We’re excited to bring you our 80th Opportunities on the Prairie today, with positions at Silicon Prairie News (that’s us!), Accurate Communications and Lyconic in Omaha, Delta Systems in Columbia, Mo., Voltage Creative and Local Ruckus in Kansas City and Blend Interactive in Sioux Fall, S.D.
If you or your company have one to add, please contact Brittany Mascio at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing and a short description of your company. We’re looking for all types of opportunities, from week-long projects to full-time positions. We hope to help you make a connection.
If you apply to one below, please make sure to mention that you found it on Silicon Prairie News.
Silicon Prairie News – Sales Professional (Omaha or Des Moines)
Silicon Prairie News interviews the region’s leading entrepreneurs and creatives, reports on startups and established companies, announces events and produces its own events, such as Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa.
Thanks to our sponsor
We’re seeking a hungry sales professional who loves the startup community in the Silicon Prairie. This is a full-time position, based in either Des Moines, Iowa or Omaha, Neb. Compensation consists of a base salary and commission.
Silicon Prairie News – Paid Spring Content & Projects Intern (Omaha)
Silicon Prairie News interviews the region’s leading entrepreneurs and creatives, reports on startups and established companies, announces events and produces its own events, such as Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa.
We’re in search of a driven college student to join our Omaha team from January to May to work alongside our managing editor (that’s me!) as a Spring Content & Projects Intern. Responsibilities will include assisting in content production, strategy and marketing as well as working to advance company projects, such as our Silicon Prairie Map. Interns will work in a fast-paced environment – we’re at the intersection of a changing journalism world and a rapidly advancing tech industry – with opportunities to meet the companies and individuals that make up the Silicon Prairie.
Silicon Prairie News – Paid Spring Public Relations & Event Intern (Omaha)
Silicon Prairie News interviews the region’s leading entrepreneurs and creatives, reports on startups and established companies, announces events and produces its own events, such as Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa.
In this internship, you’ll dive right into the Silicon Prairie News culture and learn more than you ever thought you could. We’re starting next year strong with more Silicon Prairie News Meetups in Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City and regularly scheduled Startup Job Crawls in our event lineup, and we will be preparing for our biggest Big Omaha yet.
We’ll need a go-getter, hustler, straight-g, a real Entertainment 720’s Tom Haverford, someone who can help us with everything from the smallest of details to larger promotional efforts to the overall attendee experience for all our events. We’re looking for a student either in public relations or marketing, or someone who has a knack for event planning, kissing babies and making dreams come true.
Accurate Communications – Programmer (Omaha)
Accurate Communications is an inbound call center.
We are looking for a programmer to join our staff. You will be working with Intelligent Series, a decision-tree style of programming which has various pre-built functions to develop scripting for our agents. You will also be responsible for creating custom reports for internal use and for our clients. This is accomplished by using SQL and utilizing Crystal Reports XI to design the reports.
Core Functions
- Program accounts in our Intelligent Series software which streamlines scripts for our
- agents
- Receive requirements & protocol directly from our clients and convert the information into
- a workable phone script
- Develop queries to extract desired data from our existing SQL Server 2003 Database
- Design and create custom reports using Crystal Reports XI
Interested applicants should contact Jeff at jzindel@accurate800.com
Lyconic – Front-end Web Developer (Omaha)
Lyconic is a company of web application developers who love to build personalized, specific, and effective business solutions.
We’re working on our second version of a Schedule Management & Routing web application tentatively called the Guide Suite. Facets of that are Inteliguide and Patrolguide, among others, but those mentioned are the primary concerns of a contract that we’re currently working on. It’s our goal to sub-contract either an individual or an entity to come in and help us do some of the dirty work. We’ve already described much of what the task will entail by how we’ve engineered and architected our toolset. It’s just a matter of using that toolset to achieve our goals. That requires an aptitude for patterns programming using MVC, a sturdy knowledge of JavaScript and jQuery, and an understanding of underlying web and data technologies such as Ruby on Rails and Postgresql.
This opportunity is for a six month contract, but for interested parties… it could well translate into a hire if business is as good as we expect. I don’t want to make a commitment to that without knowing I can bank on that, so I’m not offering this as a for sure permanent full-time position.
If you have any other questions, please contact Aron at afilbert@lyconic.com
Delta Systems – Senior Web Application Developer (Columbia, Missouri)
Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company.
Do you have a passion for helping companies? Are you skilled in WordPress, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, XML, Zend Framework? Delta Systems, an online application development company headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, offers an exciting and high-energy work environment. As a rapid application development company, we minimize over-engineering and empower you to make decisions and manage tasks.
Delta Systems – Web Designer / Front-End Developer (Columbia, Mo.)
Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company.
Delta Systems is looking for another self-motivated and enthusiastic web designer / front-end developer to join our team. You will be responsible for designing and developing websites and user interfaces for web-based applications. Strong creative and design sense, ability work efficiently in a team, and ability to communicate directly with the client are key. You will be expected to read and interpret client design briefs, translate their ideas into complete website mock-ups, and cut and code those designs into static HTML/CSS templates. Anything you can do beyond that is gravy. And we love gravy.
Voltage Creative – Junior PHP MySQL Web App Developer (Kansas City)
Do you have solid experience and/or cutting-edge talents along with a great personality? We’re an online development agency looking for a contract-to-hire PHP MySQL Web Application Developer.
What we’re looking for:
- 1+ years PHP & MySQL experience. We are looking for someone who can complete a project start to finish with a web server, database server, a text editor, and no frameworks. Experience with frameworks is valuable, but is secondary to self-sufficient coding.
- Experience in supporting technologies such as XHTML2, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Subversion important as well. Must be competent to hit the ground running.
- Flexibility with respect to approach is a must. Our coding standards and methodologies support our team approach to coding. New ideas and innovations are encouraged so long as they are not overly disruptive.
- Plays well with both designers and marketing people. Can talk with strangers.
- Can show us something cool you’ve built in your own time.
Local Ruckus – C#/.Net Wizard (Kansas City)
Local Ruckus is in the market for a C#/.Net wizard. Believe it or not, it’s not that easy to find one. Full-time, part-time, 2 hours/week … we’re just looking for good fits from where ever we can find them. Check out the site thus far. We need people that can take it to the next level. If this seems even remotely interesting to you or someone you know, let me know at adam@localruckus.com.
Blend Interactive– Client-Side Developer (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
We’re looking to add a client-side developer to work in HTML, CSS, and Javascript (mostly jQuery). This developer would be responsible for all front-end development required to make a design comp work, as well as wiring up all the client-side functionality, including intergating AJAX callbacks to server-side APIs. Some design experience would be helpful. We often need help wireframing projects in preparation for design, and a solid understanding of design principles is helpful when taking a design from Photoshop to HTML/CSS.
Blend Interactive – Server-Side Developer (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
We’re looking for Web developer to work on either the LAMP (mostly all PHP) and .Net stacks. In addition to the server-side language, we’re looking for someone who knows HTML, CSS, and jQuery. You’ll work in a team of developers and designers to deliver projects to our clients across the country. (Check out our portfolio.) In a perfect world, we’d like someone with a content management background. Someone who understands the transcendent principles of content management (see this blog post), like how to structure a repository, manage templating, define workflow and permissions, etc.
