Software Engineer Job Posting
| Job Title: | Software Engineer |
| Company: | WeatherBill |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | - |
| Date Posted: | Nov-02-09 |
WeatherBill, Inc. (www.weatherbill.com) provides the only online service that allows businesses to protect revenue and control costs from the impact of bad weather. Founded by CEO David Friedberg and CTO Siraj Khaliq, former members of the Google team, WeatherBill is funded by New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures, and Allen & Company and is backed by Nephila Capital, one of the world's largest weather risk and catastrophe reinsurance fund managers.
We are looking for a superstar Software Engineer to join the team building our groundbreaking online financial products and services for managing weather risk. Candidates will use their strong engineering/analytical skills and personal drive to further innovate and maintain leadership in our new and fast-growing industry.
Your Qualifications:
• Ambitious, driven, and talented individual who wants to work on challenging and potentially world-changing problems
• Team player who feels at home in an open and flat-structured environment, and takes pride in a job well done
• Strong all-round engineer who writes well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
• At least two years of experience developing with Ruby, Python or Java
• Motivated to try new languages and technologies to solve hard problems (Scala, Clojure, Hadoop, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails, RSpec, RESTful architectures and other server techologies
• Comfortable using Git for version control
• Proficient in a Unix/Linux environment
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, etc.) preferred
• Familiarity with financial concepts preferred
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field from good university with high GPA; Masters preferred
What You'd Do:
• Architect, build, and test new WeatherBill products and services
• Develop and expand infrastructure to process high volume financial transactions and run fault-tolerant compute-intensive mathematics applications
• Tackle a wide variety of engineering problems as needed - we are a small team and we all share roles
• Brainstorm with the team and prototype new concepts and ideas rapidly
What We Offer:
• A driven, motivated, and talented team that believes in working hard and playing hard
• Energetic, idea-driven and transparent work environment
• Exciting world-changing opportunity - we are striving to do something very big about something that affects everyone
• Award-winning South of Market office across the street from South Park
• Competitive salary and great benefits
About WeatherBill
For more information about WeatherBill, please visit our website at http://www.weatherbill.com/about.
| Location: | US-CA-San Francisco |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | Human Resources |
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