Overview
Are you the type of person who thinks in terms of list comprehensions?
Do you look for work environments where your contributions make a big difference as opposed to fixing obscure bugs in someone else’s code?
Do you want to be challenged by writing code that must run 24/7/365 for hundreds of thousands of people at the same time without a hitch?
Do you cringe at the sight of cubicles?
If so, you might be just who we’re looking for to help fill out our core engineering team at Pipio!
Pipio employees enjoy competitive salary, full health and dental benefits, and equity in the company.
Work environment is very relaxed, and hours are flexible – but we do work very hard, and we’re looking for a candidate who is willing to do what it takes to launch something with excellent potential.
Applicants should also be willing to work in downtown San Francisco, as we are planning to move our office there from the South Bay in a few months.
Things that will get you noticed:
- Previous startup experience
- Open source and personal projects
- Experience with Erlang, eJabberd, Lucene, Amazon AWS, XMPP, distributed key-value/nosql storages (CouchDB, HBase or Project Voldemort), persistent/distributed queues (Thrift/RabbitMQ)
Applicants must be US Citizens or currently be legally allowed to work in the United States.
Responsibilities
Building backend services primarily in Python
Designing and optimizing software with massive scalability and efficiency in mind.
Extremely comfortable developing and managing services in Linux
Experience
2+ years of professional experience building large scale data processing
Skills
Python mastery
Expert knowledge of MySQL (stored procedures, optimizing queries and indices, replication & backup)
Lucene experience
Hadoop/Map-Reduce experience
knowledge of the XMPP protocol
Education
BS in Computer Science or related field
Compensation
Competitive salary plus equity.
Full health and dental plan.