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Jobs @ Nolo!
A job at Nolo in Berkeley, CA offers a unique opportunity to work in a small, established and nationally respected publishing company. Nolo is the oldest and foremost publisher of self-help legal books and software for consumers and is dedicated to providing non-lawyers with accessible, valuable and reliable legal information they can use to take charge of their own legal affairs. Need a little more information? Read about Nolo.
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- No phone calls, please.
Current Opportunities
Assistant for Online Content and Filings
Nolo, the nation's leading publisher of legal self-help resources for consumers and small businesses, is looking for an administrative assistant to assist with the maintenance of website content and to provide support for our online document filing services.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Online Filings:
- Assist with research and preparation of various online document filing services.
- Assist with the initial customer filings, answer internal and external questions, and help resolve processing problems.
- Track online filing order trends, both timing and type.
- Assist online filing systems manager with other online filing projects.
- Website Content:
- Start workflows, upon request, to fix data and add new content.
- Proof new and updated online content.
- Work on various projects to enhance search engine optimization (SEO).
- Solicit and coordinate articles from editors with state-specific information, and provide formatted documents to Online for posting.
- Solicit articles from editors in support of new products, posting to appropriate pages on the website, and rotating articles as needed.
- Review product pages to verify information.
- Assist website managing editor with other online projects.
Skills & Attributes:
- Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail and follow through.
- Ability to prioritize multiple and sometimes competing deadlines and proactively communicate with supervisors regarding the status of projects.
- Strong oral and written communication skills and analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work independently and cooperatively with others, with limited supervision.
- Interest in filling out legal paperwork and forms and complying with filing procedures.
Qualifications:
- Experience with Windows, MS Word, and MS Excel is required.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- Experience as a proofreader, copyeditor, document or loan application processor, paralegal, or administrative assistant is a plus.
- Project management or similar experience is a plus.
Benefits:
- Salary DOE.
- A competitive salary and a fun, casual work environment with flexible hours.
- Three weeks per year of paid vacation, 12 paid sick days, 10 paid holidays and a company-sponsored 401(k) plan.
- Medical, dental, vision, acupuncture/chiropractic, and long-term disability insurance.
Web Production Associate
Would you like to bring your HTML and graphics skills to an award-winning web site? We’re looking for someone with basic (but solid) skills to help us out with a variety of development-related tasks.
We’re Nolo, a solid Berkeley company with a mission to provide legal information to consumers. Our friendly, hard-working Online Development team has just begun a complete redesign of our web site. We’re starting from the ground up with new software, new programming languages and new information architecture, and we’d like a Web Production Associate who will bring excellent organizational and communication skills as well as a keen eye for detail.
Responsibilities:
- Produce HTML newsletters for use in multiple email clients
- Prepare website content for publishing, using hand-coded HTML
- Create and manipulate simple web graphics
- Upload relevant content to web site using CMS and eCommerce engine
- Perform other duties as may be assigned
Skills and Attributes
- Ability to write hand-coded HTML
- Basic web design skills
- Proofreading skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Some knowledge of CSS
- Experience/Familiarity with Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Photoshop Elements a plus
- Experience with Rhythmyx CMS or Open For Business (OFBiz) ecommerce engine is a plus
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, and communicate with supervisors and colleagues regarding project status and progress
- Work well under pressure and at all times demonstrate cooperative behavior with colleagues and supervisors
Qualifications:
- College degree or equivalent experience
- 1+ years writing HTML and some CSS
- Enthusiasm for the Internet and web technologies
Editorial Coordinator
The nation’s leading publisher of everyday law and business books is looking for a Editorial Coordinator to help the Managing and Acquisitions Editors with daily administrative and research functions and acquisition efforts.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Editorial
- Perform general administrative work, including filing, preparing meeting notes, maintaining Editorial library, processing invoices, assisting editors with research requests.
- Handle the preparation and return of book contracts, including sharing information with others at Nolo.
- File “eCip” information with the Library of Congress.
- Support editors and marketing department in the preparation of seasonal “fact sheets” for new books and new editions.
- Work in the legal research database under the supervision of the Editorial researcher.
- Acquisitions
- Coordinate interdepartmental acquisitions meetings, and help prepare and distribute appropriate materials, including book proposals, Product Profitability Forecasts, sales reports, and other information.
- Organize and maintain spreadsheets for new books (ideas, in development, and approved), and track results of acquisitions efforts.
- Help Acquisitions Editor identify and follow up with prospective authors, literary agents, book ideas, and proposals, and organize supporting material.
- Handle unsolicited manuscript review and retention.
- Other responsibilities as needed – flexibility is key
Skills and Attributes
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent writing and verbal skills
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, FileMaker Pro, and ability to learn additional applications as needed
- Experience doing online research
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to juggle many projects at once
- Outgoing personality, good sense of humor, and creativity
- Ability to work cooperatively with supervisors and colleagues
- Ability to set priorities and meet deadlines
- A desire to become indispensible to the Editorial Department!
Qualifications
- One year of business experience, preferably in a publishing company or related field
- BA/BS in business/marketing/journalism/English or related field
- Interest in a career in publishing, specifically acquisitions
- Interest in business and consumer books
Lead Generation Analyst
As the Lead Generation Analyst, you will provide integral support to the Lawyer Directory sales team by maintaining, researching, screening, creating, and distributing prospect records in SalesForce.com. You will identify lead sources and track metrics to help improve our attorney prospecting.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Research and help qualify leads through internet searches; distribute and update CRM records accordingly.
- Cross-reference lead lists by legal specialty and county location.
- Update and maintain SalesForce database for accuracy and relevance; correct/purge information as needed.
- Identify lead lists and databases to help source new prospects.
- Track and distribute lead analytics via database reports.
- Help refine lead screening and list management processes.
- Execute E-Marketing campaigns.
Skills and Attributes
- Fast, accurate typing and spelling, with a strong attention to detail.
- Highly proficient with web browsers, email programs, and MS Windows; intermediate Excel knowledge.
- Good problem-solving, analytical, and writing skills.
- Resourceful approach with a strong work ethic.
- Demonstrated analytical and detail-oriented skills in a professional setting.
- Experience in a sales or database capacity preferred.
- High school diploma required; college degrees a plus.
We offer a base of $35,000 annually, with significant bonus opportunities and an excellent benefits package.
Production Assistant
Nolo is looking for a detail-oriented, web-savvy Production Assistant to help us transfer data from our old web site to our new web site.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Perform data entry tasks
- Manage and complete Content Management System (CMS) workflows
- Convert MS Word documents to HTML
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
Skills and Attributes
- Basic hand-coded HTML
- Attention to detail
- Web-savvy, familiarity with online technologies
- The employee shall work well under pressure and shall at all times demonstrate cooperative behavior with colleagues and supervisors.
- The employee shall be able to prioritize multiple and sometimes competing deadlines and communicate with supervisors and colleagues as required regarding their progress in managing their deadlines.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum two years related work experience in data entry operations. Prefer experience with Windows 95/98/NT and MS Word.
Does it sound like a fit? Let us know by sending a cover letter and resume to jobs@nolo.com with “Online Production Assistant” in the subject line. Please send attachments in .doc or .pdf formats. And please don't call. Thanks for your interest.
Technical Support Representative
Provide end user product support for Nolo’s consumer software and eProducts, including online interactive applications, downloadable products and stand-alone software in a friendly and expeditious fashion.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Answer user’s questions that arrive via the phone, e-mail, fax and letters, as quickly as possible on a daily basis
- Keep accurate records of all contacts on a daily basis
- Work closely with the Customer Service, Applications Development, and Online Operation departments, providing feedback and stream-lining processes to allow for direct impact on our software and website’s interface, usability, and stability on a daily basis
- Update / maintain department templates for replies to customers
- Create Excel monthly departmental reports
- Assist with internal QA and testing work periodically
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
Skills and Attributes:
- Ability to be patient while delivering quality customer-service to those who are not tech-oriented
- Ability to assist customers in solving basic math problems
- Enjoy helping others and working with the public
- Display effective communication & listening skills
- Display analytical skills for diagnosing technical issues
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and diagnose software application issues
- Have a sense of humor
- The employee shall work well under pressure and shall at all times demonstrate cooperative behavior with colleagues and supervisors.
- The employee shall be able to prioritize multiple and sometimes competing deadlines and communicate with supervisors and colleagues as required regarding their progress in managing their deadlines.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of up to 1 year of experience in a technical / product support environment
- Solid working knowledge of Windows operating systems
- Proficient with basic Excel usage
- Familiarity with Macintosh a plus
Compensation and Benefits:
- DOE + full benefits incl. medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and a collegial place to work.
Associate Director of Business Development
Nolo is seeking a motivated, results-oriented Associate Director of Business Development. The winning candidate will have five or more years of successful experience in content licensing and/ book special sales. Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills are a must. Expertise in deal making required. Must be a team player, self-starter and able to methodically execute and report on market development plans. Role will have responsibility for developing revenue and strategic relationships for Nolo. 90% telecommute, bimonthly meetings at Nolo and 20% travel expected.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Develop prospects
- Propose and develop new revenue opportunities
- Secure new business for Nolo
- Close deals and supervise delivery
- Negotiate contracts
- Manage and grow accounts
- Other such similar duties as assigned
Experience & Skills:
- Excellent written & oral communication skills
- Contract negotiations experience
- Familiarity with content licensing and/or book special sales
- Desktop applications skills & ability to self-teach
- Self-motivated, self-teaching and self-monitoring
- Successful track record in book sales or content licensing
- Extremely comfortable with complicated information-based products
Other:
- Ability to work from remote location(s)
- 20% Travel
- Able to attend monthly or bi-monthly meetings at Nolo
Senior HR Manager
Are you a self-starting, light-hearted HR professional, as comfortable building trusted partnerships with leaders and employees at all levels of an organization as you are with tactical HR administration? Would you welcome the opportunity to make your mark by elevating the role of HR in a growing, progressive, socially responsible Berkeley company? Do you recognize the value of company-paid employee health coverage (including medical, dental, vision, and alternative healthcare), flexible spending accounts, 401k with company match, life and disability insurance, generous time off, and…last but not least…real work-life balance that generally permits a 9-5 workday?
If so, consider Nolo, the nation’s leading publisher of self-help law solutions for consumers and small businesses, covering everyday legal matters such as estate planning, patents and other intellectual property concerns, landlord-tenant law, bankruptcy and debtor’s rights, family law, immigration and employment. In addition to our award-winning website, Nolo offers plain-English legal information in books, software, downloadable eGuides, and online WebForms. Nolo Press was started in 1971 by two Legal Aid Lawyers who were outraged that the average person couldn’t afford legal help. Today at Nolo, we're still passionate about our mission of providing self-help legal information and pride ourselves on our friendly work environment.
About the Position:
Nolo is currently seeking a Senior HR Manager to be the resident expert and leader on all HR concerns, responsible for maintaining and enhancing all HR practices company-wide. The position reports to the Director of Finance and will likely have one direct report, the Office/Facilities/HR Coordinator. At Nolo, we can't give you a six-figure salary, but we won't give you any six-figure headaches, either.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Leadership, Employee & Organizational Development:
- Develop and support Nolo leaders with managerial training, coaching, feedback, and recognition to enhance environment, optimize performance, and achieve growth.
- Work with Nolo leaders to identify and address skill needs and structural enhancements in various departments.
- In partnership with Nolo leaders, assess needs for training, and research cost-effective means to deliver necessary training.
- Assist in monthly Heads of Departments (“HoDs”) meeting planning.
- Recruitment & Staffing:
- Drive and coordinate recruitment and staffing in partnership with all hiring managers
- Performance Management:
- Work with leaders to maintain job descriptions and performance management practices
- Track compensation plans for both in-company parity and understanding of how Nolo’s plans measure up outside the company
- Research, propose and implement both formal and informal rewards and recognition programs
- Employee Relations:
- Responsible for new hire orientation and on-boarding procedures
- Responsible for oversight of all employee terminations
- Ensure current and complete in-house communications
- Maintain an environment that fosters respect for diversity and inclusion of every individual and their contributions.
- Respond to employee questions, complaints, disputes or misconduct in a prompt, thorough, and objective manner, conducting full investigations as appropriate.
- Information Management:
- Create and maintain effective HR information systems for the entire company
- Benefits Oversight:
- Maintain best possible benefits plans for Nolo employees, including research and consideration of possible changes in plans or plan providers, and analysis of benefits costs.
- Administer all benefits plans
- Compliance:
- Ensure all Nolo HR programs, policies and practices comply with all applicable laws.
- Consult with Nolo HR attorney as necessary.
- As Health and Safety Officer, ensure workplace is safe, coordinate emergency drills (i.e. fire and earthquake), and coordinate with other staff to ensure workplace safety.
- Miscellany:
- Assist with annual budgeting process for HR-related costs
- Research HR/Payroll vendor options and potentially manage project to change vendors
- Perform other duties and responsibilities and assist with other projects and activities as may be assigned from time to time.
Skills and Attributes:
- Exemplary interpersonal skills.
- Enthusiastic attitude and approach.
- Very effective oral and written communication skills.
- Expertise using Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Able to work well under pressure and at all times demonstrate cooperative behavior with every level of the organization.
- Able to prioritize multiple and sometimes competing deadlines and communicate with others as appropriate regarding progress.
Qualifications:
- At least 2 years previous experience in HR (5 years preferred)
- Experience with recruiting required, specific experience with recruiting and retention of telesales teams preferred
- Knowledge and prior experience working with HR principles and best practices.
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws.
- Experience working with a Founder/Entrepreneur company leader preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in HR Management or related field required.
- Must have ability to multi-task, excellent follow-through skills, and proven experience working well with all levels of management.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality is essential.
How to Apply:
- Send cover letter and resume to external recruiter HR By Your Side at:
- On emails, please put only the job title in the subject line, and send your cover letter and resume only as MS Word attachments or as an Adobe .PDF file. (Please do not send Wordperfect .WPD documents)
- Please do not call Nolo directly about this position even to see if your resume was received. If you respond by email, have your email program send you a delivery receipt.
Online Sales and Marketing Director
Nolo, the nation's leading publisher of legal self-help resources for consumers and small business, is looking for an experienced Online Sales and Marketing Director to be responsible for all direct-to-consumer sales & marketing, and for increasing traffic to nolo.com, the Lawyer Directory, and Nolo’s blogs.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Marketing and Merchandising on Nolo.com
- Maximize SEM and SEO for website
- Work with Online Development to improve conversion rate
- Develop pricing & bundling strategies
- Develop promotion plans and strategies
- Nolo’s Online Interactive Forms
- Manage launch, sales & marketing of all online interactive forms
- Work with cross-functional teams to develop and test new product ideas
- Direct Marketing Communication
- Manage all direct communication marketing including direct catalog campaigns and email campaigns.
- Plan and supervise email newsletter sends
- Capitalize on technology improvements
- Manage annual software launches
- Direct all publicity campaigns for Nolo online products and services
- Design and implement an annual publicity plan
- Create new angles to build awareness on an ongoing basis and capitalize on current events to drive online sales
Skills and Attributes:
- Deep knowledge of online marketing, with a record of online merchandising success
- Excellent communication skills with a talent for writing marketing copy
- Proven project management skills with the ability to work cooperatively across departments while coordinating multiple teams to achieve a shared goal
- Enthusiastic with the ability to motivate others
- Previous budgeting and financial forecasting experience
- Strong user of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- Able to work well under pressure and at all times demonstrate cooperative behavior with every level of the organization.
- Able to prioritize multiple and sometimes competing deadlines and communicate with others as appropriate regarding progress.
Qualifications:
- At least 3 years of applicable professional experience
- Bachelor’s or related degree
- Must have ability to multi-task, excellent follow-through skills, and proven experience working well with all levels of management.
Compensation:
DOE; full healthcare benefits, 401(k), 3 weeks vacation, and a collegial place to work.
Quality Assurance Analyst (Temporary)
Are you looking for a QA position in a great Berkeley company? If you’re detail oriented, organized, learn fast, and love technology, this may be the job for you. The quality assurance analyst will work with the QA Manager, the QA team, developers, and project managers to ensure the excellence of a variety of software and online projects. Primary responsibilities include general testing tasks and writing documentation.
This is a temporary position and is expected to last 4 months, with the possibility of extension. The pay rate is $20.00 per hour. We provide a collegial atmosphere in which to work.
Required Skills and Attributes
- Understand concepts and fundamentals related to software development, hardware and testing procedures
- Excellent command of English, including strong written and verbal communication skills
- Must be accurate, very detail oriented and have excellent follow through
- Ability and willingness to learn new and existing tools (systems, software products, hardware, etc.)
- Solid organizational skills
- Solid understanding and recognition of Internet fundamentals
- Sense of humor and geek sensibilities
- Genuine appreciation of Nolo's mission to bring self-help law to consumers
Qualifications
- A computer science background and/or 6 months of testing or technical support experience is desirable but not required.
- Significant, demonstrated experience with computers and software
- Strong knowledge of a variety of Microsoft Windows operating systems
Front-End Developer (Temporary)
Are you a savvy front-end developer who loves creating standards compliant websites using valid CSS and strict, semantic XHTML markup? Do you have a good working knowledge of DOM scripting using unobtrusive Javascript? Do you believe that creating standards compliant websites makes the web a better place, one site at a time?
Then come lend a hand at Nolo – a solid Berkeley company with a mission to provide legal information to consumers. We’re looking for a temporary hire (not an independent contractor) to help us with a major project. That means you’ll work full-time on site with us for about 3 months.
Our friendly, hard-working web development team is in the middle of implementing a complete redesign of our web site. We need you to be able to hit the ground running writing XHTML, CSS and unobtrusive Javascript to help us meet our deadline. If this sounds like a good fit to you, send us your resume today!
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Implement designs using CSS and semantic XHTML
- Write DOM scripts using unobtrusive Javascript techniques
- Execute bug fixes as needed
- Keep abreast with new technologies; research and recommend technologies when appropriate
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time
Skills and Attributes:
- Required:
- Advanced, proven CSS knowledge
- Expert level XHTML with strong understanding of semantic markup
- Moderate Javascript/DOM scripting familiarity
- Strong understanding of cross-browser/cross-platform compatibility issues and web accessibility standards
- Experience using Photoshop to slice design comps and create images
- Good organizational and communication skills
- Plusses:
- Expert level Javascript/DOM scripting using unobtrusive techniques
- Experience with AJAX
- Subversion
- Macromedia Flash
- The employee shall work well under pressure and shall at all times demonstrate cooperative behavior with colleagues and supervisors.
- The employee shall be able to prioritize multiple and sometimes competing deadlines and communicate with supervisors and colleagues as required regarding their progress in managing their deadlines.
Skills and Attributes:
- 1-3 years experience developing for the web using CSS and XHTML to create “table-less” layouts
- 1-3 years Javascript/DOM scripting experience
Online Publicist and Copywriter
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Online Publicity:
- Organize and coordinate PR newswire and social media releases for new products, marketing campaigns and lawyer directory
- Coordinate Nolopedia article release schedule to coincide with Online Marketing campaigns
- Develop relationships with outside blogs and websites for potential future promotions
- Research all applicable avenues for online publicity
- Coordinate all online efforts with trade publicity department for new product releases
- Nolo Blogs:
- Develop and execute plans to grow traffic of Nolo blogs via viral/word of mouth marketing initiatives such as through email discussion groups, e-zines, newsgroups, email newsletters, web-based bulletin boards, etc.
- Website copy
- Produce Online Content, including headlines and landing page copy
- Write all product copy
- Write all marketing copy in online interactive applications
- Lawyer Directory:
- Manage lead generation for direct mail campaigns
- Coordinate outreach programs for possible partnerships
Skills and Attributes:
- Excellent writing & verbal skills
- Project management skills
- Enthusiastic
- Thorough
- Able to work cooperatively with colleagues and supervisors
- Ability to prioritize multiple and sometimes competing deadlines
- Communicates clearly with supervisors and colleagues regarding their progress in managing their deadlines.
Qualifications:
- Advanced knowledge of web 2.0, blogs, social networking sites, etc.
- Experience with online publicity
- Knowledge of SEO best practices
- Two years of marketing experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
Compensation and Benefits:
- Salary DOE. Full health benefits, 3 weeks vacation, paid holidays, and a collegial work atmosphere. This is a full-time 40-hour per week position.
Legal Editor
Responsibilities:
- Update and edit existing books, software, electronic guides and online content in one or more of the following areas: business, employment, consumer law.
- Edit new books.
- Write original material for Nolo’s website.
- Design online legal forms (and accompanying text) and work with Nolo’s Applications Development Department to implement them.
- Speak with print, broadcast, and online journalists on topics covered by Nolo titles.
- Follow the market and keep up with publishing trends, competition, and opportunities in the area of your expertise.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Regularly update software and books.
- Keep up to date on important legal changes.
- Maintain cordial and efficient relations with authors.
Skills and Attributes:
- Ability to organize, write, and edit large, complex works on legal and related subjects.
- Ability to handle several projects at the same time and work collegially with people in other departments.
- Willingness to learn the proprietary applications we use to produce Nolo software.
- Comfortable speaking with the press.
Experience Requirement:
- Bachelor’s and law degrees, with relevant law practice experience preferred
- Writing and editing for lay audiences.
Benefits:
- Salary DOE.
- A competitive salary and a fun, casual work environment with flexible hours
- Three weeks per year of paid time off and a company-sponsored 401(k) plan
- Medical, dental, vision, acupuncture/chiropractic, and long-term disability insurance
Regional Sales Manager
For over 35 years, Nolo has been your legal companion, empowering you and saving you money whenever the law touches your work, life or finances. We are the nation's oldest and most respected provider of legal information, books, software, podcasts and local attorney information for consumers and small businesses, reaching over 10 million people each year.
Our core values and beliefs: We are committed to…
- Remaining the leader in the industry Nolo founded: answering the public need for trustworthy and accessible legal information and tools.
- Ongoing innovation with a clear understanding of the needs of our customers.
- Increasing people's awareness of what Nolo's competitive advantage - the highest quality products from the most trusted source - can mean for them.
With Nolo's new online Lawyer Directory (lawyers.nolo.com), we provide the most comprehensive information ever offered on a lawyer's background - education, work experience, expertise, and personal philosophy. We also verify that lawyers have a valid license and are in good standing with their state bar association.
As a Regional Manager, you will interview and recommend only those lawyers that meet our high standards and that you would hire or refer to friends and family. This is a high-level inside sales position where you do business on the phone and email with educated professionals - offering a critical-need service, helping them get new clients. Matched with your positive attitude, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and consultative selling ability, we have the formula for ultimate success.
Responsibilities:
- Contacting potential advertisers to meet or exceed assigned quota
- Clearly explain the advertising opportunity
- Assist contacted attorneys to complete the detailed application form. Answer attorney questions and forward as appropriate
- Work closely with Sales Manager to determine best opportunities given existing open advertising slots
- Track all calls in detail in SalesForce.com database for all calls where messages are left or conversations occur. All information must be recorded promptly, accurately, and completely
- Excellent sales and presentation skills
- Good people skills. Ability to work well with accounts and in-house Nolo staff
- Good organizational skills. Excellent attention to detail. Keep accurate records in team environment
- Self-motivated. Work independently majority of time under direction of Sales Managers Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Upbeat, ambitious, strong work ethic, reliable, goal oriented
- Make calls quickly and efficiently to meet or exceed assigned quota
- Legal experience is helpful but not necessary
- College degree preferred, but not required
Benefits:
- We offer great compensation and an excellent benefits package.
- Potential to work from home.
Web Applications Engineer - Java
Are you a web developer on the verge of burning out? Are you working too many hours? Commuting too far?
Come check out Nolo, a solid Berkeley company with a mission to provide legal information to consumers. Our friendly, hard-working web development team is about to embark on a complete redesign of our web site. We’re starting from the ground up with new software, new programming languages and new information architecture and we’d like a Java developer who can hit the ground running with good ideas, creativity, and solid experience building web applications.
We usually work 40 hours a week and have lives outside of work. Our team members like to spend time with their kids and partners, hike, take photographs, play guitar and practice yoga. We're also committed to producing a Webby award winning web site that really helps people. We can't give you a six-figure salary, but we won't give you any six-figure headaches, either. We've got great benefits and generous time off.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement website features and maintain existing applications within J2EE, content management system (CMS) and ecommerce applications.
- Keep abreast of new technologies; research and recommend technologies when appropriate.
- Troubleshoot site and web application issues.
- Execute bug fixes as needed for ecommerce & content management systems.
- Perform periodic database projects as needed.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
Skills and Attributes:
- Required:
- Java with an emphasis on J2EE
- SQL - complex queries, joins, data imports and exports, etc. (MS SQLServer, MySQL)
- JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- XML
- Creativity, the desire to work on a large-scale project from start to finish.
- Good organizational and communication skills
- Ability to solve medium to complex technical problems with minimal supervision
- Willingness to pick up new technological skills based on growing and changing business needs.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- A cooperative, collaborative spirit.
- Plusses:
- ColdFusion, Eclipse, Tomcat, AJAX, RSS, and/or SVN
- Familiarity with Percussion Rhythmyx and/or Open For Business (OFBiz)
- Good knowledge of browser compatibility issues and web accessibility standards
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years experience working on a complex, consumer-facing, database-driven website.
- 1-2 years J2EE
- 3-5 years SQL experience
- Thorough knowledge and proven ability with HTML, JavaScript & CSS
How to apply:
- Send a cover letter and résumé to Human Resources, Nolo, 950 Parker Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, or
- fax to 510-859-0027, or
- email to jobs@nolo.com.
IMPORTANT:
- On emails, please put ONLY the job title in the subject line, and send your cover letter and resume ONLY as MS Word attachments or as an Adobe .PDF file. (Please do not send Wordperfect .WPD documents)
- No phone calls will be accepted. Please DO NOT call or email to see if your resume was received. If you respond by email, have your email program send you a delivery receipt.
- Please include your phone number, mailing address and email address. We will contact you if we decide to pursue your application, but not otherwise.
Nolo is the nation's leading provider of self-help solutions for consumers and small businesses. Our books and software cover everyday legal and business matters such as estate planning, patents and other intellectual property concerns, landlord-tenant law, bankruptcy and debtor's rights, family law, immigration and employment. We produce an award-winning website (http://www.nolo.com/) books and software products.
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