Graduate Software Engineer 
Location: PK, PB, Lahore
Department: Engineering Pakistan
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Entry level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Internet
Function: Information Technology
Company profile: Founded in 2010 by a team from Google’s London and New York offices, Qubit work with some of the biggest names in Online. Our engineers have built a brand new platform that combines a number of technologies – analytics, automation, personalisation and more – into a simple, easy-to-use product.We’re not the only ones excited about our brand new approach to solving the problems of modern e-Commerce. Wired magazine named Qubit as one of the top 5 hottest startups in London. We’ve raised $7.5 million in Series A funding from one of the UK’s biggest venture capitalists! Come and join the growing team as we embark on the most exciting chapter in Qubit’s history.Although we’ve now grown to more than 90 people, we’re keen on keeping our culture as relaxed and open as when there were only 5 of us. Our offices have table football, kitchen full of fruit and other snacks, never ending coffee supply, dinner service and lots of other startup perks. More importantly we’re a focused and determined team preparing to double in size during 2014!
Description: Qubit: Cutting Edge Big Data EngineeringQubit is opening its third international office in Lahore, Pakistan - expanding our footprint of cutting edge big data software engineering. This is an opportunity to join an established, rapidly growing startup as we expand internationally.Qubit's platform collects, stores and processes over 1 billion external api calls per day, supporting business critical solutions for some of the world’s largest e-commerce companies.Our core systems include high performance, low latency HTTP services and frameworks, ETL systems with dynamic schema management, machine learning and categorization / AI, Hadoop / MapReduce based workflows, RBDMS (Postgres and MySQL) and Business Intelligence solutions.We’ve developed and deployed a hybrid cloud (AWS and Google Cloud); a dedicated platform tuned for high bandwidth data flows. We primarily work in Java, Scala, Clojure, Python, R and C on Linux based systems.What You'll Be DoingPlatform engineers at Qubit work to solve hard technical problems, designing, building and enhancing core infrastructure systems processing data and gleaning insights in real time at very large scale.We work in small, agile teams with comprehensive domain expertise and a culture that champions innovation and continuous improvement.Wherever possible, we have a policy of contributing back to the open source software we use extensively at Qubit.Learning from experienced engineers and gaining the required experience to progress your career fast
Requirements: What You'll NeedBy submitting your application you understand that Qubit will store your data in accordance with local lawsA degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related degree (or additional relevant experience)A passion to learn and a real interest in writing large complex systems in distributed teamsAn interest in or knowledge of data structures and algorithmsComfortable writing code in a typed language like C++, Java, C# or similarBe open to learning new tools and skillsPreferred (but not required) experience:Core JavaAn interest in major open source data systems and libraries used at Qubit: Hadoop, Mapreduce, Hive, HDFS, Netty, Lucene, Postgres, AntlrA passion for learning new languages such as: Scala, Haskell, Clojure, Python, Javascript, Ruby etcA curiosity for cloud based architecture design
Benefits: Plenty of perksAs well as the opportunity to solve complex problems in this exciting new era of big data, here’s what we offer:Realistic performance related bonusesGenerous equity options mean you’ll own a piece of the pieExcellent health and dental insurance packagesA relaxed approach to time off and enough holidays to see several corners of the worldPlenty of opportunities for training and development
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