We know that a great place to work makes it easier to get up in the morning, brave the L.A. freeways and arrive ready to amaze. If you’re like us and value innovation and collaboration in a creative environment, then you may have found the perfect place to develop a team and grow your skills while helping to expand and define the domain industry. That’s not just talk. We’re actively, passionately doing it!

Our Company and Culture Located in West L.A., Thought Convergence is a leading domain management and development technology provider, offering products and services for domain monetization, research, development, sales, leasing and auction tools to the global market. Key company divisions include:

TrafficZ – Widely regarded as a pioneer in the domain monetization industry, TrafficZ offers domain owners and aggregators cutting-edge technology to manage, analyze and maximize their return on domain investments.

Aftermarket – Aftermarket.com is the premier online marketplace for aftermarket domains committed to offering the most advanced features in combination with a streamlined and intuitive user experience.

Our corporate culture is less corporate and more culture. We love to work, but understand that balance breeds success. With this in mind, we cultivate a work hard/play hard attitude and a casual work environment that includes:

• a kitchen stocked with snacks (even healthy ones!), ice cold beverages and an uber-cool, state-of-the-art java machine brewing individual cups of Starbuck’s coffee
• amazing company outings (think Universal Studios, go kart racing, video game field trips – Get paid to play!)
• an arcade-style video game console built by our in-house engineers
• monthly catered lunches and happy hours
• a cubicle-free, open-office environment

Add competitive compensation and a full suite of benefits and you’d be crazy not to read on.

Our Ideal Candidate

We are currently looking for an Engineering Manager to join our dynamic management team and bring our professional-level Development and Engineering Department to the forefront of innovation. Strong candidates will have extensive experience with project and technical management and have proven leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with senior management, define technical and product strategy for the company and create a unified product-suite
• Translate business problems into effective technical solutions by leading the Research and Development team and providing strong supporting research
• Monitor best practices, trends and new technologies and evaluate for possible adoption
• Provide direction and supervision to an intelligent team of Engineers
• Gather project requirements
• Deliver technical design documentation
• Develop top quality products as defined by product roadmap
• Lead thorough testing of all products and features
• Recommend and effectively implement department specific procedures
• Ensure project goals are met within scheduling and budgeting parameters

• Lead and facilitate effective technical related communication within the team and with other relevant groups to define system requirements and necessary modifications

Desired Qualifications

• 10+ years of web technology or software development experience including 3+ years of manager-level experience and 5+ years of hands on development experience working with key technologies such as PHP/Symfony/Zend/MySQL/LAMP/HTML/xHTML/CSS/JS/Java
• Excellent Unified Modeling Language architecture experience
• Experience with the full development lifecycle (application development, systems design and architecture, maintenance and support)
• Experience managing high traffic/enterprise level web applications (e-commerce, CRM, social media, media)
• Bachelor’s Degree, relevant advanced degree is a plus

We are giving free tours to qualified applicants. The price of admission? Your resume, references and salary history. If you have the skills, passion and drive to thrive in a collaborative, fun-loving environment, we want to hear from you.

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Please note this job is a full-time position in-house position. Please no recruiters and outsource firms.

• Location: West L.A.
• Compensation: We offer a creative, fast-paced, casual environment w/competitive compensation.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.