We’re excited to bring you our 42nd Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Deal Garden, Omahype, CF Webtools, Quantam Workplace, Opportunity Education and Database101.com in Omaha and Grasshorse in Winfield, Iowa.
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, please make sure to mention that you found it on Silicon Prairie News.
Deal Garden – New Market Account Executive (Omaha)
Deal Garden is a social commerce website operating in small and mid-sized Midwestern cities.
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Deal Garden is a new, Omaha-based social commerce website operating in small and mid-sized Midwestern cities, looking for two New Market Account Executives to help drive rapid growth.
New Market Account Executive: Outside Account Executives at Deal Garden leverage related experience in local merchant advertising to build partnerships for Deal Garden. They partner with restaurants, theaters, spas, and everything in between, negotiating unbeatable offers on behalf of our subscribers. Experience with online sales, advertising, and social media are beneficial to an account executive’s success and fit within our team. Competitive compensation, benefits, base + commission, and a sense of joy. Apply at Jobs@DealGarden.com.
Omahype – Contributors (Omaha)
Omahype is a curated online events calendar that touts creative, intellectually stimulating, and irreverent fun happening in and around Omaha.
On Thursday, January 27th, we’re going to be at the New BLK for the Positive Space Closing Party and we’d like to meet you. Do you have ideas for stories? Would you like to review a show or a film or a new record? Are you a writer/poet/photographer/videographer/foodie/lover-of-life who’d like to share your perspective? Are you just plain curious to know what Omahype is all about?
We’re looking for contributors, interns to help us keep the schedule updated, folks who are in the know on all creative and irreverently fun fronts (art, music, film, dance, theater, GLBT, fashion, food, design, style, architecture, etc.), and anyone who wants to help brainstorm the future of the site. We see Omahype as a collective of great voices from Omaha and beyond, and we’d love to have you in our choir.
CF Webtools – ColdFusion Developer (Omaha)
CF Webtools specializes in ColdFusion and Java development, project management, hosting, maintenance, server optimization and troubleshooting.
Upwards of 80% of our work is ColdFusion based. We are looking for reliable, honest and experienced ColdFusion programmers who can make an immediate contribution to our highly skilled team. We prefer local talent, but for the right fit, telecommute may be a possibility.
We provide a full suite of services from complex tool development, sophisticated charting applications, db engineering, to site design, blogs, e-commerce and hosting. For someone who likes to have their hands in everything, this is a great opportunity.
Quantum Workplace – Software Developer (Omaha)
Quantum Workplace is a fast-growing software firm specializing in employee opinion polling.
Quantum Workplace’s assessment tools help companies measure and benchmark leadership and workplace culture. We pair excellence in technology with a firm dedication to the development and potential of our people. We’re in the business of recognizing awesome work environments—and are committed to being one also.
We are looking for a full time Software Developer for our team. The strongest candidate will be a dynamic and energetic person who craves to be constantly challenged, has a passion for development and works well in a team-based environment. Quantum offers competitive health and dental benefits, a casual work environment, and occasional team trips to Florida!
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain software on .NET platform.
- Must have good analytical skills and knowledge of project life cycles
- Must be able to ensure the software delivered matches client or internal needs
- Must also be able to design and develop software in a group or independently
- Write in C#, JavaScript, VBScript, and MS SQL
- Design applications for a high volume, 24 x 7 website
- Qualifications required
- Proficiency in an object oriented language C# or Java
- Strong SQL experience
- Experience with MS Report Services helpful
- Strong experience developing for the Web
- B.S., Computer Science or equivalent AND/OR 3+ years of professional experience
- Must be able to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
If you are seeking an exciting career opportunity and are ready to embrace the rewards associated with a dynamic, privately-owned software firm, we want to hear from you right away. Please send your resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to greg@quantumworkplace.com.
Opportunity Education – Software Project Manager (Omaha)
Opportunity Education is making quality education accessible to children in developing nations so they can improve their standards of living and work toward a brighter future.
We are currently looking for a Software Project Manager to work in our Omaha office. You will serve as the website owner and participate in the full-lifecycle of projects, including strategy, requirements gathering, creation of functional documentation, management of projects, liaison with vendors, testing and release.
Main Responsibilities
- Review, analyze, and evaluates business systems and user needs.
- Documents requirements, defines scope and objectives, and formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies.
- Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects regarding the opportunityeducation.org website and internal operations related to it.
- Oversees all aspects of projects.
- Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
- Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects.
- Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.
Qualifications
- Familiar with relational database concepts, and client-server concepts.
- Gather and codify business requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in a related area and at least 3-5 years of experience in software project management.
- Experience/understanding of business process reengineering and business modeling concepts, business systems development and analysis (SDLC).
- Strong analytical skills and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications.
- Awareness of the business and IT strategy.
- Good presentation skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- Experience in client services and negotiating business decisions.
- Solid familiarity with development methodologies, life cycles, and best practices.
- Proficient with Visio, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks across multiple projects.
If interested, contact Jim Ricketts, CEO, at jimricketts@opportunityeducation.org.
Database101.com – Web Developer (Omaha)
Database101.com is a database technology company helping small businesses and sales people find new prospects to grow their businesses.
Database101.com, a database technology company, is looking for a Web Developer to help us achieve our aggressive goals.
The Web Developer is responsible for working onsite with our team to build, maintain, and grow our websites as well as provide support to our internal staff. The ideal candidate will have very strong coding skills, experience in e-commerce, and a proven track record of excellent written and verbal communication.
Database101.com helps small businesses and sales people find new prospects so that they can grow their businesses.
Candidate must have:
- Extensive experience with PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML
- Experience with jQuery, Ajax, Java
- Experience developing for high availability / high performance websites
- Database development and administration
Strong verbal and written communication skills and excellent attention to detail is a must. Ability to work onsite within a team environment. Ability to “wear many hats” while thriving in an entrepreneurial environment.
Bachelors Degree or equivalent is required. Two-years of relevant experience is required. Experience in direct marketing or customer service is preferred.
If interested, contact Scott Thompson at scott.thompson@database101.com.
Database101.com – Database Engineer (Omaha)
Database101.com is a database technology company helping small businesses and sales people find new prospects to grow their businesses.
Database101.com, a database technology company, is looking for a Database Engineer to help us achieve our aggressive goals.
The Database Engineer is responsible for the extract, transfer, and load (ETL) operations of receiving, cataloging, reviewing/analysis, and loading of large data sets. This position will make sure all data sets are organized and well-maintained. The individual will support the various stakeholders including marketing, sales and operations. Duties include maintaining and improving data integrity and operations by following procedures and implementing efficiency and quality improvements through technology and business improvement. Database101.com helps small businesses and sales people find new prospects so that they can grow their businesses.
Qualifications
Candidate must have exceptional database engineering and analytical skills, strong investigative skills and tenacity. Solid ETL, SQL and UNIX shell scripting experience is a must since this individual will be required to do data querying, data manipulation and report design/creation. Strong verbal and written communication skills and excellent attention to detail is a must. Ability to work within a team environment. Ability to “wear many hats” while thriving in an entrepreneurial environment.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent is required. Two-years of relevant experience are required. Experience in direct marketing or customer service is preferred.
If interested, contact Scott Thompson at scott.thompson@database101.com.
Database101.com – Java Software Engineer (Omaha)
Database101.com is a database technology company helping small businesses and sales people find new prospects to grow their businesses.
Database101.com, a database technology company, is looking for a Java Software Engineer to help us achieve our aggressive goals.
The Java Software Engineer will work on a fast paced programming team to develop web based user Interface and middleware components. You will work closely with our team to develop new database marketing systems.
Qualifications
Solid working knowledge of relevant programming languages of core Java and web based User Interface programming (HTML5, CSS3, browser compatibility, etc.).
Must have at least 2 years of experience in object-oriented design and development in an industrial or commercial environment developing core Java or Java web based user interface and middleware programming.
Experience with Spring or similar Java frameworks is preferred. Experience with web application servers such as Apache, Geronimo, Tomkat, Jboss, Linux / Unix. Server deployment and maintenance skills, especially on cloud services, is desired. Additional experience with SQL (MySQL), web analytics, are helpful.
Excellent attention to detail is a must. Ability to work within a team environment. Ability to, “wear many hats,” while thriving in an entrepreneurial environment.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent is required. 2 years of relevant experience is required.
If interested, contact Scott Thompson at scott.thompson@database101.com.
Grasshorse – Rotoscoping Artist (Winfield, Iowa)
Grasshorse studios is a visual effects and animation company
Grasshorse is looking for talented artists to Rotoscope and Dimensionalize films from 2D-3D, using a combination of traditional digital VFX applications.
This is an entry level position available to experienced and non-experienced artists alike. Accepted applicants will be provided a complimentary training workshop to assess their level of skill. We are keen to find talented artists that can work in a fast paced team environment.
The Roto Artist is responsible for creating mattes that accurately reflect the motion of a particular object or character over a series of frames. Rotoscoping is frequently used to incorporate the interaction of animated and live action elements.
