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Past Mozilla developer and designer

Websitebit.ly
Roles
  • Past Mozilla developer and designer
  • Past co-founder of a VC-funded startup
  • Past lead-developer of a VC-funded startup
  • Design and develop new features for our flagship product
Typefull-time
Role taxonomySoftware EngineeringLeadership / ManagementFounder / Cofounder
SpecialtiesSoftware Engineering, Leadership
LocationToronto, Canada
SalaryEquity mentioned
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Hiring notes
TechAzure
Parsed locationsToronto, Canada
RegionsCanada
Posted byarchonjobs
PostedJan 7, 2014
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Original posting

Toronto, Canada - Full Time WHO WE ARE We’re Archon Systems, a rapidly growing (and profitable!) startup making software to help small businesses. Our flagship product, inFlow Inventory, has been downloaded by over 500,000 small businesses around the world and reached #1 in its space on Google and CNET download.com. Both of our founders are developers, and we take the time to build products that look and work beautifully. We care a lot about both our employees and our customers. We value you as a whole human being, not as a cog in a machine. Check out www.archonsystems.com for more about us. Job perks: - Work from home 2-3 days a week (Yup. http://bit.ly/KtKPeO) - Top-notch computers - Beautiful office - All-expense-paid conferences - Health benefits - Stock options - Make a difference: you’ll be the 11th member of our team You'll get to work with and learn from our other awesome members: - Ex-Googler who previously graduated #1 from University of Waterloo’s math faculty. - Past Mozilla developer and designer - Past co-founder of a VC-funded startup (and in a past life, video and interactive artist with work shown internationally) - Past lead-developer of a VC-funded startup - Marketer who won an international marketing competition twice, beating out Fortune 500 companies - ... and other great people! JOB DESCRIPTION Here’s what you’d do: - Design and develop new features for our flagship product: from UI & database design to coding and testing - Fix bugs and make improvements for usability, speed, etc. - Use modern C#, .NET, Azure, git, HTML/CSS, SQL, etc. - Occasionally do customer support (email, phone, etc.) to develop your customer-understanding and product-design skills - Initiate your own ideas and projects to help us grow You should have: - 1+ year of software development experience - Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field - Experience with C# - The ability to thrive in a small team with lots of freedom Nice to have (but not necessary): - User experience design skills - Experience developing APIs, web services or web applications - Experience with Windows Forms Other stuff we’d be happy to hear about: - Experience with business systems (accounting, inventory, CRM, etc.) - Open-source or recreational coding projects - Awards and contests - Close experience with small businesses