Standing Cloud, one of the Boulder-based companies we seed funded last year, is hiring a Java Developer.  They are a provider of software and services that facilitate deployment and management of application software, using on-demand cloud servers from providers such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, and others. 

The role is to build, maintain, and support client code that interacts with third party cloud services and virtualization APIs.  You’ll be deep in the weeds with the various emerging cloud services and part of a young team of eight other people.

If you are interested, send a resume to jobs@standingcloud.com. 

Or were you recently fired or laid off?  Or are you an analyst (especially someone in the typical two year pre-business school programs) at a consulting firm that hates your job?  One of my investments – Zynga – is hiring like crazy and wants to talk to you – we’ve hired a few folks like you and they’ve worked out great.  The job spec follows – if you are interested email your resume to jobs@zynga.com.

Zynga’s Product Manager will be responsible for creating a list of features to one of our hit games! This person will have to work independently to provide a detailed roadmap on the implementation process. The implementation process should include designing, executing, and optimizing the feature(s).They’ll own the outcome of these new features by working with our talented team of engineers to get the features implemented.

Required Skills:

• We are looking for an enthusiastic, performance-driven self-starter and team player
• Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding strategy
• Strong aptitude for determining the optimal way to position products in the market
• Strong passion for games
• Strong organizational and analytical skills & attention to detail
• BA/BS degree – CS/EE/Engineering degree preferred
• 2-5 years of experience in product management in consumer web or game development OR another extremely analytical workplace!
• Passion for creating fun, compelling and addictive user experiences
• Passion for writing product specifications, white papers
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Previous start-up experience is a strong plus, especially in social networking

And – if you need someone high level in your mafia, I’m now level 163 – just friend me on Facebook with “mafia wars” in the subject.

If you are an independent contractor that is a Java stud, email me.  I’m specifically looking for someone with familiarity with Vignette 7, Weblogic 9, Javascript, Ajax, and .NET web services.

Yesterday I posted that Trada is looking for a Test Engineer.  Gnip is also looking for software developers – three in fact:

• Senior Software Developer
• Senior System Adminstrator
• Senior Web Developer

If you are Boulder-based and fit the qualifications, email Jenny-Lynne Elledge.

Trada, one of our portfolio companies in Boulder, is looking to hire. They’re looking for a tech-skilled individual who thinks they can do just about everything, because they might be asked to.  Primary role is testing their online advertising app but there’s a huge opportunity to contribute much more.  There’s dev work; cloud systems admin; operations tasks; end-user support; and customer facing account management tasks that can be added to the mix for the properly skilled (and properly motivated) individual.  While still in stealth these guys are already rocking. Interested – contact Michael Lawless at mlawless@trada.com.

Slice of Lime is looking to for Flash/Flex/PHP designer who is also a programmer at heart.  If this is you, apply now!

One of our portfolio companies – Zynga – is looking for great game producers.  Mark Pincus, Zynga’s CEO writes about it on his blog.

“We are open to anyone from game industry, consumer internet or i-banking analysts and associates or mgt consultants.  You should be numbers oriented, love games and have a competitive spirit.  Our company is a meritocracy where those delivering great results advance fast.”

If you are in the bay area and fit this profile, drop an email to flo@zynga.com.

2008 was a fantastic year for entrepreneurship in Boulder.  While the VC firm I’m part of (Foundry Group) invests nationally, the partners have made a deliberate decision to live and work in Boulder.  As a result, we believe it is our responsibility to participate actively in Boulder’s entrepreneurial community.  I’ve been living here since 1995 and have seen and helped Boulder evolve into a serious entrepreneurial hub, as written about by my friend Ben Casnocha in his article Start-Up Town in The American Magazine.

There are many people that are now engaged in the Boulder entrepreneurial community in a wide variety of ways.  I believe that entrepreneurship and innovation are the fundamental drivers of long term economic growth in the United States and have dedicated my work life to this area.  Even thought no one really knows what the 2009 holds for us, I’m hopeful that the entrepreneurial energy and momentum that has been generated in Boulder over the past few years will continue strongly in 2009.

To get us started, Andrew Hyde put up two posts that are relevant to all Boulder-based software and Internet entrepreneurs.  The first is HackSpace at TechStars.  On January 15th at 5pm, the TechStars space (the Bunker) will be opened up for anyone to come hang out and hack together.  If you know where the Bunker is, just show up.  If you need more info, drop Andrew an email at andrew {at} startupweekend.com.

Also up on the Boulder is for Startups site, Andrew has a post titled Boulder Jobs.  If you are a company in Boulder that is hiring, drop Andrew a note (andrew {at} startupweekend.com).  If you are looking for a job, drop him a note also.  Look for a steady evolution of a local job site that builds off of the very successful Boulder Job Fair event a few months ago.

Lijit has five open positions:

• Publisher Support Engineer
• Ad Sales Catalyst
• Business Development
• Web Developer
• UI Web Developer

If you are interesting, drop Lijit an email.

One of last year’s TechStars companies – Filtrbox – is hiring.  They are looking for a Java + LAMP developer and a Flash/Flex/RIA developer.  If you fit the bill and are looking for a gig in downtown Boulder with a great early stage company, drop ‘em a note at jobs (at) filtrbox.com.

This is a public service announcement for all great software developers in the Boulder / Denver area that are bored and restless at their existing job.

Earlier this year, along First Round Capital and SoftTechVC, we funded a new company called Gnip.  They’ve added a few people to their team in Boulder and are now looking for a few System Architect / Senior Software Engineers.  If you fit the description, drop them an email. 

If you are a software engineer at Xilinx that is caught in the current layoff, please drop me an email with your resume. Several of the companies I’m involved in locally – including Rally Software and Gnip – are actively hiring experienced software engineers.

Return Path has 50 open positions in Colorado, New York, and Europe.  The specific job page has detailed descriptions – all applications / resumes go to jobs@returnpath.net.  Who said email is dead?

Time to actually figure out the real job board thing on this blog since I’m now posting job notices a couple of times a week (feel free to comment if you provide these things and I’ll try them out and pick one.)  There has been plenty of response to the job postings so I assume those of you that don’t care are just filtering them out and those of you that do are appreciating them!

Rally Software is actively recruiting sales people.  On Thursday April 17th from 5:30pm – 7:30pm they are having a Sales Recruiting – Speed Interviewing event.  It’s happening at Bacaro at 921 Pearl Street in Boulder. 

Over the past few years, Rally has grown to be one of the largest and fastest growing software companies in Boulder.  They recently passed 100 people on their way to 150 at the end of this year.  I’ve worked with them from the beginning – it’s an awesome team that is just crushing it.  Send cfields@rallydev.com a note if you are a sales hunter who wants to join a winner.

P.S. Hey mom – notice that I used "who" correctly this time instead of "that."  Special bonus points.

The guys at Slice of Lime are looking to add a Boulder-based PHP Web Developer to their team.  If you fit the bill and are looking for a great gig, send Kevin Menzie a note.