We’re Hiring a Senior Developer
Outside.in is the perfect place to find out what’s going on in the neighborhood you live in. We provide our users with the best way to discover the people, places and conversations in their community. Oh, and we’re also building the future of hyperlocal news and media.
We created outside.in to be the best resource online for keeping up with news and opinions in your neighborhood, finding out the inside scoop on local places or events and meeting interesting new neighbors, and sharing your local knowledge with them. Our platform is the leader in aggregation and delivery of localized content for leading publications.
We have top tier investors and are experiencing major growth. The team is small and deeply talented. We seek a seasoned developer to join our engineering team to help drive conceiving and shipping the next generation of outside.in applications.
We are looking for an entrepreneurial engineer with the following skills:
- Experience with all of the following: Ruby, Rails, REST, Open-Source messaging, Search (Lucene for example), Java and/or C/C++
- Demonstrable track record building distributed and/or clustered, high-throughput applications
- Large repository experience with Subversion, or preferably Git
- At least 6 years experience building large-scale web applications and service-oriented architectures
- Proven experience deploying to high-traffic websites and supporting massive numbers of users
- Text processing and Natural Language Processing experience a plus
- Test-driven development
- Deep SQL skills required, specifically with PostgreSQL
- PostGIS and mapping/geometry knowledge a major plus
- Demonstrable problem-solving and architecture skills. Be able to balance beauty and pragmatism in your designs and code!
If your skill set matches and you’d like to apply, email a cover note and resume to careers<at>outside.in
