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Senior Software Engineer
About Us:
We are a well-financed startup developing a revolutionary service that will transform the online gaming industry with an exciting new financial exchange and consumer web site that all of your friends will use. We offer a fast-paced, dynamic and challenging experience within an entrepreneurial work environment. This is an opportunity to join the founding engineering team and have a key role in defining the product.
This is a full-time position with significant equity and competitive salary to attract the best. We are located in Palo Alto, close to Caltrain.
Responsibilities:
We’re looking for a highly motivated developer who is exceptionally bright and has experience building web applications. You’ll work with a leading development team creating a large scale consumer web site, working on innovative back end and front end features. We’re building new products from scratch (no legacy code!) for a worldwide audience.
You’ll:
• Build a scalable service: Any schmoe can build a site used by a few users but building a robust service that supports millions of users requires careful architecting and hard work to optimize performance. You’ll lead these efforts.
• Experiment: We use a potpourri of technologies and we’re constantly exploring new, cutting edge technologies.
Qualifications:
• Passion for writing reliable web code that’s solid enough to support super high traffic
• Expertise with web servers and relational databases like MySQL, preferably building consumer-facing web applications in a high-traffic environment
• Strong experience with object-oriented scripting languages like Ruby or Python and experience with frameworks like Rails or Django
• Strong C/C++ experience and comfortable with low-level data structures
• Startup experience a plus
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent) from top tier school
Personal Attributes:
• Personable, positive, pro-active and results driven
• Understands the commercial impact of products
• Takes a ‘time-critical’ approach to product development and implementation
• Attention to detail but also an ability to see the bigger picture
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