JOB TITLE: Engineering (Director or Vice President)
LOCATION: Currently located in San Jose – Moving to Mountain View area (94043) in Jan 2012
REPORTS TO: CTO - Founder
JOB PURPOSE: Directly responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and evaluation of the technology engineering platform, staff, and technologies.
Company Description: The client has built a collaborative platform for social expression that allows customers to create photo books and scrapbooks with a free, online scrapbooking editor. Customers can then share their creations online for free, post them to social networks, or order them in print as high quality printed photo books.
The client is a start-up that offers all the
same benefits you’d find at the Bay Area’s hottest companies. Every employee is
an owner – along with competitive compensation packages, you will get a
meaningful stake in the company. They have full medical/dental/vision coverage,
15 days paid time off, and all the shiny goodies you need to get your job done:
a brand new Mac laptop and a big flat-screen monitor. They provide breakfast
every day, regular company lunches, tons of snacks, and they are kind of crazy
about drinks too: we have a fridge stocked with Odwallas and beer, over 20
different kinds of tea and four different ways to make coffee – plenty of fuel
to keep you happy.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
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Manage a team of
15-20 software (Ruby-on-Rails, Flex, UI) and system engineers (DevOps)
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Recruit top talent
in Ruby-on-Rails and Flex as well as system engineers for available
position. Building
out the engineering team using very high standard of code quality and code
practices.
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In this role you will work directly with the company
co-Founder and CTO, a 5 + year RoR veteran himself and co-author.
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Grow expanding infrastructure and enable
client to keep up with fast growing customer base
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Responsible for network and system
architecture, scaling, monitoring and reliability.
- Contribute
to planning efforts for disaster recovery, capacity expansion, component
upgrading and system hardening.
- Day-to-day
management of the primary revenue-generating, customer-facing application
environments.
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Mentor and lead
software engineering team to achieve business goals and ambitions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer
Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (MS or Ph.D. a plus.)
- Experienced with *nix
architecture (Unix, Linux – RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Debian)
- Virtualization infrastructure
experience (Zen, virtual box, KVM).
- Ruby web framework (Rails, Merb,
Sinatra) experience*; Experienced with Ruby programming and
MVC architecture.
- Automated integration testing
(Cucumber, Webrat, Capybara, Selenium) experience*; Unit testing (TestUnit,
RSpec) experience.
- Rich browser-based development
(JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS) experience.
- Obsessively strives to create the
most modular, concise and maintainable code possible – beautiful code to
you doesn’t mean pretty syntax highlighting.
- Experience working on Agile teams
(pair programming, refactoring, story writing and estimation).
- Knowledge of debian GNU / Linux,
S3, EC2 (Amazon Web Service or AWS exp), MySQL / PostgreSQL
(configuration, administration, syntax and query optimization) is highly
desired.
- Comfortable working with or
learning: Chef (Puppet), Nginx, Unicorn,
(webserver exp.), Ruby, MySQL, Memcache, Varnish, (caching), RabbitMQ and
distributed hash tables (Cassandra, Voldimort, MongoDB, Redis).
- Passionate. Driven. High
achiever. You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence.
- Extremely hard working. You
should be ready to make this organization a priority in your life.
Work Environment:
Work with successful and intelligent
team members who all have one common goal – and that’s working together to
achieve business goals and ambitions – while having a good time and enjoying it
!! It is a casual (yet professional)
start-up work environment, working with some interesting and intriguing
individuals and success Silicon Valley professionals and technical talent.
For IMMEDIATE consideration, please forward a copy of your
chronological resume to:
Strategi LLC - Union Square, San Francisco
415-695-1600
