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Erlang Developer, Cape Town, South Africa

An experienced Erlang developer is required to join an existing project in South Africa. The technologies in use are associated with the Mobile Telecoms market. Experience of “Presence” would be an advantage. Knowledge of SMS communications protocols, Mnesia, RIAK, Telecoms and Erlang/OTP will assist in your consideration for this role.

Immediate start to contract if you are the right person. Rates to reflect skill level and aptitude.

Senior Erlang/Python hacker, Disco Map/Reduce, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Engineer scalable infrastructure for Big Data from the ground up, together with specialists in large-scale computing, visualization, data mining and machine learning. Get paid to contribute to one of the most exciting open-source Map/Reduce implementations in the world, Disco (discoproject.org), using Erlang, Python and Javascript.

Our client is looking for candidates with strong experience using Erlang, Python, and Javascript and who are familiar with problems of scalability and distributed computing. Experience with other languages, such as C, Haskell or Standard ML, is a plus. Candidates should be comfortable thinking in the Map/Reduce paradigm and anxious to develop tools for data analysis and machine learning that go well beyond the state-of-the-art.

Junior and senior superhackers wanted, Sweden

Facebook, Google and Amazon have with great success been using new technologies and tools to build high performance and reliable services on the Internet. Now our client is looking for great programmers who want to take these technologies even further. These positions are especially interesting to those of you wishing to join an exceptional development team with some of the worlds most renown Erlang programmers.

The position

Our client is looking for new colleagues who can help develop the system which is the core of our client services that serve millions of consumers around Scandinavia. You will have the opportunity to learn Erlang - a functional and concurrent programming language which makes it easy to program in mulitcore and distributed environments.

As a developer your work will help our client reach 1,5 million consumers and support the 4000 e-stores that daily work in the system. Your code will analyse and process transactions for several billion kronor per year in a complex and distributed environment.

In your work you will cooperate closely with the rest of the development department in an atmosphere of performance and entrepreneurship. If you have the ambition to grow and learn then we have the tools and desire to help you do so. We have chosen to create a development department that stimulates every developer and gives them great personal freedom. We develop using the Scrum agile methodology with two week iterations, or sprints, and each team has great freedom to organise it's own work.

Our client is looking for those of you who are very talented programmers with a love of writing high-quality code have a strong desire to get things done want to work with the latest technologies within web (e.g. Erlang, Ajax and Google-wave) are creative and innovative are analytical can work independently are interested in usability have an academic qualification, preferably within Computer Science or a similar subject love to program in functional languages (e.g. Erlang, Haskell, Scheme) or modern high level languages such as Scala, Ruby and Python.

We look positively on candidates with experience of: GUI-development, internet banks, distributed databases, Scrum, electronic payment methods, statistical analysis, Erlang, XML, HTML, Yaws, OTP, Mnesia.

To qualify for the position you are expected to pass several tests most of which are designed to test your ability as a programmer. A typical test question could be "write a function which compares two strings containing persons full names and checks to see if they are identical except for the order of the names".

Senior Erlang Developer, London, UK

Gambit Research is a West London software company developing market information and trading software for the betting industry.
We are looking to hire an experienced Erlang developer to work on extending and improving an existing trading system. This role will involve working as part of a small team of Erlang developers and working closely with Python developers and the trading team.
You should have experience of developing reliable, fault tolerant applications in Erlang. Experience with UNIX, networking, PostgreSQL and Python would also be highly desirable.

Starting salary £30,000 plus, depending on experience.
25 days holiday per year.
Discretionary bonus scheme.
Flexible working hours.
Relaxed and informal working environment.

Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Engineering, San Mateo, CA, USA

Responsibilities:
    * participate in the research and design for state-of-the-art fault-tolerant management frameworks
    * own the design process, implementation, and verification of framework components leveraging standard software engineering methodologies
    * maintain and improve existing infrastructure components

Requirements:
    * a passion for building great software
    * extensive experience in developing highly scalable distributed systems
    * in-depth understanding of High Availability concepts, e.g., replication, consensus protocols
    * strong system development skills
    * good knowledge of parallel programming paradigms
    * advanced degree in CS, or equivalent
    * solid coding skills in Erlang/OTP
    * team player; capable of conducting independent research
    * result-driven, self-motivated, self-starter
    * not afraid to take on hard technical challenges
    * excellent communication skills

Experience in any of the following fields is a definite plus:
    * database internals
    * experience with PostgreSQL/Greenplum Database
    * enterprise software development

Principal, IT Architecture, Financial Services, Menlo Park, California (USA)

Our client is looking for dynamic, highly energized risk-takers who are ready to join a fast-paced, world leader in the financial services industry. They move at the speed of the Internet. Their work culture fosters an incredible exposure to innovative ideas and challenges that create experience and opportunity. Many have risen through the organization to become industry leaders, in both the financial services world and in the community at large. Our client made up of some of the brightest and most talented people in the industry - are you ready to join the industry leader?

1. Essential Responsibilities:

Architect, Service Oriented Architecture
Design and Develop solutions in the are of SOA, Distributed Computing and Software Packaging and Release methodologies.
Assist in day-to-day developer support for Services and Packaging frameworks
Write code in Java, C and Erlang
Evaluation of state of the art Open Source frameworks
Present Solutions, and work with other technology managers to craft solutions

2. Qualifications

5+ yrs in-depth C or C++ experience
Strong Distributed Computing knowledge
Experience with Web services, SOAP, WSDL/XSD, Service Orchestration, etc.
Experience in scripting languages, such as Ruby, Python, or Perl.
Experience with AJAX technologies.
In-depth experience with Linux, Unix.
Experience with Agile Methods, including Test Driven Development.
Experience with Erlang or Functional Programming

3. Minimum Education, Certification, Training:

BS degree, preferably in Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, but
Computer Science is acceptable

Systems Administrator, London, UK

We are seeking a competent Systems Administrator to develop our business and development environment.

1. The requirement

The ideal applicant will need to have experience of setting up an office infrastructure for a software development company where there are hosted components and office based components. We also have offices in Krakow and Uppsala that should have access to the infrastructure. Our goal is to phase out Microsoft and move completely over to Open Office and Open Source offerings so somebody who understands and believes in this approach is hugely desirable.

The following are a broad list of the technologies and application we are either using, or intend to use and which the incumbent would be expected, in the longer term, to manage and improve.

OS: Windows XP and Vista, All flavours of Linux, UNIX.
DB's: mySQL, Postgresql, Berkley DB
Collaborative environments: MS Exchange and Zimbra
Office suites: MS Office and Open Office,
Set up of VPNs
Set up and maintenance of Firewalls
Wireless Networks
PBX's: Nortel BCM50
Wiki's
Single Sign on
File share and Backups
Process for signing up new users and removing leavers
Policies for access privileges
Security and encryption
Experience of CRM systems like SugarCRM or Salesforce and Trouble Ticketing systems like Bugzilla or Trac would be desirable
Knowledge of email and IM protocols are useful
Experience of dealing with service providers and selecting best ADSL, SDSL services is also a plus as well as SLA's

Selection and recommendations for hardware purchases Ability to work alone and under pressure

A hands on and "I can do it" attitude

Confident person

A creative thinker

2. The company offers:
A supportive and friendly working atmosphere together with the opportunity to progress.
Salary: 22,000GBP - 28,000GBP + Discretionary Bonus

Benefits: Private Health Insurance, Life Protection, 20 days holiday, Bike Scheme, Stakeholder Pension Scheme.

Training and advancement is on offer once the successful candidate has proven themselves within the company as a dedicated member of the team.

Only applicants who have a legal right to work within the UK will be considered.