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Current Openings
Real-Time Transaction Processing Engineer
Location: Los Altos, CA
Job Description
ThreatMetrix is looking for an engineer who understands transaction processing in real-time with fault tolerance. Collaboration is a key principle in the way we develop software. Engineers that enjoy working with colleagues to solve difficult technical problems are a good fit for us. We believe in the concept of continuous improvement at the team and individual level. Engineers that are interested in personal and technical growth will feel at home on our team.
Position Objectives
- Increase the scalability and reliability of our real-time transaction processing system
- Increase the breadth of our fraud detection platform through feature enhancements
- Increase the overall effectiveness of the engineering team through personal contribution to the continuous improvement effort
Position Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and test specific features as directed by ThreatMetrix product management
- Improve reliability and scalability of our product through architectural improvements and refactoring. Maintain, refactor, and extend existing code base while minimizing disruption to existing installed customer base.
- Work in cross-functional teams in an agile/acrum environment to produce features that pass acceptance criteria
- Conduct and participate in code reviews. Participate in an agile/scrum team including iteration planning, story and task estimation, daily stand-up meetings, and iteration retrospectives
Personal Skills
- Follows engineering best practices including such things as internal code documentation, coding standards, unit testing, test driven development, and code reviews
- Proactively communicates a global perspective on problems and issues
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Works with a sense of urgency by responding quickly to requests from peers and management and quickly identifying blocking problems
- Seeks responsibility and takes initiative
- Develops software using abstraction methodologies
- Meets deadlines and commitments
- Provides a transparent view of work-in-progress to peers and management
- Develops good working relationships with work colleagues and management
- Organized, methodical, and detail oriented
- Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams
- Committed to the success of their team and their company
- High emotional intelligence
Technical Skills
- Complete command of C/C++
- Competent in multi-threaded environment and can produce thread safe code
- Capable of trouble shooting in a real-time distributed environment
- Can develop real-time systems and software
- Experienced with revision control/content management systems (CVS, subversion, etc.)
- Conversant in modern software development skills and terminology (e.g., design patterns, unit testing, code reviews, continuous integration, etc.)
Required Experience
- Five or more years’ experience with C/C++
- Five or more years’ experience with Unix/Linux
- Five or more years’ multi-cultural and capable of working on more than one project simultaneously
- Ability to work alone and in small teams
- Aversion to technical and code debt for real time, embedded, or transaction systems experience with object-oriented development
- Experienced with developing a real-time transaction processing system
- Must have been significantly involved in the development of at least two successfully completed products
Desired Experience
- Fraud detection or security systems
- Networking experience
Email resume and cover letter to salesjobs@threatmetrix.com
Inside Sales Representative
Location: San Jose, CA
Job Description
This is an inside role reporting to the vice president of global sales and business development. The candidate should be able to successfully build pipeline through outbound efforts and bring deals to closure. This position requires the ability to determine and contact all relevant decision makers and influencers within the different functional areas of the organization: operational, managerial, technical, and executive. Should be capable of investigating potential customer problems and drivers, articulating value proposition in person and over the phone, and negotiating business terms and contracts.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related field
- 5-7 years of professional experience; ideal candidate would have software and/or network security background
- Solid work history with continued employment of 2+ year stints at past companies
- An energetic self-starter who is capable of quickly building a strong pipeline of potential business
- Must be results-driven and capable of delivering consistent, ongoing new business
- Demonstrable history of accurate forecasting and quota achievement
- Comfortable reaching out via phone and/or email to target (“cold”) prospects and conducting high-level business and technology discussions
- Ability to explore business challenges, resources, and expectations of the various stakeholders
- Ability to articulate and demonstrate business benefits and technical details to a varied audience
- Strong work ethic and organizational skills
- Excellent oral and writing skills; ability to understand and complete RFIs, RFPs, etc.
Email resume and cover letter to salesjobs@threatmetrix.com
Sales Representative, Financial Services
Location: New York, NY
Job Description
This is an outside role selling to financial services companies. The candidate should have an outstanding track record of selling security solutions into financial services and other related verticals. A fundamental understanding of strategic sales, sales best practices, and proven success selling security software to financial services is required. Should be able to determine and contact all relevant decision makers and influencers within the different functional areas of the organization. Should be capable of investigating potential customer problems and drivers, articulating value proposition in person and over the phone, and negotiating business terms and contracts. Based out of New York, New York. This is not a telecommuting position.
Qualifications
- Four-year degree in business or related field
- 5-10 years of direct sales experience and a proven track record managing and overachieving on quota
- Documented success of complex sales/solution sales in a face-to-face/outside role
- Experience selling software/SaaS security or online fraud prevention solutions
- Comfortable reaching out via phone and/or email to target (“cold”) prospects and conducting high-level business and/or technology discussions with them
- Excellent oral and writing skills; experience in creating and responding to RFIs, RFPs, etc.
- An energetic self-starter with a consultative sales approach who is pro-active in increasing sales revenue
- Must be results-driven and be committed to creating new business opportunities
- Ability to articulate and demonstrate high-level technical details to a varied audience
- Strong work ethic and organizational skills
- Working in start-up environment a big plus
Email resume and cover letter to salesjobs@threatmetrix.com
