Likely have developed a suite of tools which simplify the process of analysing "Big Data" around digital audiences, identifying passions and the correlations between them, determining the content they will find exciting, and building vibrant communities at scale. We look at billions of data points from social media, e.g. Twitter and Facebook, to understand how to match messaging to consumer perfectly.
We've done this successfully for our own communities – we have over 300k subscribers to our social feeds – but we also sell this expertise to clients who trust us to plan camapaigns and analyse, aquire and engage authentic audiences on their behalf.
We've spent the last few months building out our Hadoop and HBase cluster to replace the large relational databases that were beginning to creak underneath us. This has forced us to engage with the JVM for the first time (our technical heritage is in the Ruby ecosystem), and we're embracin! g Clojure. We've got Cascalog code running in production, bought all the books, and now we're seeking a Clojure developer to join the team. You should be a good communicator and happy to share your knowledge and enthusiasm with us.
This is a great opportunity to join a successful startup that is looking to scale its business rapidly. We were five staff at the beginning of the year, we're now ten. The technical team is still small but we're in the process of spinning standalone products out of our existing codebase and are rewriting apps at the very core of our business. We are looking for people who are excited by the challenges of working within a startup, who are hungry to learn new tools and ways of working, and who can take the initiative as we grow quickly over the coming months.
Key responsibilities
- Develop code to run on our production Hadoop cluster
- Leverage new processing capabilities to ! supercharge existing applications
- Collaborate on! the design and implementation of new applications
- Turn algorithms proposed by our statisticians into working implementations
- Spec out and help to build further data processing capability beyond map/reduce
- Prototype future systems ideas
- Propose and leverage existing Java libraries where appropriate
- Participate in regular code reviews
- Share your knowledge and enthusiasm
Key benefits
- Get to work with cutting edge technologies
- Colloaborate with a smart and motivated devlopment team
- Gain experience in managing billions of data points with a distributed system
- Have an important voice in our technical strategy
- Enjoy working in a fun and focused startup environment
- Free food in the office, ordered weekly
- Borrow books from our broad and expanding library!
- Free conference passes
- 10% time devoted to hackday projects
- See your efforts enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people daily
Location
You'll be based in our light and airy London office a stone's throw from Old St reporting directly to the CTO. Once you're bedded in, part-time remote working is encouraged.
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