Would you love to build the next generation highly-scalable, low-latency distributed system on the Cloud? Does the idea of building a “Social Query Language” intrigue you? Are you past all that “Cloud Computing” BS and have already built highly scalable systems on the Cloud? If so, we may have just the right job for you.
About Us. We are a well-funded yet early-stage start-up. We are solving an interesting problem in a huge market, namely how to leverage social media to drive product sales online. We’re backed by top tier Silicon Valley investors, including Founders Fund, the original seed investors in Facebook. We are moving to bigger offices but have committed to an office within walking distance of Caltrain and BART.
Our Business. Our service helps consumers find compelling products based on information shared by friends. Imagine a day when you could do a Google search on “digital cameras” and get back a list of the cameras your friends have purchased in the last five years. That’s the problem we are solving! Our business model is to utilize social content around products to drive sales for online retailers and receive a commission on the sales generated. We already have a number of marquee customers (millions of page-views daily) and have recently raised VC funding from a great group of investors
Our Technical Challenge. High Scale (thousands of requests per second). Low latency (300ms max per request). High data-recency (<1min old). Low cost. Gigabytes of data per day. Providing an external 3rd Party API. Hundreds of inbound data feeds. High front-end developer productivity. Do you grok it? Can you build it? On the Cloud? Without re-inventing the wheel?
Our Culture. High Performance (fast, agile, clever). Accountable (we trust each other to deliver). Fun (we love what we do and take pride in our work). We work hard but also have a life outside the office.
About You. You are looking for the next challenge. You excel at Java, but know its limitations. You know a few of the following: Python, PHP, Groovy, Scala, or Clojure — or better yet, you can tell us what we should use instead (sorry, not Ruby nor .NET). You’ve worked with Amazon EC2 and S3 and understand “Eventual Consistency.” A highlight of your day would be discussing the pros and cons of Cassandra, GFS, BigTable, SimpleDB, S3, Memcached, Hive, Hadoop and Ehcache (better: your first reaction to this list is that it’s “wrong”). You thrive in working in a small team collaborative environment.
The Reward. Ground-floor equity with a real pay-check. Fantastic team. Your work visible to millions of users – in months, not years. Pride in building something net new — both technology and a company.
Are you up for the challenge? If so, send us your resume and a brief note on how you’d approach solving our Technical Challenge above (an inspired line or two would more than suffice).
