J2EE
Search Architect
Job ID: GP708758
Salary: 120-160k
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is a fast-growing company thriving through the economic downturn by providing a unique and much needed travel service. They are looking for an outstanding engineer with strong Java application development skills and a background in vertical search. The successful candidate will have a direct impact on the core search engine development.
Responsibilities:
· will own the architecture design and development of our search engine application, taking the current implementation and ensuring it provides high quality search result ranking and the ability to scale to massively
Qualifications:
· must have 5 years designing and hands on building of high volume Java applications for the web.
· must have hands on experience developing Lucene/SOLR based search applications
· must have proven experience rapidly re-architecting systems for ease of development and scale
· must have 3 years experience working in a rapidly growing start up environment
· must have proven ability to design either a database schema or ontology
· must have hands on experience using high performing SQL with very large data sets
· must be a native speaker of the UNIX command line, XML and regular expressions
· must embrace test driven development methodologies
· must be very familiar with common collaboration and code/build management tools such as SVN, Ant, Maven
· must be able to work effectively as an individual contributor with team of wide spread talent
· must be able to defend their architectural and design decisions with a very talented technical team
· must likes to work in a collaborative team environment
· must have the ability to shift gears quickly in a start-up environment
· must have previously worked in small start up vertical search environments or possibly a social networking site and have a desire to do so again
· should have large search company experience as well as start-up company experience
· should have experience scaling MySql applications to massive scale
· should have rich experience with web application technologies: Web services, XML, SOAP, SAX, Ruby on Rails, Active Record and/or J2EE technologies including EJB, Spring, Hibernate
Company Culture:
- Travel search startup in Palo Alto
- Offices close to Caltrain
- Newly acquired series B funding
- Profitable revenue model
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Senior Web Data Mining Engineer
Job ID: GP708759
Job Title: Senior Web Data Mining Engineer
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is a fast-growing company thriving through the economic downturn by providing a unique and much needed travel service. They are looking for an outstanding application engineer with strong web-tier development skills and a burning desire to create a great product. Candidate will have a direct impact core data acquisition and processing infrastructure enabling us to scale our search index to massive scale.
WhiteBox QA Engineer – Core Integration Systems
JobID: BE169643
Location: Northern California
JobTitle: WhiteBox QA Engineer – Core Integration Systems
Salary: $60,000 – 105,000
Job Description:
(Job ID BE169643) This position is for a WhiteBox QA engineer to develop and execute automated functional and integration tests for a Java-based 3-tier enterprise application. This will require writing tests using Java and XML based technologies. The individual will have a working knowledge of SQL, and be able to create, execute and evaluate intermediate SQL queries as required. The candidate will be expected to participate in the development of tools to automate lab and testing tasks.
Responsibilities:
- will be responsible for developing test plans, scripts and test code to test the features
- will work in conjunction with the Development Team to ensure that all product functionality has associated tests and that the tests are executed on appropriate configurations at appropriate times
- will be expected to help create the test automation suites (as necessary) and work with other QA Team members to implement a successful automation solution
- will report all repeatable and/or traceable software errors utilizing the available online tools by providing all the information necessary for a quick resolution
- will provide assistance to the Development organization to reproduce the problem to aid in a timely resolution
- will track the status of all bugs in his/her assigned area to ensure a fast turn-around to Development on verification of fixes
Qualifications:
- must have 3 or more years experience in Software QA (formal or informal)
- must have several years experience as a software developer to supplement his/her QA knowledge
- must be able to successfully execute, evaluate the results of, and enhance if necessary the test cases created by other team members
- must have a working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows, LINUX, and UNIX operating systems
- must have experience with an IBM AIX system
- must have ability to program in Java and/or .NET and several years of experience with scripting languages
- must have the ability to adapt to new programming and scripting languages
- must have previous experience in a J2EE environment
- must have experience with databases
- must have experience with MS-SQL, DB2, or Oracle
- must have experience with testing tools (JUnit, XUnit)
- must be a self-starter, and be able to perform with minimal supervision while working in a diverse team environment
Company Culture:
- company is in Pre-IPO hi-growth mode
- company develops mission-critical enterprise applications for leading insurance institutions
- company employs 350+ professionals (will be looking to double in size by same time next year)
- company established in 2001 – backed by leading venture capital firms
- company has a well seasoned and highly reputable management team
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
Senior Platform Engineer – Insurance Software
JobID: BE165253
Location: Northern California
JobTitle: Senior Platform Engineer – Insurance Software
Salary: $90,000 – 120,000
Responsibilities:
- will be working in an extreme programming / agile development environment with some of the best engineers in the country!
- will have freedom to be creative and innovative in approaching problems
- will collaborate with coworkers on a daily basis while owning individuals aspects of the project
- will engage in test-driven development
Qualifications:
- must have at least 5 years experience working on a large scale application, e.g. enterprise application or infrastructure for a large web-site
- must have strong Java coding and design skills
- must have experience leading / owning a project or be a “go to” person
- must be familiar with O/R layer
- must have experience with Linux/Unix
- must enjoy programming!
- must have B.S. in Computer Science or a technical discipline from a top school
- J2EE experience strongly desired
- database experience preferred
Company Culture:
- company is in Pre-IPO hi-growth mode
- company develops mission-critical enterprise applications for leading insurance institutions
- company employs 370+ professionals (will be looking to double in size by same time next year)
- company established in 2001 – backed by leading venture capital firms
- company has a well seasoned and highly reputable management team
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
Principal Search Engineer
JobID: BE645587
Location: Northern California
JobTitle: Principal Search Engineer
Salary: $120,000 – 150,000
Job Description:
(Job ID BE645587) The search group with our client is actively working on a number of interesting IR problems and is looking for people who can take a lead role in one or more of the following areas: information retrieval, text classification, machine learning, collaborative filtering and data mining. The ideal candidate will have a strong theoretical background in IR combined with successful hands-on experience developing and deploying large-scale, real-world systems.
Our client is looking for a dynamic Principal Search Architect to join their our top-notch development team and continually innovate and improve their e-commerce platform.
As a technology leader in e-commerce, they are constantly engaged in the most challenging and interesting development projects. They have an entrepreneurial small-team environment, where individuals’ innovative ideas are rapidly adopted and rewarded. You’ll see the results of your efforts in days or weeks, not years.
Responsibilities:
- will work as part of a fast-paced web team and should be able to effectively lead and work in a team environment
- will be behind the development and deployment of complex Web applications
Qualifications:
- must have recent experience with in-house, open source or commercial IR systems
- must have significant experience with high traffic, database-driven Web applications
- must have significant experience with large scale, high performance systems
- must have a strong background with Object-oriented design and implementation
- must have a strong background in relational database design
- must have experience with SQL, Oracle, JDBC, J2EE application servers, JSP and servlets
- must have a minimum 8 years experience in software development with at least 3 year in Java programming
- must have good communication skills
- must have a Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science from a reputed US University
- must be able to effectively lead and work in a team environment
- must have a strong background in statistics
- should have significant research experience in information retrieval, machine learning, or a related field
- should have demonstrated contribution to a large-scale web search or e-commerce application
- should have well-rounded experience with an emphasis on backend/server development
- must have a passion for building great software
Company Culture
- 10 years in business
- consecutive months and quarters of profitability
- more than 18 million users per month
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
Top Talent Tuesday – Los Angeles
Los Angeles Top Talent
Candidate #1 – LA’s top talent is a Sr Engineering Manager with one of the bigger web properties in Southern California. He’s leading both front end, back end, and QA teams and is an expert in Java J2ee technologies. Currently this candidate has 10 to 12 direct reports and is looking for a position with a small start up where he can focus on growing a team and product development strategy. He’s available to start with two weeks notice to his current employer and has open availability for an interview. If interested, please contact Cameron at Cameron@BINCSearch.com .
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Top Talent Tuesday
Bay Area Top Talent
Candidate #1 This week’s candidate hails out of the casual gaming world. He is currently a Product Manager, with a strong background in both the Web Development and E-Commerce spaces. He holds a degree out of a very reputable university, and is looking to further his career with either a producer or Sr. Product Management opportunity. If this is the type of candidate you want on board your team, please shoot an email over to eli@bincsearch.com.
Candidate #2 This client is an experienced Java/J2EE developer. After spending the last 4 years with his current company, he is looking for an opportunity to build new products and face new challenges. His most recent project has been building a single sign on application and constructing and reengineering a dashboard program. He is most competent in Java, CSS, Javascript and UI web applications. He wants to do hands on development in a Sr. level role. His ideal position is in SF. If you are interested in speaking with this candidate please contact mel@bincsearch.com.
Seattle Area Top Talent
Candidate #1 Seattle’s top talent is an accomplished software developer with a mix of large and small company experience and CS degree from a Top 3 University. His experience ranges from being the lead contributor on a digital media download project to architecting the critical and now patented portion of a startup’s secret sauce. He’s most interested in joining his second startup, ideally on Seattle’s east side, but is open to anywhere in the greater Seattle area. If you are interested in this candidate please email grant@bincsearch.com.
Candidate #2 I am representing an absolute all-star development manager/technical program manager currently residing in the greater Seattle area. This rock-star currently manages a several-person development team for a major search player and is responsible for soup-to-nuts development of their consumer search experience. His team’s development efforts include front to backend technologies, distributed systems, solving data mining and algorithmic-driven problems and mass-data integration. Just several years ago, this gentleman was a practicing software engineer and still writes code on a daily basis. Call me if you can use a rock star development manager or program manager on board your team. boris@bincsearch.com.
Los Angeles Top Talent
Candidate #1 LA’s top talent is a SR level Front End Engineer. He has a degree CS degree from a top tier school and is actively looking to make a move. This gentleman has seven years of development experience and is an expert in Front End technologies including JavaScript, Ajax, and CSS. He is based in Santa Monica and is looking for something a little closer to home. If interested in speaking with him…. Please contact Cameron Thomson at Cameron@BINCSearch.com . Thanks!
Top Talent Tuesday
Los Angeles Top Talent
- Candidate #1 LA’s MPC is currently the Manager of Technology for one of LA’s most well known Consumer Web Companies. This gentleman graduated from an Ivy League school, with a degree in Computer Science, and has been on an accelerated career path ever since. He is an expert in Java (J2ee), Python, and Web Services – Currently he is looking for a management opportunity that will allow him to stay “hands on” and will blend his responsibilities between management, strategy, design, development, and mentoring. He’s available to start a new position with two weeks notice to his current employer and has open availability for a phone conversation. To schedule an appointment, contact Cameron@BINCSearch.com.
Bay Area Top Talent
- Candidate #1 Senior software developer and architect with over 17 years of experience in a variety of areas including mobile devices, networking, systems, desktop applications, graphics and image processing, embedded and real-time operating systems, high performance servers, web applications, and UI design and development. Excellent work history – passively looking for the next great adventure. If you are interested please contact Mel@bincsearch.com.
- Candidate #2 This engineer is a very talented front end web developer. As of recently, he has been doing consulting work on some very high-profile web applications. He is a very sharp web engineer that has a genuine passion for new and cutting edge web technologies and services. He is very talented with Php, ruby, javascript, ajax, and many other web technologies. Although he has done consulting work lately, he would love to take a full-time role as long as the team and product make sense for his background. E-mail me at Peter@bincsearch.com if you think you can fit that description.
- Candidate #3 This engineer is an expert OO-code writer. He has an expertise in PHP, Ajax, javascript, Flex and has the skills to build a mass-scale web application from front to back. He has a laid back personality and style, but really lights up when discussing cutting edge web concepts and applications. He is very excited about the prospect of building a UI that helps mass-consumers have a great online experience. If you’re interested, send me an email at Peter@bincsearch.com.
- Candidate #4 This candidate is a veteran of enterprise software as well as a Guru in Java development. He has experience doing both server and client side development, and holds a computer science degree from a very reputable university. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is looking for a principal or lead development role. If this seems like a candidate you would like to chat with, please send an email to eli@bincsearch.com.
Seattle Top Talent
- Candidate #1 Energetic, well educated, motivated, technically adept, and an outstanding young leader, Seattle’s top talent this week is equally at home as either a lead engineer or highly technical program manager. His background is primarily in mass scale web as a senior engineer and SCRUM master. Having just received his clearance to work for any employer, he’s most interested in joining a startup or early stage team working in the consumer web space. While primarily focusing on the Seattle community he is open to considering roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles. If you are interested in speaking with this candidate contact Grant@bincsearch.com.
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Paradigm-shifting San Francisco / Bay Area startup looking for java and javascript guru
Just yesterday, I began recruiting for an exciting new client that is offering a web-based service that is paradigm-shifting as a business model. They aren’t into the over-hyped social networking market and actually have a compelling revenue generating model that is visionary to say the least. This company is 1 year old, they were founded by x-Googlers, have raised over 15mm in funding and employ a total of 20 people with plans to double over the next year. Currently they are looking for two Software Engineers, one that specializes in Web-scale Java/J2EE and the other who specializes in Javascript Applications/Frontend.
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