Company Description

At Sectigo, we align around our mission and pride ourselves in helping thousands of customers sleep better at night.

Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering comprehensive solutions that secure human and machine identities for the world’s largest brands. Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across all certificate authorities (CAs) to simplify and improve security protocols within the enterprise. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers and two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.

Job Description

We are looking for a talented Manager, Software Development to join our growing global team at Sectigo.

The Manager, Software Development leads a team of software engineers in building secure, scalable, and high-performing applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in application development (PHP, Ruby, Golang, cloud deployments) best practices and a solid understanding of SSL/TLS certificates, private keys, and secure communication principles. This role combines technical leadership with strategic oversight to ensure the delivery of robust and secure solutions.

Apply: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Sectigo/3743990012649388-ma...

Join a small agile team within Sectigo working to improve products for retail customers.

We're looking for the following roles:

* Cloud Ops Developer | U.S., Canada (Remote) - join a small agile team that runs a backup service that is used over 1 million times a day. You will be a part of a team that is working on a live Ruby on Rails project. Your primary role is managing and maintaining the infrastructure and services that are hosted on the AWS cloud platform. The project currently integrates with multiple APIs, internal services, and cloud-based workers (AWS).

* Senior PHP Developer | U.S., Canada (Remote) - join a small agile team to continuously improve and iterate Sectigo products for retail customers. You will use your expertise and experience to design, develop, and maintain Sectigo’s e-commerce and customer platform based on PHP. The customized project handles over a hundred different variations of products and has a global customer base.

* Intermediate PHP Developer | International (Remote) - join a small agile team to continuously improve and iterate Sectigo products for retail customers. You will use your expertise and experience to design, develop, and maintain Sectigo’s e-commerce and customer platform based on PHP. The customized project handles over a hundred different variations of products and has a global customer base.

Please reach out: daniel.tse@sectigo.com for more details.

Join our portal teams as we help customers secure their websites.

Looking for:

* Engineering Manager - 2-3 years experience running an agile team. You'll be helping to manage a team (4 developers) transitioning a live Ruby on Rails project to a Golang one.

* UX Designer - 2-3 years experience. Work with a team to prototype, test, and develop mockups. You'll be conducting small scale usability tests, synthesize results into insights and iterate on designs.

Looking for full time employees. Competitive pay and benefits. You must be legally authorized to work in your region (e.g. US, Canada, EU, etc). Shoot me an email at daniel.tse@sectigo.com

Join our portal teams as we help customers secure their websites.

Looking for:

* Senior Ruby Developer (must be familiar with AWS)

* Intermediate PHP Developers

* Perl Developers

* Front end developer (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

* UX Designer

Looking for full time employees. Competitive pay and benefits. You must be legally authorized to work in your region (e.g. US, Canada, EU, etc). Shoot me an email at daniel.tse@sectigo.com

Experienced Technical Product Manager with over 15 years of developer experience. I have helped various organizations from small startups to large government organizations. For small startups, my dev experience has helped deploy MVPs to validate business concepts and lead to early profitability. For large government organizations I roadmapped and prioritized features that helped departments deploy solutions 2 years ahead of schedule and massively under budget.

I can help you determine, deliver, and iterate on the core value of your product.

Technologies: HTML/CSS/Javascript, JAMStack (Gatsbyjs), PHP, NodeJS, Go

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmktse/

Email: danprime@gmail.com

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML/CSS/Javascript, JAMStack (Gatsbyjs), PHP, NodeJS, Go

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10HN_4Y89qj4uqjgEakixgXTBrH5...

Email: danprime@gmail.com

Experienced Technical Product Manager with over 15 years of developer experience. I have helped various organizations from small startups to large government organizations. For small startups, my dev experience has helped deploy MVPs to validate business concepts and lead to early profitability. For large government organizations I roadmapped and prioritized features that helped departments deploy solutions 2 years ahead of schedule and massively under budget.

I can help you determine, deliver, and iterate on the core value of your product.

Currently, it's up to you to create hooks upon successful payment to ask for information (which is extremely weird to the users because they're under the impression that they paid you directly and already possess that information).

Every In-App-Purchase (or app purchase) is not linked between platforms. It sort of makes sense that any IAP you buy in iOS will not (automatically) make it over to Android, but it makes less sense between Android and Chrome (considering it's the same Google user).

As far as I can tell, there will be no way to programmatically transition users and their IAP outside of your chromeapp. Meaning, we will have to figure out a way to get users to register their purchases to a database.

I built a Photobooth App called Photomatico[1] (for use in events/wedding/parties). While there is an endless supply of photo/camera apps in Android and iOS, there were only a few photo/camera apps on the Chrome Store, and even less that didn't rely on using Flash. I wrote Photomatico originally as a web app for one of my friend's wedding (super happy with the use of only HTML/CSS/Javascript).

It was a relatively small effort to package the code into a web app (because packaged web apps have the added functionality of running offline/disconnected, kind of like Cordova/PhoneGap) and adding to the fact that Google handled all the payments - so no need to do extra work and sign up for credit card processing/Stripe/Recurly/paypal, etc. So all you had to do was add a few lines of code, zip it up and people would pay you for it!

I think people value the simplicity of an "app" versus a website even though in my case the functionality is equivalent. From the last 3 years, I find that non-tech people (i.e. people who celebrate retirement parties, DIY party organizers, etc.) are pretty comfortable with the concept of packaged apps (icons, distinct install process) but are even more comfortable with the safety of an App store. As crowded as it is, users definitely were more comfortable with a store than navigating and bookmarking a website.

I have built other apps that use the bookmarking feature to launch separate self-contained windows and my own anecdotal observations show that this workflow is really hard for them to grasp. Even the "new" way in Chrome is being dismissed by users because it looks too much like an ad or popup.

A few years ago, I put my Photobooth app on the Chrome Store and slapped a price (currently:free for selfies, $40 for the "Events" edition). I learned a lot about pricing/offering (I was surprised when I discovered I had more people paying $40 for the Events Edition than $5), building an email list (incentivizing signups), etc.

Just the other day, I was reviewing my revenue figures, and for relatively low amounts of work/support it's currently bringing in around $150 CDN / month, with over 40 daily installs, a couple thousand pictures taken weekly.

As sad as it is to see the chrome store go all I can say (in 2018 when they will shut it down) is: "So Long! Thanks for all the fish!"

[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobooth/lcimple...

It would be extremely helpful to have even a basic tutorial page/link pop up after installation (you can add this hook in the manifest.json).

The stats don't make any sense and there's been a constant complaint in the forums about the difference between impressions and installations (don't forget if a user signs into multiple chrome devices/browsers those all count as separate installations).

In short, I agree with everything you've said. It's not enough just to have a place to list your app, having good store tools and user communication tools goes a long way to delivering a good product.

It USED to read that you had to ask for opt-in permission BEFORE you began tracking (which is the current pattern my app follows, but how many other apps/extensions have I seen do this?.... 0).

In my app, upon install/launch it prompts the user with a popup asking if they would like to help the developer out by sending anonymous data. I made it opt-in (the user had to explicitly check the box). Out of a daily 4500 Active Users, I only have 4 people who opted in (it's less than 0.1% for those who don't want to do the math).

With the old policy of requiring user's permission to opt-in, it makes it really difficult for any developer (who follows the rules) to get any valid feedback. I've posted on the Google Group and Stack Overflow and the question is basically ignored because it's an open secret that most people simply treat it like any website analytics as in they embed the code to track and move on.

I currently follow the Firefox pattern/language choice:

[ ] Share performance, usage, hardware and customization data anonymously with the developer to help make ___ better. <>

TLDR; You'll get 0.1% compliance if you make data collection opt-in and you're upfront about data collection... it sucks because it makes the whole "Collect/Analyze Data" part of Development very difficult.

I love the work, I love the impact, and I would absolutely love to go back in and help, but until there's a better (or even sustainable) pricing model I can't go back because it's unfair. I'm not even saying it's unfair for the developer, I'm saying it's unfair for the end-user because they have this expectation of what they're getting for their money and when they don't get it, they'll feel cheated.

For example, we had clients who were upset when we could not support OS 9 systems (this was in 2011) - this would be the equivalent to expecting support for Windows 95. It was unrealistic, but our clients had been using the solution reliably for that many years and it literally became a way of life - upgrading could mean re-training a way of life.

In the App-based economy it's simply expected that when someone pays $0.99 that the app will work on their phone for as long as they keep that phone. I'm amazed by the companies/developers who are able to make a <$5 "work".

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easy-webcam-photobooth/ppjpnkhplklbdacliidkmlfmaklpgoko

It basically allowed the couple to set an overlay of their choosing by modifying a simple PNG file and then it also can email the guests a copy of the picture. During the whole process, I was happy to hear how their guests came back to the photobooth with their smartphones saying "I got the photo!"

Everything was built using only HTML5 and the APIs available for Chrome Web App (no jquery was used or harmed during the development).

Thoughts? Opinions?

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While I'm not a game developer, I have been trying to get our team members to focus not just on building the product/app but also on thinking about developing a user acquisition process for each app. This may sometimes involve PR and talking to the media and app review sites, but my experience (which matches your thoughts) media exposure doesn't always result in an actual boost of registrations/downloads/revenue. So it's not just a goal of "get more customers" but making it more specific, e.g. "get more people to share my game/app" or "increase exposure to a specific target interest group", etc.

Thanks again for sharing. Best of luck with your future projects!

I would love to hear/read what your thoughts on your user acquisition strategy. Did you get it reviewed by sites? Was there anything built in to share the game (not multi-playing features, but a way to get others/friends to play)?

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