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by archonjobs 4553 days ago
Toronto, Canada - Full Time

WHO WE ARE

We’re Archon Systems, a rapidly growing (and profitable!) startup making software to help small businesses. Our flagship product, inFlow Inventory, has been downloaded by over 500,000 small businesses around the world and reached #1 in its space on Google and CNET download.com.

Both of our founders are developers, and we take the time to build products that look and work beautifully. We care a lot about both our employees and our customers. We value you as a whole human being, not as a cog in a machine. Check out www.archonsystems.com for more about us.

Job perks:

- Work from home 2-3 days a week (Yup. http://bit.ly/KtKPeO)

- Top-notch computers

- Beautiful office

- All-expense-paid conferences

- Health benefits

- Stock options

- Make a difference: you’ll be the 11th member of our team

You'll get to work with and learn from our other awesome members: - Ex-Googler who previously graduated #1 from University of Waterloo’s math faculty.

- Past Mozilla developer and designer

- Past co-founder of a VC-funded startup (and in a past life, video and interactive artist with work shown internationally)

- Past lead-developer of a VC-funded startup

- Marketer who won an international marketing competition twice, beating out Fortune 500 companies

- ... and other great people!

JOB DESCRIPTION

Here’s what you’d do:

- Design and develop new features for our flagship product: from UI & database design to coding and testing

- Fix bugs and make improvements for usability, speed, etc.

- Use modern C#, .NET, Azure, git, HTML/CSS, SQL, etc.

- Occasionally do customer support (email, phone, etc.) to develop your customer-understanding and product-design skills

- Initiate your own ideas and projects to help us grow

You should have:

- 1+ year of software development experience

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

- Experience with C#

- The ability to thrive in a small team with lots of freedom

Nice to have (but not necessary):

- User experience design skills

- Experience developing APIs, web services or web applications

- Experience with Windows Forms

Other stuff we’d be happy to hear about:

- Experience with business systems (accounting, inventory, CRM, etc.)

- Open-source or recreational coding projects

- Awards and contests

- Close experience with small businesses