Savvr - Portland, OR - Full-Time
Savvr provides large-scale data collection, analysis, and research for institutional investors. We're self-funded and profitable. We're looking to add more engineers to our team. We do a wide variety of things so a generalist is more likely to succeed than a specialist. Rather than list specific requirements, I'll just list the areas of experience and technologies we currently utilize on a daily basis.
* PHP - 5.5, modern code-base, back-end development, daemon processes, distributed workers
* MySQL - Medium-to-advanced SQL techniques, proper normalization, tuning configuration for efficiency. We work with PostgreSQL as well.
* Data-warehousing Understanding large datastores, star-schemas, fact-dimensions, pros/cons of a RDBMS versus a document-storage engine, Hadoop, columnar databases, etc -- all good things to know.
* Redis - Acts as a job broker &amp; message queue for our platform
* AWS - We utilize a number of AWS services (ec2, route 53, s3, rds, vpc, etc)
* Web/Mobile - We really dig into how the web and APIs (soap, xml, rest, json, etc) operate on a technical level. Mobile data is just as important. Understanding the role and specifics around things like: http, ssl/tls, iphone, android, mitm, reverse-engineering are all important.
* Excel - The investment world loves Microsoft Excel and having a very solid understanding of XLSX, auto-generation of spreadsheets, dynamic data-source integrations is important.
* Automation/testing We run a 24x7 platform and need to be confident things are running smoothly at all times.
I understand this is quite a laundry-list of technical skills, and so if you feel you're strong in a few or more of these areas, we'd love to talk to you. We provide a competitive salary and benefits. We're a small company and starting our physical footprint here in Portland (we've been 100% remote for the past three years) so we can collaborate better.
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