Principal Software Engineer I San Francisco or Seattle
The Climate Corporation is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to work on building efficient, robust, distributed Services and User Interfaces that enable scientists to quantify and visualize weather risks and inform agricultural models. This tightly-knit team tackles a wide variety of challenges, including building complex transactional workflow, robust REST based services, sophisticated webapps and implementing user experiences that make working with big data tractable and fun.
What you will do:
use Rails 3.2, Ruby 1.9.3, backbone.js
work in a Service-Oriented Architecture environment
employ test-driven development with a high level of automation, a rapid release schedule, and continuous integration
participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and the occasional ping-pong game
Develop and refine scalable, fault-tolerant services for terabytes of geo-spatial and other data
Contribute to the technical and entrepreneurial communities via Open Source projects, blog posts and other activities (we use 25% of our time on own projects)
What you bring to the table:
experience building transactional systems with Rails, Ruby, Javascript, MySQL
experience with deployment in large cloud based distributed environments and are familiar with the associated challenges. intuitively understand web technologies and web application architectures
are creative, self-motivated and able to prioritize & get things done
have contributed to an open source effort. write elegant, maintainable and easy-to-follow code
BS, MS or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical field
at least 7 years of experience developing web apps in Ruby, Python, Java or Clojure
familiar with RSpec, Cucumber
team player who feels at home in an open and flat-structured environment, and takes pride in a job well done
Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment
Effective all-round engineer who writes well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
Analytical thinker who takes delight in choosing the right algorithms and data structure
Bonus points:
Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, etc.)
Knowledge of functional programming
Experience with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Experience building big data (e.g. hadoop, cascalog, nosql) solution.
Contributor to open-source projects
What We Offer:
Our team is composed of some of the most brilliant interdisciplinary minds in the industry. The environment is extremely engaging and fast-paced, with dozens of specialties coming together to provide the best possible product and experience for our customers.
Competitive salary, excellent benefits, and some of the best perks in the industry, including:
We provide meals and a large assortment of snacks, drinks, fruits, coffees, and teas to help you get through the day
We let you explore personally compelling topics by occasionally taking time to work on independent projects and contributing the results back to the open source community.
Company sponsored outings, including go-kart races, kayaking, holiday yacht parties, and sporting events, etc.
We sponsor hackathons, meetup groups, networking events, tech-talks, and conference trips. If you want to get involved in the tech community, we'll support your efforts
We encourage all employees to better understand our customers by getting out of the office and hearing firsthand from the agents and farmers our products serve
Energetic idea-driven work environment with an exciting culture
Exciting world-changing opportunity - we are solving problems that have a massive impact on the world
A driven, talented team that aims to make a large-scale impact through an innovative technology platform
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