Cascade Rate is a business intelligence web application for Hotel managers.
We're a bootstrapped start up from Portland, OR. We have a part-time or contractor opportunity for application development.
We enable hotels to monitor prices on a number of major web sites. A big part of our business is information retrieval, and the other part is summarizing and processing data.
We have a position available for a ruby developer who is interested in helping us maintain and improve our core system -- a distributed information retrieval framework.
You can learn more about our product at www.cascaderate.com
To apply please fill out our application here: http://t.co/PkXY8xg . Please include a link to your github account.
Thanks!
Responsibilities
This position is focused on maintaining and improving our information retrieval framework and some web application maintenance.
Experience
Ruby 1.9.2
Rails 3
Postgresql 9
Linux
Amazon EC2
Web Scraping (extracting structured data from semi-structured data)
Skills
== preferred bonus skills
information retrieval theory
distributed computing
database sharding
Education
College degree preferred. High school diploma required.