WebAction (<a href="http://www.WebAction.com" >http://www.WebAction.com</a>) - Full time or intern. Palo Alto, CA (Downtown Palo Alto).
Seeking UI/Front-end Engineers and Platform Engineers.
WebAction is a start-up looking to fill the gap between big data and transaction data. We have our initial funding and we are now building out our core engineering team. Our seasoned founding team has multiple successful exits; including some of the key enterprise infrastructure software that you use today. We are located in a newly-renovated office in famous downtown Palo Alto. You can walk to the Apple store in 7 minutes, Starbucks in 8 and the train station in about 15.
UI or front-end Developers should be well-versed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and should be experienced or at least interested in using visualization libraries like d3.js. Strong programming fundamentals and experience with languages like Java/C/C++ is a huge plus. Experience developing native iOS apps would also be strongly desired, but not a requirement.
For the Platform Engineer position, you should have experience  or at least be interested in learning: Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries
If you are interested, email us at REDACTED_EMAIL. In your message, mention "Hacker News" and feel free to let us know about your passions or any technologies that excite you. We look forward to hearing from you.