WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time Hiring Front End Web Developers, Platform Engineers, and Application Developers REDACTED_EMAIL
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. We provide data management solutions for mission critical systems by providing real-time processing power, an intuitive web user interface, and beautiful dashboards.
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. We also offer an array of perks and free food at our office.
UI Developers: Do you wish you could work on visualizing some of the world's most valuable data? Example use cases for WebAction include visualizing cell tower data, revealing cyber security attacks, catching fraud, showing the ins and outs of world's largest data centers, and many other problems of that nature. At WebAction, you would have the following responsibilities on UI:
- 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
- User experience and design skills
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 a scalable, highly optimized data management infrastructure. For those of you interested in scalable, low latency data platforms, WebAction is an opportunity to create one yourself. The following skills are desirable:
-Large scale distributed systems
-Familiarity with the HStack (Hadoop/Zookeeper/HBase)
-Significant experience or interest in HBase or Cassandra.
-Interest in stream processing systems such as Storm or Akka.
If you're interested, please send us a message at REDACTED_EMAIL
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