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An Innovative Company

Be a part of an industry sector that is growing exponentially. Global Relay is interested in finding energetic and dynamic people to join our expanding team.

The Radicati Group expects the total email archiving market ... to grow to over $6 billion by 2010. - Radicati Study

Global Relay is an innovative, rapidly-growing technology services company who employs over 100 people across its Vancouver, New York, Signapore and London offices. We provide a fully-managed suite of hosted messaging services with message archiving and monitoring at the core and a specialty in compliance solutions.

Available Positions

Mobile Applications Developer

Job Description:

Mobile client development for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android mobile application platforms. Work collaboratively with mobile client and server development team on service integration and deployment

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and test mobile client native application for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android devices
  • Work closely with product management to iterate user interface design and understand product requirements
  • Facilitate the technical integration of the mobile clients with the mobile service gateway

Qualifications:

  • Must work in Vancouver BC
  • 5+ year working experience in Java development
  • 2+ year recent working experience in mobile Java (J2ME/Blackberry)
  • Working experience with Eclipse IDE
  • Working experience with on-device debugging
  • Experience with iPhone Objective C and/or Android SDK is a plus
  • Experience with source control practice
  • Experience with XMPP and web services is an asset

Top Characteristics of Candidate:

  • Experience with client development on multiple mobile platforms
  • Experience developing client/server/web interactions
  • Deep understanding of mobile application design challenges
  • Team player and proven ability to work across functional groups to facilitate system integration and service deployment

What We Offer:

  • Excellent starting salary based on experience with opportunities for career development and growth
  • Medical/dental benefits
  • Bonuses

If you are interested in this position, please forward a copy of your resume to hr@globalrelay.net. Please ensure the subject line indicates: “Mobile Applications Developer”.

Quality Assurance – Senior Level

We are building new and exciting products in the world of messaging and communications. We need easy going people who have a good understanding of QA practices and are interested in expanding their existing QA skill set while working on exciting projects in an environment that fosters growth on both personal and career fronts. The candidate must be self motivated and capable of working independently, and in a larger synergetic team setting.

This is the right job for you if you are outgoing, attentive to detail, eager to learn new technologies and have what it takes to narrow down those hard to reproduce bugs!

Job Description / Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Participate in Specifications Review, Test Planning, Creation and Execution of Test Cases, Defect Reporting, and Defect Verification
  • Responsible for identifying and raising risks as early as possible in an Agile environment
  • Produce project documentation for internal and external use (eg. FAQs, Setup documention, Test Plans, Test Cases, Release Notes, etc.)
  • Involved in Automation of Test Cases for an IM client-server system
  • Assist other QA team members and Developers in setup and configuration of the test environment
  • Responsible for working on a suite of related products
  • Collaborate with other departments during the investigation and reproduction of defects that impact our customers
  • Low level analysis of complicated systems with many points of integration where you may be exposed to the code base
  • Performance, Load, Capacity, Security and Stress tests for a mission critical high-availability system
  • Provide suggestions and take on extra responsibilities as the team grows

Qualifications:

  • Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task in an environment with rapidly changing responsibilities and requirements
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • A good understanding of Agile concepts and experience with their application within the QA world
  • Able to work independently and in a team setting
  • Experienced in Functional Test Case Automation
  • Must be flexible in terms of working hours
  • General understanding of domains and networking principles
  • Has the know-how to generate supporting documentation for a project that allows other members of the team to participate in testing during peaks of the Development Life Cycle
  • Has a proven history of previous successes in a setting where minimal direction was provided

Desirable:

  • Prior exposure to Wireshark or another network analyzer
  • Previous experience with TestLog Test Case Management Software
  • Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence WIKI
  • Experience with Continuous Build Integration using tools similar to Bamboo
  • Load, Stress, Performance, Security and Capacity Test Automation experience
  • Basic understanding of XMPP protocol
  • Comfortable working on Linux, Solaris, Mac, and Windows Platforms
  • Previous SQL experience
  • Acquaintance with Rules Engine testing
  • Experience with coding test scripts for test automation tools similar to Test Complete
  • Understanding of Ethical Walls and their business applications
  • Fluency in multiple languages is an asset

What we offer:

  • Excellent starting salary based on experience with opportunities for career development and growth
  • Medical/dental benefits
  • Bonuses

If you are interested in this position please send your resume to hr@globalrelay.net

Experienced .NET Developer

We are looking for experienced developers to join our team. This is a unique opportunity to enjoy challenging work with a great group of passionate professionals in a booming industry.

Job Description:

Working in a fast-paced Agile development environment, you will be guiding project stakeholders and team members to design, develop and implement data conversion systems used in our enterprise solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Work as part of collaborative team of stakeholders to translate business needs into scaleable, enterprise products
  • Design and program new systems in a results oriented development environment
  • Maintain and enhance existing products and systems
  • Bring new ideas and solutions to the team as an active partcipant in Sprint planning and other meetings
  • Provide guidance and direction to other team members regarding design and implementation
  • Ensure details of the specific changes to the system and the potential impacts of these changes are clear to QA Analyst team members and assist in determining test scope
  • Share team responsibility for testing and quality of all release products
  • Fully document code and system architecture as part of each release
  • Participate in writing User Stories

Qualifications:

  • At least 5 years of experience in a software development position with at least 3 years in senor technical role
  • Extensive experience with .NET
  • Experience with F# an asset
  • The ability to build consensus with stakeholders, including excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to maintain a highly positive working relationship with other team members
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Experience with agile development practices is an asset
  • Experience within the financial services industry is an asset

What we offer:

Global Relay provides a highly competitive compensation and benefits program with bonuses, flexible schdules, and opportunitie for professional development and personal challenges as we expand our international blue chip clientele.

If you are interested in this position, please send your cover letter and resume as soon as possible to: hr@globalrelay.net. Make sure to indicate “Experienced .NET Developer” in the email subject.

Please no phone calls. Must be eligible to work in Canada

Senior Java Developer

Job Description:

As a member of the development team, you will be responsible for identifying requirements; evaluating technologies; providing comparisons and proposing solutions; designing, coding and writing test cases; and documenting components of the architecture. A deep understanding of networking protocols, scalability options, and performance trade-offs is required. A thorough understanding and consistent use of development best practices is expected.

Responsibilities:

  • Work as part of collaborative team of stakeholders to translate business needs into scaleable, enterprise products
  • Design and program new systems in a results oriented development environment
  • Maintain and enhance existing products and systems
  • Bring new ideas and solutions to the team as an active partcipant in Sprint planning and other meetings
  • Provide guidance and direction to other team members regarding design and implementation
  • Ensure details of the specific changes to the system and the potential impacts of these changes are clear to QA Analyst team members and assist in determining test scope
  • Share team responsibility for testing and quality of all release products
  • Fully document code and system architecture as part of each release
  • Participate in writing User Stories

Qualifications:

  • An independent worker and thinker that is comfortable working in a team environment
  • Highly motivated self starter
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Technologies:

  • Java
  • Network protocols
  • Security concerns
  • XML / XMPP / HTML / SAML2
  • Multi-threading / Concurrency
  • SQL / Hibernate / JPA
  • Unix / Linux / Solaris
  • Cloud computing

What we offer:

Global Relay provides a highly competitive compensation and benefits program with bonuses, flexible schdules, and opportunitie for professional development and personal challenges as we expand our international blue chip clientele.

If you are interested in this position, please send your cover letter and resume as soon as possible to: hr@globalrelay.net. Make sure to indicate “Senior Java Developer” in the email subject.

Please no phone calls. Must be eligible to work in Canada

Business Development Manager/Sales Specialist

Job Description:

Business Development Manager/Sales Specialist wanted for business development of Enterprise compliance, archiving, eDiscovery & collaboration services within financial sector.

Responsibilities:

  • Revenue generation from sales of compliance services including instant messaging, email filtering, email archiving, compliance, archival, data conversion/migration and eDiscovery.
  • Identify & evaluate business opportunities & potential markets within the financial sector.
  • Oversee pricing & proposal development, client relations, account management, strategic planning & technology implementation.
  • Knowledge of compliance regulations and electronic communication technologies.

Qualifications:

  • 5 year working experience required
  • Bachelor's in Engineering, Comp Science or IT required.

What We Offer:

Global Relay provides a competitive compensation, and strong benefits program with opportunities for bonus compensation. Global Relay recognizes excellence and provides its team members with rewarding opportunities for professional and personal growth and development.

If you are interested in this unique position, please send your resume to: salesposition@globalrelay.net. Please no phone calls. Please ensure the subject line indicates: “Business Development Manager/Sales Specialist”.

General Application

You can also submit a general application for a future position at Global Relay. We will retain it on file and if an appropriate position becomes available, we will contact you.

Please send your cover letter and resume to hr@globalrelay.net