Company: Aardvark (www.vark.com)
Aardvark is a revolutionary social search service that makes it easy to find subjective information. Users ask Aardvark any question via IM or email and receive live answers from knowledgeable people in their network. Learn more about our products at
http://vark.com
Starting in early 2008 the company raised seed financing from a number of premier angel investors and carefully grew a high-caliber engineering team. Today, the company is backed by a leading venture capital firm and includes founders from more than a half-dozen successful startups, four AI Ph.D.s, and engineers from Silicon Valley's major technology companies.
Position: Senior Software Engineer
Aardvark engineers are careful implementers who are curious about how things work. They lean on large levers to get more done, faster, and enjoy applying new tools to
the new opportunities afforded by today's web. They endeavor to solve real-world problems for real people (including the rest of the company), and aren't afraid to think big. As senior engineer, you bring several years of super star technical and managerial experience to the table.
General requirements:
- Graduate degree in CS or Computer engineering from a leading institution
- 10+ years direct technical experience in one or more of the following fields
- Web Development: fluent in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, scripting languages, server technologies, and modern levers (rails, etc.)
- Systems Engineering: degree in CS (graduate preferred) with experience in distributed systems, network programming, or storage systems in Java, C++, or a similar language
- Artificial Intelligence: experience with natural language processing, information retrieval, or machine learning
- Proven technical project management experience and/or willingess to mentor more junior engineering staff
- Proven track record of developing and launching products end-to-end under tight deadlines
- Affinity for rapid prototyping
- Flexibility when faced with complex challenges
Please make sure your name is in the subject of the email and send your resume to careers+101A@aardvarkteam.com
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