Software Engineers Wanted

ShepherdSoft (http://shepherdsoft.pracstrat.com), a Xiamen, China-based software consulting and development team was founded in August 2006. We are focused on

• using our expertise to help and suggest a best software solution for our cusomter's need and
• using cutting-edge technology such as ROR, PHP, JAVA etc. to bring the value to our customers by adopting Agile methodology into our development process.

In our team, our vision is to strive for quality. The word quality in our team consists of three aspects: production (service) quality, character quality as well as life quality. We believe that the key to achieve the production (service) quality is through empowering each individual in our team to be able to make progress in improving their own character quality and life quality. We are dedicated to recruit and train software engineers who share the same vision with us. The engineers we hire will get a significant amount of time of training from two senior American software engineers, one with 30 years development experience, the other 10 years. In order to ensure high quality software, we are developing our projects by using Restful architecture, Rspec, SeleniumRC, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Refactoring and agile planning techniques etc. Currently we have served a wide range of American customers, including startups, consulting firms, Marketing companies and ISP companies. Moreover, we have been developed and owned two products which will be launch into both American and Chinese market in 2008. We are looking for someone who demonstrate the following characters:

• Honesty and Integrity.
• Humility
• Loving and respecting the people around you
• A curious heart that always wants to learn new tricks
• Hard working but also want to live a balanced life

In our interview, you need to possess the following skills so that you can pass:

• English reading/listening/writing/speaking skills (Every engineers in our team use English daily to communicate with our customers)
• Programming skillS, like Algorithm, data structure
• Understanding about Agile Process
• Day-to-day project development skills

What we can provide for you:

• A learning environment to encourage you to be successful both in technique and in life
• A joyful work environment so that you love what you are doing
• A stress-less work schedule. We believe working at a sustainable pace of 40 hours a week can best protect engineer’s health and creativity.
• A competitive salary including all the social insurance based on your skills and experience

No matter you have worked for a few years as a software engineers or you are a student who is soon to graduate, we welcome you to send us your English resume with a English cover letter as long as you think you are the one we are looking for. Please notice: we only receive your English resume.

Please send your resume to: hr AT pracstrat.com (AT=@)

招聘软件工程师

厦门瑞应软件有限公司(http://shepherdsoft.pracstrat.com) 是一家组建于2006年的软件咨询及开发团队。我们专注于

• 通过使用我们在软件领域的专业技能，为我们客户的实际需要提供最好的软件解决方案和建议；
• 使用ROR，PHP，JAVA等在内的新技术，通过采用敏捷开发流程给美国和中国客户提供有价值的服务。

在我们的团队中，我们的愿景是为质量而努力。质量一词在我们的团队中包含三方面的内容：产品（服务）的质量，品格的质量以及生命的质量。我们相信只有通过使团队中的每个人提高他们个人品格的质量以及生命的质量，最终产品（服务）的质量才能够实现。我们立志于招聘和培训认同我们团队愿景的软件工程师。我们将会投入大量的时间培训新加入的成员，他们将在每天的开发过程中亲自得到两位来自美国的高级软件工程师（分别有30年和10年的开发经验）的在职培训。为了保证我们团队软件的开发质量，目前我们使用的方法包括：Restful架构，Rspec，SeleniumRC, TDD(测试驱动), BDD(行为驱动), 结对编程，代码重构等等。到现在为止，我们服务过的美国客户包括，新创立的公司，法律咨询机构，市场营销公司和ISP供应商。而且，在2008年我们即将有两款自主开发的软件产品将被推向美国和中国市场。 我们期待具有下列品格的程序员加入到我们的团队中来：

• 诚实，正直
• 谦卑
• 尊重并且懂得爱你身边的人
• 一颗对新事物好学的心
• 努力工作但也想有平衡的人生

在面试中你需要掌握下面的技能才能通过：

• 英语听说读写的能力（我们团队中的每一位工程师每天都需要用英语跟客户沟通）
• 编程能力，比如对算法和数据结构的掌握
• 对敏捷编程的理解力, 我们推荐的阅读资料

我们将为你提供

• 一个学习的环境，并鼓励你在技能和生活中获得成功
• 一个喜乐的工作环境，让你一天中的8个小时在享受中度过
• 一个没有压力的工作日程表，我们相信一周40个小时工作制是保护工程师健康和创造力最好的方法
• 一份有竞争力的工资，包括各种社保，工资将根据你的技能和经验而定

无论你已经是软件工程师，拥有多年的经验，还是将要毕业的在校学生，只要你认为自己符合上述条件，我们欢迎你将带有cover letter的英文简历发给我们。请注意，我们只接受英文简历。 请发送简历到 hr AT pracstrat.com (AT=@)