Senior .Net Developer (downtown Boulder, CO)

Boulder software company is looking for an excellent senior-level .Net developer to contribute talent and leadership to a small team.

This is primarily a developer role, though there will be some architecture, some client interaction and some leadership of other developers. These latter activities will encompass up to 10-20% of your time with 80-90% spent producing and documenting excellent code.


Requirements:

7+ years experience developing software applications.
5+ years experience developing applications with C# and ASP.NET.
Strong SQL Server skills.
Strong skills in JavaScript and HTML.
UML
CSS
Silverlight (or Flash) is a plus.
Experience in an Agile or Semi-Agile environment.
Experience balancing multiple projects.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience developing custom applications is a plus.
Experience interacting with clients is a plus.
Leadership experience is a plus.
Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent.

This is a full-time employee, on-site position. (contract-to-hire is also a possibility)

Please send resumes/cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

Sr. Java Developer / Architect (Boulder, CO)

An innovative startup in downtown Boulder is looking for a Senior Java Developer to join our team.

All of our developers work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, where everyone contributes to architecture and design, as well as producing high-quality code and developing unit and integration tests. So, a successful candidate will be architect caliber but will expect to be a hands-on team player, working collaboratively with others and making meaningful contributions on everything from high-level architecture to low-level code.

We use agile processes.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 5 years as Java Developer
• Architecture and design of software systems coded in Java
• Advanced data structures and algorithms
• Advanced Java and JDK
• Advanced Java EE and servlet container environments
• Development of unit and integration tests
• Data access models and implementations
• Timing and queuing systems
• Linux competency
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Desired Experience:

• Virtualization software
• On-demand computing services
• Server monitoring and management
• GUI front-end development
• Apache, MySQL, JPA, Hibernate, Jetty, JBoss
• Agile software development

This is a senior-level position.

This is a full-time, employee, on-site position.

If interested, please send resume and cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

.Net Developer (Junior-Intermediate) Boulder, CO

Boulder software company is looking to hire a junior-intermediate .Net developer.

Must be self-motivated, team player, who can jump in, figure out tough problems, and create excellent applications.

Requirements:

* 2+ years experience developing software applications.
* very strong in ASP.Net
* C#
* HTML and JavaScript
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Experience developing custom applications is a plus.
* Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent.

This is a full-time, employee, on-site position in Boulder, CO. Must be authorized to work for any company in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Please send resumes and cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

.Net Developers (Intermediate-to-Senior) (Boulder, CO)

Boulder software company is looking to hire a few good .Net Developers (Intermediate-to-Senior). Our priority is to hire some full-time employees, but we are also open to contract or contract-to-hire.

Must be self-motivated, team player, who can jump in, figure out tough problems, and create excellent applications.

Requirements:

* 4+ years experience developing software applications.
* C# plus ASP.NET or Microsoft MVC.
* SQL Server
* JavaScript, CSS, HTML.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Experience developing custom applications is a plus.
* Silverlight (or Flash) is a plus.
* Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent.


Please send resumes and cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

CLOSED: SQL Developer (plus .Net skills) 3-month contract (Boulder, CO)

Boulder software company is looking for a SQL Developer who also has some experience with .Net for a 3-month contract. Must be an independent worker who can define and complete tasks on your own.

Requirements:

• 2+ years experience developing database systems in SQL Server or Oracle
• Experience working with complex data relationships and stored procedures.
• Experience with report processing.
• Experience exporting & importing data from Excel to SQL
• Advanced Excel experience is a plus.
• Additionally, experience integrating data from other sources into SQL Server is a plus.
• Experience with ASP.Net, C#, and Microsoft Data Access Application Block
• Experience working with CRUD functionality in C#/ASP.Net code.
• Agile experience is a plus
• Advanced Subversion skills are a plus
• Experience with data migration aspects of SalesForce API is a plus

This is a 3-month contract with work to be done on-site in Boulder, CO. There is a possibility for extension.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

CLOSED: .Net Technical Lead (Boulder, CO)

Boulder software company is looking to hire a technical lead. The technical lead will lead / manage all software development efforts and also interact with customers and be the technical face of the company.

The successful candidate will be highly technically competent, have excellent presentation skills, and be comfortable with the ambiguity of managing projects while balancing the sales process.

Requirements:
7+ years experience developing software applications.
Experience in a technical lead or architect role.
Experience in a customer-facing role.
Experience managing / leading projects in an Agile or Semi-Agile environment.
C# plus ASP.NET or Microsoft MVC. (OR Java plus Spring or Struts and willing to quickly learn Microsoft technologies).
SQL and data modeling (SQL Server is a plus).
JavaScript, CSS, HTML.
UML.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience developing custom applications is a plus.
Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent.

This is a full-time employee, on-site position.

Please send resumes/cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

CLOSED: Java Developers (Entry-Level-to-Senior) Denver, CO

Get in on the ground floor of new Denver-based development team in a profitable and growing company. Help us develop a web-based product that is both useful and fun.

We are looking for Java Developers of every level - including one team lead.

We are looking for highly-motivated, creative problem solvers with excellent communication skills and a collaborative spirit. Must be able to "hit the ground running."

Specific location will be either Denver West or Interlocken - TBD soon.

Responsibilities:

• Play a key role in designing, implementing and maintaining server-side code for web applications
• Produce well-designed, object-oriented code that is readable and maintainable.
• Contribute to the maintenance of existing web sites
• Co-operate with front-end development team to create a truly usable product
• Keep up to date with latest technologies
• up to 5% travel to L.A.


Requirements:

For Team Lead position only:

• Team Lead Experience
• 5+ years of web-based Java development using Ajax, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, Servlets, JSP

For all positions:

• 3+ years of web-based Java development using Ajax, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, Servlets, JSP
• JDBC
• Relational database experience
• Application Servers such as Apache or Tomcat
• Frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, or Django
• Experience with back-end programming
• Experience with highly-scalable web applications preferred
• Linux
• Fluent in Mandarin Chinese is a plus


Please send resume and cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com
Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

CLOSED: User Experience Architect (Boulder, CO)

A fresh start-up in Boulder, CO is looking for a senior User Experience Architect to take over the design of the user experience of both our website and our web-based application. You will be responsible for creating all aspects of the user experience: from user stories and flow to creating an appealing user interface. You will also be responsible for incorporating new features into the design / workflow as they come. You will work closely with customers as well as with developers and product managers.



Qualifications:


5-10 years experience designing web-based user interfaces.

Extensive experience in all aspects of the design process from site audit and requirements gathering, to wire framing and prototyping.

Highly adaptable and comfortable in an environment where requirements change.

Highly-collaborative personality.

Experience with fast and inexpensive user-testing methods.

Ability to create designs that a development team can develop from.

Solid understanding of the technical implications of the UI design.

Experience with UI design of web-based applications for multiple browsers.

Experience with HTML, XHTML, and CSS a plus.

Experience with JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks a plus.

Proficiency with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or other design tools.

Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Physiology, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, or equivalent.


This is a full-time employee position with work to be done on-site in Boulder, CO.
Must be eligible to work for any U.S. employer without sponsorship.

Please send resumes/cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

ON HOLD: Linux Systems Administrator (Boulder, CO)

Exciting and growing start-up in downtown boulder, CO is looking for a Linux Systems Administrator to help keep our high-traffic web-based service offering up and available around the clock. Join a small team team of Systems Admins to help further develop our network infrastructure to meet rapidly growing demands - and we mean rapidly growing - our systems must be able to handle large spikes and sudden, large usage increases. Are you up for the challenge?


Responsibilites:

Help improve the performance, availability and resilience of our service delivery infrastructure.

Make meaningful contributions to the architectural design of our products.

Perform daily monitoring and backup activities.

Identify potential weaknesses and make recommendations for imrovement.

Build and manage server, network and storage equipment.

Leverage and manage cloud-based virtual servers, CDN services, and other third-party services.

Provide desktop support for Windows, Mac and Linux workstations and laptops.

Manage office support services, such as internet, Exchange, and printing capabilities.



Desired skills:

Linux Systems administration (Senior-level Experience)

Experience with Ubuntu and Red Hat.

Experience with System Administration tools. syslog, NFS, Cacti, Nagios, etc.

Network administration experience. Cisco, Checkpoint, Foundry, etc.

Windows administration.

Virtualization. VMWare, Xen, KVM, etc.

Storage administration experience. Linux Volume Management, RAID, iSCSI, SANs, etc.

Experience with Apache and MySQL. (Hadoop and Tomcat a plus)

Good interpersonal skills. Must be assertive and highly collaborative. Must be able to communicate well ... and that means listen well too. We're looking for a true team player.

Participate in one-week-on, two-weeks-off pager rotation.


Please send resumes/cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

CLOSED: SugarCRM/PHP Contractor (2 months) Boulder, CO / telecommute

VC-funded startup in Boulder, CO is looking for a SugarCRM contractor to configure a hosted SugarCRM solution, add modules, create reports, etc.

Must have experience administering SugarCRM
Must be very strong in PHP and MySQL
Preferably will have written a module for SugarCRM

Approximate contract-length is 2 months full-time. (This is not a part-time position).

Telecommute is OK - however must have at least one meeting in Boulder, CO.

Must be located in the U.S. and eligible to work for any company in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com

Please include the following information:

work authorization (U.S. Citizen, Geen Card), etc.
hourly rate expectation (range is fine)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

CLOSED: Technical Support Engineer (Boulder, CO)

A growing startup located in downtown Boulder, CO is seeking an experienced technical support engineer to help us provide high-quality technical support to our valued customers - both internal and external.

The ideal individual must have both strong technical skills and strong inter-personal skills. You would be joining a growing team and would have the opportunity and the responsibility to provide valuable input as our team grows and scales.

Must be a team player who is willing to wear multiple hats. You would initially be providing support at all levels - Tier I - Tier III, but this would emerge into a Tier III support role as the teams grows.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for multiple web-based products.
• Triage complex technical issues, resolving or escalating them as appropriate.
• Act as a customer advocate in relation to the development team to ensure that customer needs are addressed in ticket escalations.
• Take ownership of support incidents.

• Create detailed documentation for issues and their resolutions.

Qualifications:

• Experience reading and debugging PHP and JavaScript.

• Experience working with HTTP, HTML, XML, CSS, and Regular Expressions.
• Experience working with SQL (MySQL is a plus)

• Experience working in a start-up environment is a plus.
• Must be able to assess customer needs and prioritize support requests.
• Friendly, patient, and professional inter-personal skills.

Travel: very limited - if at all
On call: will participate in rotation

This is a contract-to-hire position.

To apply, please send your resume to jobs at createksolutions (dot) com.

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

CLOSED: Sr. PHP Developer (Downtown, Boulder, CO)

A fast-paced and growing startup located in downtown Boulder, CO is looking for a Sr. PHP developer to contribute to our flagship product - a ground-breaking internet service which will provide many exciting challenges for a smart and enthusiastic developer.

As a member of the core development team, you will be responsible for designing and developing new features for our core product. Must be a team player and self starter. Experience in a start-up environment is a plus.

This is a back-end developer position.

Requirements:

* Senior/Expert - level knowledge of object-oriented programming with PHP
* Minimum 5 years experience in web development
* 3+ Years experience with PHP and LAMP
* Experience developing distributed applications
* Experience developing applications with large numbers of concurrent users
* Strong team-oriented skills including SCM, Revision Control, Defect tracking, and collaboration tools.
* Strong Linux development experience is preferred
* Comfortable working in a small-team, fast-paced, start-up environment
* Ability to work without a lot of direction
* Ability to gather the information you will need to complete your task and communicate issues promptly
* Ability to deliver on-time, well-tested modules
* Ability to write clean, well commented, modular code
* BS/MS in C.S. or related degree (or equivalent experience)

Additional "nice to have" skills:
AJAX
OpenX
Kohana or other frameworks

This is a full-time employee, on-site position.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

ON HOLD: Ruby on Rails Developer(s) (Entry-level-to-Senior) (Boulder, CO)

Recently funded startup in downtown Boulder, CO is looking for smart, highly-motivated developers, hungry for a challenge. Very early stage opportunity with meaningful equity participation. Come help design and build a large scale system, from the ground up.

The ideal candidate will not only be a developer who can get things done and make things work, but should be a bit of a "jack of all trades," ready to pitch in where needed, whether with Sys Admin, integration testing, etc. Experience in a start-up environment is a plus, as is experience "wearing multiple hats" and working with a good breadth of technologies (especially open source).

Required Qualifications:

· Experience with Ruby on Rails

· JavaScript

· MySQL

· Object-oriented design

· Object/Relational Mapping

· Relational database experience

· Strong Linux skills (Ubuntu a plus)

· Experience developing large solutions

· 2+ years software development experience

Strongly Preferred qualifications:

· Contributions to open source and Web 2.0 projects

· Experience with other OO languages in addition to Ruby

· CS Degree or equivalent

Additional "nice to have" Qualifications:

· Experience with Cassandra or other NoSQL tool

The company will be happy to help you relocate to Boulder, Colorado; the greatest place on earth to live, seriously.

This is a full-time, employee, on-site position.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

ON HOLD: QA Engineer / lead (SCM or Software Developer in Test skills a plus) (Boulder, CO)

Fast-paced and growing Boulder startup is looking for an experienced software QA engineer to lead testing for a web-based product.

To be successful, you must have an assertive personality as you will initially be the only QA Engineer working with a development team of 7-8 developers.

As the QA team grows, there is potential for this to grow into a leadership role - so leadership skills are a must and leadership experience is a big plus.

In addition to a solid software QA background, the ideal candidate will also bring skills and experience in either the area of Software Configuration Management (SCM) or significant experience writing automated tests, shell scripts, or programming experience. This is a small company and we are looking for someone who can contribute in multiple ways.

Must be a self-starter who can rise to challenges and get things done. Must be able to work under tight deadlines.


Responsibilities will include:

• Review, understand and contribute to product requirements, specifications, and user stories.
• Identify and document detailed test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts.
• Forewarn stakeholders when a project is in jeopardy of meeting deadlines.
• Actively participate in design/code reviews and handoffs.
• Perform manual and automated functional and regression testing.
• Contribute to QA and product documentation.
• Provide testing estimates.
• Uncover and document defects in daily builds of the product software.
• Qualify bug reports from product users.
• Verify bug fixes.

Responsibilities may include (depending on the experience you bring):

• Develop automated functional and regression test suites.
• Write, maintain, and run white-box unit tests.
• Setup and maintain an automated build process.
• Package product releases for deployment.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience in QA and testing methodologies.
• Ability to develop and execute test plans with minimal guidance.
• Experience testing web-based products.
• Experience testing products using multiple web browsers and platforms.
• Experience with QA methods in an agile development environment.
• Understanding of unit tests, system tests, and test-driven development.
• Leadership skills.
• Strong SQL Skills (MySQL a plus)
• Linux Skills

Desired Qualifications:

• PHP, Java, or other object-oriented programming skills.
• Scripting languages
• Shell Scripting
• Experience with Cruise Control, Selenium, or other automated testing/build tools.
• Experience with load testing for applications supporting high numbers of concurrent users.
• Subversion experience
• BS in Computer Science or related degree

This is a full-time, employee, on-site position.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs at createksolutions dot com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

CLOSED - Sr. Java Developer / Architect (Boulder, CO)

An innovative startup in downtown Boulder is looking for a Senior Java Developer to join our team.

All of our developers work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, where everyone contributes to architecture / design as well as producing high-quality code and developing unit and integration tests. We use agile processes.

This is a senior-level position.

This is a full-time, employee, on-site position.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 5 years as Java Developer
• Architecture and design of software systems coded in Java
• Advanced data structures and algorithms
• Advanced Java and JDK
• Advanced Java EE and servlet container environments
• Development of unit and integration tests
• Data access models and implementations
• Timing and queuing systems
• Linux competency
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Desired Experience:

• Virtualization software
• On-demand computing services
• Server monitoring and management
• GUI front-end development
• Apache, MySQL, JPA, Hibernate, Jetty, JBoss
• Agile software development

If interested, please send resume and cover letter to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)
availability (2 weeks notice, etc.)

ON HOLD - Agile Product Manager (Mid-Level) Boulder, CO

Agile Product Manager (Mid-Level)

An exciting and growing software company, located in downtown Boulder, is looking for an energetic and passionate Product Manager.

The Product Manager will be primarily responsible for product planning. This includes managing the product throughout the product lifecycle in an agile environment, gathering and prioritizing product requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, to deliver exceptional products. It also includes working with sales and support to ensure customer satisfaction across all facets of the business. There may also be some product marketing responsibilities.

The Product Manager's job also includes product marketing responsibilities, including ensuring that the product and marketing efforts support the company's overall strategy and goals.

This is a mid-level position.

Responsibilities

· Help define the product strategy and roadmap

· Deliver and build requirements across a multi-product environment

· Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and business opportunities

· Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product

· Develop sales tools and collateral

· Act as a leader within the company

Required Qualifications

· Agile Product Owner or equivalent experience

· Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent software products

· Thorough understanding of software design and development practices

· Thorough understanding of Agile Methodology.

· 3+ years of experience in a job in a technical field

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Excellent teamwork skills

· Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience driving the development of web-based products, preferably related to online search, online advertising, social networking, blogs, etc.

· Rally Project Management Software experience

· Bugzilla Experience

This is a full-time employee, on-site position.

Please send resumes/cover letter detailing agile experience to jobs @ createksolutions . com

Please include the following:

Expected salary range (broad range is fine at this point)
Work Authorization Status (U.S. Citizen, Green Card, etc.)

CLOSED - Senior Flash Developer for 4-5 Week Contract (Boulder, CO)

Senior-Level Flash Developer Needed for 4-5 week contract (Boulder, CO)

Fun startup located in downtown Boulder, CO is looking for a Senior-Level Flash Developer to implement a small project from start to finish.

Skills required are Flash, ActionScript, and some PHP.

Interested? Please send your resume to jobs at createksolutions dot com

CLOSED - Senior .Net Developer (Downtown Denver) (perm or contract)

Growing company is looking for a Senior .NET Developer with architecture skills/experience.

Applicants must be very solid in the following skills:
• C#
• ASP.NET
• SQL Server database development

In addition, we need someone who has the following project skills:
• Architecting Applications
• Client Skills
• Requirements Gathering and Estimating
• Leading small development teams

This is in a small company environment and so the ability to wear multiple hats is essential.

This can be direct hire (W2), contract (1099), or contract to hire.

Must be local to the Denver area. Office location is in Downtown Denver.

Interested? Please send your resume, availability, and salary/rate requirements to jobs at createksolutions dot com