RoundSphere, LLC Career Opportunities
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Opportunity Snapshot

This is your opportunity to leverage your skill as a System Engineer / Administrator to join a creative and progressive technology solutions company that thrives on innovation. Developed by a serial entrepreneur, RoundSphere has and continues to serve as an incubator for startups. You'll work in a fun and inventive atmosphere alongside professionals who aren't set on the tried-and-true, but who have the vision to see what can be done and the open minds to discern new ways to do it! You will enjoy working on a variety of challenging and intriguing projects. We don’t use a lot of pre-packaged, off-the-shelf software solutions. In fact, most of the programs you’ll work with we’ve written from scratch.

If you have the talent to maintain applications in production environments and the mind to bring new ideas to the table as both a mentor and learner, this role is the diamond you've been waiting for. As System Engineer you'll be able to showcase your talent, use your voice and make a visible impact on several fronts. 

RoundSphere is a tech firm that has launched a number of successful companies including BookScouter and Seller Labs. They provide infrastructure, shared resources, and mentoring to help new ideas and projects grow into successful ventures. RoundSphere is located in downtown Athens, Georgia, right across from the University of Georgia campus. Nearby there are dozens of fine eateries and activities that provide a vibrant and diverse culture all its own.

The Requirements

To be a strong fit for the role of System Engineer, you will need:
  • 2 years of experience maintaining applications in production environments
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services including EC2, SQS, S3, RDS, Route53, CloudFront, Elasticache, etc. Quick question for you - click here
  • Experience with traditional LAMP stack, git, etc.
  • Fluency with a coding/scripting language 
  • Strong experience with PHP
  • Experience with Laravel, node.js, Python, Ruby, and/or Docker will be a plus
In addition, to excel you’ll need the following core competencies and characteristics:
  • A strong learning acumen and the ability to become proficient in new programs, systems and technologies 
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Fluency in English and the ability to communicate and express ideas clearly
  • The ability to thrive in a growing, fast-moving environment
  • A team-player approach and the comfort to work independently
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to problem-solve
  • Flexibility and a willingness to work on a wide range of projects
  • The ability to both mentor and learn from teammates and colleagues 
You should also be willing and able to be on-call and respond to critical events during non-business hours.

The Role

RoundSphere is a software development company providing tools to individuals and small business owners in order to help them be more successful. RoundSphere is the parent company serving as an incubator for a number of smaller companies who help deliver business success across their different platforms.

Reporting directly to the Owner and Founder, as the System Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring our production systems are up and functional and working correctly. You will support several applications as you help bring standardization to the systems on a variety of platforms. We’ll look to you to implement alerts / dashboards, monitor performance, drive continuous integration processes, and bring everything together on a centralized platform.  

You’ll also work closely with our Developers and Product Managers in order to bring synergy to each project and ensure the product is working in production and operating properly. 

More specifically, you will: 
  • Ensure reliability and performance of about 10 small to mid-sized web-based applications and APIs 
  • Manage and standardize deployment system 
  • Implement continuous integration / continuous deployment process Quick question for you - click here
  • Maintain AWS infrastructure and work to minimize costs 
  • Migrate applications from one system to another 
  • Manage basic company IT infrastructure (email, local network, etc.) 
  • Maintain accounts for external services (centralized logging, Atlassian products, etc.) 
  • Implement dashboards and monitoring services for vital systems 
  • Implement and respond to monitoring alerts
Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Why RoundSphere

Challenging, varied work -- because RoundSphere serves as an incubator, we are constantly evolving ideas and taking on new projects. The work can be fun and challenging and we’ll look to you to offer suggestions, alternatives and ideas as you dig into the work. We value entrepreneurship and promote an environment where everyone has a voice, and opinions are valued. If you’ve been locked in a corporate, we always do it this way… world, RoundSphere will be a breath of fresh air!

Flexibility -- we understand that we all have different lives, responsibilities, commutes, etc., so we like to offer a degree of flexibility. We all work from home on Wednesday’s and we offer varied schedules on other days. As long as you’re in the office during the core hours of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in order to collaborate, brainstorm, etc., we don’t care if you work the rest of your shift in the morning or evening. You can work when you’re at your best.

Cutting-edge technology -- we pride ourselves on working with the best technology for our needs. That means we work on the cutting- and often the bleeding-edge of technology.

Great environment -- we enjoy a relaxed and fun work environment in downtown Athens. Ours is a flat organization where everyone can make an impact. And, the fact that we work on new development and new ideas, brings a level of energy and excitement. Quick question for you - click here

Four Athens -- we’re members of Four Athens. Four Athens believes that Athens, GA possesses all of ingredients necessary to create a strong technology startup hub. By working diligently to connect the necessary talent, mentors and funding, they feel strongly that the community, and region, will benefit by supporting the local entrepreneurial community. We share our building with a number of Four Athens companies, and participate in various events from Tech Happy Hour to Software Developers Meetup to the Mentor Gauntlet, Demo/Launch Night, Hack for Athens and more. There's no resting on our laurels here.

Competitive compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary, we offer a benefits package including all you’d expect, such as a stipend to cover insurance, paid time off, and a 401(k) with company match, and a few surprises, including lunch on Fridays and cutting-edge lunch and learn opportunities.

Winning Traits

To excel in this System Engineer role you will be the type of person who:
  • Loves learning new technologies, figuring out how things work and trying to make them work better
  • Enjoys collaborating with a group of talented team members to come up with solutions to challenging problems
  • Welcomes challenges and being counted on to deliver timely, quality results
  • Brings an analytical approach but also keeps a sense of humor handy
  • Is a go-getter with an upbeat attitude

About Us

RoundSphere, led by serial entrepreneur, Brandon Checketts, is a technology solutions company that provides essential resources and services for developing companies and ideas. We’ve founded a few successful companies, but also had our share of failures. We’ve learned a lot along the way, so our monetary losses aren’t without their silver lining. Ultimately, our desire is to provide an unmatched work experience that provides each employee an opportunity for personal growth, a daily education, a challenging work environment, a flexible work schedule, and a competitive salary.

Among Brandon's most successful ventures was the building and oversight of BookScouter, and later, Check-It Books. BookScouter was first created in 2007 as a way for college students to quickly search multiple book buyback companies’ websites to determine who would pay the most for their used textbooks. Since then BookScouter has become a staple for students, small business owners, and those simply wishing to de-clutter their lives and earn some money. BookScouter’s first iteration compared prices from 6 book buyback companies. Today, BookScouter performs price comparisons from over 75 book buyback companies, handling over 200,000 queries daily. Check-It Books, an online bookselling business, grew into a massive operation with a 16,000 square foot warehouse and 24 employees to maintain high customer service marks and the growing volume of books.

In light of the success of Check-It Books, colleague and friend, Paul Johnson, desired to replicate the model with sporting goods and small electronic devices, thus PlugIt was founded. Both Brandon and Paul become heavily immersed in the rapidly growing online selling community and saw a bigger opportunity. While scouring data from both Check-It Books and PlugIt, Brandon searched for insights for how to propel their Amazon and eBay sales. Sourcing low competition, high margin products was their first software endeavor and led to the creation of Scope and SellerLabs. SellerLabs became a software and technology company built for supporting online sellers and small businesses, and Scope was their first product.

Following the success of Scope, SellerLabs launched FeedbackGenius and SearchRank while developing their highly anticipated inventory management software, Ignite. Ignite is scheduled to release in Summer 2014 with additional features and services to be rolled out thereafter.
 

Opportunity Snapshot

This is your opportunity to leverage your skill as a System Engineer / Administrator to join a creative and progressive technology solutions company that thrives on innovation. Developed by a serial entrepreneur, RoundSphere has and continues to serve as an incubator for startups. You'll work in a fun and inventive atmosphere alongside professionals who aren't set on the tried-and-true, but who have the vision to see what can be done and the open minds to discern new ways to do it! You will enjoy working on a variety of challenging and intriguing projects. We don’t use a lot of pre-packaged, off-the-shelf software solutions. In fact, most of the programs you’ll work with we’ve written from scratch.

If you have the talent to maintain applications in production environments and the mind to bring new ideas to the table as both a mentor and learner, this role is the diamond you've been waiting for. As System Engineer you'll be able to showcase your talent, use your voice and make a visible impact on several fronts. 

RoundSphere is a tech firm that has launched a number of successful companies including BookScouter and Seller Labs. They provide infrastructure, shared resources, and mentoring to help new ideas and projects grow into successful ventures. RoundSphere is located in downtown Athens, Georgia, right across from the University of Georgia campus. Nearby there are dozens of fine eateries and activities that provide a vibrant and diverse culture all its own.

The Requirements

To be a strong fit for the role of System Engineer, you will need:
  • 2 years of experience maintaining applications in production environments
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services including EC2, SQS, S3, RDS, Route53, CloudFront, Elasticache, etc. Quick question for you - click here
  • Experience with traditional LAMP stack, git, etc.
  • Fluency with a coding/scripting language 
  • Strong experience with PHP
  • Experience with Laravel, node.js, Python, Ruby, and/or Docker will be a plus
In addition, to excel you’ll need the following core competencies and characteristics:
  • A strong learning acumen and the ability to become proficient in new programs, systems and technologies 
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Fluency in English and the ability to communicate and express ideas clearly
  • The ability to thrive in a growing, fast-moving environment
  • A team-player approach and the comfort to work independently
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to problem-solve
  • Flexibility and a willingness to work on a wide range of projects
  • The ability to both mentor and learn from teammates and colleagues 
You should also be willing and able to be on-call and respond to critical events during non-business hours.

The Role

RoundSphere is a software development company providing tools to individuals and small business owners in order to help them be more successful. RoundSphere is the parent company serving as an incubator for a number of smaller companies who help deliver business success across their different platforms.

Reporting directly to the Owner and Founder, as the System Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring our production systems are up and functional and working correctly. You will support several applications as you help bring standardization to the systems on a variety of platforms. We’ll look to you to implement alerts / dashboards, monitor performance, drive continuous integration processes, and bring everything together on a centralized platform.  

You’ll also work closely with our Developers and Product Managers in order to bring synergy to each project and ensure the product is working in production and operating properly. 

More specifically, you will: 
  • Ensure reliability and performance of about 10 small to mid-sized web-based applications and APIs 
  • Manage and standardize deployment system 
  • Implement continuous integration / continuous deployment process Quick question for you - click here
  • Maintain AWS infrastructure and work to minimize costs 
  • Migrate applications from one system to another 
  • Manage basic company IT infrastructure (email, local network, etc.) 
  • Maintain accounts for external services (centralized logging, Atlassian products, etc.) 
  • Implement dashboards and monitoring services for vital systems 
  • Implement and respond to monitoring alerts
Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Why RoundSphere

Challenging, varied work -- because RoundSphere serves as an incubator, we are constantly evolving ideas and taking on new projects. The work can be fun and challenging and we’ll look to you to offer suggestions, alternatives and ideas as you dig into the work. We value entrepreneurship and promote an environment where everyone has a voice, and opinions are valued. If you’ve been locked in a corporate, we always do it this way… world, RoundSphere will be a breath of fresh air!

Flexibility -- we understand that we all have different lives, responsibilities, commutes, etc., so we like to offer a degree of flexibility. We all work from home on Wednesday’s and we offer varied schedules on other days. As long as you’re in the office during the core hours of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in order to collaborate, brainstorm, etc., we don’t care if you work the rest of your shift in the morning or evening. You can work when you’re at your best.

Cutting-edge technology -- we pride ourselves on working with the best technology for our needs. That means we work on the cutting- and often the bleeding-edge of technology.

Great environment -- we enjoy a relaxed and fun work environment in downtown Athens. Ours is a flat organization where everyone can make an impact. And, the fact that we work on new development and new ideas, brings a level of energy and excitement. Quick question for you - click here

Four Athens -- we’re members of Four Athens. Four Athens believes that Athens, GA possesses all of ingredients necessary to create a strong technology startup hub. By working diligently to connect the necessary talent, mentors and funding, they feel strongly that the community, and region, will benefit by supporting the local entrepreneurial community. We share our building with a number of Four Athens companies, and participate in various events from Tech Happy Hour to Software Developers Meetup to the Mentor Gauntlet, Demo/Launch Night, Hack for Athens and more. There's no resting on our laurels here.

Competitive compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary, we offer a benefits package including all you’d expect, such as a stipend to cover insurance, paid time off, and a 401(k) with company match, and a few surprises, including lunch on Fridays and cutting-edge lunch and learn opportunities.

Winning Traits

To excel in this System Engineer role you will be the type of person who:
  • Loves learning new technologies, figuring out how things work and trying to make them work better
  • Enjoys collaborating with a group of talented team members to come up with solutions to challenging problems
  • Welcomes challenges and being counted on to deliver timely, quality results
  • Brings an analytical approach but also keeps a sense of humor handy
  • Is a go-getter with an upbeat attitude

About Us

RoundSphere, led by serial entrepreneur, Brandon Checketts, is a technology solutions company that provides essential resources and services for developing companies and ideas. We’ve founded a few successful companies, but also had our share of failures. We’ve learned a lot along the way, so our monetary losses aren’t without their silver lining. Ultimately, our desire is to provide an unmatched work experience that provides each employee an opportunity for personal growth, a daily education, a challenging work environment, a flexible work schedule, and a competitive salary.

Among Brandon's most successful ventures was the building and oversight of BookScouter, and later, Check-It Books. BookScouter was first created in 2007 as a way for college students to quickly search multiple book buyback companies’ websites to determine who would pay the most for their used textbooks. Since then BookScouter has become a staple for students, small business owners, and those simply wishing to de-clutter their lives and earn some money. BookScouter’s first iteration compared prices from 6 book buyback companies. Today, BookScouter performs price comparisons from over 75 book buyback companies, handling over 200,000 queries daily. Check-It Books, an online bookselling business, grew into a massive operation with a 16,000 square foot warehouse and 24 employees to maintain high customer service marks and the growing volume of books.

In light of the success of Check-It Books, colleague and friend, Paul Johnson, desired to replicate the model with sporting goods and small electronic devices, thus PlugIt was founded. Both Brandon and Paul become heavily immersed in the rapidly growing online selling community and saw a bigger opportunity. While scouring data from both Check-It Books and PlugIt, Brandon searched for insights for how to propel their Amazon and eBay sales. Sourcing low competition, high margin products was their first software endeavor and led to the creation of Scope and SellerLabs. SellerLabs became a software and technology company built for supporting online sellers and small businesses, and Scope was their first product.

Following the success of Scope, SellerLabs launched FeedbackGenius and SearchRank while developing their highly anticipated inventory management software, Ignite. Ignite is scheduled to release in Summer 2014 with additional features and services to be rolled out thereafter.
 
RoundSphere, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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