A stealth-mode top-tier VC backed startup is developing the next generation consumer internet website. The company is located in Mountain View and has been founded by Pavan Nigam, a successful serial entrepreneur, who founded Healtheon/WebMD (along with Jim Clark), and later founded Cendura (acquired by Computer Associates).

Senior server engineer with experience in developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant and distributed web applications.

Great candidates will possess some or all of the following skills:

• MS in Computer Science (PhD´s highly welcome) candidate with experience developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant and distributed web applications
• Strong experience with technologies and paradigms such as LAMP, Database design, Query optimizations, object relation mapping, Lucene and Active MQ
• Expert level experience in developing software in Java
• Familiarity with developing web applications with scripting technologies such as JSP/PHP/Python in conjunction with Javascripting, AJAX and DHTML.
• Familiarity with RSS, Atom, OPML, OpenID and the world of ontologies, taxonomies and semantic networks is a plus
• Familiarity with Open APIs such as Gdata, Facebook, Open Social etc. is a plus