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About the company
ActiveProspect is a young, privately-funded, technology company building a focused portfolio of high-volume web applications that service the online lead generation industry. Our service is serious business, providing 24x7 mission-critical service to our customers by delivering millions of online leads per month.
Our HQ is the second story of a house-turned-office between Whole Foods and Z-Tejas on 6th Street in downtown Austin, close to good food and plenty of happy-hour watering holes. Our culture reflects a work-hard play-hard mentality where flip-flops and shorts are considered business casual.
What you'll do...
You'll have ownership of features or entire web-based applications and will take them all the way from concept to production. Use your depth of experience in Java to help us write great software. Show your passion for quality by writing succinct unit tests. Apply your knowledge of the inner workings of the query optimizer to make MySQL hum. Make Linux systems (Ubuntu, RHEL) do your bidding with aplomb. You'll develop in an agile environment with daily or weekly milestones.
What we need...
You should definitely be familiar with Hibernate, Spring, JDBC and SQL, Servlets, Javascript (Prototype, jQuery), XHTML, CSS, JUnit. Experience with an IDE (IntelliJ) is important. Sysadmin skills (not just familiarity with a prompt but also architecture of systems) and experience with running Apache and Jetty is a must. Extra consideration will be given to open source contributors, Rails folks and those with a strong appreciation for good design and user experience. We're looking for someone who can recognize opportunities for improvement, gather feedback (from customers and coworkers), devise a solution, articulate a plan of action, and lead the development efforts from start to finish.
Quality character, and a strong and informed opinion will get you far with us. Those with the ability to make us laugh will also get bonus points.
Experience in the online advertising industry or, more specifically, in the online lead generation industry is a big plus.
Why should you join us...
We believe in quality, not quantity. Our service is a 24/7 mission critical component for our customers and their business is our business. We take that very seriously and believe strongly that you can do a whole lot more with an elite commando unit than you can with an army of foot soldiers. In order to build that team, we'll give you what you want... competitive pay, ownership in the company, benefits, a fun place to work, challenge of writing robust highly-available software, control over your job, and serious input in the direction of the company. And after you get here you can help us pick out who comes next...
How to Apply
Send a resume over to jobs@activeprospect.com, and make sure to put "Sr. Web Developer (Java/Ruby)" in the subject line.
ActiveProspect, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
