle of the campaign. Support messaging consumer lifecycle management campaigns working with internal...

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Enclipse Corp./Eden Prairie, MN

Job Description

OVERVIEW

The Software Web Developer has intermediate experience with Microsoft web site development, Client Server Windows applications and a very good understanding of relational databases such as T-SQL, SQL Server or Oracle. This position requires strong Microsoft ASP.NET experience and the ability to develop complex custom applications to meet the specific business needs of the company. The Web Developer will work closely with Senior Web Developers, Business Analyst, QA, and Business Owners throughout the full life cycle of projects.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Enhance and support Web Internet and E-commerce systems

May be required to meet with business analysts and business owners on new functionality requests and production issues and develop technical specifications based onstandard specification development

Develop applications using standard Microsoft development tools such as Visual Studio

Develop using C#, ASP.NET, HTML, and JavaScript

Unit test applications using standard testing methodologies.

Accountable for meeting delivery dates on assigned projects and tasks

Support the business during and after hours as needed

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS/KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required

3+ years of software development experience

2+ year in E-commerce, retail, or web development segment

2+ years of .NET programming with C#

JavaScript, .ASPX, and HTML experience required

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Category

Information Technology

Career Level

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Employment Type: Contract

Note: Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location. No sponsorship is available unless noted in the description above.

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(Portsmouth, NH) Saltwater is a full-service, integrated creative agency in the heart of Portsmouth, NH. We work with clients from a variety of industries to strategize and execute creative and technology initiatives across all forms of media. We're passionate about what comes off our desks and take pride our team culture. We work hard for one another and continually strive to get better together. Saltwater is thinking big and growing fast. As a result, we're looking for a Designer who has similar interests.

About You

• Team player. Wants to learn, share, and get better.
• Flexible. Can Adapt.
• Articulate. Sweats the details. 
• Keeps things simple.

Responsibilities

• Production work (cutting up graphics, emails, saving out, prepress, etc)
• Execution Work (take concepts and ideas, flush out subpages or resize print advertising)
• Concept work (take creative direction and develop from conception to completion)
• Collaborate, discuss and assist as a member of the design team 

Requirements

Saltwater is looking for a Designer who can think from different perspectives and execute across various mediums. We're interested in thought leaders who can solve problems through the eyes of a user, a stakeholder, a developer and a designer. 

• Bachelors degree in a related field - preferably graphic design/art/creative advertising
• 2+ years professional experience (agency experience preferred)
• Can take direction, follow brand guidelines but be self-sufficient
• Familiarity with current advertising and design trends, and practical knowledge of Internet and multimedia technology

Skills & Experience

Print Experience
• Knows the mechanical process, proper file setup, prepress and general printing process
• Image resolutions and conversions on/off screen 

Digital Skills
• Has rudimentary coding skills. Understands the ever-changing world of digital and designs for it
• Creates pixel-perfect PSDs
• Understands UX/UI best practices and evolves with it.
• Has a complete grasp of responsive/adaptive principles 

Please provide resume and portfolio.

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Location: Chicago, IL
URL: www.avantcredit.com

• Entrepreneurial and self-driven.
• Thrives in unstructured environments.
• 2+ years Previous Experience with web application frameworks (Rails, Django, Sinatra, etc..), languages (Python, Ruby, PHP), and relational databases (Postgresql, Mysql)
• Ruby experience preferred.
• Experience working with at least 1 web application with significant customer traffic.

To apply: Send resume to paul.zhang@avantcredit.com