Object Mentor Inc. is growing. We need to hire top-notch mentors and engineers to fill the growing needs of our customers. We need both experienced mentors, and junior engineers. If you would like to work with people who are among the top thought leaders of the industry, consider applying to jobs at objectmentor.com

At Object Mentor Inc., mentors have at least 10 years experience in software engineering. We travel the world offering our advice and experience to our customers. Many of us spend every other week on the road; either consulting or teaching. Much of the remaining time we spend writing software, books, articles, or at industry conferences. We believe that you cannot effectively consult and teach if you are not also writing code.

The travel may sound onerous; but our mentors are not required to travel on weekends, nor are they required to travel on consecutive weeks. Indeed, if clients can be found locally, mentors may not need to travel at all.

Our goal as a company is to help others come to grips with the difficulties of software development; and to learn as much as we can about software development in the process. We also want to be a significant part of the most important efforts to improve the state of the art. So many of us write books, articles, and other publications.

The kinds of work that we wind up doing:

• Consulting with our customer's design teams.
• Coaching customers in Extreme Programming.
• Teaching classes at customer sites.
• Teaching public classes.
• Speaking at conferences and trade shows.
• Reviewing designs, schedules, and plans.
• Designing subsystems for our customers.
• Implementing subsystems for our customers.
• Taking on whole projects.
• Reviewing articles for magazines, and conferences.
• Occasionally, one of us will spend several months, full time, with a customer working on one of their projects.

Our areas of interest include:

• Extreme Programming and other agile methods.
• Software engineering.
• C++.
• Java.
• Other languages and systems (the more you know...)
• Web Systems.
• Embedded Systems.
• Real time Systems.
• Databases.
• Mathematical modeling.
• Distributed Processing.

Our work environment is unique. Most of spend a lot of time working out of our homes, including our administrative staff. When not in the office we communicate by email, fax, phone, conference software, etc. There are very few meetings. We manage to get a lot of work done.

Requirements for employment consideration:

Mentors:

• 10+ years experience as a software engineer.
• 5+ years experience with OO.
• 3 years experience with C++, Java, Eiffel or any other suitable OOPL.
• You must be able to travel 50% of the time, including worldwide travel.
• Public speaking ability is very important.
• You must be able to work alone and remain goal oriented and self motivated.

Junior Candidates, Apprentices, and interns:

• Enthusiasm
• Intelligence
• Diligence
• A desire to grow quickly and learn from the best
• A working knowledge of Java, C++, Python, Ruby, or Smalltalk

Other experience we like to see:

• Agile Methodologies/XP
• Real time
• embedded systems
• concurrent threads of operation
• reentrant programming
• mathematical modeling
• process control
• relational databases
• web programming, J2EE
• COM/ATL
• OO databases
• lots of project and team management.

If you are interested in this kind of work we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your resume, via email, to jobs at objectmentor.com . It would help if you included a cover letter describing why you think you can handle the travel and self discipline requirements. Include your salary requirements and some references that we can call. Be patient, it sometimes takes us several weeks to respond.

What Object Mentor can offer you:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Section 125
• 401 K + match
• Paid Vacation
• 10 Holidays
• Flexible hours