iCracked (YC W12) Opens 5th Office in SF and Needs a Dev Ops Architect
iCracked is looking for a Release/Systems Architect to join our team in creating the ultimate on-demand repair and trade-in service. We connect thousands of customers to our iTechs each month and are building a deployable service network of iTechs in every city worldwide that we have demand in.

Our company is just under 120 strong with offices in SF, Redwood City, London, and Berlin and the iCracked engineering team is currently 15 strong and we are looking to grow that to ~35 in the next 12 months. Our system currently consists of our website, 3 sets of custom built business admin tools and 3 iOS apps (1 consumer and 2 enterprise). Our stack is powered by PHP, MySQL and Javascript (JQuery and AngularJS). We also have 5 people on our front end engineering team that are excellent (Check out iCracked.com)

We have a platform that powers hundreds of iTechs that’s based on managing and optimizing, on demand workforce through a robust backend platform and network. You can think of it as an Uber-like service, but addressing an entirely different market need. The company is on fire.

-Revenues have gone from $1.7M in 2012, to $>17M in 2014 with massive growth estimated for 2015. We are #83 on the fastest growing INC 5000 companies globally.

-Backed by the preeminent Venture Capital firms in Silicon Valley and growing like crazy. Graduate of Y-Combinator (W12)

-Poised to dominate a massive global market with backend technology that can be applied to a variety of different markets in the future.

-We're building a complete Warranty, Repair, and Trade-In platform that should consolidate 3 multi-billion dollar a year industries under one consumer brand.

-We have an incredibly talented and fun team put together and -are excited to talk to new members that can add tremendous value while doing the best work of their lives.

-We're a lean development team that moves fast. We push to production multiple times a day and continuously iterate on the core service. This is an exciting time to join if you truly want to be involved in developing the core product at a tech driven company.

The Release/Systems Architect would be responsible for building and maintaining our release systems and processes. They will be the gatekeeper for our code and will be responsible for pushing updates to our web and mobile applications. They will also be responsible for the health and monitoring of our AWS deployments. This will include installing and configuring software packages such as Nagios/Munin/etc. A successful candidate will have experience working with performant high uptime environments, security best practice, release management and be adept at automating various release processes.

To really set yourself apart, we'd love to see web projects, apps (maybe even your own startup, we love founders) you've created from scratch in your free time. Send us a link with a short description.

What we’re looking for in you:

-Data driven

-Demonstrated passion for developing your own projects

-Expert with: PHP, MySQL, Git, AWS, Continuous Integration, Release Management, Shell Scripting, System Administration

-Familiarity with: debian, nginx, redis, munin, nagios, etc

-Comfortable with using tools such as strace, iostat, blktrace, tcpdump, netstat, etc to find bottlenecks, and issues. Even gdb if necessary.

-Bonus Points (but not required): Asana, Javascript, imagemagick, Docker, configuration management software (Puppet, Chef, etc), Graphite,

With iCracked, you wouldn’t be starting a new job; you would be joining a family. We take care of all team members and provide almost all amenities to make everybody’s lives better. Salary is negotiable and we have set aside great equity packages and other benefits for you.

If you're interested in joining us reach out to me at AJ[at]iCracked.com

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