About Us:
TellApart is creating a predictive customer analytics platform that will massively enhance online marketing. We are a small team, founded and run by Google veterans, and we are very well-funded by a top venture capital firm (Greylock Partners) and many of Silicon Valley's most prominent angel investors, including: Ron Conway, Reid Hoffman, Baseline Ventures, and Dick Costolo. We are already processing millions of transactions for our early clients, and here your work will have the potential to affect the ecommerce experience for hundreds of millions of internet users.
Your Role:
As a young company, we need team members who can do anything and do it exceptionally well. We're hiring brilliant engineers of all backgrounds -- the unifying characteristic will be that of someone who can simply roll up their sleeves and do whatever needs to be done, even if well-outside their comfort zone. We work extensively in the areas of high-throughput distributed systems, data analysis/modeling, ad serving and web technologies.
Responsibilities:
* Own the entire system implementation process: product concept and direction, system infrastructure and engineering, production setup and monitoring, and release management.
* Architect and implement scalable, reliable backend systems.
* Evaluate competing third-party libraries and tools, and provide feasibility assessments and accurate estimates for project implementations.
* Rapidly create prototypes and quickly iterate to a stable, production-quality release candidate.
* Develop tests for both standalone and distributed systems, and produce useful written source code documentation.
Requirements:
* Best of class engineering credentials
* B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
* Experience or interest in distributed systems and backend development
* Expert-level proficiency in at least one of: Java, Python, C++
* Good understanding of web technologies and familiarity with Unix/Linux
* Relentlessly resourceful and scrappy; you thrive in an early stage environment
* Low ego and play well with others
Desired skills/qualities:
* Knowledge of distributed systems/methodologies (e.g., Hadoop/MapReduce)
* Experience with data analytics
* Interest/background in statistics
* Have led the development of a large-scale Internet service
Interested? Send us an email to info@tellapart.com introducing yourself. Please also attach a resume.
Source: Joel On Software