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 a Software Engineer to work with our passionate team to further develop the proprietary technology that powers our real-time, network-intensive and globally-reaching applications.

Responsibilities

• Consult with Management, System Administration and Products to clarify all elements of Products Requirement Document (PRD), identify potential problems and suggest modifications.
• Architect solutions for business needs and prepare detailed workflow charts and diagrams of a project on a macro level that describe input, output, and logical operation to personally and/or for team members to convert into a series of instructions coded in a computer language.
• May oversee one or more developers in their developing, testing and integrating code base by providing technical guidance and support to ensure developers’ code and applications are seamlessly integrated and meet the requirements of the PRD.
• Develop object-oriented, high traffic, database-driven web applications using Symfony PHP Framework, My SQL, JQuery, CSS, Flex applications, etc. Uses CSS W3 standards for efficient front-end user interfaces.
• Compile and write documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, insert easily understandable comments in the coded instructions.
• Audit program, software or website performance in development and live environments to ensure optimal and error free performance.
• Perform revision, repair or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements.

Desired Qualifications

• Equivalent of 7+ years progressively responsible, related experience
• Advanced understanding of Pentaho (AKA Kettle)
• Advanced understanding of Data Warehousing
• Experience with Hadoop Map/Reduce
• Hands on experience with Nutch — Open Source Web Search Software
• Ability to work with database tables containing millions of rows of data
• Hands-on experience working in a Linux environment

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.