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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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Senior Director of Engineering, Applications and Services
Job ID: BE756635
Job Title: Senior Director of Engineering, Applications and Services
Salary: 140k +
Location: Massachusetts
Job Description:
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working with talented engineering, business, and marketing professionals in an exciting and dynamic environment. You will be responsible for managing multiple teams of software engineers to deliver effective application and solutions that drive significant company revenue, as well as two high traffic consumer web sites. You will have 10 or more years of proven technical experience and solid managerial and leadership skills combined with excellent oral and written communications skills, and an ability to balance multiple projects and meticulous attention to detail. While this position is strictly a managerial (non-coding) position, candidates must have a proven track record of delivering highly scalable applications as a direct technical contributor. Candidates need to be smart, fun, and enjoyable to work with, love to “make things happen”, embrace change, and can thrive on working in a very fast paced environment.
Responsibilities:
· will be responsible on the engineering side for multiple areas of business
· will deal with Search Engine Marketing
· will develop automated bidding and campaign management strategies and tools for a database of 50,000,000 search phrases leveraging 15TB of historical visitor activity
· will operate in the world’s biggest auction market
· will use AdWords to analyze every Google search to determine which advertisers get sponsored links on every results page
· will manage multiple travel sites
· will help drive our business, SEO, SEM, and commerce strategies for these sites
· will deal with content distribution and partnerships
· will develop customized and self service solutions for content distribution
· will work with 10,000+ widgets and badges currently deployed web sites
· will work with content management
· will develop, support, and deploy infrastructure to manage and maintain content
· will work with sophisticated fraud detection and management
Qualifications:
· must have up to date and hands on expertise in Linux, Java, web technologies, and database
· must have demonstrated success in shipping significant product as an engineer in an individual contributor role in a fast paced startup or small company
· must have been an effective technical lead in delivering products in a fast paced startup or small company
· must have been an effective software engineering manager in a fast paced startup or small company
· must be able to add significant value in a direct and tangible way to code reviews, design reviews, and analyzing product specs
· must be effective at interviewing software engineers
· must be effective at partnering with multiple business owners
· must be comfortable getting in front of a whiteboard and discussing both high level architecture and low level coding/algorithms
· must have worked on a web product for a startup or very small company where you were the primary or one of the primary coders
· must have had your first management experience in a Web 2.0 company
· must have had your most interesting start-up experience and why it had a significant impact on the company
· must have at least 10 years of technical expertise including recent experience with high-performance consumer facing websites
· must have strong people management skills, with at least 3 years of managing technical teams
· must have a history of success in hiring, retaining, leading, motivating, and mentoring top-tier technical talent
· must have an in-depth and hands on knowledge of Linux, Java and related open source technologies such as Apache, Tomcat, Lucene, and Postgres
· must have demonstrated success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment
· must have proven success at an internet startup or early stage company
· must have strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally
· must have ability to serve as the focal point for other departments on project status and information
· must have ability to work hard and fast while maintaining attention to detail. Have a sense of urgency
· must have a BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
Company Culture:
· Company has a global presence and is expanding their markets
· Shaping the future of social networking meets consumer generated content
· Speed to market — they design, build and deploy new products VERY quickly
· Located near Boston, MA
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
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