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Relevance Architect
Job ID: BE549687
Job Title: Relevance Architect
Salary: $130-170k
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is all about passion, challenging problems, intellectual discussions, and maintaining a work-life balance with numerous entertaining events. Their team searches for smart eclectic people with a sense of adventure who want to contribute to killer technologies for innovative new web products.
The Relevance Architect is a senior position that involves applying a strong combination of interest and experience in Consumer Applications, Algorithms, and Systems to help take the core of our client’s Algorithmic Engine to the next level. The position offers a breadth of challenges involving Consumer Product, Unique Relevance challenges, and Scalable Systems. This is not just a classic Architect or Algorithms position; it requires a passion for consumer experience, a willingness to go the last mile, and an attitude of doing what it takes! Prior Experience in Search/Relevance/Machine Learning and designing large-scale architecture a must.
Qualifications:
- must have a MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields
- must have several years of experience in areas like Search, Relevance, Machine learning, Text Mining
- must have a few years of Tech leadership and Architecture experience
- must be a programming wizard in C/C++ and scripting (Perl, Python). Web Front-end knowledge a plus, but not required
- must have extensive UNIX system and network programming experience
- must have a strong foundation in System Design, Software Architecture, Web Technologies
- must have a strong Algorithm background, awareness of time and space complexity
- must have a strong passion and experience in consumer-facing Web Applications
- must be a self-motivated builders with a real urge to change the world through your creations
Company Culture:
- 60-person search startup
- Well funded with impressive management team
- Compelling and profitable business model
- World-class engineering organization
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Principal Architect
Job ID: BE225565
Job Title: Principal Architect
Salary: 110-150k
Location: Northern California
Responsibilities:
- will be a key member of the technical team
- will lead or manage a small team of Software Architects
- will provide technical leadership and motivation to teams of Developers
- will function as the key technical participant in designing and spec’ing out features and products (working with Product Managers, User Experience designers, and Executives)
- will lead infrastructure, scalability, maintainability, and security related projects
- will design and develop systems and frameworks to allow rapid development of robust software
- will design and build extremely scalable and reliable consumer internet products and services
- will be responsible for the overall technical design and architecture of all parts of the system
- will spend significant time creating, reviewing, implementing, testing, and improving designs for components or features and guiding use of new technology throughout company
Qualifications:
- must have 5+ years of leadership and management experience
- must have 7+ years development experience
- must have excellent leadership skills including ability to influence people across the organization
- must be extremely experienced in consumer product development
- must have excellent web analytical skills, able to analyze statistics and logs
- must have excellent knowledge of networking and TCP/IP in particular
- must have excellent complex system debugging skills
- must have experience with extensive large, complex, scalable system design and architecture
- must be very organized (can manage multiple simultaneous projects, can project manage large complex projects)
- must be able to work very quickly with a knack for getting things done
- must be able to work in a fast paced environment, with rapidly changing requirements, on products that ship to millions of users
- must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- must be self-directed, analytical, accountable, and organized
- must have a minimum of 5+ years of internet product development experience, 5+ years of database / backend experience
- must be an expert in PHP, C++, and Java programming on Linux/Unix
- must have deep proficiency and experience in web-based application development, server-side programming, and SQL, MySQL and other database technologies
- must have proficiency in caching systems and related architectures (memcached, akamai, etc)
- must have demonstrated ability to architect and build scalable, high performing and reliable systems
- must have strong computer architecture and computer science fundamentals
- must have a MS or PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent
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