Software Engineer in Test (telecommute), Waltham, MA

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Posted: October 10, 2016

Job title: Software Engineer in Test

Company name: MaxMind

Location: Waltham, MA

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: no

Description:
MaxMind (www.maxmind.com) is looking for a talented, experienced, and
highly motivated Software Engineer in Test to help us develop and improve
our products, websites, and customer portal. Founded in 2002, MaxMind is an
industry-leading provider of IP intelligence and online fraud detection
tools. MaxMind is privately held and based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Transaction fraud detection is a constantly changing field, and our work is
never done. Fraudsters are always looking for new ways to evade detection,
which means we're always looking for new ways to detect them. Our fraud
detection service, minFraud, builds on top of our widely used GeoIP
products, which associate geographical and other data with individual IP
addresses. We screen half a billion online transactions each year and
provide IP intelligence data to thousands of companies worldwide.

The
Position
Your job will be to work with our QA team, developers, and product
management to test changes to existing products, as well as test new
products to ensure they behave as expected. You will also liaise with our
support team so that you are aware of problems being reported by users. You
will work with developers to triage and reproduce these bugs and make sure
they are fixed in future releases.

Things that need testing at MaxMind
include our website, our web services, our downloadable databases, client
APIs, and more. Your job is to break them all and then help us rebuild
them.

We're looking for a detail-oriented person with strong development
and communication skills. Whenever possible, we expect you to automate
tests using tools like Selenium,TeamCity, virtual machines, etc. When
manual testing is needed, you will need to document your test plans for
future use. We have great unit tests, and recently developed the
infrastructure for integration tests, but we would greatly benefit from
improved functional testing.

Our development team is largely comprised of
telecommuters, so communication centers around Google Hangouts, group chat,
and agile planning tools. We invite candidates to apply from the US states
of Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon and
anywhere in Canada. Relocation to any of the above mentioned locations is
welcome. Full-time telecommuting is permitted.

The salary range for this
position starts at $100k/year and is negotiable depending on experience.
Employees additionally participate in a performance-based bonus plan.


Working at MaxMind
MaxMind is a casual, friendly, results-focused company
of 30-some employees, about half of whom are in technical positions. We
maintain a set of core, overlapping hours, but we’re flexible with specific
start and end times and are understanding about appointments and life
events.

Software engineers get a $2k professional development budget and
five days of time to use for professional development annually.

In
addition to medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer several other
benefits (in the US) including a 401k with employer contribution, FSA, and
transit reimbursement. Please inquire about benefits in Canada.

Our office
is located near downtown Waltham, MA, outside of Boston, a five minute walk
from the nearest commuter rail line and several express bus lines.

Our
Development Practices
Our backend code is largely written in Perl and Go
using PostgreSQL and Linux. We maintain high standards for our development
practices. All new code is expected to include automated tests run by
TeamCity, and all work goes through internal code review on GitHub
Enterprise.

We use free software as much as possible, and we release code
back to the community when we can do so. We're trying to improve the way we
do development, and we expect you to participate in that process.

Desired skills:
Job Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:

- Excellent programming skills
and a proficiency for developing high quality code. - We expect this
engineer to be able to pair program with our senior software engineers.
-
We mostly use Perl and Go for testing software, but we're happy to hear
from developers more familiar with other languages. (A programming exercise
will be given to all applicants.)
- Experience writing tests based on user
requirements.
- Experience with testing tools such as TeamCity, Selenium,
JMeter, etc.
- Ability to communicate clearly with end users to interpret
bug reports and document them for developers.
- Understanding of SQL
databases (Postgres, especially )
- Significant experience developing on a
Linux or BSD platform.
- Experience with version control, preferably Git.
-
Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- The ability to work
with a geographically dispersed team.

Bonus skills:

- Performance
testing/benchmarking experience.
- FS/OSS contributions. Tell us about
them!

Website for more information: https://www.maxmind.com/en/home

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/20464#contact