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SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FULL STACK WhitePages.com
THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
COMPANY DESCRIPTIONWhitePages is the leading provider of contact information for people and businesses in the U.S. We are a top 40 website with over 40 million unique monthly users, and we power over 2 billion searches on over 1,500 sites including MSN and the United States Postal Service. Already the largest and most trusted online directory, we are developing new location based mobile and Internet services that make it easier than ever to find and connect with the people and businesses you are looking for. Additionally we are building an impressive B2B offering that utilizes our core data sets and allows businesses to better serve their own customers.
Joining WhitePages offers you the opportunity to work in small, nimble, empowered teams and the assurance of joining a company that has been profitable
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer that thrives on designing, coding and maintaining web and mobile applications written in Ruby, Objective-C and Java. Our ideal candidate would have the skills and desire to understand our entire stack, from Solr to Rails and the passion to champion new and exciting technologies to solve WhitePages' unique and challenging problems. Your ideal job should be one where you work on a small team and are empowered to make yourself and your team more productive on a daily basis. You should want to be part of a team where your desire to grow and learn are valued and aptly rewarded; where using and contributing to open source are looked upon as an asset; where innovating and executing are core to your teams' beliefs.
QUALIFICATIONS
You must have?
A passion for building scalable web services and applications;
Proven experience building highly scalable and available production web apps, from the glass to the database;
A desire to be own design and architecture end to end;
A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement;
A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent;
You must be?
Extremely knowledgeable of JavaScript, MVC, and client/server interaction;
Fluent in a variety of languages like Ruby, Java, Python, Objective-C, etc;
Experienced creating websites with one of the many web framework like RoR, Django, Backbone.js, etc.;
Deeply versed in internet protocols and standards;
Proficient with writing and optimizing cross-browser CSS and HTML;
Knowledgeable of scaling techniques (caching, asynchronous/background job queues, etc.).
Extra points if you?
Have written a cross-domain JavaScript application;
Are unusually knowledgeable with HTTP (eg. when to use what response codes, how cache headers work, etc.);
Have experience with any NoSQL database;
Have deployed apps to the cloud (Amazon, Rackspace, Heroku, etc.);
Know a non-Rails Ruby web framework, especially Sinatra;
Have extensive experience with -nix;
TDD. Mega points for RSpec.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We're headquartered in the heart of downtown Seattle, and that's where our engineering team works their magic. We've got sales folks across the country, including an office in New York. We have strong company values and culture, and would love to share why ours is an opportunity worth considering. We appreciate and respect diversity, and are an equal opportunity employer.
| Location: | New York, NY United States |
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
WhitePages.com
Investors: Technology Crossover VenturesAll Jobs: at WhitePages.com
| Web Site: | www.whitepages.com |
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| Headquarters: | 1301 Fifth Avenue Suite 1600 Seattle, WA 98101 United States |
| Industry: | IT Services |
