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Software Engineer, Clojure / Cloud
Sonian is looking looking for a highly motivated, goal-oriented individual who will be responsible for designing and developing the software infrastructure for a complex and highly distributed cloud-based application. The position requires a deep knowledge of distributed computing, multi-threading, concurrency, and functional programming.
Sonian’s engineering team is geographically distributed, so location is not essential.
Responsibilities
Design and deliver a highly scalable, available, and supportable fault-tolerant SaaS application
Produce well-documented, high quality software that supports long term maintainability and extensibility
Deliver within an existing Agile methodology
Comfortably develop in Mac and Linux environments
Requirements
5+ years commercial software development experience
Experience designing, scaling, and tuning a web-scale SaaS application
Experience with Clojure or functional programming strongly desired
Experience in delivering distributed applications a plus
Familiarity with cloud based offerings like Amazon EC2 &amp; S3 and Rackspace Cloud
Distributed source control experience with Git
Strong organizational skills
Self-motivated and able to work independently
Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
US-based, capable of working in remote team
To apply, please send a cover letter and your resume to REDACTED_EMAIL. Please provide links to your github account or open source projects.  Use subject line “Software Engineer, Clojure / Cloud”.
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