WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time- Hiring Front-End/UI Developers and Platform Engineers
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WebAction is an enterprise infrastructure software company based in the Palo Alto, providing a platform that will enable the next generation of real-time, data driven applications. We acquire and crunch all types of mission critical data found in enterprise companies and turn it in to alerts and beautiful dashboards. Our platform is real-time from end-to-end.
We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, generous equity for the right candidates, beer fridays, and (of course) a kitchen stocked with snacks and drinks. If you want to join our cutting-edge team, grow as we do and share the excitement of an early start-up environment please apply today. We're currently hiring Front-end and Platform Engineers
Desired Skills &amp; Experience for Front-end Position:
-JavaScript knowledge necessary
-Experience with HTML5/CSS3
-Experience with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Backbone, etc.)
-Experience or interest in learning visualization frameworks (d3, processing.js)
-Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
-Must be able to function well in an early stage startup environment
-Must be able to multi-task
Pluses:
-Experience in user interaction design and user experience
-Knowledge of back-end web frameworks
-iOS or Android experience
-A passion for design
For the Platform Engineering position, we ask that you have experience writing clean code in Java and have a strong desire and skills to implement parts of a distributed, highly optimized data processing infrastructure.
Skills you should have or at least be interested in learning:
Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), 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. If you're not an exact match (according to this job post) but still feel like you could contribute...feel free to shoot us an e-mail regardless.
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