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WebAction - Downtown Palo Alto, CA. Local only http://webaction.com Hiring Lead Front-End Developers, UI/UX designers, Web Developers, and Big Data Platform Developers (java). WebAction is a real-time big data platform that bridges the gap between users and terabytes/petabytes of diverse, fast moving, and physically disparate data with a simple, SQL interface and state-of-the-art visual app designer. We do this by offering high-speed acquisition of over 50 types of data sources with pre-built adapters, distributed stream processing and caching, and real-time querying of stored data in one platform. As a result, our customers rapidly create real-time, mission critical data-driven solutions that would normally take months to years of development effort with a mish-mash of multiple paid products or development-intensive open source libraries. Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records (CEO of WebLogic/GoldenGate Software, executive team from GoldenGate software), WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley. We're also well funded (recently raised $11m Series B by a private equity firm with a $15 billion fund). We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, generous equity for the right candidates. Our office is also a short walk from some great restaurants and coffee spots on University Avenue in Downtown Palo Alto. For the Lead Front-End Developer Position: -Turn mockups and wireframes into functional, fluid web components -Implementing beautiful and robust dashboards using d3.js or other js/HTML5 charting libraries -Building re-usable dashboard-development frameworks -Creating user interface and web apps for various industry applications like ATM monitoring, predictive fraud detection, and data center monitoring Requirements: -Strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML, and jQuery -Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment Nice to haves -Experience with Backbone.js, angular.js or other front-end MV* frameworks -An interest in the type of scalable systems you hear about at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. -You’re interested in telling stories and revealing anomalies through data visualization For the Platform Engineering position, we ask that you have experience writing clean code in Java and have a strong desire and skills to work on a scalable, highly optimized data management infrastructure. We ask that you have the following skills: -Large-scale distributed systems -Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper) - Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers) - Experience with HBase or Cassandra or Elasticsearch -Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries For the Web Developer position, you should be well versed in HTML/CSS/jQuery. You should be able to work with designers to create visual components that maintain the integrity of the design while achieving fluid performance in the browser. If you're interested, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@webaction.com