Job opening - Confidential: Web Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Nashville Tennessee

Who we are:

A cutting edge, stable and well-funded convergence-minded company based just south of Nashville, TN. This is the opportunity to join a dynamic team in a super exciting space. Come leave your mark and climb a new ladder. We employ only the best and brightest who can’t wait to get back to work everyday. Trust us, you want to work here. If you are a web scientist that was born to create, you belong on our team. Applicants Confidentiality Assured

What you’ll do:

• Build and maintain infrastructure components.
• Help developers become more productive by finding pain points and solving them with new internal tools.
• Be a guardian of the system; advise us on infrastructure and scalability challenges before they happen.
• Be constantly on the lookout for ways to improve the systems we use.
• Help improve code quality by regularly reviewing code and defining best practices.

You should have:

• Excellent general programming skills in a major language.
• Solid skills doing back-end web development.
• Strong knowledge of scalability, performance, and system design.
• Strong knowledge of databases and SQL.
• Excellent technical judgment; ability to plan large projects and make smart! tradeoffs.
• Empathy with developers and a desire to make their jobs happier.
• Enough professional experience to recognize process inefficiencies and a natural drive to want to fix them.
• Appriciation of great design and simplicity.

Even better would be:

• Front end development experience.
• Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails.
• Significant open-source contributions, particularly in Rails and other relevant areas.
• Hands-on experience building reliable web-scale infrastructure.
• Experience with complex or high-volume MySQL deployments.
• Experience with NoSQL tools, especially Hadoop-based technologies.
• Experience with data warehouse systems, metrics and stats collection, and distributed processing.

To apply: Please send your resume and samples of your work to daniel.houghton@me.com

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