Careers

About our company

Local Matters provides solutions and software to online publishers of local information such as business directories and real estate listings. For business directories, our goal is to help publishers establish and manage website portals that successfully connect consumers and local businesses, as well as achieve broader exposure for advertisers. For real estate clients, we convert home listings into website portals that engage consumers to facilitate agent and home selections.

Local Matters empowers dozens of the world's top local media brands in over 17 countries. With over 100 employees and offices in Denver, London, Amsterdam, and Melbourne, Local Matters has been an established leader in digital solutions for publishers since 2002.

About our culture

In every department, from engineering to finance and from graphic design to project management, Local Matters attracts and hires the brightest minds. We have a sharp sense of humor and a real dedication to our jobs and the office community we've formed. This combination lets us have fun without sacrificing the productivity that allows us to delight our customers.

While we don't take ourselves too seriously, we do take our work very seriously. Local Matters keeps the best startup-company traits such as casual work attire, bring your dog to work, and an openness for all to contribute ideas to their everyday work. But we are also determined about what we do. Employees are intensely passionate about producing the best work product possible. When we ask our employees what they most value about Local Matters, they repeatedly state they are truly impressed by the high level of talent their colleagues show as well as their own opportunities to shine. We are not afraid to admit it: we only hire the best. The balance between having a casual environment and top talent helps us foster and leverage business innovations brought by individual employees, departments, and the entire company.

Originality and creativity is the heart of our entire business. New ideas are valued, new methods are appreciated, and every employee feels like an integral part of this company.

About our technology

Are you tired of not being able to show off your software development kung-fu to your friends and family because it is locked up behind the firewall? Wish you were able to work on web applications that millions of users visit daily all over the world? Looking for something that you can really be a part of and can provide the challenge you are looking for? If so, Local Matters would love to talk to you.

Local Matters is an Agile development company that builds platforms that power some of the largest local search sites around the world. If you are a smart technologist who is passionate about open source, insists on staying on the leading edge of new technologies, and likes to be challenged in a fast-pace environment, Local Matters may be for you.

We offer smart engineers a complex and ever-evolving technology landscape to thrive in. We are dedicated to ensuring that we maintain our technical edge and never want to look back and think, "we used to have slick technology." All our engineers are encouraged to stay active in the open source community and identify technologies that we can adopt to solve real problems.

At Local Matters, you will be working on our local search platforms built on open source frameworks like Spring MVC, Spring IoC, Terracotta, Apache ServiceMix, Freemarker, OSGi, and other cool technologies to solve Web 2.0 social local problems.

If you were to chat with David Letterman some late night, he might say:

Top ten reasons why you would want to work at Local Matters

11. Open work space which promotes collaboration with co-workers.
10. Casual work attire - flip-flops and shorts are common in the summer.
9. Bring your dog to work. Period. Not just one day a week. Whenever you wish, every day if you (and your dog) like.
8. Tough interviewers to ensure we hire the best and brightest.
7. Awesome headquarters location - walking distance to LoDo and public transportation.
6. Friday happy hour - cut loose and socialize with your co-workers.
5. Regular foosball and pool tournaments - compete for bragging rights.
4. Annual parking-lot BBQ with lots of great food and fun.
3. Great employee benefits - we help take care of your family needs.
2. International clients in 17 countries, offices in Amsterdam, London, and Melbourne - the opportunity to travel to great locations.
1. Incredible talent in your peers and the opportunity to explode your skills and push the technology envelope.

(Yep, we put 11 in a top 10 list. Just goes to show that we have our own way of doing things!)