Lead Developer wanted for Twitterfeed (betaworks)
Twitterfeed is looking for a lead engineer to work with our distributed team and to take control of the roadmap, architect new features, and implement availability and performance guarantees.
Twitterfeed is by far the largest publisher to Twitter, with almost 500,000 users pushing 800,000 feeds to Twitter. When the web is changing from a place where you find content to where content finds you, Twitterfeed is well placed to do great things in this space. Twitterfeed is part of betaworks, the team behind Summize (acquired by Twitter), bit.ly, Tweetdeck and chartbeat.
We’re looking for
+ experienced web developer
+ strong experience with dynamic languages (python, ruby, etc) and web
frameworks (django, rails, etc)
+ expertise at managing mysql, legacy data models, and schema migration
+ experience ensuring mysql availability and redundancy -
multi-master, mmm, replication, partitioning, drdb, etc.
+ know how to properly normalize a data model as well as when to denormalize
+ strong unix/linux background
+ conversant in html/css/javascript
+ experience with non-relational data stores (mongo, tokyo, etc)
+ experience with asynchronous processing and message queues
(rabbitmq, gearman, starling, etc)
+ experience with caching infrastructure (nginx, varnish, squid, etc)
obsessions:
+ performance
+ caching
+ availability
+ measurement
a resume is helpful but would love a link to your blog and linkedin profile.
Tony Haile
email tony (at) betaworks (dot) com
