Software Engineer
Location: US, CA, San Francisco
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: E-Learning
Function: Engineering
Description: Wikispaces is looking for a software engineer to build and scale our quickly-growing education technology platform. This position is full time in our San Francisco office. We're a small team working on a big site, and we're looking for an engineer to join us. Wikispaces provides an easy-to-use wiki platform for a very large audience in education. There's lots to do: designing and building new parts of the application, working on our front-end javascript and AJAX, squeezing a few more requests/second out of our web heads, working on our replicated databases and file storage. We don't like big specifications or heavy planning processes; instead, we work on small projects, ship code frequently, and write tests. We're built on PHP, MySQL, python, javascript. Over 35 million unique visitors come to Wikispaces sites every month. You are fluent in PHP, python, Java, or Ruby and can pick up a language from this list you don't yet know. You have personally built large, interesting, or complex web applications before, and can show us what you've done. You're perfectly comfortable with relational databases like MySQL and know the ins-and-outs of writing and optimizing queries against large datasets. You can talk about a wide array of trade-offs facing web developers: use of frameworks vs. in-house code, what caching strategy to choose, how to select 3rd party libraries, what to do when table X hits 500 million rows. You're not a platform zealot, but you think Linux is a fine choice as a server OS. Above all, you love to build and ship products that real people will use every day.Why you should apply We're a small, smart, fast-moving company where you'll play a huge part in the success of our business. We're proud to build applications used by tens of millions of real people every month. If you want to be challenged and rewarded for your success, play a big role in the company you work for, and want life to be free of meetings, office politics, and big-company boredom, drop us a line. Wikispaces is working hard to build the online classroom of the future. We’re a small, independent Silicon Valley team backed by the deep resources of a large company. The same team has been working together in San Francisco's South of Market district for almost nine years, and we are committed to improving the lives of every teacher and student we can. Stop by. We’d love to tell you more about what we’re building.How to apply Please email us at #EMAIL_44c3fb0635e4e114ac1788509da5591e34c3b2e2d5feadf15feb1b23f5fd267f# with a copy of your resume as .doc, .pdf, .odt, or .rtf. In your email, please introduce yourself and, importantly, don't just tell us why you want a job like this. Tell us why you want to work with us on Wikispaces specifically. If you prefer to apply online using your LinkedIn profile, please fill out our application form (#URL_82b491ccb33ea252d36bda4b6a814ca9ba9317e2e203099dd44f88d25b5f7683#?resource=applicant&job_id=6237).  Principals only. Seriously. Recruiters, we appreciate your interest but please don't be offended when we do not take your calls.
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