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July 31, 2006
What Will Become of Haifa's Tech Jobs?
Scanning jobs posts with some premier tech start-ups, we see many are based in Haifi, Israel. Given that that city is under attack in the current conflict, we wonder what will become of these jobs:
Zend
- Freelance PHP Experts
- Product Delivery Engineer (QA Department)
- Inside Sales Account Manager
- Packaging Senior Engineer
FilesX
- Senior Software Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer with Kernel Experience
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July 28, 2006
Palo Alto's SayNow Wants Biz +Tech Skills For Funded, Early Stage MySpace Voice Deal
SayNow is currently 8 people in a room with some seed funding building voice applications to allow music artists to do 2 way voice communications with their fan bases. Their main competitor is Seattle-based SnapVine, although we wonder if MySpace itself will start to offer this type of voice functionality.
SayNow is looking for full-time and consultants.
View - SayNow Jobs
- Java Architect
- Director of Business Development
- Director of Operations
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Intern + Others Wanted At Seattle Voice Start-up SnapVine
Your boss/CEO/founder at Snapvine would be "scholarly looking 32-year-old" Joe Heitzeberg. Snapvine. The company is manning up thanks to more than $2M in VC funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an early investor in Skype, and First Round Capital, the venture fund of Half.com founder Josh Kopelman. Russell Siegelman, a former Microsoft exec and a former partner at Kleiner Perkins.
Go the SnapVine now and you will see voice pranks like "the Break-up Bitch, delivers a kind gentle break up."You can also get wake-up calls and mobile podcasts that now make up the core of the Snapvine Web site. We see these as a starting point to prompt the 15- to 25-year- olds that the company is targeting to create their own voice messages and podcasts that they will then post on MySpace and other social networks.
The six-person company just moved into new office space in Belltown.
View - SnapVine Jobs
- Application Developer
- Application Developer Intern
- Platform Director
- Test Director
(tech core is built onC++, Java and Ruby)
Read - Snapvine gives voice to social networks (Seattle PI)
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July 27, 2006
Panther Express (Silly Name) Is A Nice Early Stage NYC CDN Start-up
If you prefer NYC to Tempe and agree that the CDN business is a hot-spot, look to Panther Express. Panther Express has raised $6M from Greylock Partners.
The company claims it can beat the costs of other CDNs with comparable quality. The company was founded in 2005 by Kevin Ryan and Dwight Merriman, former CEO and CTO of DoubleClick. During the interview, you might want to ask how much time Ryan is spending with Panther - he also is running a funded start-up called ShopWiki.
View - Jobs at Panther Express
- Salesperson
- Sales Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer (Java NIO, networking, and system architecture experience)
Read - Panther Express CDN Receives $6M in Funding From Greylock Partners
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Sign On With Tempe's Limelight In Time for Cooler Seasons
Limelight is the upstart that is taking on Akamai in content delivery. It just closed a huge $150M round led by Goldman Sachs. The company also announced that its Q2 revenue increased more than 35% to "well over $14M." The latest quarter marks Limelight's 11th consecutive quarter of profitability and 20th consecutive quarter of revenue growth.
With the explosion of Webcasting which requires speedy data delivery, Limelight is in the sweet-spot. The company backed the Webcast of NCAA March Madness among other projects. We think this could be a fun a lucrative gig - if you don't mind the furnace of Northern AZ.
View - Jobs At Limelight
- Account Executive - Tempe
- Sr. Unix Software Developer - Tempe
- Sr. Windows Programmer/Analyst - Tempe
- Web Application/UI Programmer - Tempe
- Software Project Manager - Tempe
- Operations Technician - Tempe
- Account Executive - London
- Sales Engineer - London
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July 26, 2006
Sun Gods Wanted At Palo Alto's SolFocus
SolFocus today secured $25M Series A out of $32M led by New Enterprise Associates for its solar concentrator photovoltics. If you don't know what are SCPs are know why they are important, don't bother applying.
Is solar risky. How do you chose the right solar start-up to run with? There are a number of well-funded solar start-ups crowding silicon valley these days. However, it doesn't appear that there will be a winner take all. There are so many possible solar applications from high rises to condos to cars that most of these can find a niche.
View - All positions
Product Development Manager
Product Development Manager
Electromechanical Engineer - Industrialization
Electromechanical Engineer - Industrialization
Embedded Systems Engineer - Control and Telemetry
System Test and Characterization Engineer
Senior Packaging Engineer
Test Engineer - Concentrator PV Cell
Electro-Optical Performance Verification Engineer
Process QA Engineer
Associate Engineer - Electromechanical
Director Field Operations
Product Champion
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July 25, 2006
WiMax over Paris
Paris, France-based Sequans Communications has just raised $24M for its fixed and mobile WiMAX chips, and it needs plenty of people to finish the job.
Specifically, it wants people with these skills:
- DSP Engineer
- Senior Field Applications Engineer/Manager
- System Integration & Test Engineer
- Director Sales APAC
- Senior Software Engineer
- Senior Technical Writer
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Foreign Exchange Leader FXall Wants New Yorkers
London-based FXall just took $75M for a smallish chunk of the company. That's because foreign exchange takes you into the trillions of dollars and FXall currently owns over 50% of the market. The company is backed by more than 50 global banks, so we don't think it is going any where.
We found a couple of jobs searches for FXall, including this one...
View - Sr. Java Developer
Read - London's FXall And Online Foreign Exchange Making It Hand Over Fist (the a:c)
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July 20, 2006
Austin's Adlucent Looking For Tech Lead For Price Comparison Deal
This one sounds dicey. The company is pre-funded. It wants to do price comparison - which is absurdly competitive - and the pay is poor. But hey its Austin. If you have been out of work for a while, you might want to stick your head in.
View - Lead Software Engineer/Architect at Adlucent
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The Top Tech Job In Sacto
If you are tired of the Bay Area's prices or want to be closer to the Tahoe slopes, why not run the SacBee.com? Granted you would be working for The Man. The SacBee's old school ways would drive most crazy, plus it is owned by McClatchy so you'd have a lot of levels of bosses.
But Sacramento is on the rise and its not as bad as its reputation. You might even might the Governator on the job.
View - Technical Leader (SacBee)
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Palo Alto's Adult Personals Goliath
Family oriented Palo Alto-ites don't wan't to tell their neighbors that they work at Friendfinder. Sure the company is a huge success financially, and online dating has gone mainstream,. Friendfinder runs 25 web sites in multliple sites and it claims to have over 100M registered members.
But Friendfinder is the perverted Match.com. It runs Adult FriendFinder which bills itself as the world's largest sex and swinger personals site. That's why most of the staff at the company - now at 200 employees - are young alt kids. It does seem that Friendfinder, desperate to attract skilled workers, pays well. The company's leadership is not particularly impressive, but they are the best in the world at adult personals.
View - FriendFinder Jobs
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July 18, 2006
Gig at NYC Avatar Success Story Oddcast
If you want to stay in NYC, you could do worse than getting a job with Oddcast. The company recently received a $4M round of financing - one of its VCs left the firm to join Oddcast - and its now hiring up. The company has a good client roster and seems to be ahead of the competition.
Read - Popular Avatar Maker Oddcast Gets $4M From Union Square + Itochu (the a:c)
View - 4 job postings +
View - R&D Media Engineer
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Garbage Tech Jobs in NYC
What a waste of time it is to look through NYC tech posts. Move west your techie. It seems you either have boring consultancies looking for hired hands or Yahoo's talking a big game but holding nothing.
We found one posting for a PHP Web Developer who would want to work for a start-up magazine called StudentFilmMakers - we give it 6 months until it folds. Best of all they are offering $32K per year. In New York Frickin City? Get out of here.
We came across another mysterious start-up calledTemboo: "Temboo is a 3 year old well-funded company. " Then why is it still in stealth mode? What the hell is it? Stop botherin us Temboo.
Or what do we make of David Siegel: "My name is David Siegel. I helped build a number of Web 1.0 companies back in the 90s. Now I'm in New York City building the next generation of Internet companies. I have the funding and space and am putting teams together. One company is looking for a senior developer/architect to build a very high-volume consumer site. Think of it as a next-generation Friendster." Friendster? At least aspire to be MySpace.
David Siegel - Would You Take a Job From This Guy?
View - Chief Architect/ Senior Programmer with David Siegel
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Working in Enterprise Software? SOA Means You Should Work For the Big Boys
Emplyement At SAP Is A Safe Bet During the Reign Of SOA
Merrill Lynch analyst Raimo Lenschow believes the SOA cycle will require significant investments in R&D and compares SOA to the transition from mainframe to Client/server. Lenschow says SOA will trigger consolidation as a significant number of software vendors fail to keep up change. Lenschow says that SAP leads in the investments, and only companies like Oracle and Microsoft will have the large R&D budgets and resources to adapt.
But it won't happen over-night. The SOA cycle will take another six years to mature because missing from the equation as companies consolidate are standards and processes for building and deploying SOA platforms.
Read - Analysts Warn Techies To Prepare For SOA Shift
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July 14, 2006
PayPal Hiring With Fire In Its Belly
Now that GOOG has launched a pay product, you know that the Paypalers have a sharp stick in the ribs from their boss. The company which always seems to be looking for talent seems to have turned up the HR campagn.
Among the positions that it is looking to fill in San Jose are:
-VP of PayPal Financial Planning & Analysis
- Senior Software Engineer
- Web developer
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July 13, 2006
Wish You Were a Pirate? Gig at SF's Puzzle Pirates
Casual game developer Puzzle Pirates is looking for game developers who are into open source game tools.
Who knows if this is true, but see for yourself: "The work environment at our SOMA offices is hip and comfortable. We believe that good work gets done as part of a balanced life; Three Rings has never run in 'crunch mode'. "
The company says it is profitable and has only taken minimal angel funding. Employees get a part in the profit sharing plan.
View- Game Developer
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Have a Good Heart? VolunteerMatch Staffing Up in SF's Hayes Valley
Hayes Valley is a great SF location to work and VolunteerMatch seems to have it going on. The people who work there could definately be working at any other serious tech company. The site is basically a Craigs List for volunteer gigs.
They are looking to fill a few positions on the biz side:
Senior Associate, Marketing & Communications
Director, Corporate Services - Chicago (Central Territory)
Inside Sales Manager
Client Relations Manager Associate
And they just posted on Craigs List for a Web Application Developer
View - Marketing Jobs
View - Application Developer Job
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July 12, 2006
Piczo - Fast Growing SF Picture Sharing Site Looking For Colo Freaks
Piczo's traffic is growing fast and you can hear the servers groan across town. The company is looking for not one but two operations guys.
Piczo targets teens and gives them photo website-building tools with an online community twist. It has raised nearly $4M from Sierra Ventures and Catamount Ventures, It has been around since 2004. CEO is Jeremy Verba, former EIR at Foundation Capital, and former founder and CEO of E! Online. He replaced the former CEO Paul Remer.
You Take the Job At Piczo, And You Will Have to Deal With This
Read - Operations Administrator
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July 11, 2006
Work For Susan Mernit At Yahoo!
Blogger and Yahoo exec Susan Mernit gets in touch to say:
We have openings for product managers to work on our core personals product and to build some exciting new products--and I would very much appreciate any referrals you can make. These are full-time, funded positions in Sunnyvale, CA.
We have three slots--all are for product managers who would work on my team at Yahoo! and own some product lines. The atmosphere is collaborative and supportive of innovativon and the business unit is highly valued by the company. Think premium services meets social media and see how that resonates.
My ideal candidate might have tried working for a start-up and is now interested in something more secure, but is still entrepenurial and wants to innovate-- and is fairly early in his or her career--even a couple of years out of school is okay--but they either are world class, or have the potential to be world class.
Thanks for reading this...and hopefully helping me find some great new team members.
Thx, Susan
--
Susan Mernit
Y! Personals, Senior Director, Product
Read my blog: susanmernit.blogspot.com
Write - susanmernit at yahoo dot com
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July 07, 2006
Online Wagering Tech Co. WagerWorks Looking For a Dirty Dozen in SF
WagerWorks ihas reqs open for 12 techies in its San Francisco office. The company's HQ is in London. WagerWorks sells functionality to poker sites and other online casinos on the net. The company's execs are experienced in the field - WagerWorks is the best in the business.
WagerWorks' online games, include multi-line, multi-coin slots machines, traditional table games, fixed odds propositions, and a multi-player poker network, including iDTV and mobile phone solutions. Importantly, the company has a regulatory compliance.
WagerWorks is owned by International Game Technology (IGT), the world's largest slot manufacturer. So it should be a stable company. Even better than stock options WagerWorks offers profit sharing.
WagerWorks Table Games
View - WagerWorks Jobs
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Mobile Game Programmer Wanted Behind The Orange Curtain
Mobile Games are hot right now. JavaGround is definitely a smaller player, but it does have corporate VC funding from the Swiss giant Esmertec.
JavaGround also is a java mobile games tools maker, rather than a games maker. The company has a European pedigree, having been founded in Belgium. It moved to So Cal in 2004.
The start-up is looking for at least one programmer at its offices in Dana Point.
A Mobile Game Enabled by JavaGround
View - Java or C++ programmer at JavaGround
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Check Pixar's 23 Jobs
Hollywood's golden years might be behind it, but up in the Emeryville HQ of Pixar joint is hoping thanks to an un-ending streak of hit movies culiminating in this Summer's hit Cars.
The company has a nice big campus, in a rather dull part of the East Bay. Insiders say that the pay is not terribly competitive but that you get great benefits, including some pride in working for a rocking company. And if you have kids and work for Pixar you will achieve Mick Jaggar status.
Pixar HR has had such a rough go of it filling posts that it is reaching out to folks in LA to try to lure them up to the fog-land.
Open Since Title
Jul 5 Archives Coordinator, Infrastructure Focus
Jul 2 Feature Film Department Manager
Jun 30 Studio Support Engineer
Jun 29 Software Engineer
Jun 29 Software Development Engineer in Test
Jun 29 Mac Software Engineer
Jun 29 Junior Macintosh Systems Administrator
Jun 29 Software Engineer (Cocoa, Objective C)
Jun 29 QA Engineer (Computer Graphics)
Jun 26 Shader Technical Director
Jun 22 Sr. Camera Operator
Jun 19 Render Coordinator
Jun 19 Technical Director, Lighting
Jun 19 Assistant Projectionist
Jun 11 Theme Park Animation Producer
Jun 7 Technical Director, Generalist
Jun 6 Manager, Compensation, Benefits & HRIS
Jun 1 Animator
Jun 1 Producer
May 31 Technical Director, FX
May 25 Management Assistant
May 18 Layout Artist
May 10 Fix Animator
View - Pixar Jobs
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July 06, 2006
Seattle's Zillow Feverish For Programmers
Count them: Seattle start-up Zillow has a full 40 open reqs - all of the in Seattle. This real estate eCommerce company quickly become a house-hold name in Seattle because its founder, Rich Barton, founded Expedia, and because its house pricing module took the net by storm.
Says Zillow: "We've got air hockey, free soda, a JSS dress code (jeans, sneakers, sandals) and a downtown Seattle location." They do seem to have nice benefits.
We think Zillow has legs and is definitely doing the coolest stuff in online real estate, see Zillow Labs. Their money shot allows you to type in your home address and see your home value as well as those of your neighbors. The company makes money through advertising If you are not that into real estate you will tire of Zillow quickly.
Its a Rocket-ship. But Will It Come Back Down To Earth?
View - Zillow jobs
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July 05, 2006
Doesn't Get Better Than Boulder, CO; Webroot Need Help
We have received emails from 'middle America" asking if we are going to ignore them.
If we were lucky enough to live in Boulder, we might apply here. Webroot has had huge growth and VC investors have sunk $100M+ into this so its not going away any time soon. If you think that Microsoft's free anti-spyware offer is the answer than you shouldn't bother.
Webroot has open reqs for about 25 people, including roles for 10 software guys in Silicon Valley.
View - Open Reqs
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Like Movies? Work for IMDB
Amazon.com-owned IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) is looking to staff-up. IMDB is a different beast from eCommerce focused Amazon. IMDB only makes money via advertising, so the positions that it is looking to fill are in ad sales.
We are impressed with the content additions that IMDB has made and its traffic is great. Clearly the company has not languished since mighty Amazon took ownership. For example, IMDB has a resume section where film industry workers can create their home pages. And it is now reviewing games and TV shows as well as offering show times and ticket sales.
Relocation to Seattle is required for its Senior Ad Sales position. Amazon's HR started looking to fill the position in Mid June, but have not found the right fit and are looking again now.
View - Senior Online Ad Sales Executive
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July 03, 2006
Make Your Self At Home At tech:gigger
Thanks for poking your head in at tech:gigger. We are the newest brother site in the alarm:clock family of tech business sites. As you might surmise, tech:gigger covers the technology economy from its jobs/career angle.
We will flag the jobs from the stealth start-ups to the Nasdaq tech companies that merit your attention. We will also tell your stories from the front lines. How does Yahoo's interview differ from Google's and eBay's? Tech:gigger will let you know. Here are tech:gigger, we carry plenty of disappointments in failed tech endeavors. We vow to pick apart the job market's false promises so that you don't waste precious years on the next Pets.com.
For our part, tech:gigger welcomes sponsorships from recruitment firms and corporations that can spare dollars from their HR budgets.
Here are some tech:gigger house rules:
- Treat tech:gigger like your buddy who is also looking around for a better gig. Get in touch to give us your stories. Think talk radio.
- Throw us some challenges. What do you want to know? We'll do our best to get you the answers.
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