Q4 Web Systems is looking for a kick-ass senior .NET developer.  If you are a technology junkie and your idea of fun is spending a Saturday night reading about Team Foundation Server 2008 or playing with Silverlight 2.0 just because it’s cool, we want you!

You will become assimilated into our product development team where you will be responsible for the product advancement of our 2 application suites.   You will participate in design and architecture reviews, code reviews and write code with automated testing in mind.

Q4 offers a great environment as well as competitive salary and benefits.

Job Requirements:

• 7+ years enterprise application development experience with 2+ years in architecting software platforms
• 4+ years experienced with .NET/C#, ASP .NET, distributed services
• Strong interest in Design Patterns, Refactoring, TDD
• Solid understanding of object oriented vs. component design
• .NET Application deployment methodologies with N-Tiered systems, redundant/failover Windows technologies
• Excellent Understanding of FSDL including best development practices, documentation, QA processes and deployment strategies
• Windows 2003, SQL server 2005 and IIS 6.0 as it relates to application development and scalability
• A willingness to promote and ensure a common understanding of user stories
• Prominent participation in the planning, design, and implementation phases of high level concepts as well as user stories
• Ability to work well within a team of developers
• BS in Computer Science
• Secure application development
• Application stress testing

How to apply:  Send your resume to careers@q4websystems.com Only suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

I was reading an interesting blog post the other day about how to live in the present when you feel overwhelmed and how that can affect your personal and professional life.

The article talks about the 3 states a person generally lives in at any given time; past, future and present.  I’m sure just about everyone uses their cell phone while driving, or has the news on TV while eating dinner and while checking email on their blackberry.  All of this multi-tasking leads to a drop in focus, drop in productivity as well as an increase in stress.

What I admire about my friends here at Q4 is that we have always taken the approach of living “in the now”.  There is always temptation to immediately react to any problem and I have personally been guilty of leaping before looking, but here are a few ways we handle “living in the now”

1. On our white board in our work area we have a motto for all to see.  Stop.  Think.  React.
2. In our group chat when anyone feels we are going down a rabbit hole, someone posts  “Stop.  Think.  React”
3. We reiterate this message in meetings

I have personally found this approach very useful, even in my personal life, but the greatest benefit is the gain in productivity and enjoyment at work since we are all on-board with ‘looking before leaping’

Something so simple makes a big difference in both our productivity and how we interact with each other at work.  Stop.  Think.  React.