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Livemocha is the world’s largest language community, and one of the hottest start-ups in the Seattle area. Located in Bellevue, WA, Livemocha has created a global social network to change the way people learn languages.

Livemocha has a big vision, a talented team, and high-energy culture which makes it fun to come to work each day. Our investors, August Capital and Maveron, are world-class venture firms that are excited about our vision.

We are looking for people who value being part of a group that innovates, brainstorms, works together, loves challenges, wants to have a little fun in the meantime. At Livemocha, our lives inform our work; we are photographers, musicians (jam sessions are known to break out spontaneously), yoga experts, gamers, world travelers, and more.

If you’re looking for a cool start-up with an opportunity to disrupt a $50 billion market, you’ve found it. Livemocha offers a competitive salary, stock options, and medical, dental, and vision insurance. Check out our open positions!

Open Positions in Bellevue, WA








Software Test Manager


We are looking for an exceptional manager with a passion for quality improvement and building world-class teams. You must be able to drive strategy, as well take a hands-on approach to getting things done.

Responsibilities

You will

  • Build and lead a world class team of QA Engineers that can scale with Livemocha’s rapid growth.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the Livemocha application and develop the QA team and plans that fit the testing strategy and roadmap.
  • Oversee the execution of test plans for releases, and monitor the progress of testing strategy.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of industry experience, including at least 5 years of testing, and 3+ years as manager.
  • Fluency in software testing methodology and tools.
  • Experience with building automation and performance testing frameworks for large scale websites.
  • Strong background in internet technologies like (e.g. Apache, PHP, Java, MySQL).
  • Strong people management skills, with demonstrated track record of hiring and growing SDET and QA engineers.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with track record of working effectively with engineering and product management.
  • Experience working in a fast paced startup environment, with a hands-on, proactive attitude.
  • Ping pong, Paintball or Barbequing experience a definite plus

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Software Development Manager


We are looking for a software development manager who can help grow and manage development teams at Livemocha. You must be able to develop teams and drive strategy, as well take a hands-on approach to getting things done.

Responsibilities

You will

  • Build and lead a world class team of software engineers. You will build an organization that can scale with Livemocha’s rapid growth.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the Livemocha platform and develop the engineering team and plans that fit the product strategy and roadmap.
  • Work closely with product team to translate business requirements to technical deliverables.
  • Oversee the execution of development plans for releases, and monitor the progress of deliverables.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of industry experience, including at least 5 years of software development, and 2+ years as manager.
  • Strong people management skills, with a proven ability to hire and grow high performing engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and experience developing large scale internet services using technologies like Apache, PHP, Java, Memcache, MySQL.
  • Experience with relational database design and programming.
  • Strong understanding of system/application performance characteristics and experience working on scaling and optimization challenges.
  • Experience designing applications using cloud services like AWS a plus.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with track record of working effectively with engineering and other functions.
  • Experience working in a fast paced startup environment, with a hands-on, proactive attitude.
  • Ping pong, Paintball or Barbequing experience a definite plus.

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Senior Software Engineer


We are looking for a senior engineer with a passion for architecting and building internet-based services on a massive scale.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for design and delivery of significant product initiatives for the Livemocha application.
  • You will be involved in the end to end development of key features - from specifications and technical design to front and backend implementation.
  • Design and implementation of key server side architecture to help massively scale our services.
  • Work on scalability and optimization challenges.

Requirements

  • Energy, excitement, and passion for building great products.
  • Bachelors or Higher Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 8+ years of software design and development experience.
  • Strong object oriented programming and design skills.
  • Track record of technical leadership, and experience developing large scale internet services using technologies like Apache, PHP, Java, Memcache, MySQL.
  • Experience with relational database design and programming required.
  • Strong understanding of system/application performance characteristics and experience working on scaling and optimization challenges.
  • Experience designing applications using cloud services like AWS.
  • Experience recruiting and mentoring junior engineers of your team.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Ping pong, Paintball or Barbequing experience a definite plus.

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Senior Software Engineer in Test (Automation)


We are looking for a talented engineer with a passion for product quality and experienced in creating world class automation and performance test frameworks. You must be able to drive automation strategy and lead the design and implementation.

Responsibilities
  • Own the delivery of the automation test framework and serve as a technical lead within our test team.
  • Design and develop stress/load tests to benchmark and optimize the performance of the site.
  • Work with the development team to setup tools to monitor and optimize the application environment.

Requirements
  • Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years experience, fluent in software testing methodology and tools.
  • Strong programming experience working with Java, PHP, Apache, MySQL, Linux and Test Driven Development.
  • Experience working with tools like Selenium, JMeter and building automation and performance test framework for large scale websites.
  • Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume websites desired.
  • Demonstrated track record of technical leadership, and initiative to improve product quality.
  • Strong understanding of system and application performance characteristics.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Ping pong, Paintball or Barbequing experience a definite plus

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Senior Test Engineer


We are looking for a talented engineer obsessed with product quality, a passion for customer needs and proven experience testing websites. Our systems need to meet high standards of quality, performance and reliability, operating 24x7 on a large scale.

Responsibilities

You will

  • Develop a deep understanding of the product features, and technical implementation to design and develop test cases.
  • You will drive testing strategy and software development process towards quality-centric methodologies.
  • Execute test plans, work with engineering, product management, customer support to resolve issues, track progress against plan.
  • Own technology choices for QA team for managing quality process and reporting.
  • Mentor junior members of the QA team.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years testing experience, fluency in QA methodology and tools.
  • Strong organizational skills, tracking multiple test executions simultaneously and able to communicate effectively with a cross-functional team.
  • Strong background in internet technologies like Apache, PHP, Java, MySQL required.
  • Strong scripting and object oriented programming skills.
  • Ability to understand technical specifications, research and implement tools for QA team.
  • Experience with automation testing and using tools like JMeter, Selenium a big plus.
  • Ping pong, Paintball or Barbequing experience a definite plus.

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Operations Lead


We are looking for an exceptional operations lead with a passion for building and maintaining large scale systems. You must be able to drive strategy, as well take a hands-on approach to getting things done. At Livemocha you will wear many hats: operations lead, system administrator, monitoring expert, technical evangelist, first responder, performance analyst, and capacity planner for the Livemocha production site.

Responsibilities

You will

  • Drive the design, configuration and management of the production server and network environment.
  • Work with engineering to optimize the scalability and availability of production systems.
  • Drive monitoring strategy,collection of system metrics and alarms.
  • Backup and maintenance of the production environment.
  • Work with hosting provider and vendors to purchase, configure and manage production machines.

Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience running and maintaining high-traffic websites, including 2+ years as lead.
  • Experience designing and setting up production environment, including capacity analysis, performance tuning, service configuration, monitoring, etc.
  • Strong networking skills, hands on experience working with switches, loadbalancers, and familiarity with network devices (functionality, operating, failure modes).
  • Experience leading an operations team and mentoring junior members
  • Strong skills in at least one scripting/coding language.
  • Experience setting up, configuring and optimizing Apache.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services a big plus.
  • Experience managing MySQL servers and setting up replication, optimization a plus.
  • Experience with NFS configuration and other file systems.
  • Ability to handle periodic on-call duty.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot and working under pressure to firefight service outages
  • Thrive in a challenging and fun, startup environment
  • Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.
  • BA/BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
  • Ping pong, Paintball or Barbequing experience a definite plus

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Senior Database Administrator


We are looking for a strong technology leader with extensive experience administering large-scale mysql systems and building solutions for highly available services.

Responsibilities

You will

  • Own design, availability, performance optimization and scalability of large-scale database service.
  • Research, test and lead in the adoption of new technologies to improve database performance and scale.
  • Work closely with engineering team and architect to translate data models to database models.

Requirements
  • Bachelors or Higher Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 10+ years of software design and development experience.
  • Expert level knowledge of SQL and MySQL.
  • Experience administering, scaling and optimizing MySQL databases for high volume websites.
  • Excellent LINUX skills and a strong grasp of supporting infrastructure components – memory, hardware, storage and networks.
  • Experience with scripting languages a plus.
  • Knowledge of additional DBMS technologies a plus.
  • Experience using cloud computing services like AWS a plus.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ping pong, Paintball or Barbequing experience a definite plus

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Software Architect


We are looking for a strong technology leader with a passion for architecting and building large-scale internet-services. You will wear many hats: system architect, lead developer, scalability expert, technical evangelist - as you lead the design and development of the Livemocha service.

Responsibilities


You will

  • Provide technical expertise and strong leadership in the design of Livemocha platform.
  • Responsible for architecture, design, scalability and optimization of the Livemocha service.
  • Work closely with Exec team, Marketing and Partners to help define the product roadmap.
  • Recruit and mentor junior members of the team.

Requirements
  • Energy, excitement, and passion for building great products.
  • Bachelors or Higher Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 10+ years of software design and development experience.
  • Track record of technical leadership, and experience developing large scale internet services using technologies like Apache, PHP, Java, Memcache, MySQL.
  • Recent experience leading, designing and implementing services for a high traffic site.
  • Strong experience working on scaling and optimization challenges.
  • Experience administering and optimizing databases for high volume websites.
  • Experience using cloud computing services like Amazon Webservices a plus.
  • Demonstrated experience recruiting and mentoring junior engineers.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to work in a team environment, with a hands-on, proactive attitude.
  • Ping pong, Paintball or Barbequing experience a definite plus

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Senior UI/Front-end Engineer


You will play a critical role in the design and development of the consumer facing Livemocha user interface. Your work will be viewed by millions of customers and have a sizable impact on the creative direction of Livemocha as we move forward.

Responsibilities
  • Responsible for design and implementation of the Livemocha consumer web flows and consumer experience.
  • Provide technical/creative expertise and participate in the design of Livemocha's website.
  • Responsible for development of the front-end UI using technologies like CSS, AJAX, Flash, HTML, javascript.

Requirements
  • 5+ years software design and UI development experience.
  • Recent experience in working on highly available Internet-based consumer websites and experience designing the user interactions.
  • Strong hands-on experience working with web technologies like CSS, javascript, HTML, AJAX, Flash, ActionScript.
  • Strong skills in programming and UI design - and experience working with various usability tests a plus.
  • Experience in writing code at presentation layer to interact with other layers of a three-tier web application a plus.
  • Experience working with Photoshop and other design tools a plus.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Must be able to work in a challenging start-up environment

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Senior Product Manager


Livemocha is looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager who is passionate about designing and developing industry-disrupting products. The Senior Product Manager will have the opportunity to work closely with the Livemocha senior management team to develop the overall product and monetization strategy for the business. The Senior PM will be responsible for translating the strategic product plan into a concrete and actionable product feature set for their area of product responsibility and working with the development team to ensure successful implementation and timely delivery.

Key Responsibilities include
  • Developing product roadmap and strategy for a specific area of product responsibility
  • Conducting primary or secondary research as needed in collaboration with the marketing team
  • Conducting ongoing competitive analysis and staying abreast of the overall competitive space
  • Developing concise functional specifications for product enhancements and new initiatives, including user flow, feature details and metrics to evaluate customer impact
  • Leading the relevant development teams to quickly implement new updates and bug fixes
  • Defining, implementing, and regularly track product success metrics
  • Communicating effectively throughout the organization on status, issues, and results

Skills and Qualifications
  • 5+ years experience in product management or product planning for consumer online services. Has had measurable impact on the success of the online offerings they have managed
  • MBA or BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical field (ideally, with a Business Minor or MBA)
  • Technical experience or strong understanding of web technologies
  • Experience working in SCRUM/Agile development environments
  • Strong organizational and project management skills, excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Strong technical aptitude and ability to work with engineers
  • Excellent analytical skills to analyze customer behavior and translate the analysis into actionable product improvements
  • Ability to execute an aggressive mandate


Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Affiliate Marketing Manager


Livemocha is seeking a part-time Affiliate Marketing Manager to help drive new customer and revenue growth through Livemocha’s affiliate program. The position requires strong analytical and online marketing skills, solid interpersonal communications, account management and business development skills.

Responsibilities

  • Research and identify marketing partnership opportunities.
  • Develop and execute recruitment plan to attract high-quality affiliate partners
  • Manage Affiliate Program dashboard for weekly updates and analysis
  • Test, identify and implement offers, creative and landing pages
  • Develop and execute partner communication initiatives to drive revenue such as newsletters, emails, and promotions.
  • Measure the return on investment (ROI) from marketing campaigns, and provide recommendations for future campaigns.

Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Prior affiliate management and marketing experience strongly preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills required with intermediate knowledge of Excel.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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Marketing Manager


Livemocha is seeking a full time Marketing Manager to manage our search marketing and Google AdSense advertising campaigns. We are looking for a professional online marketer with direct experience with SEM, and familiarity with SEO and Google AdSense.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize paid search campaigns across multiple geographies and languages
  • Provide tactical support and daily management of SEM channel
    • Keyword analysis and optimization
    • Ad copy testing and optimization
    • Landing page testing and optimization
    • Keyword expansion
    • Budget management
  • Maintain reporting dashboards and monitor key performance indicators
  • Maintain Google AdSense reporting and optimize campaigns
  • Monitor and report on search engine optimization strategy
  • Help coordinate paid search campaigns with SEO efforts
  • Stay informed of industry trends and best practices

Requirements
  • 3-7 years professional experience with SEM
  • General knowledge of SEO and Google AdSense preferred
  • Experience with reporting; understands key marketing metrics for online businesses
  • Works well with teams
  • Is a good communicator
  • Self-motivated to hit goals while working autonomously

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Online Customer Support Manager


Livemocha is seeking a full time Online Customer Support Manager to build internal processes to respond to customer inquiries, resolve customer concerns, and maximize revenue.

Responsibilities

  • Develop staff and processes to respond to inquiries from Livemocha customers via email and chat
  • Collaborate with Livemocha staff in Product Management, Marketing, and Software Development to investigate and resolve technical and payment issues reported by customers
  • Develop refund policy with internal team and implement in customer correspondence
  • Compile weekly and monthly reports on the volume and type of customer inquiries, refunds, and other relevant metrics

Requirements
  • You have to truly care about customer service, and be a strong advocate for customers on the Livemocha team.
  • Management experience in a customer support team for an consumer Internet company is strongly preferred
  • Comfortable leading a team and working as an individual contributor.
  • Able to use translation tools to understand inquiries submitted in many languages and engage in written communications with customers. (Livemocha customers come from over 200 countries!)
  • Must be extremely Internet savvy, and comfortable doing 99% of your work online.
  • Must have exceptional written communication skills
  • Team-orientation is essential. That’s how we do things at Livemocha.
  • Honesty, integrity, and dependability are essential attributes.
  • Self-motivated and able to work autonomously
  • Proficiency or fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, or Mandarin is helpful but not required.

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Online Customer Support Manager


Livemocha is seeking a full time Online Customer Support Manager to build internal processes to respond to customer inquiries, resolve customer concerns, and maximize revenue.

Responsibilities

  • Develop staff and processes to respond to inquiries from Livemocha customers via email and chat
  • Collaborate with Livemocha staff in Product Management, Marketing, and Software Development to investigate and resolve technical and payment issues reported by customers
  • Develop refund policy with internal team and implement in customer correspondence
  • Compile weekly and monthly reports on the volume and type of customer inquiries, refunds, and other relevant metrics

Requirements
  • You have to truly care about customer service, and be a strong advocate for customers on the Livemocha team.
  • Management experience in a customer support team for an consumer Internet company is strongly preferred
  • Comfortable leading a team and working as an individual contributor.
  • Able to use translation tools to understand inquiries submitted in many languages and engage in written communications with customers. (Livemocha customers come from over 200 countries!)
  • Must be extremely Internet savvy, and comfortable doing 99% of your work online.
  • Must have exceptional written communication skills
  • Team-orientation is essential. That’s how we do things at Livemocha.
  • Honesty, integrity, and dependability are essential attributes.
  • Self-motivated and able to work autonomously
  • Proficiency or fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, or Mandarin is helpful but not required.

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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Online Customer Support Specialist


Livemocha is seeking a part-time Online Customer Support Specialist to resolve customer concerns and communicate with customers with email and chat.

Responsibilities

  • Respond to inquiries from Livemocha customers via email and chat
  • Verify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues reported by customers
  • Communicate with relevant software engineers at Livemocha to resolve customer issues
  • Issue refunds to customers as necessary
  • Communicate persistent customer issues to Livemocha Marketing and Product teams so that we can improve the customer experience
  • Compile weekly reports on the volume and type of customer inquiries from Livemocha members

Requirements
  • You have to truly care about customer service, and be the advocate for customers on the Livemocha team.
  • Strong work ethic to resolve customer concerns and answer their questions.
  • Able to use translation tools to engage in written communications with customers, and understand the problems they try to convey. (Livemocha customers come from over 200 countries, and write to us in many languages!)
  • Must be highly Internet savvy, and comfortable doing 99% of your work online.
  • Must have exceptional written communication skills
  • Must be resourceful and eager to solve problems for customers without direct oversight from a supervisor
  • Team-orientation is essential. That’s how we do things at Livemocha.
  • Honesty, integrity, and dependability are essential attributes.
  • Self-motivated and able to work autonomously
  • Advanced proficiency or fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, or Mandarin is helpful but not required.

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Senior Marketing Analyst


Livemocha is seeking a Senior Marketing Analyst, with a proven background in leading marketing and business analysis of customer and sales information. As a critical member of the Marketing team, this position will lead the effort at Livemocha to deepen our understanding customer behavior and optimize revenue.

Responsibilities

  • Manage our analytics programs, which include ownership of key performance indicators and dashboard reporting, analysis of site metrics, and the development, execution, and analysis of variable testing on the Livemocha web site.
  • Partner with internal reporting team for data-mining, LTV modeling, multi-variate testing, and purchase and activity reporting.
  • Create and analyze reports and data models to extract essential demographic and psychographic insights.
  • Present insights and advocate changes with executives and business owners to increase product and marketing efficacy.
  • Work with the Marketing team to develop forward-looking marketing strategies.

Requirements
  • Team orientation is critical for this role.
  • 5+ years experience in marketing analytics, with strong preference for business analysis experience with an Internet company
  • Expert skill level with MS Excel is required. Experience with Access, SAS, and SQL is preferred.
  • Proven ability to build sophisticated models and perform in-depth data analysis
  • Able to effectively present strategies and recommendations to business owners
  • Bachelor's degree with an emphasis in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, business, or math.

Livemocha offers a collegial and fast-paced environment that offers an excellent compensation package, flexible benefits, and stock options.

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