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About Oversee:
Founded in 2000, Oversee.net is a technology-driven online marketing solutions company, with two primary divisions — Oversee Domain Services and Oversee Marketing Services. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Portland, Oregon, San Mateo, California, and Pompano Beach, Florida, the company has over 200 employees. Some of Oversee’s key brands include SnapNames®, DomainSponsor™, Moniker® and Low.com™. Oversee has been growing profitably since inception.

Oversee was named to the Inc. 500 and ranked third in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 of Los Angeles and 18th in the nation. Oversee was also named “Internet and New Media Company of the Year by the Technology Council of Southern California and its CEO and Co-Founder, Lawrence Ng, was named a winner of the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Greater Los Angeles program in the technology category. To learn more, please visit http://www.oversee.net.

Technical Lead – DA/DM
Oversee.net is looking for a Technical Lead to help build next generation Aftermarket technologies in Domain Acquisitions and Management. The successful candidate will lead an engineering team devoted to the design and development of high-traffic web applications, backend processing systems, various supporting tools, and administrative front ends.

Responsibilities:
• Work with product to define and direct new development
• Contribute architecture input to new system components and rewrites of legacy systems.
• Write thorough, comprehensive technical and high-level documentation
• Mentor junior engineers in company standards and development practices
• Engineer and implement product features for Java and Perl web-based applications
• Optimize and enhance web applications with tens of millions of page requests, high volume data logging and processing needs, and high performance requirements

Requirements:
• 4+ years of object-oriented Java and/or Perl experience developing backend and/or web-based systems running in a Unix environment
• Front end web experience with HTML, JSP, and JDBC
• Oracle and MySQL usage, schema design
• Log parsing and basic data analysis
• Proficient test planning for Java and Perl applications
• Detailed knowledge of daemons, cron jobs, and system requirements for high traffic, fault tolerant, 24/7 websites, supporting a service-oriented architecture
• Basic XML, TCP/IP, NFS, YML, mod_perl, Apache, and Tomcat application server knowledge
• Experience with developing web services applications
• Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills
• Strong initiative - capable of working on a self-sufficient basis and identifying areas of potential technical improvement
• Self-management - capable of prioritizing and executing tasks
• Problem solving - ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues

Preferred:
• BS/MS degree
• 5+ years Java and Perl
• Experience with: MVC Frameworks, SVN, Perforce, JUnit, and Bugzilla or similar
• Excellent database software development in Oracle and/or MySQL, including extensive use of SQL
• Expertise in data structures and algorithm evaluation
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Scrum/Agile development
• Experience with other languages/systems
• Domain name and DNS technology experience is a plus, as is experience with software testing, software development lifecycles, and project management

Company Benefits:
• Competitive salaries and generous bonus programs aligned with company goals
• Excellent health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Flexible schedules
• Paid company holidays and paid time off (PTO)
• Friendly work environment
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability
• Company paid group-term life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible spending account plan
• Company stock options plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Gym membership
• Free garage parking or commuter allowance
• $2,000 Employee Referral Bonus program
• Relocation allowance for eligible new hires
• Enjoy friendly competition in our game rooms
• Catered weekly lunches, complimentary soft drinks, Starbucks and Peets coffee, food and snacks, and dinners are provided for those who work late.
• As of Monday, August 13th, 2007, Oversee.net has moved into brand new and state-of-the-art creative office space at the City National Building located at 515 S. Flower Street, Suite 4400, Los Angeles, CA 90071.



Click here to apply directly for this position. Please attach resumes and send salary requirements (resumes without a salary requirement will not be considered).

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