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Software Developer -- Challenging projects, brilliant coworkers

chrchr — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:43:43 -0800

Rentrak Corporation is always looking for talented developers to add to our team in beautiful Portland, Oregon. You're probably used to being the smartest developer on your team (but are too humble to admit it), and are looking for a place where you can work alongside talented peers building great software for interesting projects. At Rentrak, we're a small enough company that you can make a big difference, but we're big enough to ensure your paycheck never bounces. Here are just a few things Rentrak programmers have done recently: * Wrote customized extensions to Open Source tools, to process queries hundreds of times faster than commercial RDBMSs * Built a goal-seeking system to dynamically generate optimal SQL queries for end-user data requests * Celebrated our 3 billionth transaction processed * Implemented software to categorize and predict consumer behavior based on television viewing history * Created systems that predict movie sales in theaters, retail stores and video rental locations * Gave a Tech Talk to Google about our brilliant database technology Our teams are relatively small (three to six people), and we have a development environment influenced by XP. We have a nice open work area so our developers can share their brilliant ideas, learn from each other, expand our extensive custom libraries and work together to solve tough problems. We keep our source code base well factored and filled with unit tests. We work with a stunningly large amount of data, and everyone here does an amazing job of turning it into something manageable. We have a very high hiring bar, and we feel that all the people who work here could easily get a job at any of the major tech companies. Our management understands this and works hard to make sure our developers are happy and productive. We're looking for ridiculously smart developers to help us reinvent our industries. Experience with functional or dynamic object-oriented development experience is great (e.g., Lisp, Smalltalk, Scheme, Ocaml, SML, Haskell, Ruby, Unlambda, C++/STL/Boost, or advanced use of Python or Perl). RDBMS experience is also helpful, especially with terabyte-plus databases. Rentrak's developers work with their teammates on all aspects of the development process: requirements gathering, system design, database design and tuning and, of course, lots of unit tests and coding.

Business/Data Analyst

treepour — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:57:26 -0800

Rapidly-growing and profitable internet company with oodles of high-quality data to mine seeks a business/data analyst who's not afraid to get her or his hands dirty turning raw data into insightful and business-intelligible reports. And the data is indeed very raw: this job will involve coding sql, python, bash shell scripts, perl, etc. If the idea of querying Oracle directly via command-line sql scares you away, this job isn't for you. On the other hand, if you've got sound business sense but are still geeky enough to get a thrill from coding, then this may be just the right spot for you. Benefits include full health/dental/vision, stock options, a fun and engaged culture, friendly coworkers, a chance to make a real and personal impact on the company's strategy, free catered lunches every day and free 24/7 snacks galore, an opportunity to work with cutting-edge database and data mining technologies, and free Caltrain passes and/or private shuttle to and from San Francisco. No need to apply with a resume right now -- please send a brief description of why this job sounds interesting to you and/or any questions you might have. Thanks!

Python Programmer - Brisbane, Australia

Jerub — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:31:25 -0800

Please only apply if you are allowed to work in Australia and are prepared to work full time in our office in Milton, Brisbane, Australia. * This is a great opportunity to join a growing team in an established organisation. * We have a variety of potential positions from junior to senior developers - all performing a diverse range of work. * You will have the chance to expand and develop your skills and knowledge with this experienced team. * We practise test driven development on the Linux platform, developing and contributing to the open source community. NetBox Blue provides leading solutions for the Unified Threat Management market and has developed a range of solutions now being used across Australia by small (less than 5 users) and large companies (including Telstra, Qantas and NAB). With thousands of companies and over 50,000 individuals now relying on NetBox Blue to provide secure managed internet access and much more the company has entered a major growth phase. The company is small (15 people) but includes technology experts and recognised business leaders (2 of the directors have independently won Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards and one set up and grew an IT company in the UK to $125m in revenues!). This is a company that is really going places! NetBox Blue is committed to investing in future technology, starting Leopard Labs to provide filtering and management solutions for mobile phones. We are also committed to open source, contributing to projects, sponsoring development and running the Brisbane Python User Group. You will be based in Brisbane (Milton) and your role will be to work on developing the product and occasionally attending to high level telephone support calls. Your key attributes will be: * Object oriented development and design experience, including simple to complex systems. * Networking experience, specifically in Linux. * Linux software development experience. * Ability to pick up new concepts and technologies quickly and follow development methodologies. * Good communication skills. * Enjoy working as part of a team. * Self motivated. Other desirable attributes are: * Python development experience. * Detailed understanding of IP networking, and internet standards (HTTP, DNS, SMTP etc). * A university degree in information technology (or similar). * Automated unit and system testing experience. * Ajax experience. * C experience. * Understanding of SQL (especially PostgreSQL). * General experience with Linux OS. * Open source community contributions. Apply Here

Web Software Developer - Yelp.com

Hackworth — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:13:36 -0800

Seeking Stellar Software Engineer Yelp is the ultimate urban city guide that taps into the community’s voice and reveals honest insights on local businesses and services from people just like you. The content found on Yelp comes from a vibrant community of real people who are as passionate about their neighborhood as they are about sharing their insights. Yelp is conveniently located 1 block from the Montgomery BART. As a member of our engineering team, you would be a crucial part of developing and deploying new site features for our community. We work in a tight-knit yet relaxed atmosphere, were you would have direct input on the development of our product. Experience: Candidates should have extensive knowledge of relevant technologies (Python, SQL, Unix). Requirements: * Top tier coder, serious Python skillz * Sense of humor * Good communication skills * BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience. If this sounds like you, please send a cover note (we'd like to hear what you think of Yelp, why you think you’re the right person for the job, etc.) and resume and please put the job title in the subject. Again, it wouldn’t hurt to see you on the site as well – the ideal candidate will be someone who really sees the fun and usefulness of Yelp – we are not looking to just fill a position! Not familiar with Yelp? See what Time, LATimes, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, PC Magazine, and BusinessWeek have to say about the company! : http://www.yelp.com/press Yelp is backed by Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Max Levchin

Web/Interaction Designer/Developer for Online Game

metajack — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:38:32 -0800

Chesspark is hiring! We're a small distributed company building an online chess game service on top of technology like XMPP/Jabber, AJAX, Python, and Django. Most of the company is currently focused on improving the backend and the game clients, and we're looking to add someone to the team to focus on making the website better and more full featured and who has a keen eye for design. Things we're looking for: * excellent design skills * excellent communication skills * self-motivated * experience writing HTML/CSS Bonus points for: * Python or Django experience * Javascript chops You'd be working from home, but we get everyone together every few months face to face in the same place. If you're interested, please contact me at jack@chesspark.com. Include your resume and/or some pointers to things you done. You can also reach me inside Chesspark pretty much any time.

Web/Interaction Designer/Developer for Online Game

metajack — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:46:06 -0800

Chesspark is hiring! We're a small distributed company building an online chess game service on top of technology like XMPP/Jabber, AJAX, Python, and Django. Most of the company is currently focused on improving the backend and the game clients, and we're looking add someone to the team to focus on making the website better and more full featured and who has a keen eye for design. Things we're looking for: * excellent design skills * excellent communication skills * self-motivated * experience writing HTML/CSS Bonus points for: * Python or Django experience * Javascript chops You'd be working from home, but we get everyone together every few months face to face in the same place. If you're interested, please contact me at jack@chesspark.com. Include your resume and/or some pointers to things you done. You can also reach me in game pretty much any time.

Web Startup Jack-of-All-Trades (Design, Develop, and Business Dev)

heresiarch — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:04:45 -0800

Thinkature is a Cambridge, MA based startup developing innovative visual collaboration products. We launched our first version last week, and have had a great response so far. We're really serious about good usability, good design, and good code. This is an intense experience, so it's also really important that candidates be in the Boston area. We're currently a two person operation, so we're looking for someone who wants to get involved at the start of something we believe will be really great. This is an almost-founder like position, so it's critical that you're really excited about web applications, collaboration, and being involved in decisions about every aspect of a young company. Here are some of the kinds of jobs we hope you could do:

Do web design. (the usuals - HTML/CSS)
Hack on the client-side (we use Javascript in ways rarely seen on the web)
Enhance server-side functionality (our custom HTTP server is written in Python)
Test like a fiend on a variety of browser platforms (our current release supports all the major browsers)
Engage in high level design discussions about the direction of the product
Engage in low level design discussions about details of specific features
Develop relationships with potential future user groups
Run pilot deployments with specific user groups
Maintain community relations (writing on our blog, reading/commenting on others, plus staying involved in our forum and on our wiki)
Help us manage money and other administrative tasks

We're not expecting candidates to demonstrate experience in all of these areas, but the more of them you can demonstrate experience in, or reasons why you might be good at them, the better. More than anything else, though, we want to hire a smart, passionate, and flexible person. If you're interested, please get in touch with me and we can start a dialog. Feel free to include whatever supporting materials you think are appropriate for convincing us that you'd be a good fit.

Linux Sysadmin

jacobian — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:38:07 -0800

Want to work for the most innovative news organization in the country, if not the world? Want to join a team of the best and brightest online media developers? Want to get paid to create award-winning web sites? Well, have I got the job for you: World Online is looking for a kick-ass systems administrator to join our team. About the job Until now, we've been a small enough team that we've not needed a dedicated sysadmin. We've grown, however, and we now need someone to look after our small (but growing) server room. Right now we've got around 15 servers running a variety of LAMP-style software. The core technologies are Ubuntu Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Python, and Django. We want a sysadmin who can look after that stack and help us make it scream. The job also involves helping us develop and maintain backup systems, deployment scripts, and such. If everything goes according to plan, a big part of the job will be helping us build and roll out a hosted services environment. We want someone who will bring us strong opinions about the "right" way to do this. Our team is very small so we all pitch in where needed. "Not my job" is an unknown mentality here. About you We're looking for someone with experience administering LAMP-style systems. We're not too picky about particular skills -- we're expecting to train where needed. However, at a bare minimum we'd expect: * Experience administering a *nix. Bonus points for Ubuntu/Debian experience. * Understanding of how medium- to large-scale LAMP stacks work ("n-tier," if you want a buzzword). * Some skills in a scripting language (especially as used to write sysadmin-type scripts). Bonus points for Python, but Perl or even Bash is fine. * At least a basic understanding of administering databases. Bonus points for experience with PostgreSQL, and double-plus-extra points if you have PostgreSQL tuning skillz. MySQL experience will help you get the job, but will also make us mock you. More than anything, we're looking for someone with the ability to quickly learn new skills. If you can prove to us that you'll be able to learn what we need you to know, you're in. About the company World Online is the online division of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, KS. We're widely known as one of the most innovative new media operations in the news industry. Our sites -- lawrence.com (music), ljworld.com (news), and kusports.com (sports) -- have won many awards. We take great pleasure in overkill. We don't just cover little-league baseball games with a story or two in the Sunday paper; we treat T-ball like it's the World Series. We devote an entire print publication and Web site to youth sports, complete with cell-phone updates, weblogs and intensive team, league, and field databases. The company goes to this effort not only because it's successful (it is) but because they feel a strong commitment to the community. Unlike most other newspapers the company does not demand huge profit margins, but instead demands that we serve our community. The owner is fond of saying that if we take care of Lawrence, Lawrence will take care of us. The company is family-owned, and that family is incredibly kind, will know your name, say hello to you in the halls, and listen very carefully to your opinions. About the town Lawrence could be one of the coolest towns in America. If you take every negative stereotype of Kansas and turn them on their heads, you'd get Lawrence. We have an amazing local music scene (which lawrence.com exhaustively covers) and a downtown so vibrant it put a mall out of business. Lawrence's reputation as a "music town" reaches far and wide, and so we get great national acts that bypass most towns ten times Lawrence's size. If you're used to the insane cost of living in most big cities, Lawrence will blow your mind. You'll easily be able to afford a brand new apartment, or one within walking distance of downtown, or a turn-of-the-century house. Food's incredibly cheap, too; the best barbecue dinner of your life is less than ten bucks. We will cover reasonable moving expenses for out-of-town candidates. How to apply Drop an email to jacob@lawrence.com and tell me why we've absolutely got to hire you. I run a Microsoft-free ship, so plain text or HTML resumes only.

Full-time Python developer in NYC

cyrusdogstar — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:31:36 -0800

I'm looking for a full-time Python programmer to assist me in my work in the internal IT department of a medium-sized computer forensics firm in New York City. The primary skill is Python, with knowledge of the Django web programming framework a huge plus (if you don't know it now, you'll be learning it). PHP and shell scripting are also nice but not required. Linux server administration would also be useful; at least some exposure to Linux, with the ability and desire to learn more, is nigh-mandatory. Responsibilities for this position are twofold: one, doing maintenance work and secondary feature development work on a large internal intranet project, based on Django and (to a lesser extent) Plone. And two, being the lead developer on any number of smaller internal projects--our IT group supports a lab of forensic examiners and there are a lot of potential tools to be developed. This position has a large potential for skill-set growth in just about any area--we deal with hardware, development, sysadmin and net admin stuff up, and more besides. The benefits at this firm are excellent and the culture and employees are of similar caliber.

Developer

winjer — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:33:23 -0800

You will have serious web development skills; eat PHP and MySQL for breakfast, enjoy hand crafting semantic XHTML and understand how to get the best out of CSS (regardless of the target browser). Despite this experience you want to learn something new; you've read a lot about unit testing, Javascript, Python and Ruby and are keen to start using them on a real project. To succeed in this role you will need to be self motivated, be able to see projects all the way through and have a fanatical eye for detail. It would be a bonus if you've got any of the following: * Python experience, * Plone experience, or * some computer related qualifications Grand plans for taking over the world with the latest Web 2.0 project will not be sneered at (until we've read them, at least). Oh, and if possible we'd like to you to at least not hate obscure German electronica and Bay Area rock and roll, 'cos that's what gets played in the office. Salary is competitive and dependent on experience. Please contact us for more details and to talk it over.