Connect First Inc. was founded in 2004 and is a privately held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Geoff Mina and Richard Manulkin founded Connect First as a way to revolutionize the contact center industry around the primary mission of providing exceptional customer experiences. Those experiences are derived from a culture of integrity, passion, transparency and communication coupled with world-class, mature telecommunications software that is stable and effective. Today we have over 500 clients worldwide and boast a 97% customer retention rate and zero complaints three years in a row.

We have an immediate opportunity for an Experienced Java Engineer to join our Boulder Colorado team. This is one of the most fun and critical moments to be part of our organization, as we are growing steadily both in projects and expertise. Our business is incredibly successful, primarily due to the contributions of our highly gifted, hard-working and kick-ass team. If you love a challenge and want to be part of taking our software to the next level, please apply today!

The successful candidate must be highly motivated to help push our platform and front end APIs forward; and have the ability to function well in a fast paced and dynamic organization. This driven Java Engineer would be responsible for designing, developing and implementing new features, and maintaining existing functionality

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and document new and existing products.
• Act as a point of escalation for bug fixes and issue resolution.
• Generate requirements, estimates and plans for projects.
• Contribute ideas for the improvement of our software

Java/JavaEE Software Engineer Requirements:

• Two years development experience on products built with Java and/or Java EE.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a four-year college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related discipline or the equivalent in work experience.
• Comfortable working as a full stack developer. While this position is focused on the server side of our applications, our developers are often called on to develop for all layers of our application.
• Must be a self-starter, possess excellent time management skills, and be able manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to generate requirements, estimates and plan for projects.
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience developing distributed scalable multithreaded server side applications
• Experience writing relational database queries (MySQL preferred).
• Experience with Hibernate ORM.
• Working knowledge of the Linux/Unix command line interface.

Additional skills or background we would be thrilled if you had any experience with:

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks: Bootstrap, JQuery, Angular etc.
• Solution implementation in the premise-based or the hosted telecommunications software industry.
• Call Center industry or telecommunication experience.
• Work experience in any position in a hosted software solutions company.

The Goods:

This is a full time position located in our Boulder office. We offer very competitive salary plus aggressive bonuses and merit raises; comprehensive benefits, high matching 401k, gym membership, unlimited Paid Time Off, paid 2 month sabbatical, and a casual yet demanding and fast paced work environment. We are a dog friendly company, and even offer Pet Insurance! We find time to get outside and enjoy the best of what Boulder has to offer. Our “pay-for-performance” and bonus programs healthily reward rock-star achievements and intellect. We also pay for relevant continuing education, conferences, and skills development.

We promote heavily from within, and like to see our team quickly master our platform and to take that knowledge into other areas of the business; we succeed by helping you define your skills and interests and encouraging you to grow into bigger opportunities and responsibilities.

Please apply by sending:

1. Resume
2. Cover letter.
3. In your cover letter please tell us:your favorite or most satisfying experience solving a problem – either personally or professionally. This can be short and sweet. Emails without this simple little anecdote will be passed to the back. 

We look forward to hearing from you!!

The Connect First Crew