We are Hiring

• Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails/Unix
• Front-End Web Developer - Usability, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ruby on Rails
• QA Engineer - Ruby on Rails/Unix
• VP of Marketing - Online Marketing

Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails/Unix

We are looking for an exceptional software engineer to join our team building hosted web application using Ruby on Rails. We don't necessarily expect prior Rails experience, but we want to see an impressive software development background, strong motivation and the desire to learn. We consider specific prior knowledge and skills secondary to the ability to get things done, intelligence, motivation and experience.

The ideal candidate will be a generalist, with experience developing both large systems (e.g. operating systems, databases, applications servers, compilers, large-scale enterprise software) and application software. Experience with UNIX is a must. Experience with web applications and databases is extremely helpful. Ruby/Rails experience would be great.

Pluron, Inc is the maker of Acunote, online project management software for Agile development. We are based in Foster City, CA. This job is with our R&D group in Ukraine (Kiev and Nikolayev), but we will consider qualified candidates elsewhere.

Qualifications (several are desirable, NOT all are required)

Domain Knowledge:

• Experience developing web applications and understanding of the underlying technologies (e.g. HTTP, SSL, tcp)
• Experience with Ruby on Rails stack
• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript/AJAX
• Extensive experience with relational data modeling, SQL, and other database technologies
• Experience with web services

General:

• Exceptional problem solving skills
• Good English
• Active participation in open-source projects, mailing lists, blogs
• Good writing skills

Background/Software Engineering:

• Computer Science or related degree
• Expert knowledge and extensive experience with C and C++
• Mastery of some number of interesting languages (e.g. Lisp, Smalltalk, OCaml, Haskell, Perl, Python, Ruby)
• Commitment to creating modular, loosely coupled designs and writing easily understandable, documented, maintainable code
• Affinity for automated test coverage, unit testing, test-driven development, refactoring
• Experience with concurrency and distributed computing
• Experince with regular expressions

Tools:

• Extensive experience using UNIX both as advanced user and an administrator
• Experience administering Debian Linux, web servers, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Subversion, MediaWiki
• Experience with source control tools, e.g. Subversion, Perforce, Git, ClearCase, CVS
• Ability and desire to automate tasks and create tools
• Mastery of an advanced programmer's editor - Emacs, vi, Eclipse, KDevelop, etc.

Please send your resume and cover letter as plain text, PDF, or MS Word to jobs-dev AT pluron DOT com. Please include your name in the Subject of the email.

Front-End Web Developer - Usability, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ruby on Rails

We are looking for an exceptional front-end web developer to join our team building hosted web application using Ruby on Rails. This is a cross-functional role lying between hard-core backend software development and web design.

The ideal candidate will have created multiple good-looking and highly usable web applications and web sites. He/she will be a master of HTML, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX and will be able to create professional interfaces using this medium. He will will be an advocate for the user, understanding user's needs and improving usability. He/she will understand tradeoffs inherent in web development and will achieve appropriate compromise between the looks, functionality and code complexity.

Pluron, Inc is the maker of Acunote, online project management software for Agile development. We are based in Foster City, CA. This job is with our R&D group in Ukraine (Kiev and Nikolayev), but we will consider qualified candidates elsewhere.

Qualifications (several are desirable, NOT all are required)

Domain Knowledge:

• Extensive experience developing interactive web applications
• Mastery of HTML, CSS and JavaScript/AJAX
• Extensive experience with cross-browser issues
• Experience with Prototype, jQuery or other JavaScript libraries
• Ability to create user intefaces that are professional, functional and great looking while making appropriate tradeoffs between the looks, functionality and code complexity

General:

• Exceptional problem solving skills
• Good English
• Active participation in open-source projects, mailing lists, blogs
• Good writing skills

Background/Software Engineering:

• Computer Science or related degree
• Appreciation of usability and functional beauty
• HCI/industrial design/art background
• Experience with several programming languages

Tools:

• Good UNIX experience
• Experience with source control tools, e.g. Subversion, Perforce, Git, ClearCase, CVS
• Mastery of an advanced programmer's editor - Emacs, vi, Eclipse, KDevelop, etc.
• Experience with graphical editors like Photoshop, Gimp, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape

Please send your resume and cover letter as plain text, PDF, or MS Word to jobs-dev AT pluron DOT com. Please include your name in the Subject of the email.

QA Engineer - Ruby on Rails/Unix

We are looking for an exceptional Quality Assurance engineer to join join our team building hosted web application using Ruby on Rails. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience doing white-box software testing, exploratory and regression testing, test automation. The ideal candidate will be a generalist, be intellectually curious and interested in building sustainable quality culture in the company.

Pluron, Inc is the maker of Acunote, online project management software for Agile development. We are based in Foster City, CA. This job is with our R&D group in Ukraine (Kiev and Nikolayev), but we will consider qualified candidates elsewhere.

Qualifications (several are desirable, NOT all are required)

Domain Knowledge:

• Professional experience doing white-box QA in a software company
• Experience testing web applications and understanding of the underlying technologies (e.g. HTTP, SSL, tcp)
• Experience with SQL and other relational database technologies
• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience working with development tools, e.g. debuggers, profilers, build systems

General:

• Exceptional problem solving skills
• Intellectual curiosity, attention to detail
• Good English
• Good writing skills
• Active participation in open-source projects, mailing lists, blogs

Background/Software Engineering:

• Computer Science or related degree
• Good programming skills
• Experience with scripting languages (Ruby, Perl, Python, etc.)
• Interest in computer security, network security, cryptography

Tools:

• Experience using UNIX both as advanced user and an administrator
• Experience with source control tools, e.g. Subversion, Perforce, Git, ClearCase, CVS
• Ability and desire to automate tasks and create tools
• Mastery of an advanced programmer's editor - Emacs, vi, Eclipse, KDevelop, etc.
• Experience with test case management tools (e.g. TestDirector, QADirector, QaTraq)
• Experience with test automation tools (e.g. Selenium, SilkTest, Mercury, custom)

Please send your resume and cover letter as plain text, PDF, or MS Word to jobs-dev AT pluron DOT com. Please include your name in the Subject of the email.

VP of Marketing - Online Marketing

We are looking for an exceptional VP of Marketing to take ownership of all our marketing efforts. The ideal candidate will have the right combination of drive, intelligence, creativity, experience, and the ability to get things done. While prior experience is essential for this job, being smart, hungry, and highly productive will count greatly.

This is a high-level job in a startup and will involve both hands-on individual contributions and high-level executive responsibilities. Both ability to get things done personally and to delegate/outsource work are essential, as is knowing when to do which. We are looking for a generalist who will be able to scale himself and his organization as the company grows.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as a single point of responsibility for all lead generation, customer acquisition and retention, from all touchpoints and all the way through sales pipeline.
• Take ownership of our public website, drive product positioning, marcom, copy creation, maintenance, site design and optimization.
• Take ownership of all online and offline direct marketing, including paid and organic search marketing (SEM, Adwords, SEO), email marketing, advertising, etc.
• Take ownership of all PR efforts, online and print media relations, analyst relations, community development.
• Define and drive implementation of your own metrics and analytics necessary to judge performance of the marketing department, and then use them to objectively show how your efforts led to increased revenue. This is a highly results-driven position.
• May work partially from home.

Qualifications (desirable, not all are required)

• Extensive experience doing online marketing in a results-driven environment.
• Exceptional ability to productively write copy that gets results. This job will involve a lot of writing, and managing writers, so it should be something you do well and enjoy. Personal blog is a nice to have.
• Direct marketing mindset, belief that the job of marketing is to make money, and that measuring results is essential to the success.
• Significant practical experience with online marketing tools of the trade, including SEM using Google AdWords, on-page and off-page SEO, web analytics (e.g. Google Analytics, custom-build and ad-hoc systems), competitive analysis (Hitwise, Comscore), email marketing systems, affiliate management tools, etc.
• Significant practical experience doing/managing PR efforts, both new media (blogs, social news, mailing lists, forums) and traditional media (professional journalists, analysts, news releases, trade publications). Relevant rolodex is a nice to have.

• Experience marketing SaaS.
• Experience marketing enterprise software.
• Experience with our product area of project management, Agile and development tools would be very helpful.

• Exceptional problem solving skills.
• Power computer user/developer experience is a nice-to-have.
• People and project management experience.
• Both startup and large company experience.

Please send your resume as plain text, PDF (preferred), or MS Word to jobs-marketing AT pluron DOT com. Please include your name in the Subject of the email.

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