At Northbound, you can find challenging opportunities in an environment that recognizes and rewards exceptional performance. We seek experienced individuals capable of delivering a wide range of value-added services to our clients.

How to Apply

Please e-mail us your CV or send it to our mailing address: Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. For more information please contact us at (408) 245-6500 [phone] and (408) 245-6505 [fax].

Current Openings

• Software Engineers
  • Design, develop, modify and test computer applications software using various programming languages and tools; analyzing software requirements to determine feasibility of design for company's existing or/and newly acquired software; modifying existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware to improve its performance; applying established designing processes and procedures for design and develop testing methodologies for company's software technologies, as well as programming and documentation procedures; developing and maintaining codes of all user interfaces by isolating and analyzing technical software problems through debugging and testing.
    
    Minimum Education: Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (Any Field)/Math or related field.
    
    Minimum Experience: 60 Months.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
    
• Account Development Executive / Inside Sales Representative
  • You will be a full-time employee of Northbound, LLC, with the title of “Account Development Executive” reporting to the Senior Sales Manager, Demand Generation Services. Your responsibilities will include (but not limited to):
    • Lead the delivery of Qualified Sales Opportunities, and any associated tele-sales activity on behalf of our clients to support the delivery of Northbound’s core business.
    • Qualify prospects to determine if needs, interests and funding make them strong prospects for clients of Northbound
    • Make 85-100 dials/day
    • Develop excellent relationships with prospects, customers and resellers, resulting in repeat sales
    • Support in identifying and qualifying prospects, general sales assistance.
    • Manage customer data in Salesforce.com
    • Verbal and written communications with customers, pre- and post- sales.
    • In addition to prospecting for clients of Northbound, developing net-new accounts for Northbound’s

    Demand Generation Services, as outlined below.

    • This particular role will involve supporting one of Northbound marquee clients at the outset. However, you may be reassigned to other clients depending on the needs of the business.

    Compensation
    You will be compensated competitively for your services. Compensation will include a base salary, a variable performance-based compensation (‘bonus’), and incentives based on account growth and net-new business brought in. 

    Benefits
    Medical and Dental Insurance will be provided.

    Company Culture
    The company culture can be described best by the following attributes:

    • Energetic:  We pride ourselves in our youthful, energetic and fun work spirit.
    • Entrepreneurial & Creative: Everyone must do what it takes to get the job done.
    • Driven: Hard work, perseverance and self-motivation are the single-most important attributes to being successful at Northbound.
    • “You eat what you hunt": We produce – results are measured and expected. Career and compensation growth is tied directly to your production.
    • Non-political: This is your business – getting the job done well is the only thing that matters. We don’t entertain or tolerate “office politics.”
    • Adult: We trust one another – and expect everyone has the maturity, good judgment and ethics to be a valuable, respected and productive team member.  We don’t “baby-sit”, nor do we micro-manage. 

    Must be authorized to work full-time in the United States for any employer.

• Recruiter
  
  • Northbound is expanding our recruiting team in Sunnyvale, CA
    
    Experience with Job boards needed.
    2-4 years’ experience in Contract Recruiting needed.
    
    Duties:
    
    • Builds applicant sources by researching and contacting community services, colleges, employment agencies, recruiters, media, and internet sites; providing organization information, opportunities, and benefits; making presentations; maintaining rapport.
    • Determines applicant requirements by studying job description and job qualifications.
    • Attracts applicants by placing job advertisements; contacting recruiters, using news groups and job sites.
    • Determines applicant qualifications by interviewing applicants; analyzing responses; verifying references; comparing qualifications to job requirements.

    Both our jobs should say the following:
    Must be authorized to work in the United States.
    

• Oracle DBA Consultants
  
  • Support Oracle 10gR2 database with Java applications. Also perform performance tuning of database, SQL, RMAN Backup and recovery of databases, creating ADDM and AWR reports for DEV, QA, Staging and production database in multiple instance, Real Application Cluster (RAC) environment in Linux x86_64 OS environment.
    
    Minimum Education: Master of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Systems or equivalent.
    
    Minimum Experience: None.
    
    Other Special Requirements: Must be proficient in administration of Oracle databases from version 8 to 10g, single or multiple instance (Real Application Cluster), having Peoplesoft and other applications based in Unix environments and able to do basic
    
    Unix administration.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
    
• Programmers Analysts
  
  • QA Testing Coordination for Continuum Projects; Platform: Client Service, Web Development; QA Testing, automated and manual; requirement gathering, SRS document by converting customer needs, developing applications by writing programs; creating modules and setting up environment; preparing and validating Unit test plans and executing Unit test plans them using JUnit tool; attending project meetings to discuss the issues related to development environment; taking part in integration of code modules and helping the QA team to conduct testing and implementation and maintenance of the application. Tools: Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Clear Case, JUnit, Crystal reports.
    
    Minimum Education: Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems or equivalent.
    
    Minimum Experience: None. Must be proficient in Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Clear Case, JUnit, Crystal reports. Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA.
    
    Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
    
• Programmer Analysts
  
  • Tuning and Optimizing SQL Query, analyzing user requirements and improving the existing quality of system; upgrading the oracle database from 8i to 9i and 10g; data-modeling of the database using Erwin; writing business procedures and functions for business specifications; plan and prepare technical reports and instructional manuals as a documentation of program development; involving in all phases of structured and object oriented analysis, design, data modeling, testing, implementation and programming with modern methodologies; analysis of business procedure and problems to redefine data and convert it to programmable form for EDP; extraction from multiple data sources on multiple platforms; transforming data using best practices to fit the business rules. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training and experience. Position requires five (5) years of post baccalaureate experience that is progressive in nature.
    
    Minimum Education: Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
    
    Minimum Experience: 60 Months.
    
    Other Special Requirements: None.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
    
• Systems Analysts
  
  • Support, evaluation, configuration, implementation, audit of Information control, servers updates and systems analysis by utilizing UNIX, LINUX, VMware; required to use knowledge in IT concepts & applications in order to determine if the system is cost effective for potential growth of business. Responsible for the organization and documentation of this analyses and evaluations in order to prepare recommendations for the implementation of new systems, procedures, and/or organizations change. Conducting operational effectiveness reviews of project server systems, operating systems patches and upgrade services.
    
    Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems or equivalent.
    
    Minimum Experience: 24 Months.
    
    Other Special Requirements: Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience. Will accept a single degree or a combination of degrees or diplomas determined to be equivalent by a qualified education service.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
    
• Systems Analysts
  
  • Design, develop, test automation; involved in writing test cases, reviewing them, co-ordinating with the team members, executing the test automation created for the test case, create/execute/analyze the results; code related to backend testing; involved in the agile testing environment applications; involved in testing.
    
    Tools used: Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, PL/SQL, Toad.
    
    Minimum Education: Master of Science in Computer Science/Engineering (any field)/Math or related.
    
    Minimum Experience: None.
    
    Other Special Requirements: Must be proficient in: Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, PL/SQL, Toad. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training and experience.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
    
• Systems Analysts
  
  • Administer & monitor database servers by providing high-availability for applications on production environment; implement Disaster Recovery Procedures on datacenter servers; size the application requirements, architecture design and building the new server environments for database servers; technical discussions with team members about the issues, features, and enhancements of current and forthcoming SQL Server versions; use SQL Server Reporting Services, Integration Servers along with SQL Server Database Engine; SQL Server programming techniques, Trouble shooting & Performance improvement to application development teams; Performance Analysis using SQL Profiler, Performance Monitor, Read80Trace & Quest Spotlight; application requirements analysis, design ER diagrams, database objects & implementation on production environment using SQL Server; implement security procedures/baselines on database servers.
    
    Tool used: SQL Server Database Services, Reporting Services, Litespeed.
    
    Minimum Education: Associate of Science Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering (any field)/ Math or related field.
    
    Minimum Experience: 24 Months.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
    
• Project Managers (Business Systems Analysts)
  
  • Work on all phases of the project lifecycle from analysis and specification through design, development and testing.
  • Facilitate/liaise with quantitative developers, traders, control functions and other stakeholders to obtain and validate requirements, communicate project plans and weekly status updates.
  • Coordinate and formulate project timelines and plans based on information gathered from various development leads and ensure their timely and in budget delivery.
  • Facilitate and drive the project lifecycle process as appropriate; organizing and participating in relevant internal and external meetings and demos; tracking and monitoring progress; using and improving processes/tools (e.g. resource tracking metrics).
  • Drive and produce project artifacts such as Project Scope document, Release and Deployment Notes, Bug reports for internal and external team consumption.
  • Authorize test strategy, traceability matrices and create test plans using Test Director, Quality Center and Load Runner to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional performances, usability and security requirements.
    
    Minimum Education: Master's in Business Administration.
    
    Minimum Experience: One (1) year.
    
    Must be proficient in: Test Director, Quality Center, Loadrunner.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. Travel required which means relocating to various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
• General Programmers/Analysts
  
  • Develop Software Programs for Global Realtime index Platform(GRIP); write programs using complex algorithms and business logics with low latency for contribution market data delivery and index methodology applications; design, maintain, support, provide training to the users and overlook the Infrastructure (Protocol, Network connectivity and Hardware) globally for low latency Global Realtime index platform (GRIP)system; managing technical relationships and liaison with vendor-partners & Stock exchanges and data hosting providers for technical issues and index data distributors to meet customer SLAs. Tools and technology used: JDK, Linux, Perl, J2EE, Oracle.
    
    Minimum Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/ Engineering (any field)/ Math or related field.
    
    Minimum Experience: 60 Months.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
    
• General Programmers/Analysts
  
  • Analysis, design, development, test, implement and enhance software applications/databases in a client/server environments on heterogeneous platforms; work independently and with teams for testing and developing software applications in accordance with project specifications; oversee systems implementation and prepare project status reports; lead development team to meet the deadlines; planning and implementing maintenance plans/database disaster recovery plans; planning and implementing data migration from legacy systems; supporting application after development. Tools used: ASP.Net, Visual C#, ADO.Net, Linux.
    
    Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems or related field.
    
    Minimum Experience: 60 Months.
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA. Job may involve working at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
    
• Business Analysts (Systems Analysts)
  
  • Analysis of organization's strategic business needs; define and develop the business process model; interpret the business rule and requirement for technical systems; iterate the test case procedure; develop use cases; participate in requirement gathering by working closely with the management and other technical teams to streamline the existing system, data and processes; develop the new system; study requirements thoroughly and prioritize for inclusion in website design process.
    
    Minimum Education: Master’s Degree in Business Administration.
    
    Minimum Experience: One (1) Year (Employer will accept one (1) year of experience gained before or after earning Master’s Degree in Business Administration).
    
    Job Site: Sunnyvale, CA.
    
    Please send resumes to Northbound LLC, 961 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

Northbound LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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