[can.jobs] Software Development Positions -- Vancouver area

wendy@sq.sq.com (Wendy Harrison) (07/26/89)

		EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY


SoftQuad Inc. is a young, growing software company with opportunities
for advancement and an exciting work environment.  We are one of
the world's leading developers of software related to the creation
and presentation of structured information.  Currently we have
positions available in our SoftQuad West office.  Located in Surrey,
B.C., Canada, where living is still affordable, we are just 40
minutes from Vancouver, the mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

SoftQuad West designs and implements software for the editing of
structured documents. Our applications run in windowing environments
on a variety of hardware and operating systems including UNIX,
MS-DOS, OS/2, Apple Macintosh and VMS.

The following positions are available:

SYSTEMS ANALYSTS (2)

The successful candidates will become part of our small team development
effort. They will actively participate in the specifications of the
over-all requirements, design and implementation of our applications
and be responsible for the design and implementation of individual
application modules.

The following qualities are essential to this position:

	-  good communication skills and the ability to collaborate with the
	   other team members;
	-  ability to take requirement specifications and to design and
	   implement solutions to them;
	-  a minimum of three years experience in designing and coding in
	   a high level language including at least one year of C experience;
	-  ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

In addition, experience in one or more of the following areas is
highly desirable:

	-  object-oriented design and programming -- our development
	   language is C++;
	-  the use, design and implemention of interactive applications for the
	   editing and display of structured documents;
	-  design and implementation of interactive applications for windowing
	   environments, e.g. X Windows, MS-Windows/Presentation Manager,
	   Apple Macintosh;
	-  design and implementation of efficient search algorithms including
	   pattern matching of regular expressions;
	-  design and implementation of small languages using lex/yacc;
	-  system programming experience in UNIX, MS-DOS, OS/2, Macintosh
	   OS or VMS;
	-  use of a text formatting and/or markup language such as troff, TEX,
	   Scribe, GML, SGML.

Salary commensurate with experience.  Please forward your resume to:


Peter Sharpe				(416) 963-8337
SoftQuad Inc.				(800) 387-2777 (from U.S. only)
720 Spadina Ave.			uucp: {uunet,utzoo}!sq!peter
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2T9	Internet: peter@sq.com
					Fax: (416) 963-9575