Part of the WTIA’s mission is to grow a strong and sustainable workforce, which means we’re passionate about keeping local talent plugged into our state’s technology industry. In addition to our job board, every Wednesday we’ll be keeping you connected to Washington’s job market with the latest in local hiring news.

 

Spare5 Raises $10M to Gather More Human Insights for the Internet

Xconomy | Benjamin Romano | Aug. 25
http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2015/08/25/spare5-raises-10m-to-gather-more-human-insights-for-the-internet/

Spare5 has just raised $10 million to plough into expansion. While there’s a lot of interesting technology underpinning Spare5’s business, CEO Matt Bencke said it all begins with the community of users, called Fives….Bencke said the funding will be used to expand Spare5’s team in Seattle, which currently numbers 13, and to expand Spare5 to platforms beyond iOS.

Latest Job Postings at Spare5

 

Navigating Cancer Raises $10M, Plans to Double Headcount as Hospitals Work to Connect with Patients

GeekWire | Jacob Demmitt | Aug. 20
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/navigating-cancer-raises-10m-plans-to-double-headcount-as-hospitals-work-to-connect-with-patients/

“Navigating Cancer’s platform is used by over 1,300 healthcare professionals, and more than 1 million patients. The company recently launched its first mobile app, which sends reminders for things like taking pills and keeps doctors in the loop on how patients are feeling…the company plans to roughly double from 30 employees to 60. It’s also working to expand its Seattle office space.”

Latest Job Postings at Navigating Cancer

 

Seattle Biotech Adaptive Lives Up to Its Name, Pivots Toward Drug Development

Puget Sound Business Journal | Annie Zak | Aug. 20
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2015/08/seattle-biotech-adaptive-lives-up-to-its-name.html

“The company currently employs about 180 people. In addition to hiring 20 people for the new division, Adaptive is also hiring another 30 employees in the next six months. Adaptive raised $195 million in a massive funding round earlier this year, which brought its total amount of cash raised in a year to about $400 million. A significant amount of that money will be used to develop Adaptive Therapeutics.”

Latest Job Postings at Adaptive

 

GoDaddy Expands Seattle-Area Office, Now has Space for 225 Employees

GeekWire | Taylor Soper | Aug. 20
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/godaddy-expands-seattle-area-office-now-has-space-for-225-employees/

“The web-hosting company said today that it will expand its Kirkland, Wash. engineering office with room for more than 225 employees. GoDaddy, which opened the Kirkland office in November 2013 with just 10,000 square feet of space, has grown from 14 to 127 employees in two years. The company now occupies more than 32,000 square feet at Kirkland’s Carillon Point.”

Latest Job Postings at GoDaddy

 

Booming Tech Industry Drives Seattle Unemployment Rate to Pre-Recession Levels

Puget Sound Business Journal | Greg Lamm | Aug. 19
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2015/08/booming-tech-industry-drives-seattle-unemployment.html

Seattle’s labor market continues to be driven by the boom in tech hiring at Amazon, Tableau and F5 Networks and other companies. And the new jobless report reflects that the tech boom is having positive ripple effects as more new restaurants pop up and developers build new apartment projects to help ease a housing crunch.

Between June 2014 and June 2015, the professional and business services industry sector – which includes tech-related computer services jobs – added 24,000 jobs in the state.