Java Senior Systems Engineer
We are a fast-growing company thriving through the economic downturn by providing a unique and much needed travel service. We are looking for an outstanding senior systems engineer with experience developing high scale search applications. Candidate has desire to work directly with product, business teams and the current systems engineers to have direct influence on the direction and quality of the leading travel search engine.
Experience (required):
- 5 years working with high volume search applications.
- 5 years Java systems software engineering
- Practical experience with Lucene, Solr.
- MySql or other relational DB
Experience (ideal):
- Knowledge of Nutch
- Knowledge of Hadoop
- Bonus points for experience with data collection and web crawling and for knowing what hosers and haggis have in common
- Extra bonus points for having a better sense of humor than the average bear
- Super bonus points for knowing what who the MFY are and why they deserve the acronym
Skills, Character, Style:
- Results oriented, focused on outcomes
- Strong conviction, ability to make recommendations based on intuition and data
- Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills
- Positive attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable to fast paced, changing needs of a start up
- Passion for building great products and creating remarkable user experiences
- Acts and makes decisions with speed
- Energy and commitment to make a start up succeed
- Good sense of humor
About us:
Less than three years since we launched, UpTake Networks has become the largest independent travel research site and we have helped over 30 million travelers research their trips over the last 12 months. Now that we have proven our business model we are turning out attention to the consumer experience. We are actively building out our product and engineering teams to help travelers research and make better, faster decisions about where to go, where to stay and what to do. We are growing over 200% annually and we are funded to profitability with proven investors in Shasta and Trinity Ventures.
We are a fun and competitive bunch with a sunny downtown Palo Alto office & patio that is stumbling distance from Caltrain and great restaurants.
Telecommuting is a regular part of everyone's life at UpTake.
Please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@uptake.com in MS WORD or PDF. Please put your first and last name in the SUBJECT line along with the job title.