SQS

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

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