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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
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
Software Engineer – Systems
Job ID: BE542212
Job Title: Software Engineer – Systems
Salary: $110-150k
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 – Systems position will design, implement, and deploy high-performance, scalable systems and algorithms for massive data storage and distributed processing.
Qualifications:
- must have a BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields
- must be a programming wizard in C/C++/Java/scripting (Perl, Python)
- 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 background in process design for reliable systems
- must have a strong algorithm background, awareness of time and space complexity
- must have a strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry
- must have expertise in Distributed/Scalable Systems and Algorithms is a huge plus along with refereed publications in related conferences
- should have past experience handling large amounts of data on distributed platforms
- must have working knowledge of standard tools for optimizing and testing code
- 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
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
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
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
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
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
Software Engineer – Information Retrieval/ Categorization
Job ID: BE549697
Job Title: Software Engineer – Information Retrieval/ Categorization
Salary: $110-150k
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 – Information Retrieval/ Categorization will apply a strong combination of interest and experience in Consumer Applications, Algorithms, and Systems to analyze, design and build the core of our client’s Categorization and Topic Engines. The position offers a breadth of challenges involving Consumer Product and Scalable Systems. This is not just a classic Algorithms position; it requires a passion for consumer experience, a willingness to go the last mile, and an attitude of doing what it takes! Strong Computer Science fundamentals, passion for problem solving, interest in information retrieval, search technologies and machine learning. Experience in designing large scale systems involving semi structured data a plus!
Qualifications:
- must have a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields
- must be a programming wizard in C/C++ and scripting (Perl, Python). Ruby On rails / Java / HTML / Javascript a plus.
- 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 background in one or more of Search Relevance, Machine Learning, Text Mining
- must have a strong passion and experience in consumer-facing Web Applications
- must be a self-motivated builder 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
To apply for this position please click here to send your resume
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 Developer in Test
Job ID: GP725555
Job Title: Software Developer in Test
Salary: 100-130k
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is expanding their development organization! They are currently seeking a self-motivated candidate to fill an SDET position at their Palo Alto office. As a Software Developer in Test, you will be writing applications that test the mainline product, ensuring the quality of their product before it ships. This is a very high-value role within the Development organization and a great way to gain real programming experience in industry.
Responsibilities:
· will develop automated frontend and backend test suites
· will brainstorm and implement complex testing scenarios
· will be a technical thought leader for the QA organization
Qualifications:
· could be a nontraditional software developers (sysads, DBAs, release engineers, recent grads) wanting to break into application programming but lacking experience
· could be a scientist, engineer, and analyst wanting to make a strategic career move into the software industry
· must have programming experience. C++ or Java; Perl or Python a plus
· must have engineering or analytical training
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
Top Talent Tuesday
Bay Area Top Talent
Candidate #1
This candidate is a young, motivated, and passionate engineer with about 3 years of experience, still new in the game but very smart. Currently a software engineer working on the front end development for many high traffic sites around one of the largest search companies in the world. Before that, worked at a startup for about a year, so has both large and small company experience. Got his BS in Computer Science and is pursuing a Masters in Computer Science. This candidate lives in San Francisco and would like a position in San Francisco, or closer to. Please georgina@bincsearch.com as soon as possible if you’d like to get introduced to this candidate.
Candidate #2
This candidate is a veteran in graphics and rendering. He has been working in gaming for nearly two decades and currently resides in Northern California. He works for one of the largest game studios in the world and holds a masters degree in computer graphics from one of the most reputable universities in the country. He is no stranger to object-oriented code, and is an expert in shading technologies. If you want more information on this candidate, please email eli@bincsearch.com.
Seattle Top Talent
Candidate #1
A keen eye for user centered design, a firm background of business based decisions, and solid web development skills are all packed together in Seattle’s top talent this week. Our candidate is focused on finding exceptional designs for the end users consumption while ensuring an exceptional direct impact on the business. His skills compliment perfectly towards either a user-focused Technical Program Manager or Sr. Web Developer. Please contact grant@bincsearch.com if interested.
Los Angeles Top Talent
Candidate #1
LA’s top talent works for a mass scale Media Company – He’s a phenomenal back end developer with a BS in Comp Science from a top 5 school and is an expert in several OOP languages including C++, Perl, and Java. He has extremely solid work history and a passion for pure development. This gentleman is looking for a small start up that’s been able to secure funding and has an innovative product. Ideally he would like to find a position that blended design, development, and mentoring Jr developers. If he sounds like a good fit for your team, contact Cameron Thomson at Cameron@BINCSearch.com
Top Talent Tuesday – Seattle
Seattle Top Talent
Candidate #1 – Perl just doesn’t get enough respect, you know it? This week’s Seattle top talent is a master of Perl. As he says “great design transcends languages,” and our candidate is very talented with Java and C++ as well, but Perl is his passion. Since graduating from a Top 5 nationally ranked computer science program, he’s worked 3-years for a startup, designing and developing a major portion of their website and in his subsequent move to a major player in the internet industry has now become a master of scalability, building a system that processes terabytes of information daily. He’s primarily interested in Sr. Developer or Lead Developer roles within the Seattle startup community. Please contact grant@bincsearch.com if interested.
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