Golang / Go Job: Platform Engineer - Business Infrastructure

Platform Engineer - Business Infrastructure at Zoosk

🇺🇸 United States › California › San Francisco   (Posted Apr 5 2014)

About the company
Zoosk’s mission is to empower everyone to lead a more fulfilling love life. Zoosk is a leading online dating company that learns as you click in order to pair you with singles with whom you’re likely to discover a mutual attraction. Zoosk’s unique Behavioral Matchmaking™ technology is constantly learning from the actions of over 40 million active members in order to deliver better matches in real time. With the #1 dating app and a top 10 grossing app overall in the Apple App Store, Zoosk is the market leader in mobile dating. Available in 80 countries, translated into 25 languages, and available in 55 currencies, Zoosk is a global online dating platform.

Job position
Permanent

Job description
At Zoosk, we take great pride in using technology to improve the lives of our customers. We are now taking that expertise and applying it in-house. The Business Infrastructure team has a mandate to provide mission critical infrastructure with greenfield development opportunities. We are looking for highly driven engineers looking to get in on the ground floor of the next big thing here at Zoosk. As a highly visible member of the team, you will enjoy the breadth of responsibilities the role entails and will have the opportunity to shape future development work here at Zoosk.

Skills & requirements
Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience in Scala (preferred) or Java server-side development
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience
• Familiarity with data storage technologies - understand trade-offs of SQL vs. NoSQL
• A talent for diagnosing performance issues
• Fluency in design patterns and engineering best practices
Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and, maintain high-performance, scalable systems
• Drive projects from requirements gathering through delivery
• Provide/test performant, RESTful services for internal tools

Nice to Have:

• Experience using the Play 2 framework for providing scalable, event-based infrastructure
• Knowledge of SOA patterns
• DevOps skills (Bash, config management tools)
• Interest in alternative JVM languages or Golang
• Active participant in the open source community with a GitHub or other account

Apply now!