TheLadders.com is seeking a Technical Lead with a passion for technology coupled with the skills and intelligence to make our solutions a reality. This is a fast-paced, open environment where innovation and participation is encouraged through blogging, custom tool development, hack-day events and other out-of-the-box techniques.
The Technical Lead must be natural born problem solver with exceptional hands-on technical skills. Our current systems are predominantly Java-based, leveraging the Spring Framework, built upon solutions such as Solr/Lucene, MySQL, Avro, and more. We believe in small teams of world class engineers that can solve problems and innovate at every layer of the stack, and we want you to provide expert guidance and insights to those teams to ensure the long-term stability, quality and performance of our products.
This position is based in New York City, in the heart of SoHo.
A description of you might include:
• Energized by working in a collaborative environment
• Abide by the “best tool for the job” approach to selecting technologies and languages
• Able to motivate your peers and yourself to achieve short and long-term goals
• You have shipped large projects working as part of a cohesive team, and you can point to them online
• Contributing to an open source project or hacking up a new app sound like the ultimate weekend activities
Some of the responsibilities of this role include:
• Contribute to the implementation of our highest profile projects
• Mentor junior engineers, which may include performing code reviews
• Collaborate with your team and superiors in designing new solutions
• Contribute to the improvement of our continuous integration and testing frameworks
• Suggest tools and best practices to improve our stability, performance and site quality
• Help us to staff, grow and maintain a world class engineering team
You should have in-depth knowledge of:
• Java, the JVM, and the ecosystem of supporting tools and libraries
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript and associated frameworks
• Lucene/Solr and enterprise search in general
• Realistic application design and systems architecture
• Performance profiling and tuning code and systems from end-to-end
• Source control systems, build systems
• Agile methodologies and XP engineering practices
We’d like you to have a BS in Computer Science or related field. Masters in Computer Science or higher preferred.
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TheLadders.com is the world's largest online service catering exclusively to the $100k+ career marketplace. Located in New York and London, we make the global search for senior talent and senior positions quick and effective. We give professionals the most senior-level job leads in one place and organize them by function for more efficient searching. Through TheLadders.com and our UK site, TheLadders.co.uk, we give our members the tools they need to take their next career step. Top recruiters value the ability to quickly and easily connect with qualified talent. Founded in 2003, TheLadders.com has grown into the largest specialty employment website with over 3,500,000 members. To learn more about TheLadders.com, please visit www.theladders.com or www.theladders.co.uk.
We are a dynamic, fast-paced, high-growth internet company that rewards meritorious performance. We work hard and have big fun. We are a results oriented, goals driven team with a strong commitment to excellence. We hire the best and the brightest individuals without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, citizenship status, alienage, mental or physical disability, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, on the basis of knowledge or belief that the employee or applicant has tested positive for AIDS, AIDS-related complex or HIV, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TheLadders.com is an equal opportunity employer.
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