WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time Hiring UI Engineers, 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 UI Developer Position:
-Turn mockups and wireframes into functional, fluid web components
-Implementing beautiful and robust dashboards using d3.js
Requirements:
-Strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML, and jQuery
-Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment
Nice to haves
-You’re interested in designing engaging and intuitive user experiences
-Experience with Backbone.js, angular.js or other front-end MV* frameworks
-An interest in the type of scalable systems you hear about at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
-You’re interested in telling stories and revealing anomalies through data visualization
-Concentration in Human Computer Interaction
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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