Full-stack engineer for marketing intelligence platform

We are a content analytics and intelligence platform startup and our team is distributed. We’re looking for someone to join us on a full-time basis. Our platform includes large-scale web crawling, real-time analytics across streaming, disparate data sets, and complex UI / visualization features. Because we’re a distributed team, we place a high value on communication, responsiveness, and autonomy. We’re a hard-working team and we solve bigger problems than our small team size would seem capable of solving. The tools we work with: - Ruby / Rails - Java - MySQL / PostgreSQL - JavaScript - jQuery - Google Cloud Platform - Highcharts - Amazon Web Services - Many different APIs (ad networks, social networks, etc.) - Redis - Resque - Github - Chef - Jenkins Technical skills needed: We’re looking for mid- to senior level, full-stack developers with experience in Ruby on Rails or similar environment (experience in other languages and frameworks such as Python / Python frameworks is fine). Java skills are a plus. - Strong understanding and experience with UNIX / Linux tools and concepts - Familiar with web application security principles/encryption best practices - Ability to ramp up in our environment and be productive in 1 week (we provide a comprehensive ramping-up guide) - Solid understanding and experience in SQL and SQL optimization (indexes, queries, write-read performance, etc.) - Solid understanding of distributed systems/architectures - Strong knowledge of Unicode / internationalization / encoding issues Bonus / really great to have: - Understanding/experience with large-scale ETL - Understanding/experience large-scale data warehousing technologies - Understanding/experience with OLAP concepts, in a more modern environment such as that provided by tools like Spark - Experience with web crawling, text mining and headless browser automation Other Requirements: - Ability/willingness to quickly ramp up on our industry and become an expert in the field - Ability to communicate well and make recommendations in the context of an overall set of possible solutions, with benefits/tradeoffs for each - Self-starter