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Senior Software Engineer, Data Mining / Quantitative Analyst
Job ID: BE235146
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Data Mining / Quantitative Analyst
Salary: $110-130k
Location: Southern California
Job Description:
Our client is seeking a highly intelligent, innovative, quantitative and technically savvy individual to analyze process complex data sets related to online advertising marketplace.
- Are you a pioneer looking to apply your skills to an emerging market?
- Are you innovative, driven and enjoy scouring data and a market to come up with better ways of doing things?
- Do you have intermediate to advanced programming skills in at least one high level language (Perl, Python, Java, Ruby or shell scripting)?
- Do you have experience working with extremely large data sets exceeding 1 TB?
- Do you have an engineering mentality, i.e. knack for figuring out what went wrong by taking apart and then putting back together again?
- Do you enjoy working with end results oriented team that likes to win?
If you said “yes” to all the above and you have a passion for the Internet industry, this may be the position you have been seeking.
Responsibilities:
- will assist in the success of our client
- will gather, understand and maintain Internet online advertising data
- will deliver insights based on underlying trends in the data to improve efficiency of our client’s strategies
- will ensure collected data is accurate and rapidly accessible
- will apply economic principles to datasets to develop and model media buying and selling strategies
- will optimize data collection process to scale to larger data sets
- will collaborate with others to test and refine strategies based on the data sets
Qualifications:
- must have a BS degree required or MS preferred in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, or applied math with an exceptional GPA
- must have 3 years professional programming experience in at least one high level language (Perl, Python, Java, Ruby or shell scripting)
- must have experience with Linux and related tools
- must have work experience manipulating large scale datasets via flat files and common database skills
- must have ability to apply a pragmatic financial or business outlook to daily work and long-term plans
- should have experience using statistical modeling packages such as SAS and interest to test emerging tools such as HADOOP
- should have experience in financial services or investment management, asset management, risk management • should have experience with machine learning algorithms
- must be highly intelligent, motivated, innovative, with ability to accept and give very direct constructive criticism for improvement in an ego-less manner
- must have high energy with strong work ethic and commitment, ability to operate with tight deadlines in a startup environment
Company Culture:
- One of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet
- Products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs
- Located in Southern California
- Mid-stage startup, launched in 2006
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Senior Support/ Release Engineer
Job ID: BE541124
Job Title: Senior Support/ Release Engineer
Salary: $90-120k
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.
Our client is looking for an awesome engineer to manage and support their production sites. You will be responsible for the availability and performance of high traffic sites. A key element of the role is diagnosing and resolving production software issues, and for this you will need to develop an in-depth understanding of our client’s application architecture and work closely with their developers. You will need excellent scripting skills – to enhance our automated test and release process, and to automate anything you have to do more than once.
Qualifications:
- must have a BS in Computer Science or related field
- must have 4+ years of experience with Linux/UNIX system administration
- must have a solid scripting skills in Perl, Python or Shell
- must have proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience
- must have sharp analytical skills
- must have experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment
- must have a strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive
- must have customer focus
- must have great communication skills – to communicate production issues to developers, operations, product and business teams
- should have SQL experience
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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Software Engineer – Categorization
Job ID: BE542136
Job Title: Software Engineer – Categorization
Salary: $100-130k
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 Software Engineer – Categorization will be a key part of building the world’s best Semantic Categorization platform. Design and implement data pipeline and tools to extract structured information from semi-structured and unstructured sources. The job requires a unique combination of Systems, Data Semantics, and Web Tools.
Qualifications:
- must have a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
- must have extensive experience programming in Java or C++, and scripting languages (Perl/Python/Ruby) in a Linux environment
- must have extensive knowledge of SQL, XML schemas and transformations
- must be smart, passionate and get things done! Enjoy working in a fast-paced, rapid development environment
Company Culture:
- 60-person search startup
- Well funded with impressive management team
- Compelling and profitable business model
- World-class engineering organization
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
13+ Facebook Groups for Computer Programmers
Last week Boris was featured as a guest writer on Mashable, his post HOW TO: Use Facebook for Professional Networking received over 950 tweets. From reading the comments, I was surprised to find that there are many people who still have yet to capitalize on the professional benefits Facebook groups have to offer. By joining groups you have the opportunity to:
- Participate in group discussions
- Answer and ask questions
- Add and view links
- Send a message to the whole group
- Get information on upcoming events
- Learn about and connect with individuals in your industry
If you are curious as to what type of groups are available to join, specifically in the Software/Web Marketplace, I have put together a list of Facebook Groups to get you started:
- Join a Startup – Members: 8,159 The Join a Startup Group on Facebook is for those professionals in the
Software/Internet Marketplace who are looking to work for the next Google. It is also for startups that are looking for talented and driven individuals. On the group discussion board, startups post their open positions, the required qualifications and an introduction to their company. Those individuals interested in working for a startup can see the post, apply or post a brief summary of their background. Members of this group also share industry specific news, videos and events. - Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs – Members: 63,896 The Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs
Group is for all those techies, programmers, hackers, developers, designers, etc. who are interested in joining up with new startups. It is also for professionals who are dying to be part of the next web business boom. With links to venture companies, business resources, and access to over 60,000 movers and shakers in the industry, making contacts and hearing about potential career opportunities should easy. 
- .Net Programmers - Members: 12,244 One of the largest and growing communities of student and professional developers on Facebook. Powered by INETA, VWE, MICROSOFT & more. Join to discuss and attend educative talks and interactive presentations of interest to professional developers around the world.
- Lunch 2.0 – Members: 2,908 Lunch 2.0, it is a popular networking event devoted mainly to the Software
Industry. Each month a different software company hosts a lunch, they invite everyone in the marketplace to come in see their office and mingle with other professionals in the industry. Their Facebook Group is for those members who regularly attend the events in their area, and want
to network with members from different regions. Members have access to event updates, news articles posted by other members, photos/videos from past events. - The Web Designer Index – Members: 15,377 Out of all the groups listed in this post, I feel The Web Designer Index Group offers the most features to its group members. The Web Designer Index is a group for all web designers, developers, web programmers and animators to come together and discuss programming, graphic design, and anything else web-related. The group allows its members to post their personal websites, portfolios, favorite websites and tutorials. It also has a resource area on the page that links informational websites listed by topic. Members have the freedom to use the discussion board to announce when they are looking for a job, know of job openings or are referring someone for a position previously listed.
- Computer Programmers – Members: 11,018 The Computer Programmers Group on Facebook is one of the largest groups for computer programmers. It’s members work with or have worked with technologies such as C, Java, Pascal, Python, HTML, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Visual Basic, and others. This group doesn’t allow job postings or business advertisements, but it does have hundreds of posts on their discussion board where Computer Science professionals can go to give and read advice and tips. It is a excellent group to meet and build contacts with individuals who share the same professional skills
as you do. - Computer Programmers Global Resource Center – Members: 1,286 This group coins themselves as one of the oldest and growing community of programmers on Facebook. Members of this group discuss interesting programming topics with other developers. Most of the group members have a specialty in C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, Lisp, Prolog, Fortran. & more
- Web 3.0 – Members: 13,511 This group is for those interested in the next evolution on the web. Network with other Facebook members who want to stay on top of innovation and merge into the world of Web 3.0. Here you will get an idea of what Web 3.0 is and what those in the web space are doing to move from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
- Software Engineering – Members: 3,621 This group is for Software Engineers around the globe to connect and network with software or application developers, software architects, or senior systems analysts. They have an active discussion and wall where the members talk about current software trends, list jobs and post insightful links.
- Web Startups – Members: 2,359 This group is dedicated to all web entrepreneurs who want to share their new projects with a tech savvy community. Under the links section it lists a tons of startups and their websites. It is to make the tech community more aware of what is out there.
- Web T.e. – Members: 2,249 This group is a spinoff of the Web 2.0 group listed above. Web T.e (T.e = Trust,
Ideas and Ethics) is a group where members who share those three attributes can freely share their ideas and get feedback. Members can talk with great programmers and people with web experience. They can form partnerships and find dedicated and enthusiastic people for help. It’s about “discussing and developing” with people you can trust. - Computer Science: Programming problems – Members: 2,757 This group brings together programmers
to discuss interesting problems and to find the most elegant algorithm, both effective and understandable. You can find links to training seminars, self help videos and have access to members that are more than willing to assist you with questions that pertain to programming - Specialized Programming Groups – When searching for groups, if you look in the category of Internet and Technology – Software there are many specialized groups. Examples are:
- PHP
- Ruby on Rails
- Ruby
- Rails
- Java
- LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)
- C#
- .NET Programmers
- ASP.NET Developers
- Linux
- Perl
- OpenSource
- PytonDevelopers
Software Engineer – Online Financial Product
Job ID: BE347749
Job Title: Software Engineer
Salary: $90-120k
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is looking for a superstar Software Engineer to join the team building groundbreaking online financial products and services. Candidates will use their strong engineering/analytical skills and personal drive to further innovate and maintain leadership in their new and fast-growing industry.
Responsibilities:
- will architect, build, and test new products and services
- will develop and expand infrastructure to process high volume financial transactions and run fault-tolerant compute-intensive mathematics applications
- will tackle a wide variety of engineering problems as needed – they are a small team and they all share roles
- will brainstorm with the team and prototype new concepts and ideas rapidly
Qualifications:
- must be an ambitious, driven, and talented individual who wants to work on challenging and potentially world-changing problems
- must be a team player who feels at home in an open and flat-structured environment, and takes pride in a job well done
- must be a strong all-round engineer who writes well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
- must have at least two years of experience developing with Ruby, Python or Java
- must be motivated to try new languages and technologies to solve hard problems (Scala, Clojure, Hadoop, etc.)
- must have strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails, RSpec, RESTful architectures and other server technologies
- must be comfortable using Git for version control
- must be proficient in a Unix/Linux environment
- should have a familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, etc.)
- should have a familiarity with financial concepts
- must have a BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field from good university with high GPA; Masters preferred
Company Culture:
- Compelling business model that actually makes $$
- Insanely impressive team of engineers
- Award-winning South of Market office across the street from South Park
- Energetic, idea-driven and transparent work environment
- Exciting world-changing opportunity
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
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
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
Software Engineering Manager, Products
Job ID: BE755695
Job Title: Software Engineering Manager, Products
Salary: 120k+
Location: Massachusetts
Job Description:
Our client’s software engineering team is looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful engineering manager to lead the Products group. Their teams work in a rapid development environment, creating the exciting feel of a start-up with all the resources and perks of stable, rapidly growing global company. They know that their strongest resource is their team and we work hard to foster an environment that is fast paced, innovative and fun. To put it plainly, a career here means that the sky’s the limit.
Responsibilities:
· will be responsible for leading the team of engineers who develops, deploys, and maintains the consumer facing features of our client’s site. This includes user membership and user generated content such as reviews, forums, wiki, video, photos, as well as social networking features on the site and on third party networks
· will be in a unique position to help map the future of travel on the web
· will be leading a team of Web 2.0 enthusiasts who are passionate about developing web based products
Qualifications:
· must be smart, fun, and enjoyable to work with, love to “make things happen”, embrace change, and can thrive working in a very fast paced environment
· must have 5-10+ years total software engineering experience with a proven track record as an engineer building scalable publicly facing web sites
· must have strong people management skills, with at least 2+ years of managing a group of 3-8 engineers in a fast paced environment
· must be able to conduct code reviews and be able to review, analyze, and contribute to technical discussions
· 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 facilitate communication within and between engineering teams
· must 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
Research Scientist
Job ID: BE744759
Job Title: Research Scientist
Salary: 80-110k
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is looking for scientists who extract the collective intelligence of large groups of people by analyzing weblogs, query streams, and transcripts of user interaction. The ultimate goal is to facilitate the development of automation tools that provide continuous analysis along the lines and scale of Netflix’s recommendation system or Alexa’s traffic aggregator.
Qualifications:
· must have a background in computer science, mathematics, physics, or other quantitative discipline
· must have obsession with data and system improvement, tempered with pragmatism and the ability to prioritize
· must be comfortable working within a modern engineering environment (linux, system architecture, etc.)
· must have ability to (at least) script experimental solutions and use off-the-shelf statistical analysis tools
Company Culture:
· Challenging problems to solve
· Smart co-workers
· Significant momentum at an early stage
· Solid financial situation
· Transit-friendly San Francisco location
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
Web Developer
Job ID: GP722524
Job Title: Web Developer
Salary: 100-130k
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is looking for a stellar web developer to take ownership of a range of projects built on the WordPress platform. The ideal candidate will have experience with maintaining production websites, creating themes or skins from design mockups, and enjoy working on quick turnaround web projects that have a large business impact.
The design aesthetic is something that should resonate with you. They value clean layouts, simple but striking color palettes, and standards-based implementations.
Qualifications:
· must have a significant experience with PHP, MySQL, Linux, and Apache
· must be an expert XHTML/CSS knowledge
· must have a proven record of success in developing and deploying WordPress-based web properties
· must have significant experience with JavaScript and major frameworks such as jQuery
· must have a sharp eye for great design
· must have basic comfort with Adobe Photoshop
Company Culture:
· Employs a very high caliber of engineers
· Successful, financially stable co
· Location easily accessible by public transport
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
Sr. Software Engineer / Architect – Network Software
Job ID: BE367854
Job Title: Sr. Software Engineer / Architect – Network Software
Salary: $100-120K + Equity
Location: Washington
Job Description:
Our client is the leading provider of virtual infrastructure solutions and applications as secure, reliable on-demand services over the Web. Their solutions enable IT and development teams to rapidly develop, test, deploy and manage applications in a ‘virtual data center’, dramatically increasing their ability to respond to business needs and shorten time to market, while reducing overhead and cost.
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