Chief Software Architect - $200k

INSTRUCTIONS

Congratulations on getting to this stage of the interview process and welcome to the gTeam Chief Architect test.  As we mentioned earlier, finding the top 1% of talent is a challenging task that does require some commitment from you to really show us your skills.

For this stage, you will be given a set of  multiple choices questions that range from IQ and technical categories to coding quizzing and questions designed to test your broader technical understanding.

You have total of 70 minutes to submit this test once started.  The time limitation is set to ensure fairness amongst all candidates and to ensure we can get back to you in a timely manner on your results.  Good luck and we look forward to seeing your talents!

General Instructions:

1. You are free to choose any language from the list and code
2. If the code area contains the function signature, just complete the function alone, we'll take care of the main function, headers, etc
3. If you're expected to write the full code, it'd be mentioned in the code area. All inputs are from STDIN and output to STDOUT. If you're using Java, use the classname as 'Solution'
4. To understand more about the environment, time limits, etc. you can read theFAQ here
5. You can print to console to debug your code using the appropriate print command for each language (Eg: cout for C++, printf for C, etc.)
6. It is okay to use reference language documentation or use an IDE that has code completion features. However it is not acceptable to consult/copy code from any source including a website, book, or friend/colleague to complete these tests.

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Chief Software Architect - $200k

What do we need from you?

gTeam is looking for a stellar Chief Architect to be responsible for the architecture, design and delivery of an Enterprise software product in its portfolio. As the owner for the architecture and technical delivery of a multi-million dollar revenue per year enterprise software product, you will effectively work as the CTO of the engagement with a startup mindset, wearing multiple hats from lead architect and developer on the most complex elements of the product to technical team leader to solution evangelist ensuring that the customers are blown away by the technical differentiation and quality of the product.  

Total compensation is US$200,000/year (cash) for 40 hours a week - with opportunities for top performers to bill above 40 hours when needed.

Who Are We?

gTeam is changing the way enterprise software is created by adopting an assembly-line  model for development and delivery.

gTeam has been built ground up on the basis of innovative processes and tools that are our Intellectual Property. We manage massive scale yet provide great cost savings and high quality in our work. This is, by the way, the complete opposite of conventional software development, where scale often leads to quality issues, cost and time overruns. Besides the above, gTeam also handles development for 30+ Enterprise products that we have acquired over the last few years.

A position like this one at gTeam is an opportunity to solve problems never solved before in enterprise domain.  By working with an enterprise leader, you will get a shot not only in innovation but also in defining the enterprise industry. The high focus on Impact and Ownership allows for freedom to each engineer to experiment and innovate.

Detailed Job Description

This is a perfect role for a technical genius who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment and in solving complex problems for customers with high expectations. The position is only a great fit for someone who takes a truly hands-on approach to product development, design and engineering. It's a great opportunity to secure a high impact technical lead role in an expanding global software company that is growing both organically and through acquisition. The opportunity for exposure to new challenges is immense, as the acquisition of several new products and customer bases every year creates extremely interesting learning opportunities for motivated professionals who strive to create value in their work and to personally grow.

Desired Skills and Experience

Your key responsibilities will be:

•   Developing expertise in one or more of our proprietary enterprise software products.

•   Leveraging your broad technology capability set and maintain a level of excitement in using various technologies to architect, develop, and iteratively deploy real enterprise class software

•   Achieving an expert level understanding of our customers’ environments and their use of our products.

•   Architecting and leading wekly technical delivery of one or more products in a way that maintains an unyielding focus on quality while matching the needs of the target customer base.

•   Creating solutions architecture, algorithms, and designs for solutions that scale to the customers enterprise/global requirements

•   Leading a small team of Software Engineers to apply software engineering practices and implement automations across all elements of solution delivery

•   Manage accountability of team members, with pinpoint focus on quality;  Personally accountable for resolution of the most technically challenging issues

•   Ensuring our customers are supremely confident in the advantages and quality of our product and solution, and the technical services you lead to deliver them.

Qualifications:

•   Technical genius par-excellence in programming, writing algorithms, and architecting solutions; Architecting solutions and delivering excellent code should not merely be your skill, but your passion

•   8+ years of hands-on technical experience with large-scale enterprise software application development and/or enterprise software solution implementations

•   Excellent understanding of current enterprise software technologies and development practices/tools, including virtual environments, source control, remote development, issue tracking, build and test automation, and networking management

•   Programming expertise in one or more of C, C++, Java or .Net and scripting languages

•   Ability to engage sophisticated global customers in deep technical discussions, making them confident that you know their problem better than they do

•   Computer Science or Engineering graduate/ post-graduate/ doctorate with top marks from a top technical university

•   A true “roll up the sleeves and get it done” working approach; demonstrated success as a problem solver, operating as a result-oriented, self-starter

•   Comfort “working virtually” with teammates and customers around the world

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Oracle DBA - $30k

Job description

Come work with the top 1% of global talent to deliver critical enterprise apps for Fortune 500 companies.  We offer a fast-paced environment where inventiveness and entrepreneurial drive are rewarded. We’re also one of the few IT companies offering high-paying, 100% remote and work-from-home positions. You never have to fight traffic to office again and you have the freedom to choose when and where you put in your 40 hours to be most effective each week.

What do we need from you?

• Administer Oracle installations
• Perform backup and restore operations
• Write scripts to perform routine database operations
• Debug security and schema issues
• Create database documentation and schema scripts
  

Total compensation is US$15/ hour for a standard, full-time, 40-hour work week.   

Desired Skills and Experience

What we need to see in your background:

• Ability to administer Oracle from the command line
• Proficiency in multiple database versions
• Proficiency in source control using SVN
• Proficiency in command line Linux using SSH
• The ability to fix problems and to convey issues to others

To qualify, please provide a resume/ CV demonstrating the required experience and skills.  From there, to help us find the top 1% of talent, there will be a series of interviews and online skills examinations.  We realize these can be very challenging and can require a decent amount of time - so we thank you in advance for your efforts.  Please note that you will not be paid for these interviews or skills tests but we hope you will complete them to help us truly evaluate your talent in comparison to your peers.

Are you up for the challenge?

C# Engineer - $30k

Come work with the top 1% of global talent to deliver critical enterprise apps for Fortune 500 companies.  We offer a fast-pace environment where inventiveness and entrepreneurial drive are rewarded. We’re also one of the few IT companies offering high-paying jobs that are 100% remote, work from home. You never have to fight traffic to office again and you have the freedom to choose when and where you put in your 40 hours to be most effective each week.

What do we need from you?  As a gTeam C# Engineer, you will :

• Write and debug unit and integration tests for enterprise applications
• Create and modify command line build and installer packages
• Transition existing code to new technologies and update third party components
• Identify dependencies
• Perform code reviews

Total compensation is US$15/hr for a full-time, 40-hour work week.

Desired Skills and Experience

What we need to see in your background

• .Net C# developer with enterprise application experience
• Proficient in web technologies including WCF, MVC, Web API, and ASP.net
• Can write code but also understand how to test what you write
• Has a good grasp of the core tools included with Visual Studio professional
• Can fix problems and also convey issues to others

 You may be the ONE if:

• You are obsessively focused on quality, but hate starting from scratch when you know the problem has been solved.
• You have a passion for iterative development, because that is what our service offers and the way we will build it!  - “Shipping is a feature”
• You spend 1-2 hours each week in study and research to become more expert on every product you work on.

To qualify, please provide a resume/CV demonstrating the required experience and skills.  From there, to help us find the top 1% of talent, there will be a series of interviews and online skills examinations.  We realize these are challenging and can require a decent amount of time - so we thank you in advance for your efforts.  Please note that you will not be paid for these interviews or skills tests but we hope you will complete them to help us truly evaluate your talent in comparison to your peers.

Are you up for the challenge?

Customer Success Manager - US $80k

Job description

Do you want to work with Fortune 500 companies to hire to best talent in the world? Do you want to lead international teams to execute deliverables on time for the sake of your customer? If you want to join a cutting edge start up experiencing explosive growth and position yourself for leadership positions  - this role is for you.

Job Description

In this role, you will be our Customer Success Manager from start to finish - you will own the most critical aspect of our business: customer success. Your relationships with the customer will begin at the very beginning, sharing our vision of employment and learning the customer’s needs and priorities. You will then work with our internal teams to ensure that the customer’s role is successfully managed. Post candidate evaluation, you’ll present the top candidates to the customer and experience the fulfillment of your thrilled customer choosing their best match. To thrive in this role, you will need to be master customer-facing communication, relationship management, and working quickly with internal teams to deliver results.

Key Responsibilities

• Relentlessly fight for customer success: the best talent in the world, for any role, delivered quickly
• Interview companies and learn key information: viability as a customer, roles to be hired, basic job description info, necessary testing for role, language requirement, etc.
• Generate demand by sharing our vision in a compelling manner
• Gather needed tools from internal team to launch job posting and evaluation of candidates
• Form deep relationships with customers and continually circle back throughout hiring process
• Deliver high-quality hires to your customers

Desired Skills and Experience

Required Experience and Education

• 3+ years of top performing sales and customer experience experience
• Background in consistently delivering customer success
• Bachelors degree from top-ranked college
• Client-facing professionalism and outspokenness  

This role will be a great fit if:

• You are competitive: you love to see where you stack up and strive for the top
• You are a relationship-oriented person and thrive on making others succeed
• You are fearless in seeking out more efficient solutions  and are constantly challenge the status quo
• You are tenacious and have a sense of urgency; you’re able to make things happen quickly with large, less nimble partners and/or teams

Total Compensation for this role is US $80,000/year at US $40/hour for the standard 40 hour work week.

To qualify, please provide a resume/CV demonstrating the required experience and skills.  From there, to help us find the top 1% of talent, there will be a series of interviews and online skills examinations.  We realize these are challenging and can require a decent amount of time - so we thank you in advance for your efforts.  Please note that you will not be paid for these interviews or skills tests but we hope you will complete them to help us truly evaluate your talent vs your peers.

Are you up for the challenge?

HRMS Senior Program Director - US$150k

Job description

Are you an expert at Human Resource Management Systems?  Are you the type of senior program director that is looking to own the P&L growth of a fast growing consulting business driving the very best value-based business outcomes for Fortune 1000 clients?  Do you wake up everyday wanting to support customers’ business goals and solve complex business problems?  Do you wish you could have a great job working from home instead of fighting traffic?  If you are you capable of operating in a high growth environment, comfortable with aggressive delivery, customer management, margin, sales and revenue growth - this role is for you.  

gTeam is a fast-pace environment where inventiveness and entrepreneurial drive are rewarded. We’re also one of the few IT companies offering high-paying jobs that are 100% remote, work from home. You never have to fight traffic to office again and you have the freedom to choose when and where you put in your 40 hours to be most effective each week.

Job Description

In this role, you will be working closely with F1000 clients and our consulting resources to help drive our HRMS business.  You will be enabling these clients to leverage our cutting-edge software to run mission critical components of their services. You will be counted on to become a subject matter expert on your customers – understanding their business inside and out – to help them succeed utilizing our revolutionary products.  At gTeam, the customer’s needs are always the starting point. This role is 50% customer-facing and 50% internal-facing with our development and operations teams.  The role is 100% remote, based from home, where you are generally free to arrange your work day to best deliver for your clients in the US.  

Core competencies of a successful HRMS program director are a deep understanding of how benefits and payroll work in the US, the ability to look at customer pain points and diligently work to resolve, project management, technical support, client service and a comprehensive technical acumen across a broad spectrum of computing disciplines.  You will need the ability to communicate professionally and effectively at a senior level across departments and organizations.  You will also be expected to understand, prioritize and drive resolution of issues through hands-on involvement with accountability for all operational issues with the client.  You will need to be able to negotiate with the customers on the levels of consulting needed and help our internal resources balance and hit deliverables.   Problem solving skills are also critical with the ability to analyze an issue, become the key escalation point for the customer and identify and explain issue(s) to technical and non-technical resources and suggest mutually beneficial approaches to resolve the issue.  

Key Responsibilities

• Derive customer success
• Managing accounts for long-term growth including the identification of new services opportunities to grow the footprint.
• Develop an understanding of each target client’s business, operations, and industry trends. Understand the client’s st  rategic business and technology goals and create the proposed service approach and solution.
• Ability to develop senior level peer-based relationships at key accounts

• Ensure rapid response to consulting inquiries, and customer support queries while coordinating resources across our company
• Review and forecast the customers consulting needs and budget internal resources to accommodate the needs      

• Keep a laser focus on achieving gross margin, utilization and net margin targets
• Provide expertise in services and solution delivery methodologies, to shape portfolio roadmaps

Desired Skills and Experience

Required experience and education

• 5+ years of hands-on HRMS Consulting experience
• 2-3 years of experience as a solution architect
• Experience as a technical program director
• 1+ years of experience as a senior account manager
• Strong domain knowledge of US human resources, payroll and benefits
• Work experience working with on and offshore delivery teams
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work US hours and upto 20% onsite travel to key customers

This role may be a great fit if:

• You share our obsession for customer excellence, high margin and high growth businesses
• You are an innovative thinker, with the ability to drive change in an extremely fast paced environment
• Passion for delivering outstanding customer service and satisfaction.
• You have both a passion and experience bringing together business and technology to provide bottom line value based outcomes for clients
• You are fearless in making and executing business, technical and people decisions based exclusively on what best enables Aurea’s business and growth strategy

Total Compensation is US$150,000/year

To qualify, please provide a resume/CV demonstrating the required experience and skills.  From there, to help us find the top 1% of talent, there will be a series of interviews and skills examinations.  We realize these are challenging and can require a decent amount of time - so we thank you in advance for your efforts.  

Are you up for the challenge?

amazon training

Overview

We are developing a large scale website and are looking to automate the environment setup and parts of the software engineering process, build, package, deploy, and test within AWS.

• For this test assignment, we are asking you to provide a development plan document for completing each of the tasks detailed below.
• We will use your document to evaluate your knowledge of AWS and other software packages for build, package, deploy, and test
• We are expecting that a great candidate will spend less than 8 hours and produce a clear and well researched dev plan.
• If we like your plan, and your interview goes well, we will then hire you for a full time role, and your first tasks will be to execute your implementations!

Task 1 - Fully Automated environment setup

Create the cloudformation template and chief scripting required to bring up a dev, test, staging, or production web site

• Must be fully automated; no manual intervention required whatsoever
• web site AWS environment consists of RDS, Cloudfront, SQS, SNS, SES, and elastic beanstalk as well as other third party non-Amazon software.
• must notify when environment is completely setup ready
• DOD (Definition of Done) - this task is complete when I can specify a few parameters (examples, name of environment, size of farm), click a button, and receive an email notification containing the details of the environment when the environment is up and running.

Task 2 - Continuous 24/7 Testing Automation

• create and administer a 24/7 test suite that runs against a selected environment
• setup fully automated testing pipeline that detects SVN commits, builds and packages the website, then deploys it into the staging environment, without disrupting the automated testing
• requires using existing monitoring tools
• DOD - this task is complete when the following 2 capabilities are enabled

• an svn commit command triggers a build, package, deploy into a configured environment, and then an email notification is received containing details of the deployment
• a web page is available at all times that shows the results of all tests run in the last 8 hours against the configured environment

Instructions

When complete and ready to submit:

• Please create and provide two (2) distinct plans. Both plans should be contained in a single Google document or folder, saved with the file nameACAE$60K1003_Lastname_Firstname (substituting your name for Lastname_Firstname) share it publicly, and proceed to this link for completing your submission.  

Each plan should contain the following sections

Plan Summary

• Define in one paragraph or 5 bullet points the most important parts of your plan.
• Have you selected great services that will do the work for you without having to write much code?  Is there a design pattern you will use that will make the automation maintainable and more robust?  This is the section to highlight what makes your plan special.

Software List

• Identify all software you will use, including development tools
• You must reuse Amazon tools and best practices when they apply
• When Amazon tools and best practices don't apply, open source standards should be used.
• Writing code should only been done as a last resort.  Configuring "off the shelf" software is preferable by far to writing code or frameworks.

Task Breakdown

• Plan should cover the task breakdown to the level where the maximum task effort is 3 man hours.
• use a Google spreadsheet and link to it from the Google doc
• make sure it shared with the same people
• provide the task breakdown in a form that you feel is as simple and easy to understand as possible

Total Effort

• Each plan should include the total effort in man-hours. Assume you are the only one working on each project in your estimates.

Calendar Duration

• Each plan should include the calendar duration-to-complete, measured in weeks and days.  Again assume that you are the only one working each project

Finally, if we like your plan, you will be invited to the final phase of the application process.  [NOTE: You may be asked to sign legal documents related to security and proprietary information before you move forward to the next step of the process.  This is sometimes necessary if, in the next application phase, you will have access to such information for completing this phase.]  The next phase for this position is an online video interview with the hiring manager.  Instructions for scheduling this interview will be included in the invitation, should you successfully complete this testing phase.  Once that interview is complete, only minor (and brief) administrative steps remain.

You have only 5 days from today to complete this testing phase.