Software Application Engineer

You are a creative thinker that communicates effectively and possesses the individual leadership and accountability to "step up" and deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment. You possess a strong academic background, and are clearly passionate to continue to learn and grow. You thrive in a high energy team environment and have the entrepreneurial spark to seek out and manage tasks outside the bounds of your day-to-day responsibilities.

• • Contribute as a member of the applications team responsible for building out our cutting edge internal and external applications 
  • Build new software features to satisfy business requirements
  • Add new features to existing systems to improve performance and scalability
  • Solve interesting problems such as scaling our applications for large data computation and reporting
  • Define and implement new visualizations to get more out of our data
  • Contribute to the R&D and build-out of future systems
  • Help refine our software development process

• • Passionate programmer and problem solver
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, 3 - 5 years of software development experience.
  • Experience programming in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rack, Javascript
  • Experience with Vertica and NoSQL solutions, such as Redis
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to work under pressure with extreme deadlines, prioritizes projects, effectively scope out tasks, and maintains focus

• • Experience with OSS, Capistrano, Chef, RVM, Rake
  • Sense of humor and enthusiasm to contribute to our startup culture
  • Knowledge of agile development and scrum
  • Passion for web video and social networking