About Us
We’ve been called "a visionary contributor to the Open Source community." Recently named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner, Sonatype is investing more than ever to deliver innovative solutions to transform software development. Leading software development teams from around the world rely on Sonatype software products. Whether they are developing software for internal use, building customer-facing websites, or developing some of the best-known commercial software products, our customer’s success is our highest priority. We’re constantly looking for experienced and motivated people to join our team. Our employees and consultants are committed to making software development infrastructure as efficient as possible by relying on standards instead of ad-hoc methodologies. That’s why we say we are "Transforming Software Development."
About You
You are tired of just going to work - you want the opportunity to transform the world of software development by working with one of the most successful open source technology companies. You are a self-starter who can be thrown into a situation and given lots of latitude to figure things out without a lot of hand-holding. You have a strong engineering background and experience working with Agile software development teams. You would you like to work with top-notch, cutting-edge engineers who make significant contributions to Open Source projects. You want to work with our highly collaborative, fully distributed engineering group.
We are always open to talking to star performers about potential opportunities. So if you are tired of just going to work and want the opportunity to transform the world of software development, you should be talking to us! If you want to work with one of the most successful open source technology companies while receiving a competitive salary, flexible hours and medical benefits, you should contact us today.
We’re especially looking for candidates in the following locations: DC-Metro Area, Boston, East Coast, Toronto.
Senior UI Engineer
Sonatype is seeking an experienced interaction designer to work with a world-class engineering team in the development of web applications that help people effectively manage and safely use Open Source Software components.
The ideal candidate:
- Is experienced at conceptualizing and designing elegant, intuitive and functional web applications that make data informative and actionable
- Knows how to use established human factors and usability methodologies to design beautiful web applications that make business strategy a reality
- Can define and develop task and transactional focused user experiences
- Can be involved in all aspects of user experience including: business & user needs analysis, high & low fidelity prototyping, usability testing, and following deployment, monitoring usage and measuring adoption success
Key Responsibilities
- Align business requirements, user centered design methodology and technology factors to create low and high fidelity interactive prototypes for the purposes of validating business requirements and conducting usability testing
- Create click-through prototypes with HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Develop wireframes, screen-flow diagrams & UI spec documentation as needed
- Consider localization, scalability, and ease of maintenance in all solutions
- Define and demonstrate best in class web solutions that can be integrated with Sonatype's Information Technology standards
- Act as a user experience evangelist within diversely skilled project teams
- Engage business and technical team stakeholders for feedback and validation
- Assist with validating and measuring user experience success via usability testing and post deployment evaluations
- Effectively communicate project status to product management on a regular basis
Requirements
- Background in Human-Computer Interaction, Information Science, Computer Science, or a Bachelor's Degree in a related field. 5+ years professional experience
- Demonstrated ability to define new approaches to complex design problems and convey solutions in the form of presentations, click through prototypes, and design specifications
- Must be process driven, possess strong interaction design skills, careful attention to detail and have a solid understanding of user centered design principles
- Strong HTML, JavaScript & CSS abilities
- Strong understanding of browser-related user interface and backend technologies
- Experience defining and monitoring success through site analytics/metrics
- Excellent communication, leadership and presentation skills
- Experience working with Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, and Illustrator
- Experience working with Jquery, XJTS, and/or other Javascript UI frameworks
- Experience with Java based web applications is a plus
- A portfolio of work
- Professional references
Quality Engineer
Sonatype is looking for a Quality Engineer to be team lead for all aspects of testing for one of our new products. This includes creating automated tests which will run on our Hudson CI system, creating and executing test plans, and reproducing/diagnosing customer bug reports. You get to write lots of code, and experiment with new technologies. This is not production code; our Quality Engineers have lots of freedom.
Requirements
- You’ve written or contributed significant code to a widely used Java webapp.
- You’ve got experience writing unit, system, and integration tests.
- You have experience designing, setting up, running performance tests, load tests.
- You’re not afraid to write code if required and do it well.
- You’re familiar with CI and continuous deployment best practice.
- You’ve got a strong engineering background because there’s not a lot of manual testing.
- You have lots of coding experience.
- You have strong oral and written communication skills.
- You have the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-changing, startup environment.
Experience in the following is a plus:
- Maven
- Selenium/WebDriver
- Hudson/Jenkins
- Sonar
- Behavior driven development frameworks such as JBehave or EasyB
Data Analyst
Sonatype is looking for you if you have experience building Open Source software and experience with analysis of JAVA artifacts.
Requirements
- You have deep JAVA experience.
- You conduct research on open-source software components using primarily Internet resources (e.g. web sites, mailing lists, newsgroups).
- You can collect, organize, and enter data gathered from research into one or more documents and databases.
- You can participate in defining requirements for building internal tools to help with data collection and data entry.
- Ideal candidates will have experience building open-source software.
It would be great if you have:
- Experience with Maven and/or a general understanding of the Maven ecosystem.
- Knowledge of software licenses and software licensing issues.
- Familiarity with security vulnerability websites and mailing lists.
- Past engineering experience.
