Operations Lead, Software Engineers & .NET Web Developer

We’re excited to bring you our twenty-first Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Pongr in Des Moines, Far Reach Technologies in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Sojern in Omaha, and…

We’re excited to bring you our twenty-first Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Pongr in Des Moines, Far Reach Technologies in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Sojern in Omaha, and Perceptive Software in Shawnee, Kansas.

If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing and a short description of your company. We’re looking for all types of opportunities, from a week-long project to a full-time position. We hope to help you make a connection.

If you apply to one below, make sure to mention that you found it on Silicon Prairie News.

Operations Lead – Pongr (Des Moines)

Pongr is an image recognition-based mobile marketing platform built on award winning technology.

Pongr is looking for a highly-talented Operations Lead (ideally you’d call yourself a DevOps Lead), preferably in the Des Moines area. You need to be very skilled at managing all aspects of a Linux server environment, not afraid to write code and will be a key player on our team that is bringing the future of mobile image search to reality. Startup culture, desk at local development office, laptop, salary + stock options, beer, awesomeness, etc.

Requirements:

  • Linux expert (specifically Ubuntu or Debian)
  • Mail servers and protocols (SMTP, IMAP, etc)
  • Web servers (Apache, Tomcat, etc)

Really-should-haves:

  • Load-balancing and high-availability experience
  • Automated monitoring systems (Nagios)
  • Database management (MySQL)
  • Version control system management (Subversion, Git, etc)
  • DNS management
  • Security (keypair SSH login, firewalls, SSL certs, SMTPS/IMAPS, etc)
  • Ability to write scripts in a language other than bash (Ruby, Python, etc)

Full Job Posting

Software Engineer – Ruby, MySQL, Unix, Mobile – Sojern (Omaha)

Sojern media network provides reach and frequency to advertisers through valuable audience segments and premium digital display advertising environments.

Sojern is looking for an agile software engineer with proven experience building high volume web applications and services. We need a person who is crying out to be creative and innovative through the code and technology you produce.

Are you struggling with your current technology platforms and want to peer through the door of dynamic languages in a real world deployment? Do you want to do things differently than the rest of Omaha? We are standardizing on productive technologies in the dynamic languages arena and utilizing open source software for much of the platform.

Responsibilities

  • Be a technology leader, innovator and mentor
  • Work within a small team to deliver projects in a productive and high quality manner
  • Develop and employ coding and design standards
  • Oversee a project from infancy to and through production
  • Code using test-driven development as second nature
  • Create code that you will be proud of

Required

  • Fun and delightful engineer type who loves technology
  • Self starter and self-directed
  • 2+ years of real world analysis, design and development of software solutions within web environments.
  • Passion to work in the Mobile world. Experience working in one of the major mobile development environments.
  • Built and consumed high volume web services. Do you enjoy finding new ways to test, build and juggle XML?
  • Security minded in the design, implementation and maintenance phase.
  • Employing object oriented design principles is a simple natural fact to you.
  • Master new technologies and languages to match your desire to deliver productive and quality code.
  • Own your Unix development environment

Languages/Standards/Platforms

  • Dynamic languages (Ruby, PERL, Python, Groovy)
  • Mobile Development (iOS, Android, Palm, Blackberry)
  • XHTML, Javascript, DOM, AJAX, JSON, SOAP, REST
  • Linux/Unix, Mac OSX
  • MySQL (or equivalent experience in Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)

Optional

  • Possible travel
  • Implementing and supporting 3rd party server software solutions

If interested, contact Chad Bokowski at chad.bokowski@sojern.com.

.NET Web Developer – Far Reach Technologies (Cedar Falls, Iowa)

Far Reach Technologies does custom software development, web design and development, and consulting for businesses and organizations of all sizes.

To help us manage our growing workload, we are looking for a self-starting, highly motivated .NET developer with excellent communication and programming skills and an aptitude for learning new technologies to fill a software developer position. This position will be focused on designing, creating, and maintaining new and existing web sites and multi-tier applications that interact with a sometimes complex database. The vast majority of our applications are built with Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, C#, Silverlight, and SQL Server.

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in web technologies with a focus on .NET, database design skills, and feel comfortable interacting with clients. Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, XML, and JavaScript are essential. The ability to work independently, under general supervision, and as an integral part of a team is critical as is the desire to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Opportunities and responsibilities will include (but not be limited to):

  • Analysis, design, development, documentation, testing, and implementation of new web applications
  • Supporting and maintaining existing web applications
  • Designing and developing databases to support application logic
  • Researching, implementing, and supporting new technologies

Full Job Posting

Software Engineer – Perceptive Software (Shawnee, Kansas)

Perceptive Software develops ImageNow document imaging, document management and workflow solutions used in healthcare, higher education, insurance, and more.

Perceptive Software, Inc., is always seeking Software Developers to join our Development team. The basic responsibilities of this position include analysis, design, development, unit testing, code consolidation, and code maintenance projects of our enterprise content management software. In addition, there will be opportunities to work with design/analysis teams in developing modules for new product types, developing new user interfaces, and help to provide strategies for performance testing.

Software Developers at Perceptive Software demand excellence of themselves and their colleagues. You would join a team of highly skilled software developers with expertise with multiple languages (primarily C++ and Java) and client/server programming on Windows and Unix platforms. Perceptive Software provides a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Developers at Perceptive Software get to work on modern technologies like cloud computing, SaaS, parallel software development, service oriented architecture and globalization

Full Job Post & More Perceptive Software Career Opportunities

This story is part of the AIM Archive

This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »

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