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WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time Hiring Front End Web Developers, Platform Engineers, and Application Developers
Jobs@WebAction.com
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. 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 front-end position, we ask that you have the skills to contribute to a user interface and data visualization dashboard built on top of real-time, big data applications. Having an eye for user interaction design is a plus.
These are some of the tools you can work with:
-backbone.js
-jQuery
-HTML5/CSS3
-D3.js
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, working at WebAction is an opportunity to work on one yourself. The following skills are desirable:
-Large-scale distributed systems
-Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper),
- Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers)
- NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase),
-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.