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Back-End Software Engineer | Data Infrastructure

Created on 12-08-2016
Location Palo Alto

Description

About Houzz
Houzz is the leading home renovation and design platform in the world. We have a highly engaged community of more than 40 million unique monthly users who leverage our technologies to find inspiration for their next home project, connect with over 2.3 million home design and remodeling professionals and discover products in the Houzz Shop.
About the Role
We are looking for a world-class software engineer to build systems that will scale with the growth of our site, the most popular home remodeling site in the world. You’ll make data easy to use for our entire team.  Your tools will make it easy for our data analysts to find deep insight into user behavior. You will build scalable systems that make it easy for our team of machine learning experts to bring powerful recommendation and personalization models to production.
What You'll Do
  • Build scalable systems that process, store and serve terabytes of data
  • Optimize systems from hardware to software level
  • Gather requirements and build new solutions to solve the pain points of analysts and developers
  • At a Minimum, We'd Like You to Have
  • Experience owning complete pipelines or data stores
  • Production experience with large scale distributed systems including triaging failures and performance tuning
  • Proficiency in modern compiled and scripting languages such as Java and Python
  • Experience with modern data technology including Hadoop, NoSQL data stores, key-value stores, MPP warehouse solutions, etc.
  • Independence, self-direction and an amazing ability to get stuff done
  • Strong understanding of algorithms, web services and data management
  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years experience ideally including technical lead roles
  • Benefit

    TGIF lunches

    TGIF lunches

    Cake and birthday celebrations every Fridays!

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    Possibility to earn high commissions

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    Access to our flexible benefits program including childcare vouchers, Cycle to Work (bicycle parking and showers available onsite), dental insurance, health screenings and an annual season ticket subsidy and loan program.

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    Gym membership discounts (London)

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