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| ABOUT SPOTLIGHT Spotlight Ticket Management is where tickets mean business An exciting venturebacked start up in Silicon Beach Spotlight provides Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to help companies better understand the business impact of their sports and concert tickets while making it easier to get tickets buy tickets sell tickets and track it all through CRM and Expense Software Spotlight is growing exponentially financially backed by sports team owners and VCs with two new investments just closing and looking for aggressive upandcomers excited to grow with our firm Spotlight provides an exciting harddriving work environment with significant opportunity for advancement due to rapid growth All of our employees and potential employees share a common set of personal characteristics Unfailing honesty and integrity Commitment to our clients and customer service Passionate hard working and independent we have no time for micromanagement Excited to join a young venture backed company Open to new challenges and growing responsibilities We offer a challenging stimulating and dynamic work environment excellent benefits including healthdentalvisionlife insurance and 401K plan and many opportunities for personal and professional growth OVERVIEW We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Lead for our fastgrowing startup with expertise in building scalable extensible and userfriendly web applications The successful candidate has a strong history of successful software design and implementation and is exceptional at backend and applicationlayer development with the ability to contribute on frontend development The ideal candidate must have an I can build anything attitude while providing technical leadership to a growing development team The candidate will spend a significant percentage of time participating in design efforts while also being responsible for helping us break ground on new innovative enterprise customerfacing tools and technologies The successful candidate should be smart energetic collaborative teamoriented and passionate about making a meaningful and measureable difference with a take ownership mentality Additionally this candidate will need to take a hands on approach to leadership as they will be asked to not only lead our companys growth process from a technical standpoint but also from a managerial standpoint This is a significant opportunity to drive the technical vision for an expanding startup We are growing and this position will be a major contributor to the direction and growth of the business reporting directly to the CEO JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Participate in the architecture and design of new and existing products Work with stakeholders to define constraints and develop requirements Provide conceptual design prototype and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies Plan control and manage development budgets Manage and coordinate offshore and onshore development teams Responsible for estimating work schedule releases and leading a team of developers to completion Lead in the solution development design and write code write and execute test cases and support the applications that we are delivering to our clients Technical management (development lead) and program management Responsible for ensuring that the team stays on schedule Drive team to solution Identify lessons learned and implement improvements on each release REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Bachelors Degree in technology related field with 7+ years of software development work experience (MS in Computer Science a plus) Previous experience on SaaS enterprise solutions B2B B2C and eCommerce or a combination of them Successful experience planning and managing budgets Experience managing offshore development teams Strong work experience in software development engineering with the following technologies PHP in a LAMP environment (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) Experience with the Symfony framework highly desirable but not required Solid understanding and experience of using source control repositories like Subversion (SVN) Experience with designing and implementing web services and integrating with 3rd Party web services Prior experience working with AJAX and Web 20 interfaces using javascript libraries like jQuery scriptaculous or the YUI Library Experience applying software reuse methodologies including objectoriented methods and tools and use of design tools based on the Universal Modeling Language (UML) Experience working with load balancing of multiple Apache web servers or work with the LAMP environment in the cloud is a plus Development experience on leading ticket and eCommerce platforms a plus (eBayStubhub Paypal Ticketmaster Amazon Google CheckoutWallet ElavonInternetSecure) Demonstrated excellence in developing webbased user interface and backend software modules Expertise in building scalable extensible and userfriendly web applications Prior experience of working in a team environment and leading Software teams of developers Experience with agile software development methodologies Solid oral and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and nontechnical audiences Experience in startups is a big plus Salesforce and mobile applications development experience a plus Experience designing software platforms and implementing APIs a plus |
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