GinzaMetrics Is Hiring a Director / VP of Engineering
Location: San Francisco, CA

GinzaMetrics is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with additional locations in Tokyo and Europe.

We produce a content intelligence SaaS platform that is used every day by brands, agencies, and ecommerce companies to increase revenue and growth via SEO & content marketing.

Our customer base now spans 45 countries with data coverage in over 120 countries and 25 languages. Because of our architecture, business model and focus on automation, we're able to provide far more insight across larger data volumes than other players on the market and we do so at a fraction of the cost. We're growing quickly, have solid, recurring revenue and many customers that love our platform.

If you're interested in large-scale web crawling, building flexible, real-time analytics across streaming, disparate data sets, and helping companies get better at reaching their customers through high quality content, we'd love to speak with you.

What it's like to work at GinzaMetrics:

We place a high value on communication, responsiveness and autonomy. We're a hard-working team and we solve bigger problems than our small team size would seem capable of solving. Our business is growing quickly and our #1 goal is to make our customers happy every day.

Job Description:

The Director / VP of Engineering will report directly to the CEO and is responsible for the overall quality and delivery of new product features and high quality operations. The ideal candidate will bring energy, experience and commitment to our mission as a company.

You'll run the development and technical operations team and work with other departments in order to provide a high level of quality communication.

This is a management role but it is also very hands-on, technically speaking.

Our stack / tools:

- Ruby / Rails

- MySQL / PostgreSQL

- JavaScript

- jQuery

- Angular.js

- Highcharts

- D3.js

- Amazon S3

- Lots of APIs (ad networks, social networks, etc.)

- Redis

- Resque

- Github

- Memcache

- Chef

- Jenkins

Technical Requirements:

We're looking for an engineering level with senior level, full-stack experience in Ruby on Rails or similar environment (experience in other languages and frameworks such as Python / Python frameworks is fine, but we're not going to rewrite things in your favorite language).

- Strong understanding and experience with UNIX / Linux tools and concepts

- Familiar with web application security principles / encryption best practices

- Ability to ramp up in our environment and be productive in 1 week (we provide a comprehensive ramping-up guide)

- Solid understanding and experience in SQL and SQL optimization (indexes, queries, write-read performance, etc.)

- Solid understanding of NoSQL principles and tradeoffs

- Solid understanding of distributed systems / architectures

- Strong knowledge of unicode / internationalization / encoding issues

Bonus / really great to have:

- Understanding / experience with large-scale ETL

- Understanding / experience large-scale data warehousing technologies

- Understanding / experience with OLAP (we don't use MDX, etc. but understanding this sort of model will help you adapt to our platform quickly)

- Experience with Cassandra, Storm, Kafka and / or similar tools

- Experience with web crawling, text mining and headless browser automation

Other Requirements:

- Fanaticism about our market and our product

- Ability / willingness to quickly ramp up on our industry and become an expert in the field

- Courage

- Ability to communicate well and make recommendations in the context of an overall set of possible solutions, with benefits / tradeoffs for each

- Humility towards team members, hubris towards opportunity

- Self-starter

Website:

www.ginzametrics.com

How to apply:

Email us your LinkedIn URL and github profile (if you have any open source code or contributions) at hackers@ginzametrics.com.

No recruiters!