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WebAction Inc. in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time- Hiring Senior Front End Developer and Platform Engineers Jobs@WebAction.com WebAction is an enterprise infrastructure software company based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in May 2012 and it is currently in stealth mode.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 offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, and generous equity for the right candidates. If you want to join our cutting-edge team, grow as we do and share the excitement of an early start-up environment please apply today. Job Description: You should be a self-starting senior web UI developer with a desire to lead and mentor others. You excel in a fast-paced agile environment and will be able to collaborate with back-end engineers to design interfaces and architect interaction models, and with the product team to wire-frame and prototype ideas. Desired Skills & Experience for Front-end Position: -Excellent JavaScript knowledge necessary – please be prepared to show us examples of your work -Experience with HTML5/CSS3 -Experience with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Backbone, etc.) -Experience with visualization frameworks (d3, processing.js) -Know how to build drag and drop web diagramming UIs (such as mxGraph, gliffy, drawio) -At least 4 years professional experience building sophisticated JavaScript applications At least 7 years experience in software development BS/BA in Computer Science or related field is a must -Excellent communication skills, both written and oral -Must be able to function well in an early stage startup environment -Must be able to multi-task Pluses: -Experience in user interaction design and user experience -Knowledge of back-end web frameworks -iOS or Android experience For the Platform Engineering position, you should have the following interests/credentials: Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries Candidates must currently reside in the USA. If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com.