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500px
Original posting
500px.com, Toronto
We are looking for a senior, performance-driven full-stack Web developer who can help us to bring 500px to the next level in terms of scaling, speed, and user experience. Check out other dev positions at http://500px.com/jobs
About us:
500px is an award-winning online community for the sharing, discovery, buying and selling of high-quality photography. Check out http://500px.com/popular
About you:
- 5+ years of experience with high traffic websites, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed systems and large data analysis
- Passionate about writing high-quality, maintainable and robust code
- Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and C, or the ability to learn them quickly
- Solid understanding web technologies including HTTP(s), RESTful services, HTML5
- Software development tools (git, bug tracking) and *nix environment
We need help with:
- Designing, implementing and optimizing products and services used by millions of users.
- Improving real-time algorithms for photos rating, image recognition, content recommendations and spam detection
- Building highly scalable API services
- Bringing beautiful UI/UX designs to life