Senior Platform Engineer
Company Background:
Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men's, Women's, Children's, Beauty, and Home coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer. The business model, based on urgency and scarcity, offers extraordinary goods at incredible prices, but only for a limited time. All of these sales occur daily at noon, driven by daily email reminders and alerts to a private membership. Most of the hot items are sold within the first 10 minutes, with the bulk of sales occurring within the first 90 minutes.
The business causes a daily, massive flood of transactional traffic at noon. Hundreds of thousands of shoppers compete online for the limited inventory, creating the need for a highly scalable and reliable web infrastructure. Our peak traffic is approaching the average load of large ecommerce sites like Amazon.com. The platform team is building an infrastructure that can handle it.
The Senior Platform Engineer will be working with some of the best developers around, as well as reporting to someone who has been nominated for a “Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award.”
Must have skills
· 5+ years of Core Java, C++ or Python experience
· 5+ years of SQL experience
· Working knowledge of Agile Methodologies
· Bachelors in Computer science
Technical Environment:
Java, Ruby, JRuby, JavaScript, AJAX and Cloud Computing
Database Environment: PostgreSQL, alternative persistence stores like Voldemort
We like open source – we use it and we participate in projects – and we like transparent and open development processes. We’re not afraid to use non-mainstream technologies if they get the job done.
We use a blend of technologies, languages and architectures and aren’t afraid to explore new ideas and take risks.
Key Responsibilities:
You will develop and maintain the scalable data and services platform upon with the Gilt Group sites are built.
Candidates will have:
• Experience in a full software development life cycle from initial design to deployment
• At least 5 years experience in developing, delivering and supporting production-quality software, with a preference towards infrastructure and systems
• We have no hard requirement for programming language expertise, but our preference is Java, C++ (and then others) in that order
• An interest in using open source technology, as well as an interest in participating in open source projects
• Experience with building or working with distributed, network-connected systems
• Experience with relational databases (with non-relational a plus)
If interested, please send your resume to [email protected]
