Requirements:

• PHP
• MVC
• Great communication skills

Pluses:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field

For more information on this position and other great Front End jobs get in contact with Dillon Johnston at (415) 766-3709 or djohnston@talener.com.

Requirements:

• Experience Hand coding JavaScript
• HTML, CSS
• jQuery

Pluses:

• Node

For more information on this position and other great Front End jobs get in contact with Dillon Johnston at (415) 766-3709 or djohnston@talener.com.

The team is divided up between 5 Product Managers and 15 developers.  The Business Analyst will directly report to the Senior Product Manager.  This is a full time position including benefits, including mental, dental, vision, and 401K. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3-5 years of experience as a Business Analyst and/or Technical Writer
• Technical documentation, writing business requirements, use cases
• Knowledge base of Jira
• Agile methodology experience desired 
• Experience working with ad networks or data management is preferred  

Salary is commensurate with experience but will be $70K – $90K

For immediate consideration please send your resume to adouglas@talener.com          

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Feb 2, 2012, 5:31 am ET

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I just read that the average Silicon Valley tech salary is over $100,000. I’ve seen starting salaries for CS graduates come pretty close to the magical $100,000 mark. Google recently had to give a 10% raise to all its employees just to stay competitive.

Yep, programmers are getting expensive. But my experience has been that most great programmers don’t really have salary as their No. 1 consideration when deciding where to work. They only worry about salary when the job is so awful that it has to pay well or they couldn’t imagine sticking around.

Here are 10 things that many programmers think about first, long before salary even comes into play:

1. How much do they believe in the company and identify with its goals? Are they excited about what the company makes? Do they love its products?
2. How do they feel about the team they work with? Are their coworkers the same people they would want to hang out with after work?
3. How cool is the technology that they’re using? Will they have a chance to learn powerful new programming languages and systems, or will they be using pedestrian, safe, corporate technologies?
4. How much of the work they’re doing is new code, and how much of it is bug-fixing and maintenance?
5. What is the work environment like? Are there plush private offices, nice espresso machines, and free gourmet lunches? Or does it look and feel exactly like a sitcom parody of a miserable office?
6. How smart is the team? Will they have a chance to learn and grow from their co-workers, or are they going to be carrying the load for a lot of deadweight?
7. How smart is the organization? Will the bureaucracy fight them every step of the way, or does it exist to enable brilliant work?
8. Where is the work? Is the commute convenient? Can their spouse find fulfilling work (probably in another field) nearby? Are the schools good?
9. How much control do they have over their work? Are they required to conform to obscure rules and capricious diktats or do they have the freedom to do great things?
10. What kind of computer hardware do they work? Are their systems upgraded every year with the latest and the greatest? Can they have three 30” monitors if they want?

You may think that some of these things are completely out of your control … and they may be. Sometimes people run job listings on Stack Overflow and get very few resumes. Then they ask me, “why didn’t we get any applicants for our job listing?” And I look at it and think, “baby Moses in a basket, why would anyone want to work there?”

I know, it’s hard to say, but it’s true: some jobs are just not that attractive, and it’s not a problem of “finding programmers,” it’s a problem of “making this a place where people want to work.”

The first thing to learn is that company founders and CEOs don’t care about the same things as programmers. Usually, if you’re doing what your founder/CEO thought would be nice, you’re not really optimizing for programmers. Founder/CEOs, for example, like to save money, and they like to know what’s going on, so they think having a big room where everyone can overhear everything is a terrific work environment. Programmers need to concentrate, so they would work in a brown cardboard box if it was quiet and free from interruptions.

If you’re scoring kind of low on the “desirable workplace” scale, all is not lost. There’s a lot you can do to fix these issues, even if you are a company that makes atom bombs run by a megalomaniac micromanager with an office on a platform in the Arctic Ocean.

Come to the ERE Expo in San Diego in March, and I’ll go into this in a lot more depth in my keynote. I’ll tell you what I know about how programmers work, what they like, what they care about, and I promise you’ll leave with a lot of ideas of how to make your workplace way more attractive and interesting to the average programmer.

If successful, you will be working in the advertising/marketing arm of the company on various projects and campaigns.

Requirements:

• PHP
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• MySQL
• OOP

Pluses:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• MVC Frameworks
• CMS

For more information on this position or to apply, get in contact with Dillon Johnston at (415) 766-3709 or djohnston@talener.com.

My client, a powerhouse in the online music industry, is seeking a PHP Engineer to come on board and join their team. This company has fantastic foundations. 50% of the company is owned by one of the biggest players in the music game and therefore enjoys the many advantages of such a set up. While they appreciate and revel in all the resources of a large corporation, the fact that they still prefer to run as a smaller firm prevents them from dealing with the “red tape” normally associated with large corporations.

If successful, you would be working with a team of 4 engineers on the core internal web applications that control all content and distribution channels.

Requirements:

• PHP
• MVC (Zend preferably)
• Great communication skills

Pluses:

• REST
• Selenium
• Degree in Computer Science or related field

For more information or to apply for this position, get in touch with Dillon Johnston at  (415) 766-3709 or djohnston@talener.com.

The Project Management team worked closely with Jesse for several weeks, building a close relationship and getting a better understanding of where his background would be a good fit.  He was always honest with his feedback and prompt with communication.  Working with accessible, straightforward, and affable candidates always makes our job so much easier.

One company we were working with, Offerpop, had been searching months to find someone just like him.  They wanted someone who had his industry experience, but more importantly- his demonstrated interest and passion for their product.  After meeting with managers at Offerpop, it was clear that this was a perfect match on both sides.  The company immediately put out an offer, and Jesse couldn’t have been happier to accept.  He will be their Director of Product, a critical position in helping the growing company expand.

We wish Jesse the best, and can’t wait to see how Offerpop evolves in the coming months.  Check out Offerpop at www.offerpop.com, and Jesse’s self-penned book The Secret Peace: Exposing the Positive Trend of World Events.