Product Designer (UI/UX)

ENGINEERING (Manchester, NH)

We want to make Newforma’s solutions some of the most comprehensive, accessible, and useful tools for every architect, engineer, and a member of the construction team. To help accomplish this goal, we need your help in designing beautiful and cross-functional products.

Newforma is seeking an ambitious, well-rounded Product Designer. Join our team to help influence the future direction of Newforma’s Project Information Management solutions.

Newforma optimizes the processes by which critical information is captured, shared and managed and delivers a more intelligent and profoundly productive experience for architects, designers, builders, owners, and the full construction team. Our solutions range from on-premise, the web, and mobile applications on iOS, Android, and Windows.

As a candidate, you must be a great problem-solver capable in all aspects of interaction design.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•         Collaborate with the engineering and product team to design aesthetically appealing and intuitive interfaces

•         Optimize current web, platform and mobile products through an iterative design process. 

•         Collaborate and contribute to our creative process

•         Design clean, intuitive, and functional user interfaces across multiple devices and platforms.

•         Deliver organized design documents compliant with UX standards

•         Practice consistent design formatting and work within templates so your work is standardized and scalable.

•         Translate concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences.

•         Facilitate client’s product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products.

•         Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

Qualifications:

•         Experience designing for the web and mobile applications

•         Experience with UI/UX product design

•         Outstanding visual design skills 

•         Understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices

•         Online portfolio a must

•         Experience with Sketch

Product Designer (UI/UX)

ENGINEERING (Montreal, QC)

We want to make Newforma’s solutions some of the most comprehensive, accessible, and useful tools for every architect, engineer, and a member of the construction team. To help accomplish this goal, we need your help in designing beautiful and cross-functional products.

Newforma is seeking an ambitious, well-rounded Product Designer. Join our team to help influence the future direction of Newforma’s Project Information Management solutions.

Newforma optimizes the processes by which critical information is captured, shared and managed and delivers a more intelligent and profoundly productive experience for architects, designers, builders, owners, and the full construction team. Our solutions range from on-premise, the web, and mobile applications on iOS, Android, and Windows.

As a candidate, you must be a great problem-solver capable in all aspects of interaction design.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•         Collaborate with the engineering and product team to design aesthetically appealing and intuitive interfaces

•         Optimize current web, platform and mobile products through an iterative design process. 

•         Collaborate and contribute to our creative process

•         Design clean, intuitive, and functional user interfaces across multiple devices and platforms.

•         Deliver organized design documents compliant with UX standards

•         Practice consistent design formatting and work within templates so your work is standardized and scalable.

•         Translate concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences.

•         Facilitate client’s product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products.

•         Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

Qualifications:

•         Experience designing for the web and mobile applications

•         Experience with UI/UX product design

•         Outstanding visual design skills 

•         Understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices

•         Online portfolio a must

•         Experience with Sketch

Senior / Principal .NET Software Developer

ENGINEERING (Manchester, NH)

Newforma, the leading provider of Project Information Management software for architecture, engineering, and construction firms worldwide is growing!  Creating software that makes a difference in the AEC industry is what drives our company.  We are enhancing our flagship enterprise product to connect with various backend, and cloud systems in the AEC space.  If you have the drive, confidence, thirst for knowledge, desire to be challenged and technical expertise required, we’d like to see your resume.

Responsibilities: 

·         Work in a Microsoft development environment with C#, C++, ASP.NET, Win32, MySQL, NUnit, Moq, document management systems, and Microsoft Office APIs in a client-server environment deployed across a global customer base.

·         Experience in an API-driven ecosystem, with a background in RESTful API development and .NET-based application plugins.

·         Design, code, test, debug, and document software solutions using appropriate processes, tools, frameworks, libraries, patterns, best practices and standards.

·         Optimize software for speed and compatibility; add features that contribute to the product with a focus on quality.

·         Ensure code and features are developed to meet requirements and standards.

·         Work in an agile environment as a member of a closely-knit Scrum or Kanban team.

·         Willingness to work outside of normal business hours, as necessary, to accommodate support incidents.

Qualifications: 

·         BS / MS in Computer Science, or similar engineering program with 5-10+ years of experience delivering software to customers.

·         Passion for building great software applications released on a regular cadence.

·         Strong OOD/OOP skills.

·         Strong problem solving skills.

·         Experience with Agile lifecycle development.

·         Good written and oral communication skills in English, and able to work independently.

·         Proven ability to work in an established multi-million line application.

·         Experience with C#, Visual Studio .NET, and Microsoft Windows-based development technologies.

Tier 2 Product Support Specialist

SERVICES (Sydney, Sydney)

If you thrive on people interactions, surprising customers with how well you can serve them, love travel, enjoy working in a fast paced, fun, flexible working environment, and can achieve goals with minimum supervision but maximum guidance, then Newforma is the company you want to be with.

The Tier 2 Product Support Specialist identifies, troubleshoots and resolves product and technical issues for all Newforma software products including on-premise enterprise, hosted solutions (Cloud) and mobile applications to ensure we continue to exceed our customers’ expectations in the Support area.

This role analyzes the issue to determine if it is functioning "as designed" or appears to be a product defect, seeks to identify workarounds when standard procedures have failed, and escalates cases to Tier 3 as necessary under specified criteria, constantly seeking to ensure customers are informed of progress and issues are resolved in a timely fashion. This may involve swarming techniques that engage other team members and managers for assistance as necessary.

The Tier 2 Specialist is familiar with standard troubleshooting concepts, practices, and procedures and relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. This role is also responsible for updating individual contact and account information in the Salesforce CRM system as well as contributing to and maintaining content in Knowledgebase Articles from solutions to cases.

This position will require some off hour activity to support the customer base during off business hours. This requirement should be less than 10 %. Also some travel maybe required again less than 10 %.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ability to manage Incoming cases via email, phone and online chat.
• Monitor the inbound case queue using the Salesforce Service Cloud platform
• Back-fill for Tier 1 as needed
• Interact with Tier 1 for warm transfer process
• Determine if customer issue is already addressed with existing Knowledgebase article, Help topic, video tutorial, etc.
• Schedule and conduct GoToMeeting sessions with customers to resolve in-depth technical issues and gather supplemental information on the issue, including screen captures, log files, error messages, etc.
• Interact within the Tier 2 group as needed for swarming process for new or unknown situations
• Locate, review and analyze submitted crash reports
• Attempt to duplicate suspected defects in VM lab environment
• Determine if existing issue relates to known defect currently being tracked in the JIRA database
• Monitor aging cases and escalate as necessary based on predefined rules
• Interact with Tier 3 for warm transfer process with a fully documented case including all background information gathered during customer interactions
• Interaction with Account Managers/Sales to provide feedback and insight on cases that are being managed
• Interact with Tiers 2 and 3 and QA, Product Management, etc., as needed to gain further knowledge around issues that are being managed
• Ongoing interaction and training within the support Virtual Machine environment
• Ongoing education general research to help with future resolution of customer issues
• Part of rotation for off hours and weekend coverage
• Evaluate ways to improve and prevent future issues
• Create content and document Knowledgebase articles
• Review Knowledgebase articles for technical accuracy based on case issues
• Be aware and help provide support in a multi-region environment.
• You MUST be eligible to live and work full time in Australia.

Qualifications:

• Ability to multitask in a fast paced environment
• Ability to understand and diagnose software product and support issues
• Ability to absorb and retain information quickly
• Highly self motivated and directed with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure and fast paced environment
• Exceptional customer service orientation
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to communicate clearly, courteously, and professionally to non-technical individuals

Education and Experience:

• 3-5 years Help Desk and/or Customer Service experience
• Experience with CRM Case Management platforms such as Salesforce Service Cloud
• Experience troubleshooting Windows Servers, Windows Web servers and Desktop Operating systems
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Active Directory helpful
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
•         Mobile application troubleshooting skills
• Proven analytical and problem solving abilities
• Amazon Web Services experience helpful
• Experience supporting MySQL or other databases highly desirable, but not required
• CS degree and/or equivalent experience
• Experience supporting LAN networking and distributed (client/server) computing environments would be advantageous
• Firewall, Router, VPN, WAN, and Anti-virus configuration and support experience
• Experience in Microsoft Outlook and Exchange system administration
• Active Directory and network security knowledge
• MSCE certification preferred
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Prior AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) Industry background or Newforma experience preferred

Web/Cloud Services Developer (Front End/Back End)

ENGINEERING (Montreal, QC)

Web/Cloud Services Developer (Front End/Back End)

Newforma, a leading provider of software for design and construction firms worldwide, is growing!  Creating software that makes a difference in the AEC industry is what drives our company.  We are implementing a serverless architecture within AWS using such cutting-edge technologies as iOS, Android, Angular, NodeJS, API Gateway and Aurora databases.   We have multiple positions open for talented software developers.  If you have the drive, confidence, thirst for knowledge, desire to be challenged and technical expertise required, we’d like to see your resume.

Responsibilities:

·         Work with modern front-end and/or back-end web services languages and technologies and in a multi-tenant, globally deployed cloud services environment

·         Examples:  Swift, Java / Android, Angular, HTML5, NodeJS, AWS, serverless architectures, and Aurora databases. 

·         Experience in an API-driven ecosystem, with a background in RESTful API development and OAuth 2.0

·         Design, code, install, test, debug, and document software solutions using appropriate processes, tools, frameworks, libraries, patterns, best practices and standards.

·         Optimize software for speed and compatibility; add features that contribute to the product with a focus on quality.

·         Ensure code and features are developed to meet requirements and standards.

·         Work in an agile environment as a member of a full-stack scrum team.

·         Willingness to work outside of normal business hours, as necessary, to accommodate system implementations, maintenance, and responses to outages.

·         Participate and contribute to our Scrum development environment by participating in Scrum meetings.

Qualifications:

·         BS in Computer Science, or similar engineering program.

·         Passion for building great software applications and continuous improvement.

·         Strong problem solving skills.

·         Experience with Scrum and Agile lifecycle development (a plus).

·         Good written and oral communication skills in English.

·         Experience with Amazon Web Services infrastructure, and Open Source technology deployment in a cloud services context.

·         Optional: Mobile application development.