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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
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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
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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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