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alaTest.com is a profitable, fast-growing internet service that provides a search engine for product quality information. Our service is currently available in 15 markets and 11 languages and growing. In addition to the websites where we collect, analyse and structure product information, we have established successful business partnerships with a number of leading websites such as Kelkoo, CNET.com and Shopzilla/Bizrate. alaTest was recently awarded the Red Herring Top 100 award as one of the most promising tech companies in Europe. We are now looking to strengthen our technical leadership as we continue to improve our services and reshape the market.

Chief Technology Officer

We are looking for a person that will develop our technical platform into a world class delivery platform, to better serve our business partners and alaTest websites around the world.
You will manage the overall technology strategy and provide leadership for our development teams based in Stockholm, China and India. You should be motivated by developing creative and efficient solutions with state-of-the-art technologies and be comfortable in an international and entrepreneurial environment.

Through knowledge, commitment and creativity, you will help us to develop our technical platform. You lead our technical team and take a key role in our management team.

Key Job Responsibilities
  • Overall architecture and design of hardware, data mining, product matching, database technology, data distribution and our websites.
  • Manage and deliver quality applications developed by our tech team. Solutions are developed on Java, MySQL, XML, SOAP, DHTML, Javascript and other web technologies.
  • Develop our overall technical knowledge, work with management and tech teams.

Job Requirements
  • An academic degree or equivalent experience of software development.
  • 7+ years of system design and complex system architecture.
  • Core competencies in Java, XML, MySQL, HTML is required; experience with other web technologies is a plus.
  • Understanding of SEO and SEM and understand how technology can drive web traffic.
  • Works well in a team environment and used to taking own initiatives.

We offer great opportunities to influence the work and your role in the company. Please note that our working language is English and it is NOT required that you speak Swedish.

The position is a full-time employment, located in our office at Gävlegatan in central Stockholm.

Send your application with a short personal introduction and CV to us as soon as possible to jobs@alatest.com. Please state 'CTO' in your application.



Database developer - MySQL and Java guru

For our Tech Team we are looking for a person that will help us to further develop our technical platform and need to strenghten the team with a skilled database developer. The database is the foundation of our service and enables us to provide content to our partners.
You will work to further improve the overall process of gathering, structuring, and presenting data on alaTest.com and our partner sites. You should be motivated by developing creative solutions with new technology and be comfortable in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment.

We work mainly with various Open Source solutions, e.g. Apache, MySQL and PHP and our servers run Linux.

Through knowledge, commitment and creativity, you will help us refine our database and technical platform. We are looking for a person with documented experience of database administration, object oriented development and Java.

Key Job Responsibilities
  • Maintain and further refine our database and technical platform
  • Problem solving and performance tuning in SQL, Java and PHP.
  • Bringing in new technologies.

Job Requirements
  • An academic degree or equivalent experience of database development.
  • 5+ years of database design.
  • Know SQL, C++, Java, Erlang, Python, Lisp, PHP
  • Experience of some of the below techniques is a plus: Boyce-Codd Normal Form, Hash indexing, Object Relational Database manager, Object Oriented Database manager , Xquery, XSLT, XML, OOP
  • Works well in a team environment and used to taking own initiatives.

We offer great opportunities to influence the work and your role in the company. Please note that our working language is English and it is NOT required that you speak Swedish.

The position is a full-time employment, located in our office at Gävlegatan in central Stockholm.

Send your application with a short personal introduction and CV to us as soon as possible to jobs@alatest.com. Please state 'MySQL Guru' in your application.



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