Senior Software Design Engineer Job Posting

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Job Title:	Senior Software Design Engineer
Company:	Marchex, Inc.
Position Type:	Permanent
Pay Rate:	DOE
Date Posted:	Oct-09-09

About You

We need a Senior Software Design Engineer to join our talented and visionary development team.

Our Software Design Engineers act as inventor, product architect, engineer, and can balance forward thinking with what needs to get done now.

So we're looking for more than just passion for technology, we also want individuals who can contribute to long lasting solutions, and lead a discussion about architecture and communicate clearly and convincingly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About the Product

Any business can purchase a phone number to track online advertising / sales calls, but how do you measure the value of X million calls a month?

Welcome to Marchex Voicestar!

We enable advertisers to track ROI for online advertising, and marketing campaigns using VoIP phone lines to optimize advertising expense both online and offline. We also offer a cost effective way for businesses to measure the value of their calls.

Check us out here: www.voicestar.com

And here: www.marchex.com

About the Role

Okay, Marchex Voicestar is a cool, new product, what else would an engineer want to know?

• Open source technologies such as Perl and telephony stack (learn new technologies!)
• Public API
• Flexible product (VXML) that allows our clients to build tools on our platform
• Product built entirely in-house and all the authors still work here
• Small team, and collaborative learning environment. Share your knowledge and learn from us too.
• Work on interesting challenges because we have *big* plans.
• Your work will matter because our product gets heavily used and our customers LOVE it!

In general, you will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of Marchex Voicestar services and applications. This includes all aspects of design, architecture, implementation, maintenance, build management, project management, support, and collaborating with other product teams as needed.

Your Qualifications

Here's what'll get you in the door; the more of these you've got the better:

• BS degree in a Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience in software development.
• Experience with a variety of SDLCs.
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to rapidly changing company and project needs.
• Fluency in more than one language such as Perl, Ruby, Java, Python, C.
• Understanding of OO design, algorithms, data structures, networking, database design & optimization.
• Extensive experience with database design and optimization
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Expertise in a variety of relevant areas: messaging, VOIP, SIP, TDM, RTP, distributed computing, caching, search engine design, data mining, etc.
• Experience working with a development framework (Mason, Rails, Catalyst, JSP, etc) HTML, CSS, JS and Linux is preferred.

Location:	US-WA-Seattle
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Jackie
Contact Phone:	206-331-3645
Contact Email:	jwolfstone@marchex.com
URL:	http://www.marchex.com

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