Employment
VisionLink, founded in 1996, is a rapidly growing national corporation based in Boulder, Colorado which serves not-for-profit organizations. VisionLink provides both technical and consulting solutions to clients across the country like the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the United Way, the National Disaster Network, and many state and local community, educational and social organizations.
VisionLink's cohesive, professional team takes great pride in providing powerful technologies that positively affect the lives of millions of people across the nation. Its large suite of software applications is growing rapidly in response to new and existing client needs, and we are looking for people to help us grow and build new applications.
If you would enjoy a supportive work environment, excellent health, time off benefits including sabbatical accrual, plus a convenient location, we want to hear from you. Learn more about us at www.visionlink.org
Send your resume with cover letter to:
jobs@visionlink.orgWe are currently hiring for the following position:
PHP Web Application Developer
Summary of Job Description:
If you are a talented web developer with a passion for doing good, VisionLink's team of developers needs you. VisionLink is a Boulder based company dedicated to providing top-notch web applications to the non-profit sector.
We are an established company with a team approach to programming. We use the Agile/Scrum methodology to provide sanity to a fast paced environment. We have excellent benefits including vacation, retirement, dental and health insurance. Best of all we have a lively, dedicated team of developers and a variety of diverse projects that require creative programming.
Job Responsibilities:
- Assist in design specifications
- Maintain and improve existing software
- Design and build quality applications
- Produce technical documentation and release notes
- Conduct performance analysis
- Keep critical production applications running at 99.9% availability
Minimum Requirements:
- At least three years front-end web software development experience
- At least three years SQL database programming experience
- Previous experience architecting new applications and systems
- Ability to develop quality code that performs well under high capacity and is easy to maintain
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and switch priorities as needed
- Commitment to reach deadlines
- Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP and JavaScript
Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
- B.S. in computer-related field
- LAMP& Linux, Apache, SQL and PHP
- Experience with Object Oriented PHP, Zend Framework, PostgreSQL and Subversion
- Agile/SCRUM methodology
- Experience with AJAX and prototype.js
- Mac OS X
- 3rd party API integration
Compensation: Negotiable
Product Specialist
Product Specialist
Summary of Job Description
The Product Specialist will be responsible for client training, quality assurance, customer communication, and documentation of our web-based product, CommunityOS. This position involves collaboration with our development and account management staff using Agile/Scrum to document, release and support our software. Other responsibilities include basic project specification and management of custom work projects along with internal staff product support.
Job Responsibilities:
- Train and certify customers on CommunityOS
- Create and update technical documentation and release notes
- Validate/resolve reported support issues
- Develop and execute test plans for our core product line and custom work projects
- Report, review, and close reported problems
- Write custom work specifications for change requests
- Project management for customer change requests
- Interface with Development and Account Managers regarding status of issues/releases
Minimum Requirements:
- B.S./B.A. and 2 years of software-related professional experience
- Strong teaching ability and a minimum of one year of training experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience creating technical documentation
- At least two years of software quality assurance testing. Web application testing experience preferred.
- Excellent test case/plan development
- Experience running full regression tests
- Ability to multi-task and switch priorities as needed
- Commitment to reach deadlines
- Creative problem solving and logical thinking skills
- Ability to work independently or on a team
- Outstanding attention to detail
Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience communicating with technically skilled and unskilled clients
- Experience with automated and manual testing
- Desire to be part of an agile software development team
- Knowledge of Flash or Captivate
