We want you! To be a Senior Software Engineer at Offbeat Guides
June 16th, 2009 by Marina Kosmatos
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop and maintain our crawlers, parsers and distributed systems. Responsibilities would include planning features/bug fixes, developing code, seeking feedback from the team and testing deployment on beta/production servers. You’ll also be building REST-ful APIs that make it absurdly easy for other developers and companies to integrate with our apps. You would work closely with the CTO/CEO and engineering team in our San Francisco office. We’re a small team; you would be our seventh full-time employee and third full-time engineer.
This is a full-time position in San Francisco, CA. We are not interested in hiring part-timers or contractors.
SKILL SET
* 6+ years of experience with object-oriented languages (expert-level skills)
* You always use the best tool for the job, and you love learning new things – show us some interesting projects that you’ve done!
* Experience with agile development in a team setting preferred
* Expertise in large dataset optimization – ideally, you’ve had experience with large databases and distributed systems and you have scaled systems
* Familiarity with a broad range of technologies including XHTML, CSS, JS, SQL, SVN
* Ability to prioritize, multitask and manage work with regard to critical timelines
* You’re a high energy, startup person who loves to create elegant code that gets used by millions of people
* You love to push code into production
A LITTLE ABOUT US
Offbeat Guides is a high-tech travel company located in Union Square, San Francisco. At our core, we are a search engine and sophisticated digital publisher creating personalized online and printed travel guides from masses of public and private information. We love what we do – we get to learn about exotic locations, help mold real-life experiences and bring delight to so many travelers.
Please send your CV and something you’ve made that you’re proud of to careers@offbeatguides.com
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