SKOUT is an exciting, Andreessen Horowitz funded startup company. We are a locationbased social networking startup and the leader in people discovery. Our mobile applications help our millions of users meet others in their immediate vicinity. We are a small company delivering big things and are looking for great people to help define the future of our company and the industry. We are building the future platform for meeting new people and discovering what’s going on around you.
Skout is seeking a Senior Java Software Engineer to help architect, build, iterate, and scale our backend application server software. As a Software Engineer you will have to be excellent in core Java to implement our application server code that scales to tens of millions of social connections per day, and be familiar with the rest of the stack up to the presentation layer including HTML, JSP, JavaScript, and Web Services.
Key responsibilities:
- Contribute bestinclass programming skills to develop highly innovative, horizontally & vertically scalable backend code in a clustered server environment
- Continually offer thoughtleadership and dependable execution ability in a highpaced environment characterized by ongoing iteration and product pushes
Requirements:
- Strong Java experience including design, implementation, debugging
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field preferred, toptier schools preferred, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience building products for fast growing web or mobile products
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms (i.e., understanding the tradeoffs of performance, complexity, et cetera)
- Solid understanding of multithreading
- Comfortable in a small, intense and highgrowth startup environment that utilizes agile development practices such as SCRUM, unit testing, continuous integration, et cetera
- Experience developing backend production code to be deployed in a high load linux environment
- Experience developing high performance code
- Comfortable with JSP based websites, web services, Tomcat, SQL
- Strong analytical skills, good judgement, and passion for you work.
Desired:
- Rest/JSON, SOAP web services
- Experience with horizontal scaling
- Experience with geospatial search
- Experience with security best practices
- Knowledge of design patterns
- Ability to work with other programming languages (polyglot engineer), especially scripting