Loomia, a leader in the recommendations and personalization space, is looking for a Senior Application Engineer with expertise in large scale software infrastructures. 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 an established product with a lot of demand and you should want to solve interesting problems that directly impact the company’s success.

 Essential Responsibilities

As a key member of the development team, you will help create an overall technical vision for our platform. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of delivering production quality software in high volume environments. You should be able to craft an architecture with custom built software and the latest technologies like memcache, CDNs, squid, hypertable (these are just examples).

You will lead and mentor mid and junior level application engineers throughout the design and development phases. Having a solid foundation of software engineering best practices and the ability to put them to use will be key for this role. As the team grows, your ability to champion improvements in our system architecture as well as our processes for software development will be critical. You will work closely with product management and QA to ensure succesful delivery of your software.

Your background and experience should include expertise in some of the following:

• Algorithms
• Statistics
• Analytics
• Search/web crawling
• Recommendations
• Advertising Targeting/Delivery

We are an Open Source, LAMP shop so you should be confident you can excel in that type of environment. We code in python, but we are looking for  a great developer and not a python expert. We expect that an experienced programmer can learn a language like python in a few weeks.

To apply: jj.hogan@loomia.com

At Loomia we're forever changing the way people around the world will use the internet. While we work hard (it is a startup!), we have a lot of fun and learn new things along the way. It's the passion and creativity of the "Loomites" that have made us successful, and we're looking forward to seeing some new faces on the team as we grow. As you would expect, we also offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. But mainly, it's about working on cool things with great people. We love building technology that our friends, along with millions of other people, use everyday and we're lucky to have such an opportunity to make the internet a more personal, relevant, place.