SingleFeed is growing and growing. We’ll be profitable next year. We need a rockstar or 2 to join our engineering team. This is a perfect opportunity for an engineer at one of the shopping engines who is ready to get back to start up life.
You’re a kick-ass, no bull, brilliant engineer and engineering manager who will wow our customers and the rest of the team by building a great product.
• You will work long hours coding and put your heart and soul into this company and be rewarded for it.
• You are metrics driven.
• You know documenting and testing needs to get done properly.
• You believe in Agile development.
• You are proactive, aggressive, bold, diligent, and a rock star coder.
• You inspire, lead, and coach while still rolling up your sleeves to code.
You know, love, and live Ruby, Rails, mySQL, but have a traditional foundation which enables you to learn new languages. You are not scared of picking up new (or old) programming languages because while you understand the benefits of Ruby, you recognize the business case for maintaining a system that is already working. A lot of our code is currently in Perl.
You have xperience building systems that handle lots of data and perform fast and reliably. Experience working with Amazon, eBay, ecommerce platforms, analytics/reporting systems would be very good.
You know Linux and when necessary can assist in the administration, maintenance, and upgrading of our systems. You understand network topography and could maintain, grow, and optimize our database clusters, our web Apache web servers, our DNS, our connectivity, and more.
This is a perfect opportunity for someone who wants to build a successful start up with a small team.
Key Competencies:
• Ruby on Rails
• mySQL
• Perl
• Linux administration
• Apache web server configuration/installation
• Network administration, including but not limited to:
1. DNS
2. mySQL Cluster administration
3. ssh tunnels, network connectivity
• Amazon EC2 AMI
More:
• Experience managing small Agile teams
• Loves working on a team
• Likes to get things done – we value prototypes and code over posturing and talk
• Entrepreneurial – everybody has ownership and a say
