You will be developing hosted software for the telecom industry using Perl, Linux, Apache, Oracle, and Javascript. You will be part of a team developing new features, including updating the UI architecture and integrating AJAX functionality where appropriate.

Switch Management is a 10-year old San Francisco-based telecom software company known for its innovative and award-winning telecom billing products, including WebCDR and RADIUS ASP. We have an immediate opening in our R&D department for a multi-talented individual. We're a small, growing company that uses Linux, Perl, Apache, and Oracle to make order out of telecom chaos. We specialize in processing large volumes of telecom data and computing the inter-carrier settlement payments for international telecommunications companies.

We currently have a large, happy, and growing list of global companies as clients and a list of programming projects that need to be completed. Knowledge of the telecommunications industry is helpful but not required.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong software development skills: requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance.
• 4-year Computer Science, Math, or related degree, or equivalent experience.
• Very strong Perl programming background.
• Database skills (Oracle a plus).
• Web application development skills.
• Perl UI tools experience (Mason, Template::Toolkit, Catalyst, or similar).
• Light Linux sysadmin abilities.

Professional

• Excellent spoken and written English. This position requires direct customer interaction for requirements gathering and application support.
• Highly productive; revenue aware.
• Ability to accept direction and instruction from management.
• Ability to track and communicate status of your projects to management on a recurring basis.
• Ability to help clients via telephone and email.

Personal

• Highly intelligent, innovative problem-solver.
• Detail oriented with strong follow-through.
• Ability to learn new concepts quickly.
• Happy working solo or in a team.
• Reliable, trustworthy, honest.
• Sense of humor a must.

Desired (not required) technical skills

• Experience in solving internationalization issues
• Nagios configuration
• Apache configuration
• Oracle DBA-level knowledge
• FreeRADIUS knowledge
• Cisco VoIP knowledge

These are desired skills. If there are gaps in your knowledge we have no problem teaching you if you want to learn new skills.

Benefits

• As close to BART as you can get (building has its own entrance inside the Montgomery BART station).
• Centrally located in San Francisco near restaurants, cafes, etc.

We require three professional references from candidates at the preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation.

Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries.