OSAF is looking for a hands-on software development manager to provide senior engineering management and leadership for Cosmo, an open source standards-based sharing/calendaring server, and Scooby, a calendar Web application. You will help design, implement, test, debug and tune the code. You will champion high quality code and professional development habits and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate development work on Cosmo and Scooby, including architecture plans, time estimates, code reviews and bug fixing.
• Design and implement scalable and robust architecture.
• Review work done by others and contribute to the overall high quality of the code

Requirements:

• Ideally: proven track record shipping high quality server software, experience with open standard protocols a plus.
• Proven experience managing a development team
• Expert knowledge in Object Oriented Design, agile development procedures, possibly SCRUM or XP
• Expert knowledge in Java, SQL and Web technology.
• Experience working with Apache projects (Tomcat, Jackrabbit, Derby) and other open source server components (struts, spring, hibernate) a plus.
• Experience with AJAX architecture/concepts a plus.
• Experience with or interest in calendaring standards (iCalendar, CalDAV) a plus.
• Familiarity with or interest in Personal Information Management applications: email, calendar, tasks, notes, etc…
• Interested by open standards and experience contributing to open source projects a plus
• Solid organizational skills
• Enjoys working in uncharted waters, highly motivated self starter
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Willingness to work in a transparent and open way

OSAF today released, an early, but “experimentally usable” version of it’s open source application, Chandler. Chandler is a Personal Information Management (PIM) client application with innovative design and ambitious plans for sharing, extensibility and cross-platform support.

There is a wealth of information about the application and this particular release at the Chandler 0.6 Home Page

OSAF welcomes Reid Ellis to the team. He will be working on the Chandler project as an Application Developer. He had previously worked on medium- and large-scale applications, such as Roxio’s “PhotoSuite” and Alias’ “Maya” and “Sketchbook Pro”, as well as open source projects like BZFlag and iJournal.

Read more about Reid and the other OSAF staff on our People page.

OSAF is looking for a software developer to participate in the design and implementation of its desktop application, codenamed Chandler. You will have ownership of the design and implementation of complete sections of the application.

OSAF is also seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for the QA and Release team. This job requires working with QA, Release and Development teams to investigate, report and track defects, and expand the test framework and automated test suites.

You can see details for these and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

OSAF would like to welcome Bobby Rullo, who joins OSAF as Server Developer working on the Cosmo/Scooby project. Bobby comes to OSAF from New York where he has worked for the last eight years developing software in diverse areas such as the apparel, marketing and textile industries.

You can see more information on Bobby and the other OSAF staff on our People page.

OSAF would like to welcome Matthew Eernisse who joins OSAF as Web Development Engineer working on the Cosmo/Scooby project, developing a web UI to access Chandler information stored on the Cosmo server.

You can see more information on Matthew and the other OSAF staff on our People page.

OSAF is looking for an experienced web application developer to help build a sophisticated internet calendar application. If you are an old pro with tools and frameworks like Struts, Tiles, JSP, Spring, Acegi Security, and Hibernate, and have implemented an internet protocol client from scratch, we want to talk to you.

You can see details for this and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

OSAF, a unique organization dedicated to the creation and widespread adoption of open source application software, is looking for a creative Web-savvy designer to contribute a consistent, professional look-and-feel and usable interactions to a WebUI for calendar access and sharing. The role necessarily involves graphic design and HTML/CSS implementation, but also includes scope for growth into product planning and/or project management.

You can see details for this and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

OSAF has set up a group blog. It’s intended to be a good place to keep up with project developments without having to make a huge investment of time and effort. The blog will cover all of our projects, including the Chandler Personal Information Manager, the Cosmo sharing/calendaring server, and the Scooby calendaring web application.

As our project matures we find that some of our resource needs change as well. We had previously posted a job opening for a Web Application Designer/Developer, but have now reposted the position as a Web UI Developer to focus on a web interface for Chandler. You can see details for this and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.