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Become, Inc. is the fastest growing online comparison shopping engine and marketing services company in the industry with over 25 million visits per month to our worldwide properties.  Our Company has raised over $37 million from investors including TPG, European Founders Fund, TransCosmos and Ron Conway; and we have just completed our sixth consecutive year of record revenues.

Become, Inc. offers competitive compensation packages that include health benefits, 401K, flexible health spending accounts, onsite food services and attractively priced pre-IPO stock options.  Our Class AAA offices are located near CalTrain and the Sunnyvale Town Center.

Become.com is looking for energetic, talented, ambitious individuals to join our engineering team.  Our ideal candidates will have a desire to learn leading edge technologies while working in a fast paced start-up environment.

We are focused on creating the next generation tools for comparison shopping and vertical search, applying innovative concepts for crawling, ranking, indexing and classification; to deliver highest quality shopping experience for our visitors and merchants alike.

 

2012 Internships

Our Internship program continues in its sixth successful year. Our interns are trained in many facets of business and gain valuable corporate experience, as well as industry specific know-how.  We instruct our intern team in cutting edge online marketing practices and train with the latest and greatest industry tools.  Our intern alumni often find full-time employment in the online marketing industry, and frequently within our company!

 

 

Become Labs Mobile Team

 

Engineering

 

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

 

Sales and Business Development

 

Internships

 

International

  

 

 

Become Labs Mobile Team

 

About Become Labs:

Become Labs is a startup company formed to quickly build and iterate products and services. Become Labs’ core purpose is to build extraordinary products. Become Labs embraces the values of disruption, fun, agility, and purposefulness.  Become Labs products are intrinsically social; that means that sharing a product increases the value for the user. Become Labs is composed of self-organizing teams who operate in 30 day development cycles where producing a working product is the measure of success. Emphasis is placed on creativity and execution. The team thrives on chaos and welcomes unexpected obstacles as opportunities to improve products. The primary goal of Become Labs is to relentlessly build and iterate products until a specific product or service reaches massive adoption.

 

Senior Mobile iOS Developer

Become, Inc. is incubating a startup in search of Mobile Developers. We are looking for strong development talent, and leadership qualities rolled in to one stellar candidate. If you are the go-to person on your team, then you are the ideal candidate. If you see the big picture, you are the ideal candidate. If you possess leadership “raw materials” and want to develop further, you are the ideal candidate.

 

Keys to Success:

 

Required Skills:

 

For Immediate consideration, please send word doc or PDF with subject “Labs Leader” to job.BLSW12@become.com

 

  

Engineering

  

System Engineer/Operations Engineer

Become.com is looking for energetic, talented, dedicated individuals to join our engineering team in the Operations group.  The ideal candidate has a drive for excellence and takes ownership of key processes and systems to operate within industry leading performance standards.  It is required that the candidate possess exceptional problem solving skills and have strong understanding of databases (preferably MySQL), SQL and shell scripts on Linux. The position reports to the Engineering Manager and will be responsible for deployment, configuration and monitoring of production systems.

 

Typical duties:

 

Requirements:

 

For immediate consideration, please send a Word or PDF version of your resume to job.Operations12@become.com.

 

 

Front End Engineer, Tools

If you have a passion for designing and building reliable, well-documented software systems, and are experienced in web design principles, object-oriented design, and database programming, then you are an excellent fit for this position. You will develop mission-critical internal tools that dovetail with Become’s core systems. Help us break through limitations in the existing tools by applying your well-honed web app design aesthetic to the construction of robust, intuitive tools with enhanced functionality.

We use XSLT, JSP (JSTL), XHTML/HTML, and CSS for templating and Java for server-side and database integration. We are seeking people with excellent communication skills, an ability to work effectively under tight schedules, and passion for learning new technologies.

 

Requirements:

 

Plusses:

 

For immediate consideration, please send a resume with subject line “Front End Engineer” to job.FrontEnd12@become.com

 

 

Sr. Software Engineer C++ Search

The comparison shopping group at Become.com is looking for a senior/staff software engineer to help develop the back-end systems for the Become.com comparison shopping site.  This is our core system providing great search results to our 8MM monthly users generated from thousands of name-brand merchants.  This position is located in our Sunnyvale, CA offices. The ideal candidate possesses the following talents and experience:

 

Requirements:

 

Pluses:

 

For immediate consideration, please send a resume with subject line “Product Search Engineer” to job.swUS12@become.com

 

 

Software Engineer Java 

Become, Inc. is looking for an energetic and talented individual to join our engineering team.  If you have a passion for designing and building reliable, well-documented, modular software-systems to scale, and are well-experienced in Java, object-oriented design, and database programming, then you are an excellent fit for this position.  You will develop mission-critical software for Become’s search-engine-marketing (SEM) system, which handles bidding, reporting and real-time tracking, keyword generation, creatives, and synchronization for millions of Google and MSN listings daily.  Help us break through limitations in the existing system by applying your well-honed software design aesthetic to the construction of fast, reliable, scalable systems with enhanced functionality.

 

Requirements:

 

For immediate consideration, please send resume with subject line “Java BE SEM” to job.SWUS12@become.com

 

 

Front End Engineer – Contract to Hire

Become, Inc. is looking for an energetic and talented front-end developer to join our engineering team for a six month assignment or a full-time role.  In this position, you will help design and develop Become’s next generation front-end architecture for comparison shopping and vertical search.  

You will be an integral part of our team’s effort, which includes engineers, product managers, and visual designers, to build out our internal tools and consumer-facing websites.  You will see your efforts improve organic traffic to Become.com, enhance our users’ shopping experience, and scale our front-end infrastructure to handle millions more queries per day.

The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of web design principles, strong HTML/XML abilities, great technical know-how, and drive to create the best and most innovative design on the web. We use XSLT, JSP (JSTL), XHTML/HTML, and CSS for templating and Java for server-side and database integration.  We are seeking team players with excellent communication skills, an ability to work effectively under tight schedules, and passion for learning new technologies.

 

Requirements:

 

Pluses:

 

For immediate consideration, please send a Word or PDF version of your resume with subject “Front-End Engineer” to Job.FrontEnd12@become.com

 

 

Engineering Manager

Become, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks Engineering Manager to manage Product Search team of engineers on back-end and front-end software projects. Work with Product Managers to understand Marketing requirements; identify Technical Requirements and build project timelines; manage Engineering Resource Allocation; manage the team in the design and architecture of software; ensure software development guidelines compliance and track project progress to deliver on time and hold regular one-on-one and team meetings.

Requirements

 

Contact

Mail resume with copy of ad to Become, Inc. Attn: HR Job #101AC, 640 W. California Ave., Suite 110, Sunnyvale, CA 94086.

 

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 

 

SEO Manager
 

Become.com is seeking an energetic SEO Manager with expertise in SEO initiatives for large websites. We are looking for a hands-on SEO professional, with excellent problem solving skills that has a fundamental understanding of SEO issues involving site architecture, keyword generation, search-friendly content, link building strategies, blog optimization, and metrics-driven SEO. If you have successfully executed Search Engine Optimization strategies for large eCommerce sites and are looking to build your expertise working with a team of high caliber search engineers and a skilled team of SEO analysts, we want to hear from you. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge SEO technology and tools and work under the direction and guidance of well respected SEO experts in the industry. Our team consists of SEO thought leaders who are actively involved in speaking events and contributions to industry publications (http://www.become.com/resource-center/industry-events.html).

What You Will Learn:

You will have the opportunity to join a very successful, results-oriented team, and with the size of our sites you will get to continuously test and really prove out successful SEO strategies. In addition to the US, Become.com currently operates websites in UK (become.co.uk), Germany (decido.de) and Japan (become.co.jp) allowing you to broaden your knowledge of international SEO. Furthermore, with the breadth of knowledge on our team you will learn a variety of management tactics and strategies to develop our SEO team to the next level. Here at Become.com, you will broaden and deepen your SEO experience in anything and everything SEO.

Your SEO Role:

Required Qualifications & Experience:

Preferred Qualifications & Experience:

 

Qualified professionals are invited to submit a confidential resume for immediate consideration to job.mgrseo12@become.com. Please include “SEO Manager” as subject.

 

 

Sr. SEO Specialist

Are you the type of person who laughs when someone mentions that “bounce rates” matter for rankings in SEO? Do you know the difference between correlation and causation while making sure it isn’t an afterthought? Do you desire to show ROI and not just rankings or CPA to justify your SEO skills and experiences? Is breathing a close second to SEO day-in and day-out?

Then we’re looking for you!

 

We desire:

 

That means we are NOT seeking an SEO account manager!

 

With us you will:

 

Our general minimums:

 

Well-regarded aspects:

 

For immediate consideration please submit a confidential resume to job.mgrseo12@become.com. Please include “Senior SEO Specialist” as subject.

 

 

SEO Analyst

Become.com is looking for an enthusiastic SEO Analyst who is interested in online marketing and would enjoy helping take organic traffic on Become.com to the next level. The ideal candidate is an adept Internet user, up-to-date on product trends across several of our shopping categories, detail-oriented, and is able to produce quality content that is engaging. This job has a starting salary of $37,500/year, a performance-based bonus, and includes pre-IPO stock options and medical benefits.

 

Responsibilities:

 

Requirements:

 

Additional Skills:

 

For immediate consideration, please send us your resume in Word or PDF format to job.analyst12@become.com

 

 

 

Sales and Business Development

 

Business Development Manager

This is a great job for a self-starter, self-motivated individual with an entrepreneurial spirit and a love for chasing after new business. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for growing our US white-label shopping business; this will include but not be limited to:

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