Desired Skills and Experience
- Provide input to the design and development of products and major components of the Kimono platform, which presently serve millions of students
- Ensure our products scale and perform consistently and reliably.
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Develop and Maintain effective dashboards using our instrumentation tools (New Relic, Librato)
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent software engineering and product development experience
- Highly analytical, detail oriented and ability to work with complex logic
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Experience with Java, Ruby and/ or other scripting language, a plus.
- Experience with Heroku, AWS and other highly scalable cloud environments.
- Experience designing and developing highly scalable messaging platforms.
- Education experience a plus.
- Competitive salary & retirement benefits
- 10 paid holidays plus generous paid vacation
- Full medical & dental
- HSA program, disability, & life insurance
- Flexible work schedules
- Fun, relaxed environment
- Work with a small, bright, dedicated team
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