Location: Chicago, IL or Telecommute
URL: http://juju.standoutjobs.com/a/k9nuwz
Juju, a popular vertical search engine focused on jobs, is looking for a skilled Python Developer. Juju’s goal is to make job search easier using technology and thoughtful user interface design. We strive to create groundbreaking tools that make it faster and easier for online job seekers to find exactly what they’re looking for. Our job search engine provides a single point of access to millions of jobs found on thousands of employer websites and job boards around the web, and offers features that help job seekers find and apply to the right opportunities more efficiently.
Desired Interest/Experience:
- Text search & analysis
- RESTful distributed computing & storage
- Web crawling techniques
- Automated text extraction & machine learning
- Building interactive web apps
Desired Technical Background:
- Python, Python, Python!
- Linux or other modern UNIX
- Subversion & Trac
- protocol-level HTTP: lighttpd, pound, squid
- Storage Engines: Lucene, SQLite, metakit, memcached
- Twisted
- HTML/XML/JSON
Our work to date has enabled us to attract millions of unique visitors every month, and laid a solid foundation for the future. But, the best is yet to come and we need talented, creative programmers to help us meet our ambitious goals. If you:
- have deep python experience
- want to work with bright, motivated people
- enjoy tackling BIG problems with clever code
send us an application or just drop us a note. If you don’t have all of the skills listed above, but still think you’re a great fit, apply anyway and tell us why.
Employees are given substantial freedom to design and implement solutions, and allocate their own time. We telecommute and maintain a demanding, but flexible, work environment. The team is US based, but we will consider qualified global applicants. Project and part-time arrangements are possible.
Candidates should be experienced, well-rounded programmers, familiar with a range of practices, including maintaining a shared code base, object-oriented design, network programming, multithreading, optimization, and unit testing. The ability to communicate effectively with coworkers while working independently with limited oversight is essential.
To apply: Please visit http://juju.standoutjobs.com/a/k9nuwz