Career Opportunities

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated team player to be an integral part of the sales team in our growing enterprise software company. Message Systems is the world’s leading provider of email software solutions and services for email service providers (ESPs), Internet service providers (ISPs) and large enterprises that need to manage the delivery of large amounts of business- critical email. Come join our team of the brightest and the best!

Responsibilities:

• Increase revenue by generating and developing leads via proactively cold calling target prospects
• Promptly follow up on all leads generated by Marketing
• Clearly and effectively articulate product features and benefits and obtain commitment to evaluate Message Systems solutions further
• Maintain a solid understanding of our software solutions and understand the competitive landscape within our industry
• Limited travel to trade shows and conventions
• Work closely with the outside sales team

Required Sales and Interpersonal Skills:

• Ability to turn leads into prospects by building rapport with keycontacts via a consultative sales approach
• Ability to identify and articulate prospects’ primary business pain points
• Operational knowledge of CMS systems and web conferencing tools(Salesforce.com and WebEx preferred)
• Self-motivated with the ability to work both independentlyand in tandem with the outside sales team
• Hunter mentality, desire to cold call extensively
• Superior verbal communication, listening, and writing skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Highly flexible self-starter, success-driven with a strong work ethic
• Outgoing, high energy, team player

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 -5 years in an inside enterprise sales role. May consider candidates with 2 years of experience with a proven track record.
• 4 Year Degree (Bachelors or equivalent)
• Technical aptitude, especially in open source technologies
• Messaging experience highly desired but not required
• Ability to work full-time from our corporate headquarters in Columbia, MD

The Message Systems engineering team is looking for a highly motivated mid-level Software Engineer to help us extend the most advanced email messaging platform on the market. You will enjoy in-depth exposure to all aspects of building scalable applications as part of a small, internationally-renowned team that helps our customers -- Fortune 500 companies and hot startups alike -- achieve their cutting-edge messaging goals

Message Systems believes in a fun but focused development environment. We have flexible hours, outstanding benefits, and a world-class team. Our engineering group works in an open plan and uses the Scrum development methodology with a focus on collaboration, automation, and testing.

Responsibilities:

• Feature Enhancements - Work with the product team to define feature specifications and complete them with a production quality implementation including positive and negative test cases.
• Testing - Testing is a primary focus of our development process, and every engineer is responsible for augmenting our Perl Test::More-based automated test suite to guarantee test coverage on new and existing features.
• Debugging - Work with bugs originating from customer support tickets and internally produced bug reports. Solve functionality and stability issues in a timely manner. Analyze bad behavior and performance issues, develop test cases to reproduce issues and develop fixes for the product to address these issues.
• Source Tree Branch Management - Ensuring that as feature tickets and problem tickets are addressed and tested that the appropriate change-sets are migrated from development to release branches to release tags.
• Documentation - Ensuring documentation and product feature coherency.

Required Skills

• Software design
• UNIX (Linux, Solaris or FreeBSD) server development in C
• Strong understanding of Perl
• Writing multithreaded applications
• Writing TCP/IP and UDP networking code
• Writing unit and regression tests in Test::More based systems
• Experience with gdb and other command line debuggers
• Familiarity with memory debugging tools and techniques (e.g. valgrind, lint, dmalloc, libumem, etc.)
• Good grasp of multi-platform portability concerns
• Familiarity with autoconf and make
• Exposure to PHP or Java a plus
• Experience with email technologies a huge plus, but not required.
• Experience contributing to Open Source projects, particularly CPAN projects, a huge plus.
• Candidate should have, as a minimum, a Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or related field) from an accredited college or university.