Loomia, a leader in the recommendations and personalization space, is looking for a Senior Server Engineer/Scalability Expert who is passionate about designing and building the next generation recommendations delivery platform. You will be part of a small group of talented engineers building the features and infrastructure components used by high volume sites to deliver personalized content from multiple sources to hundreds of millions of people on multiple delivery platforms (web, phone, iptv and more). We have a proven product with a lot of demand and you should want to solve interesting problems that directly impact the company’s success.

The ideal candidate is an energetic, self-driven engineering contributor with experience across a range of platforms and architectures. You will have a track record of delivering high quality products on time that meet or exceed the product requirements and customer expectation.

Reports to: VP of Engineering
Essential Responsibilities

Given a business or technical requirement, you will design (at an appropriate level of detail using architecture diagrams, API designs, etc.) and implement reliable platform components. You will be diligent about reusing well-tested libraries, writing unit tests and understand how to write software with the correct level of abstraction. You should also have a deep grounding in computer science algorithms, systems design and high performance systems.
Requirements

* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* 8+ years of professional software experience developing mission-critical applications.
* 5+ years experience working in interpreted languages like Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby
* 5+ years experience working in compiled languages like C++, Java, C
* 3+ years design and/or lead experience
* 2+ years experience working with open-source LAMP stack
* Extremely fast learner, strong can-do attitude, and a real team player
* History of delivering successful software products on time.