UxSTATION

Client's company is based in Palo Alto & includes founders comprised of Stanford grads, former Googlers and a formerly renowned VC who now also teaches Entrepreneurship at Stanford, as well as an all-star cast of funders.

This company is revolutionizing the investment business & disrupting the mutual fund industry through an open source financial trading platform that anyone can join. This is an opportunity to join a stellar engineering team whose team members worked on massive backend infrastructure, Gmail's high performance frontend, the Native Scala Compiler with Prof. Odersky and more.

Job description:

• In charge of the backend of a revolutionary web site doing large scale high availability deployments and configuration management using open source software.
• Keeping the system having a fully automated release cycle, continues testing and monitoring. 
• Build tools for monitoring, security, systems management and deployment if the available ones are not enough.
• Help engineers architect the next levels of the system and making sure it stays agile and easily absorb high capacity.
Qualifications
• Extremely smart and self motivated
• Passion for test-driven development and automated functional QA
• Live and breathe performance
• Thinks out of the conventional box of IT management
• Experience with databases, preferable MySQL
• Good knowledge about monitoring and deployment tools
• Good knowledge about network and distributed computing
• Expert in at least one scripting language and know at least one more