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WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time Hiring UI Developer, Platform Engineers, and Application Developers Jobs@WebAction.com WebAction is a real-time streaming big data 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: Responsibilities - 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 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 Optimizing HBase Performance -Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries For the Application Development position, please follow the link to our detailed description of the role: http://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/JV.htm?jl=887065158&... If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com.