Breaking Free

Covenant Eyes is seeking talented people who are passionate about Internet integrity.

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Full Time Positions

A full time position at Covenant Eyes is a great way to build your talents, skills, and abilities. You get to work with a team of experts on a mission to build tools that promote integrity and accountability every single day.

Web Content Producer

Are you looking for a position in the field of Digital Media? Covenant Eyes is looking for a Web Content Producer to join our marketing team. The Web Content Producer is primarily responsible for communicating with our audiences through Covenant Eyes public websites and helps marketing personnel with corporate blogs, email newsletters, and other Internet content. Time and effort is devoted toward creating and editing content that works, whether textually or through multimedia such as audio, screen casts, video, and diagrams.

Our ideal candidate has the following skills:

• Bachelors degree in Communications, Journalism, English, Digital Media, and Professional Writing or other related field and/or the equivalent experience in producing and editing online text and multimedia communication
• Knowledge of image editing and multimedia software
• Excellent visual and written communication skills
• Knowledge of HTML and CSS

Our ideal candidate has the following qualities:

• Strives to continuously build career knowledge and skills
• Remains open to others’ ideas and new approaches to work
• Contributes to building a positive team environment
• Knowledge of risks involved with non-filtered Internet use
• Inspires the trust of others
• Works ethically with integrity
• Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles
• Uses time efficiently
• Sets goals and objectives for oneself
• Treats everyone in the organization with respect
• Adapts to changes in work with patience and diligence

This is an on-site position, in Owosso, Michigan.

Please submit a cover letter explaining why you are interested in this position, a résumé, salary requirements, and examples of work (if available) to employment@covenanteyes.com by Monday, February 22, 2010.

Software Engineer

Do you want to hone your software engineering skills by improving software people use every day? Does figuring out different ways to sort node trees delight you? Do you spend weekends submitting just one more diff to open source projects? Then you may be a good Software Engineer!

As a Software Engineer at Covenant Eyes you will:

• Work with a skilled cross functional team to create excellent software.
• Write, rewrite, and refine software to constantly enhance it.
• Complete meaningful, useful work every single week.
• Increase your skills as a computer programmer in C, C++, PHP, Python, Java and whichever other language strikes our fancy!

A Software Engineer should be able to:

• Implement easy to intermediate programming design patterns.
• Create applications in both scripted and compiled languages.
• Create moderately advanced functional tests.
• Refactor code to improve understandability and maintainability.
• Explain the value of abstract development concepts to non technical staff.

This position is available for those with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or other related fields, or the equivalent in relevant work experience. Apply by sending an email to employment@covenanteyes.com and include your resume, a sample of code you have written, as well as a thoughtful essay on one of the following topics:

• Describe one of the most difficult programming challenges you have encountered, the steps you took to solve it, and how your development practices changed because of it. You do not necessarily need to have solved the problem.
• Explain what “Code Quality” is. How can you help improve another programmers code quality?
• Describe a time when you were unable to complete work required of you in the time allotted. How did you respond when the situation became hopeless? What influenced your problems meeting the deadline?

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Paid Summer Internships

Our interns build their skills by working together with programmers, testers, and user experience practitioners every single day. Each of these are paid internships for the summer of 2010. If you are a student seeking an internship in a related field of study and would like to apply for one of these positions, send your resume, samples of your work (if possible), and a thoughtful essay on one of the thoughtful essay topics listed below to employment@covenanteyes.com.

Currently, we have internships in the following fields available:

• User Experience
• Software Developer
• Software Tester

User Experience Intern

Do you believe people come first and technology comes second? Do you observe how people behave instead of assuming everyone behaves just like you? Are you concerned with how people interact with people, not a computer? Then you may be a good User Experience Intern!

As a User Experience Intern at Covenant Eyes you will:

• Work with a skilled, cross functional team to create excellent software
• Design, redesign, throw out, and design again the different ways our customers interact with our software (and each other!)
• Complete meaningful work every single week
• Increase your skills in user experience research and design techniques

A User Experience Intern should be able to:

• Sketch out and create digital mock-ups or prototypes of visual interfaces
• Write drafts of text to be used in interfaces
• Rationally organize and label information
• Observe usability test sessions and interviews and discuss observations

Here are your thoughtful essay topics:

• Describe what User Experience is and its role in software development
• Describe how proper application of design concepts can reduce errors
• Explain what a heuristic evaluation is and perform one on http://www.covenanteyes.com/
• Describe a time when you were unable to complete work required of you in the time required, how you responded when the situation became hopeless, and what influenced the problems you encountered in meeting your deadline

Software Developer Intern

Does figuring out different ways to sort trees delight you? Do you want to hone your software engineering skills while you write software people actually use? Do you spend your weekends improving open source projects for just… one… more… hour? Then maybe you’d be a good Software Developer Intern!

As a Software Developer at Covenant Eyes you will:

• Work together with a skilled cross functional team to create excellent software
• Write, refine, and rewrite software in an effort to constantly improve our code quality
• Complete meaningful, useful work every single week
• Increase your skills as a computer programmer in C, C++, PHP, Python, Java and whichever other language should be used to solve a problem

A Software Developer Intern should be able to:

• Explain general concepts behind Object Oriented Design and related software development practices
• Create simple applications in either a compiled or scripted programming language
• Create simple software tests, and explain test driven development
• Explain what software refactoring is

Here are your thoughtful essay topics:

• Describe one of the most difficult programming challenges you have encountered, the steps you took to solve it, and how your development practices changed because of it; you do not necessarily need to have solved the problem
• Explain what “Code Quality” is, and how can you help improve another developers code quality?
• Describe a time when you were unable to complete work required of you in the time required, how you responded when the situation became hopeless, and what influenced the problems you encountered in meeting your deadline

Intern Software Tester

Do you enjoy breaking things? Did you tear apart things as a child and not care about putting them back together? Do you prefer to find the simplest, straightest path through obstacles… regardless of the chaos in your wake? You may be a great software tester!

As an Intern Software Tester at Covenant Eyes you will:

• Work with a skilled cross functional team to create excellent software
• Break stuff, share how you did it, and automate breaking it again. Then you get to break something else!
• Complete meaningful work every single week
• Increase your skills in software testing and test automation

As an Intern Software Tester, you should be able to:

• Execute test plans and provide feedback to team members
• Explore software from top to bottom, uncovering defects and helping the team understand and prioritize them
• Investigate defects reported by customers and help the team understand and prioritize them
• Place yourself in our customers shoes, and then advocate for them

Here are your thoughtful essay topics:

• The Role of Quality Assurance in Software Development
• Software Quality – What Does It Mean?
• Prioritizing Defects in Software – What Makes One More Important than the Other?
• Describe a time when you were unable to complete work required of you in the time required, how you responded when the situation became hopeless, and what influenced the problems you encountered in meeting your deadline