JAMF Software - Full Time - Minneapolis, MN and Eau Claire, WI
JAMF Software is the creator of the Casper Suite, the only suite of client management software developed exclusively for the Apple platform. We help thousands of customers to manage their Macs and iOS devices, and we're fortunate to work in a space that is evolving and growing at a fast pace. This is a great place to work, and we're conveniently located on the top floor of the Grain Exchange in downtown Minneapolis.
We're looking for a driven web developer (Symfony/Zend, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, PHP) to join our team. In this position, you will hit the ground running and help us build a better website, evolve and mature our development process, and integrate with internal and external systems using a variety of APIs. You'll also probably suggest some things we haven't thought of yet.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Collaborates with communications team to create and publish timely, accurate information about products and offerings
• Manages and improves development and production environments
• Evolves development process to maturity through the use of content versioning systems, deployment tools, backup systems and increased redundancy
• Integrates with external systems (for example, Salesforce) using APIs
• Measures the success of web initiatives and campaigns
• Increases efficiency, improves processes and leverages emerging capabilities
We are growing quickly and are also hiring for a number of other positions, including Software Engineer (Objective-C or Java), Software Engineer - Test, and QA engineers. All jobs are listed on our careers page: http://www.jamfsoftware.com/about/careers.
Interested? The first step is to check out our careers page and submit your resume to our recruiting team. If you could mention that you saw the job posting here, I would appreciate it. I've asked them to keep their eyes open for resumes that mention HN.
The JAMF Software (http://jamfsoftware.com) development team is looking for a Cocoa/Objective C developer to enable us to expand our Apple iOS Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mac OS X client management, and customer-focused API and Extension framework capabilities.
JAMF Software is focused on helping the enterprise succeed with the Apple platform.
JAMF Software is a great place to work - customer focused, challenging and interesting work, comfortable environment, smart people, growing company, good benefits.
This is an interesting filtering process. Presumably, there will be some who attend this event already identified (based on their resumes) as desirable candidates for one or more companies.
Will this be asynchronous knowledge or will the attendees and companies have contact and/or show interest in advance?
I was a bit worried about this as well, but it has been fine for my Mac-based business. The iPhone app is basic, but extremely helpful as far as what it does.
There are some Mac-specific answers in the knowledge-base and the forums, but really I mostly interact with RingCentral via a browser (not a problem on Safari or Firefox), the iPhone app or the VOIP handset itself.
If you have specific questions, I would be happy to see if I can do whatever you're concerned you'll not be able to do and let you know.
edit: I don't really use the SoftPhone or fax from within applications. Some of the finer details of this stuff may end up being PC-only.
We switched to Ringcentral from Vonage and the difference has been fantastic. Vonage was really unreliable, but the Ringcentral hosted service has been great.
I'll add a couple pros:
* no noticable downtime in over a year
* iPhone app (visual voicemail, call out from the app as if you were sitting at your desk, preview faxes, etc)
* you can have various voicemail or auto-attendant messages for different times - after hours, holidays, etc
* 800-number usage counts as normal minutes - not an upcharge
* easy fax usage - incoming/outgoing
Cons:
* Customer support is outsourced so they do the standard process of running through a checklist of questions. (However, I have only needed to call twice and they did answer my question one time. The second time I figured it out before they responded via email.)
I briefly considered the implications of a similar service which would gather checklists of important dates for small businesses. For example, tax return filing dates, sales tax quarterly payments, business license renewal dates, etc.
The rough idea was that you would collect this public information, add a calendar/reminder component and then localize (which would be the hard part).
It sounds as if you may be going down this path at some point in the future. If so, I think it would be a very interesting service for which small businesses might pay a token yearly fee.
I similarly think of this every year when I go on an annual camping trip with a group of friends. We have a short group list on a website that we use, but it would be helpful if we could edit that and add to it. Each year it is inevitable that something is forgotten or we talk about something in January but fail to remember it in August/September.
I often check my gear against lists that are published by camping supply companies (Coleman, etc). Much further down the line, it might be an interesting business model to allow for "sponsored" lists.
It may be helpful to add an inline status alert (similar to those used by Twitter, Netflix, Basecamp, etc) in the actual dashboard when you're experiencing high demand.
I signed up yesterday afternoon and submitted a couple of requests and wasn't sure what to expect for turnaround time. If you are not currently completing requests as quickly as you normally would, it would be reassuring to trial members (and existing members) to receive a notice that things may take slightly longer than normal but you are indeed working hard to catch up with demand.
Could you elaborate on this? It sounds a bit far-fetched that Symfony (a PHP framework) would solely be responsible for losing a company 2 huge contracts and laying off 1/3 of their workforce. 10s of thousands of function calls for a home page? What did the home page do?
I personally have been very impressed by Symfony (version 1.1 was just released this week so it sounds like your experience was with version 1.0 or a beta version), the Symfony community, the IRC channel and the documentation (a full print version book which is really well-written with all of the contents available online for free as well). In the few benchmarks I've seen that actually bothered to include Symfony, it seems to measure up quite well.
Symfony powers Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Answers and at least some portion of Delicious, by the way.
(Sorry to jump in with a first post questioning what you've said, but I would like to understand better what your experience was in order to be aware of potential pitfalls that may be lurking around the bend for me.)
JAMF Software is the creator of the Casper Suite, the only suite of client management software developed exclusively for the Apple platform. We help thousands of customers to manage their Macs and iOS devices, and we're fortunate to work in a space that is evolving and growing at a fast pace. This is a great place to work, and we're conveniently located on the top floor of the Grain Exchange in downtown Minneapolis.
We're looking for a driven web developer (Symfony/Zend, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, PHP) to join our team. In this position, you will hit the ground running and help us build a better website, evolve and mature our development process, and integrate with internal and external systems using a variety of APIs. You'll also probably suggest some things we haven't thought of yet.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Collaborates with communications team to create and publish timely, accurate information about products and offerings
• Manages and improves development and production environments
• Evolves development process to maturity through the use of content versioning systems, deployment tools, backup systems and increased redundancy
• Integrates with external systems (for example, Salesforce) using APIs
• Measures the success of web initiatives and campaigns
• Increases efficiency, improves processes and leverages emerging capabilities
We are growing quickly and are also hiring for a number of other positions, including Software Engineer (Objective-C or Java), Software Engineer - Test, and QA engineers. All jobs are listed on our careers page: http://www.jamfsoftware.com/about/careers.
Interested? The first step is to check out our careers page and submit your resume to our recruiting team. If you could mention that you saw the job posting here, I would appreciate it. I've asked them to keep their eyes open for resumes that mention HN.