Director of Server Engineering

Summary

Kyte is looking for an "ace" server-side architect with an enthusiasm for working with new technologies and building massively scalable system infrastructures. You will be leading our back-end development team and driving forward a challenging agenda of both new functionality and support for rapidly growing traffic. This position is full-time and you will be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco, close to MUNI and BART.

Experience

  • Success leading teams in high pressure environments
  • Grid computing and clustered cache solutions
  • High performance socket and HTTP tunnel data transport
  • Staged Event Driven Architecture
  • AJAX and other "rich web" techniques
  • Spring 2.x
  • Hibernate 3.x
  • Mobile web/WAP development
  • Complex Ant build systems
  • Performance testing tools

Requirements

  • 10+ years experience writing high-performance, web-related software with Java/C++
  • Expert with client/server networked applications
  • Expert with object-oriented framework and design
  • In-depth knowledge of Unix, Windows, web servers, and application servers
  • Experience building massively scalable internet applications
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Ability to accurately estimate and appropriately delegate tasks
  • Ability to write clean, coherent code
  • Ability to understand and master new technologies quickly
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Desire to learn and to teach

Interested parties please email resume to .