Platform Software Engineer
Location: Manhattan, New York City
Patch Labs is building new ways to make life easier for you and your neighbors.
We need your help. We’re building a small band of talented professionals with the imagination to dream up new ideas and the drive to turn them into intuitively useful software.
About you
- You’re smart, and make it happen
- You love being part of a small team that solves big problems
- You’re pragmatic when architecting solutions to real world challenges
- You’re informed by both well established and emerging approaches to solving big problems
- You keep the end user in mind, and appreciate the value of developing useful software that scales
- You’re Agile where it makes sense, but always sensible, clever and hard-working
Role
Responsibilities
As a founding member of Patch Labs, you will work closely with a front-end engineer, user experience designer and product manager to create really useful, intuitive software. Specifically, you will:
- Architect, build and ship highly-scalable systems, libraries, and frameworks
- Code using primarily modern languages (Scala, Clojure, Ruby, etc.)
Requirements
- Passion for building software that makes life easier
- An understanding of the challenges involved in building popular applications at web scale
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Given the breadth of scenarios we’ll tackle at Patch Labs, experience or interest in the following would be ideal:
- NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, etc.)
- Search relevance solutions (scoring functions, query classification, text normalization, etc.) and technologies (Lucene-based, Real-Time search, etc.)
- Cloud based services and hosting (AWS EC2, etc.)
- Developing APIs and Web Services
- Consuming interesting APIs (Twilio, GroupMe, Venmo, Foursquare, Twitter, etc.)
- Geo-location, geometry and mapping
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Mobile development
- Open source projects
- Comfort with Git
What We Offer
- A driven, motivated, and talented team that believes in working hard and reaping the rewards
- Laid-back office environment in the heart of SoHo
- Competitive compensation and excellent benefits
To Apply
Send all of the following (and anything else to help you stand-out) to labs+platform@patch.com:
- Cover note explaining why we should work together
- Resume in a standard format (.txt, .doc, .pdf) and/or link to online career profile (e.g. LinkedIn)
- Links to online portfolios, code repositories, sample projects, live applications, etc.
