Bleacher Report • Frontend or DevOps Engineers • San Francisco • full-time or contract
Bleacher Report, the 2nd largest digital sports destination in the U.S. with the #1 sports app by minutes/unique (comScore), is seeking mid-to-senior level engineers with experience designing, building, and shipping applications.
You'll be helping us:
=> Build robust and scalable applications using JavaScript, Ruby, Elixir
=> Drive the evolution of our existing stack to a service-oriented architecture
=> Improve code quality with testing, automation, and code reviews
=> Coordinate with our devops team on releases and the analysis of system performance
=> Manage and optimize services within our continuous monitoring platform
Here’s the kind of experience we’re looking for:
=> 3+ years using a language (not solely a framework), and the willingness to learn new technologies
=> Creating solutions that are extensible, reusable and scalable
Bonus points for:
=> Contributions to open-source communities
=> Experience with AWS, Docker, Erlang, Redis, Node.js
=> Formal computer science education
MVC3 + SQL Server + Mongo + custom software for the realtime calculations.
All components (with the exception of the front-end) are highly abstracted enabling us to swap technologies (e.g. SQL Server to MySQL, Mongo to Memcached) quickly.
It seems more organizations have begun realizing the potential that lies within their own data, and more importantly, that the perceived barriers to entry - large/complex/expensive infrastructure necessary to house and build around these mountains of granular data - no longer exist.
The new challenges revolve around the people, methods, and software that can separate, aggregate, disseminate, and present this information in the most efficient way possible.
The opportunities that lie within and around Big Data are tremendous.