Employment Opportunities

Kavi is the world leader in providing structured collaboration for standards development and standards management. Our pioneering SaaS solution gives the world’s standard organizations a managed collaborative platform for creating and maintaining industry standards and specifications. Currently, over 240,000 standards professionals from over 10,000 organizations and companies use our applications.

Our corporate office is located in Portland, Oregon, close to the beautiful Willamette River and within walking distance from downtown Portland. We foster an informal yet professional work environment and provide generous benefits that allow our staff to maintain a healthy balance between work and home.

Kavi is currently seeking professionals for the following positions. Applications are accepted through online submissions.

Software Engineer

posted Mar 09, 2010
This is a full-time, on-site position within our talented, cross-functional team that designs, develops, and supports our SaaS products. Flexibility is key to our business and a must for working in our dynamic, Agile environment.

We are seeking an accomplished software engineer with extensive experience in contemporary programming languages, databases, and other Linux-based, open source components, and a proven track record delivering robust and scalable web-based applications.

Responsibilities:
- Design and develop SaaS applications that are functional, maintainable, and exceed the requirements defined by product management.
- Evaluate and leverage new technologies.

Qualifications:
- Significant experience working with either Python or PHP (we work in both) and at least one other modern programming language.
- Skilled in the arts of performance tuning and debugging. You can make web applications fly!
- Know how to instrument your code effectively, and make appropriate design and tuning decisions based on this work.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
- Several years' software development experience.

Kavi is an equal employment opportunity employer.

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Front-end Web Developer (UI)

posted Mar 08, 2010
The ideal candidate for this full-time, on-site position with our Application Features development team will have strong expertise in JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks, CSS, and HTML, along with solid user interface design skills.

Flexibility is key to our business and for working in our dynamic, fast-paced environment. You'll be joining a team of developers who have recently adopted an agile development and are constantly honing this process and expanding their skills.

* Please provide a link to your online portfolio.

Responsibilities:
- Build the user interface and the UI component libraries for our products, maintaining compliance with web standards, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility guidelines.
- Work with product managers to develop and implement consistent user interface elements used throughout Kavi's applications.
- Participate actively in product development and design.

Requirements:
- Five years experience in web software development.
- Demonstrated ability to produce rich web-based application interfaces using progressive enhancement techniques to support a variety of web clients.
- Experience building and maintaining web application interfaces including complex form layout, workflows, and interaction design.
- Solid standards-based web authoring skills, specifically the ability to write valid JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
- Experience with LAMP-based web site development and the jQuery framework.
- Ability to multi-task, establish priorities, and meet tight deadlines.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience.

Kavi is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Apply online for this position