WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time Hiring UI Developer, Lead UI/UX Designer, Platform Engineers
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At WebAction, we're working on a platform that shrinks the gap between you and diverse, physically disparate data at petabyte scale. WebAction is a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing an end-to-end platform that aims to enable the next generation of real-time, data driven applications. Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley. We're also well funded (recently raised $11m Series B by a private equity firm with a $15 billion fund).
We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, generous equity for the right candidates. Our office is also a short walk from some great restaurants and coffee spots on University Avenue in Downtown Palo Alto.
For the Lead UI/UX Designer Position:
If you love data visualization and creating beautiful interfaces, this is the perfect place for you. WebAction is one of the few opportunities where you can create an interface to the world's most valuable, real-time data.
Responsibilities:
-Help define the user model and interfaces for new and existing WebAction products
-Communicate your design ideas clearly by rapidly iterating high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes.
-Gauge the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change.
Requirements:
-Strong, clean visual design sense.
-Proven record of designing usable web and mobile interfaces.
Nice to haves:
-Significant experience working in the startup world
-BS in Human-Computer Interaction or related field or equivalent experience.
For the UI Developer Position:
Responsibilities
- Code user interface components for a real-time big data dashboard
- Optimize code for performance and usability
- Contribute innovative ideas for new dashboard features
- Collaborate with platform engineers to coordinate user interface with back-end functionality
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML, and jQuery
- Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment
- Portfolio of deployed projects
Nice to Haves
- Experience working with real-time, data-intensive user interfaces
- Experience with D3.js or other data visualization libraries
- Experience with Backbone.js or other front-end MV* frameworks
For the Platform Engineering position, we ask that you have experience writing clean code in Java and have a strong desire and skills to work on a scalable, highly optimized data management infrastructure. We ask that you have the following skills:
-Large-scale distributed systems
-Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper),
- Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers)
- Experience with HBase or Cassandra
-Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries
If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at REDACTED_EMAIL.
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