Senior Software Engineer – Backend Web Development

Front Seat (www.frontseat.org) is a two-year-old software company created to exploit the power of technology to positively impact civic life. Front Seat is a rare opportunity to work with a world-class software team where social benefit is the top priority. We’re looking for a seasoned backend engineer to compliment our UI expertise and help us dream up the next wave of civic innovation driven by software.

Our flagship project is Walk Score (www.walkscore.com), a site that promotes walkable neighborhoods by providing a walkability score for any address. Walk Score created a tsunami of media coverage (ABC, CNN, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and more than 250 other newspaper articles, plus 50+ TV segments and broad radio and online coverage) and users have scored over 5 million addresses on the site. Other projects include CountMore.org (www.countmore.org), a site that helps students decide whether to vote in their school state or home state, Kathy’s Climate Kit (www.climatekit.org) , a global warming gift box that we’ve spun off as a separate consumer products company, The Predatory Lending Assocation (www.predatoryass.com), an experimental political satire lampooning payday lenders, and Better Bills (www.betterbills.org), which promotes energy conservation through better bill design.

Our technology stack includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Python, PostGIS, Map Server, etc.
About You:

• You have 5+ years of world-class backend web development experience
• You’re fluent in relational databases
• You’re familiar with Python, shell scripts, and Linux systems administration
• You have experience building APIs and platforms
• You have a Computer Science or related degree
• You’re interested in a range of software technologies and social issues

Benefits include: competitive salary, health care, dental and vision, retirement plan, and 3 weeks paid time off. Most of all, the opportunity to create software that revitalizes our cities, connects our communities, and helps our democracy.

We have a fantastic, light-filled office located just off the Burke-Gilman trail in Seattle. We also have the coolest conference table ever, a deck for BBQs, dual LCD monitors, an organic Korean restaurant right downstairs—and a Walk Score of 83.

Email your resume to jobs@frontseat.org or visit www.frontseat.org/jobs/

(Seattle)

Advantive took several key steps to optimize Evans Glass for search results with a long-term ongoing SEO strategy in mind. Here are the highlight tactics for Evans Glass SEO strategy:

1. Update the site content and images to repesent current products and services. http://www.evansglass.com/

2. Add the appropriate tagging of content, images, headers, etc for optimal search engine awareness throughout the site.

3. Upate the content for optimization of key word density.

4. Develop a customer testimonial and career site with a new URL- http://www.evans-glass.com/.

5. Develop a Blog site for Evans Glass marketing experts to become industry experts. http://www.evansglass-blog.com/

6. Create sites across the domain such as MySpace, YouTube, and profiles on LinkedIn.

7. Develop an interlinking strategy.

8. Run Industry Press Releases.

9. Post relevant links across thousands of directories.

10. Provide monthly SEO site updates, content, and support to move up Evans Glass services and products to the top of the search engines, and the scam posting companies several pages deep.

In summary, it pays not to take shortcuts with buying your way into better search engine listings. SEO is a mature online marketing practice, and by following the industry’s best SEO practices, as well as a lot of hard work, the payoffs are more visitors to you site and better search engine positing listings.  In the end, more customers will come to your site seeking advice and expertise that will create legitimate revenue for your company long-term. The major search engines are domain experts and if you attempt to spam them through quick fixes, you may be banned from being listed for a long time.

Look for future updates on the results of Evans Glass’ SEO program.

(Redmond)

1. VP of Engineering – Staff and build your dream team for an online media startup, and keep your hands and mind busy with software design and coding in all application layers. You will be the owner and lead architect for the technology platform this company will use to build and scale its service nationally.

2. Data Architect – Back-end software design architect, data modeler, database developer for an online media startup. The choice of database technology will be determined with your guidance. The road is wide open ahead of you. Work with the VP of Engineering to build a foundation that delivers functionality wins quickly and scales exponentially.

3. Senior Oracle Developer – Work on complex Oracle PL/SQL applications for the utility industry at an established multinational firm. 10+ years Oracle platform development experience is the profile of current team members.

Send us a resume at careers@advantivecorp.com to apply for one of these positions.

Since Advantive Federal is a SDVO, federal contracts awarded to it can be procurred as set-asides and do not require a government contracting schedule. The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Veterans Business Development as implemented Section 308 of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-183) establishes a procurement program for small business concerns owned and controlled by Service-Disabled Veterans.

A Contracting Officer (CO) may set aside acquisitions for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) businesses.  A CO may award a sole source contract to an SDVO SBC if the CO determines that none of the SDVO SBC set-aside exemptions or provisions apply and the anticipated award price of the contract, including options, will not exceed:

1. $5.0M for manufacturing requirements.

2. $3.0M for all other requirements.

3. The SDVOB is a responsible contractor able to perform the contract.

4. Award can be made at a fair and reasonable price.

To learn more about doing business with Advantive Federal, please contact Don Phillips at 703.850.5908 or at donp@advantivecorp.com

Skills Needed:

• 10+ years Oracle development experience is the profile of previous hires.
• PL/SQL programming is the most needed skill.

Work Environment:

• The environment is filled with complex applications – there is lots of intellectual challenge inherent to the work.
• This will be a 3 month minimum contract or contract-to-hire.
• The client wants work done onsite at their office on the eastside.
• There is no travel for this job.
• This is a mostly 9-5 type of job, with some crunch time requirements around releases.
• Company size is 50,000+ internationally, about 100 locally.
• Advancement path would be working on different projects at client or rotating onto other Advantive clients.

Terms:

• Onsite, eastside office location.
• Pay is highly competitive.
• Contract or contract to hire.

Are you interested in this position? Please send your resume to careers@advantivecorp.com for immediate consideration. We look forward to hearing from you.

Advantive provided the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency with end-to-end development on a complex environmental footprint calculator and educational website. The application is built on Open Source technologies including Python and Plone, which is Content Management System built on the open source application server Zope. See the site in action at www.psgreenfleets.org.

Advantive has been working with SharePoint and Oracle Portal for the past five years. We and our clients have found immediate benefits in initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. POWTEC’s IT infrastructure called for SharePoint Portal Server 2007 based on their business requirements, licensing structure and the fact they are using Active Directory for single sign-on.  Now their entire organization can collaborate on business development activities, tasks, projects, human resources, finance, operations, etc by accessing a secure online website anytime anywhere.  Tight integration with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provides you with a simple, consistent experience. Advantive would be happy to demonstrate the collaboration tools we have produced and learn together how these solutions would help your organization become more productive. Average costs range from $5,000 to $15,000 for development, depending on size of organization and current licensing relationships.  We can do this in-person or online. To schedule a demo, please contact Marc Pollard at 206.595.0202.