The success of a company rests on attracting and retaining the right combination of skills and personalities. Today, over 100 of the best and brightest open source specialists work for Catalyst IT in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK.
Catalyst is always looking for talented and creative individuals. We like sociable, confident communicators who take pride in their work. In return, we offer a dynamic and stimulating work environment, a great team of people, exciting projects, and opportunities to grow your talents. If Catalyst sounds like your kind of place, send us your CV.
Life at Catalyst
In 2008, Catalyst was top-ranked in the National Business Review's search for New Zealand's most exciting companies. With an "excitement index" of 66.5%, well above other IT industry giants, Catalyst is proud of cultivating a unique working environment ideally suited to talented, creative and commited individuals.
We have many traditions here at Catalyst, such as Pizza Thursday, which is a chance to showcase your technical interests and the achievements of your projects. If pizza is not your thing, there's Curry Wednesday and Beer O'Clock on Friday to enjoy with colleagues.
In between, of course, everyone at Catalyst is there to provide the very best in open source development, systems management and client support. That means taking individual responsibility and working flexibly with those around you to make things happen for some significant clients running business-critical systems.
At Catalyst you'll be working directly with your clients much of the time. So you'll need the kind of communication and social skills that underpin successful open source projects.
If Catalyst sounds like your kind of place, send us your CV.
General
There are standard things we look for in developers irrespective of their technical skills. They include:
- A good understanding of source control systems (ideally git)
- The ability to work with some direction and be prepared to switch context/projects if and when required
- A good level of written communication
- The confidence and ability to discuss requirements with clients and colleagues
- The confidence and knowledge to provide alternative solutions where a different approach would be cheaper/faster/better for the client
- A passion for open source approaches to software creation
- The wisdom to ask for help when needed!
Skills
Rather than just advertising specific vacancies, we are generally on the lookout for talented individuals. Every month we aim to hire several staff, each with experience in two or more of:
Current Vacancies
We value your privacy and will not contact your current employer until after you have been successfully interviewed.
General Applicants
Do you want to work with a bunch of inspiring geeks in an open source culture? Have a look at the skills we need, and if you're what we're looking for, drop us a line. We usually hire more than a dozen general applicants a year. If this sounds like you - please send your CV to jobs@catalyst.net.nz
Good things to include in your email are:
- a CV that includes any academic results
- references to any publicly available open source work, e.g. 'I have contributed 30 patches to the example project, which are available through http://repo.or.cz/w/example.git'
- any other examples you can provide of relevant work, e.g. references to any academic research you have had published
Experienced Java Developer
Duties:
- Performing software design, development and testing duties to a high standard
- Ability to take a technical lead role. Be responsible for the oversight, organisation and technical direction of a project
- Work with project managers to scope and estimate new work
- Ensure management and the team are up to date on your progress or issues if any arise
- Maintain professional standards in all aspects of your work
- Support other team members on projects
- Collaborate with Catalyst staff in generating ideas and work opportunities
- Deal openly and honestly with clients and fellow staff
- Provide project reporting as required by Catalyst and our clients
- Work to deadlines
Required Skills:
- At least 5 years development experience
- Strong Java and web development skills, including
- Spring or comparable Java application framework
- Object/relational mapping layers
- Understanding of design patterns, including MVC
- Understanding of Service Oriented Architectures
- Servlet container (Tomcat, Jetty, etc) deployment and configuration
- Use of integrated test & deployment tools, such as Eclipse, Jenkins, Maven and/or Ant
- Web services
- Linux
Other Skills:
Some of the following would be advantageous
- HTML, Javascript/Jquery & CSS development
- Perl, shell scripting, Erlang, PHP
- Apache administration
- Basic Solaris administration
- Database design
- Basic database administration, especially Postgres
- Technical writing
If this sounds like you, please send your CV to jobs@catalyst.net.nz
Web Development Team Coordinator Position
We have the most fantastic clients anyone could ask for, and we want to keep exceeding their expectations. To do that we need capable and clued-up people. That's where you come in! Catalyst employees need to to be able to read clients' minds, solve problems before they exist and present solutions to enable our clients to deliver to their stakeholders and community. Does that sound like you?
This role is all about coordinating client wishes and requests and turning them into reality. You will be responsible for the development of an effective ongoing relationship between a group of clients and Catalyst, to ensure the client receives excellent service through the management of their work requests.
The role will suit someone who really understands true customer service and making a difference to their day. You will be given training on our work request and invoicing systems and a full understanding of website content management. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills and further your IT career.
To be considered for this role you will need to have:
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills – both verbal and written
- Strong customer service skills and proactive, customer focused attitude
- An ability to lead the development team
- A sense of ownership from beginning to end
- A friendly personality and self-confidence
- Confidence with uncertainty and change
- The ability to handle pressure and conflicting demands
- A desire to constantly improve processes
- Great time management skills
- And be organised but flexible
And it would be useful to have:
- An understanding of website development and content management
- Project coordination skills
- An understanding of quoting, invoicing and reporting
- And be familiar with Open Source software or content management systems
Catalyst is always on the look out for talented and creative individuals. We like sociable, confident communicators who take pride in their work. In return we offer a dynamic and stimulating work environment, a great team of people, exciting projects and opportunities to grow your talents. We will also; pay you well, provide a family friendly place to work, provide medical insurance and a fun flexible environment. We will consider candidates without experience in the IT sector but who have experience in other customer-facing roles.
More information on Catalyst IT Limited can be found at www.catalyst.net.nz
Please send your CV and covering letter to jobs@catalyst.net.nz