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#Backend engineer

Dolores Labs is funded, growing, and, frankly, where the action is at in San Francisco. However, we have a bit of a problem: Ruby doesn't scale. We need someone to rewrite our entire application in Java. JUST KIDDING. But our system and user base have both been growing by leaps and bounds. We need a creative, smart and resourceful engineer to help our systems meet the growing demands of our users.

##Skills that are a must

Startup: You're able to learn quickly, design creative solutions, and work independently.

People: We have an API which is used by many clients and customers. In addition to building and improving this API, you'll help our customers understand and use it in ways that support their business.

Ruby: We’re a Ruby shop, you should be familiar.

Unix: Our servers are Ubuntu, our workstations are f-ing unibody MacBook Pros (all engineers get a fresh new MacBook Pro on hire).

MVC Web frameworks: We use both Merb and Rails.

##FTW

Chops: Your childhood friends were sed and awk. You've played with Chef or Puppet. You're obsessive about automation.

Side projects: You have a pet project that you've open sourced and enjoy hacking on.

Stats: Numbers is our game. The more you can geek out at this level the better.

Crowdsourcing: You’ve played with Mechanical Turk.

GIT: That’s right, none of that non-distributed version control nonsense.

Taste: We have a pimp office on Valencia and 16th in the Mission, which means you better like tacos.

Humor: You have a sense of it. ;)

##More about the job

As our client base grows, so must our infrastructure. You will be working closely with our Lead Backend Engineer to ensure we don't serve up any 504's. Our system needs do tons of statistical processing efficiently, too. Let's make it happen.

##More about Dolores Labs

We get work done - work that usually takes less than a minute for any lay person to complete. We have thousands of people completing work for us on our systems every day. You'll help us build tools to make it easier to create, perform and analyze this work. The labs was founded by myself Chris Van Pelt, and Lukas Biewald. There are thousands of people around the world working for us, 7 of us here in San Francisco. We're funded and generate revenue. You can find out more at our website, http://doloreslabs.com.

If you're interested, send us an email and resume to resumes@doloreslabs.com. Tell us a little about yourself. What do you like doing outside of work? Any cool hobbies or side projects?

Peace

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