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full time Senior Software Engineer at Zoosk

at Seth Dawson in San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Zoosk is looking to add a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about working with massive amounts of data to join our crew in San Francisco. We’re looking for someone with plenty of experience in delivering robust large-scale online applications using relational databases. You will be responsible for expanding and scaling the existing data layer plus architecting for future features from conceptual design phase to the implementation and scaling it to millions of users. If building systems that can scale horizontally, deploying to massive cloud clusters, or optimizing execution times down to milliseconds gets your blood boiling, this is the position for you.
Responsibilities

* Conceptually design systems that are built from ground up to “scale” * Architect, design, and develop database schema and the corresponding data-layer logic * Develop Object Oriented libraries that give web developers optimal access to the data layer * Measure, benchmark, and optimize existing/new data architecture to improve performance * Mentor and work with web developers to take full advantage of your “smart” db design * Create and contribute to open source projects while you work on high traffic and scalability problems at Zoosk

Qualifications

* 3+ years of experience in delivering robust large-scale online applications * Intimate knowledge of relational database concepts and patterns * Excellent knowledge of SQL query design and optimization * Excellent understanding of Object Oriented design, coding and testing patterns * Experience with writing stored procedures and data layer for multi-tier applications * Knowledge of best practices in delivering highly available systems (replication, clustering, etc) * Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and/or frameworks is a must * Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or another relevant field * Experience with MySQL 5 is very desired * Experience with Linux, PHP, Apache is preferred * Previous startup experience and development in an Agile development life cycle is preferred

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