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Global Archiact Jam
by Richard Lam 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hello University of Waterloo Computer Science Club, Hope you’re all doing well! My name is Richard and I work with Archiact Interactive, a full-service virtual reality studio in Vancouver. From March 23-April 4, we're hosting Global Archiact Jam — a 13-day virtual reality (VR) game development competition. You can compete from anywhere, with anyone. The grand prize includes: a space to demo your game at the first consumer VR conference and exhibition in Vancouver, a one-week, all-expenses-paid trip to China, and meetings with ten venture capitalists and six of the largest gaming companies in the country when you’re there! Visit archiactevents.com <http://www.archiactevents.com/> to sign up and see what Global Archiact Jam is all about! Don’t hesitate to shoot me an e-mail if you have any questions about Global Archiact Jam or would like more information. Best of luck! <http://www.archiactinteractive.com/> Richard Lam / Marketing Coordinator richard.lam(a)archiactinteractive.com <mailto:richard.lam@archiactinteractive.com> / 778-985-6974 Archiact Interactive Ltd. 1410-555 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 4N6 http://www.archiactinteractive.com <http://www.archiactinteractive.com/> <https://twitter.com/archiact_games?lang=en> <https://www.facebook.com/archiact?fref=ts> <https://plus.google.com/+Archiactinteractivegames/posts> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIbII3NXrxp1uY4GvOedrA> <https://www.pinterest.com/archiactgames/> This e-mail message may contain confidential or legally privileged information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized disclosure, dissemination, distribution, copying or the taking of any action in reliance on the information herein is prohibited. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, or contain viruses. Anyone who communicates with us by e-mail is deemed to have accepted these risks. Archiact Interactive is not responsible for errors or omissions in this message and denies any responsibility for any damage arising from the use of e-mail. Any opinion and other statement contained in this message and any attachment are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company.

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Maluuba Job Openings
by Vikas Gosain 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Hi guys, Maluuba <http://www.techvibes.com/blog/maluuba-raises-9-million-series-a-to-help-mac…>was started by Waterloo CS grads. We raised $9 Million last month. We are hiring for the following positions: - Software Engineer - General - Android Developer - SDET - Software Development in Test - Machine Learning Engineer Feel free to check out our company page for a deeper look, but the gist is that our atmosphere is friendly, energetic and light hearted while remaining productive. Our kitchen is fully supplied with lots of food and drinks; we provide daily lunch, dinner and snacks for all employees. We even have weekly Maluuba soccer games and bi-weekly movie nights. Join us and help invent the future. Thanks, Vikas Gosain Ps. You can apply directly on the site, jobmine or email: vikas(a)maluuba.com

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Jump Start your Career with the Master of Management of Applied Science at Western
by Simon Bonner 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Close to graduation? Not sure what you're doing next? The Master of Management of Applied Science or MMASc Program at Western (previously called the University of Western Ontario) is a one-year Professional master's degree designed to help students with an undergraduate degree in science make the leap into industry. As a student in our program you will develop the management and communications skills you need to succeed in corporate Canada while extending your field-specific expertise. In two semesters you will complete graduate courses in: * Project Management, * Organizational Behaviour, * Finance, * Marketing, and * Written and Oral Communications along with further courses in the areas of: * Biology, * Computer Science * Data Analytics, or * Global Health Systems in Africa. You will also participate in the Leadership and Professional Development Seminar Series and work with the program's Career Services Officer to enhance your job search strategies, develop your application skills, and build your professional network. In the summer you will complete a four month co-op or major research project that will provide practical experience in your chosen field and help to build your professional networks. More information about the degree is available on the program's website at <http://bit.ly/MMASc> bit.ly/MMASc or by e-mail to <mailto:scimmasc@uwo.ca> scimmasc(a)uwo.ca. Sincerely, Simon Bonner and Douglas Woolford Directors, Master of Management of Applied Science http://uwo.ca/professionalmasters/science/ ----- Simon Bonner Assistant Professor of Environmetrics/Co-Director MMASc Department of Statistical and Actuarial Science and Department of Biology University of Western Ontario

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Hiring Android/ Mobile Application Developer at Seecows
by Michael Brunet 21 Nov '15

21 Nov '15

*Seecows is Hiring Android Application Developer!* *Join our team and have more fun!* It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Seecows, we're at our ground level stage and we are committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of social commerce. We work hard, and we're passionate about what we do. We love to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values are fun, loving, giving, and passionate about being able to build a product that people love and that business owners love. *Job Description for **Mobile, Android Software Engineer* Do you build beautiful lightning quick Android Apps? Are you passionate about user interface and design? Come join Seecows! Seecows is a startup company, building the next generation Business Applications on a SaaS and advert model. We have top-notch development talent, experienced management, cool technology, and pre-launch paying customers. We have immediate openings for software engineers on our Mobile Android Development team to design and develop our world class mobile applications. Join a fun team that's bringing the next generation experience to all our customers. We believe in delivering best in breed Mobile experience to our users while paying attention to quality, speed and pixel perfect details. You'll work on our cutting edge meta driven mobile rendering engines that span multiple Android OS versions and screen resolutions. *Required Skills/Experience:* - 2+ years of experience in developing complex native mobile applications using Android SDK. - Expert in Object Orientated Design, Java and the Android Platform. - Good knowledge of productivity tools like; Gradle, automation test tools(Appium, Robo-Electric, monkeyrunner), and unit test frameworks. - Take ownership of your features from inception to product delivery. You are proud of the code you write. - A passion for simple, fast and clever UI. - Masters/Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred. - Must want to work in a startup environment - Entrepreneurial mindset/background is a plus *Responsibilities:* - Collaborate with peers on technical design, work estimation and implementation of new mobile applications and features including visualization aspects and server interfaces/contracts - Develop and maintain our ever growing code base that supports the Seecows Android Application. - Deliver detailed technical designs with accurate software cost estimation while participating in our agile development model. - Participate in code reviews and contribute to raising the quality of our product. - Have fun engineering software and working with an awesome team of guys committed to building the next best thing. - Be able to take full ownership of specific parts of the Android project - Must be able to work independently *About Seecows* Seecows allows businesses to create amazing digitized, democratized, socialized, and enhanced direct mobile promotional pieces. These promotional pieces can be tracked and accounted for and best of all businesses can SAVE THOUSANDS on traditional direct mail promotions while bringing in new and old customers into their stores with amazing features found only on Seecows. Seecows wants to help businesses maximize their revenue in the 21st century. Seecows is proud to be a fully transparent workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Seecows are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. *ADDITIONAL INFORMATION*- Full Time starting as early December 15th - $40K to $60K per year plus equity options Location: Toronto Company: Seecows Inc. Send Mike your resume and/or Cover Letter to: Michael Brunet / 905 599 4961 / mike(a)seecows.com *MICHAEL H. BRUNET | CEO & CO-FOUNDER*T: 905-599-4961 | M: 905-599-4961E: m.h.brunet(a)gmail.comW: www.seecows.com (coming soon) HAVE MORE FUN.

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Front-End Full Stack Web Developer Job Opening at Seecows Inc.
by Michael Brunet 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Looking for an exciting *Front-End Full Stack Web Developer Job* at an exciting Startup in Toronto? Read below, Seecows is hiring: *Front-End Full Stack Web Developer* Seecows Inc. - Toronto, ON Seecows is looking for a talented and fun web developer to join our team. The right person is a talented front-end web developer who can turn PSDs into working HTML/CSS/JavaScript and can build out responsive and functional web interfaces. We are not just looking for an individual with knowledge of certain frameworks and technologies, but someone who is able to learn quickly and be comfortable with working with all parts of our stack. As well as someone who loves bringing to life designs, has a passion for creating, and is obsessed with details and getting the little things right, in their code and final product and is excited to be working for a growing Startup with demanding but rewarding responsibilities. *Job Responsibilities* Writing efficient, scalable and reusable code Write, maintain, and enforce web development and deployment standards, including detailed documentation and training for other internal and external developers Develop and execute automated testing frameworks to ensure website health, performance, and browser compatibility Focusing on the end user through a technical lens Developing interfaces from strategy and business requirements Ability to collaborate closely with design team to develop interfaces and solve problems Track industry trends and find opportunities to apply them in your work Prioritize, respond to, and execute technical website requests *Qualifications:* 3+ years of front-end development experience Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery Experience working with various web frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation) Browser debugging using WebKit Developer Tools or similar Understanding of grid systems and responsive web Optimizing front-end performance Experience with version control systems like GIT, Subversion Experience with a JavaScript MVC Framework (Backbone, Angular, Ember, etc.) Online Portfolio or Github Portfolio Ability to implement optimization, scaling and caching techniques Understanding of 3rd party API integration Respect of industry-accepted standards, specifications and best practices Ability to learn new development techniques as needed Additional *Preferred Qualifications:* Android Development Experience Experience with pre-processors (LESS/SASS) Mobile web/application development experience Familiarity with agile software design concepts Solid understanding of basic UX principles and what makes a great user experience You have brought a major project or product to market in the past year *ADDITIONAL INFORMATION*- Full Time starting as early December 15th - $40K to $60K per year plus equity options Location: Toronto Company: Seecows Inc. Send Mike your resume and/or Cover Letter to: Michael Brunet / 905 599 4961 / mike(a)seecows.com *MICHAEL H. BRUNET | CEO & CO-FOUNDER*T: 905-599-4961 | M: 905-599-4961E: m.h.brunet(a)gmail.comW: www.seecows.com (coming soon) HAVE MORE FUN.

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Software Development Opportunity with Epic - Meet Us at the Partners for Employment Career Fair (tomorrow)!
by Molly Miller 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

* Date: September 30 * Time: 10 am - 3:30 pm * Where: Manulife Sportsplex * What: Partners for Employment Career Faor * Why: Epic Recruiting Software Development Candidates As a software developer at Epic you will solve complex problems that have a direct impact on the way over 180 million people around the world receive healthcare. We hire people who can handle real responsibility, and then give it to them. Your input is taken seriously - you can expect to have ownership of meaningful and challenging projects. If people are unable to attend the event, they can check out our careers website<https://careers.epic.com/Home/SoftwareDevelopment> to learn more about the position and drop an up-to-date copy of their resume here<https://epic.avature.net/Careers/RegisterMethod?folderId=740>. Molly Miller | Epic HR & Recruiting | 608.777.5412 | mdmiller(a)epic.com<mailto:mdmiller@epic.com>

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<Br/eak>Poverty Hackathon
by Team Devs Beyond Borders 28 Sep '15

28 Sep '15

Devs Without Borders <http://devswithoutborders.org>, the organization behind the upcoming <Br/eak>PovertyHackathon <http://devswithoutborders.org/breakpoverty> are looking for students with a background in development, hardware or software, who want to learn new technologies, build awesome stuff and work with smart people in Toronto and Kenya. The <Br/eak>Poverty Hackathon will bring charitable-minded developers together to build life changing applications for the developing world. These apps will help those in rural and impoverished areas with farming, small business, health and education: as many of their own channels to technology, communication and knowledge is through their mobile device. The winning app will be test launched by the Charity Event Partner Free The Children in rural Kenya. This will be Canada’s first International Development hackathon to connect developers in Toronto and Nairobi to build applications on web and mobile that benefit individuals living in rural and impoverished areas in East Africa. Hosted at Bitmaker Labs in Toronto, with Kenyan Attendees teleconferencing in, teams will be able to create meaningful projects from scratch in just 25 hours. To register and for more information, please visit devswithoutborders.org/breakpoverty Student Developer tickets are only $12!

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Full Stack Developer Opportunity with Financial Technology Startup (New York City)
by Jeremy Lee 23 Sep '15

23 Sep '15

(Location: New York City) NYC-based 2 person team (one is a Waterloo Math grad) from Wall Street and the banking industry looking for a great full stack developer to help solve a problem that plagues our clients. We’re building a minimum viable product (MVP) for a financial technology concept that will provide a scalable solution for our client base. We’re looking for 2 things: 1. An experienced developer that can implement and finish projects on time. 2. A developer who can strip away features in the app’s core to get the first iteration up and working in 3 to 4 weeks. We have no strict requirements regarding tech choices other than that your stack should be well established: Rails, Django, MEAN etc. We prefer deployment on Heroku, digital ocean or Amazon. The project is straightforward but solves a very large problem affecting millions of people with suboptimal investments. It’s an opportunity for a talented developer to really raise the bar and put their passion into a project that has deep meaning and value. We are based at WeWork, one of the best technology and startup hubs in New York City and the world ( https://www.wework.com/locations/new-york-city/nomad) - Estimated Length: MVP (1 month) with opportunity for 4-month or full-time role - Desired Start Date: Fall 2015 - Location: New York City (exceptions permitted; please contact for details) - Remuneration: USD $35-45/hr (depending on experience, higher for full-time) - Contact Information: Jeremy Lee (jerlee(a)gmail.com) - Company based out of WeWork tech community (www.wework.com)

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Come Work on Game Changing Robots @ Avidbots! (Fall 2015)
by Faizan Sheikh 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

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2015-2016 Canada Google Student Ambassador Program
by Keri Paul Warr 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hey CSC, Interested in an opportunity to join the Google Student Ambassador program? Check out this message from the GSA Team! > We're excited to be accepting applications for the 2015-16 Canada Google Student Ambassador program! The GSA program is an opportunity for students to act as liaisons between their campus and Google. > > In this position, students are given the opportunity to become Google product and program experts, plan and host events and trainings on campus, and connect with Googlers and a global network of other GSAs to drive and support Google initiatives. This is a great learning, career development and global networking opportunity for participating students. You can read more about the program here [1]. > > As a part of the Canada program launch, Google will be covering an all-expenses-paid trip for selected students to Waterloo in late August for our annual Ambassador Summit to connect with Google and the other ambassadors. > > Please apply via this form [2] if you are interested in being considered for 2015-2016. The application deadline is MONDAY, JULY 13. > If you have questions regarding the program, please email canada_university_program(a)google.com. > > Thanks! > The GSA Team Links: ------ [1] https://www.google.com/edu/resources/programs/student-ambassador-program/ [2] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OeNxLKPfBSz83MkaOGgzuM8Um2mlR-PZQQwxHEUlIj…

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