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Bleacher Report, the 2nd largest digital sports destination in the U.S. with the #1 sports app by minutes/unique (comScore), is seeking mid-to-senior level engineers with experience designing, building, and shipping applications.
You'll be helping us:
=> Build robust and scalable applications using JavaScript, Ruby, Elixir
=> Drive the evolution of our existing stack to a service-oriented architecture
=> Improve code quality with testing, automation, and code reviews
=> Coordinate with our devops team on releases and the analysis of system performance
=> Manage and optimize services within our continuous monitoring platform
Here’s the kind of experience we’re looking for:
=> 3+ years using a language (not solely a framework), and the willingness to learn new technologies
=> Creating solutions that are extensible, reusable and scalable
Bonus points for:
=> Contributions to open-source communities => Experience with AWS, Docker, Erlang, Redis, Node.js => Formal computer science education
Read more about engineering at Bleacher Report on our blog http://eng.bleacherreport.com, careers page http://bleacherreport.com/careers/engineering, or contact us directly at eng@bleacherreport.com
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All components (with the exception of the front-end) are highly abstracted enabling us to swap technologies (e.g. SQL Server to MySQL, Mongo to Memcached) quickly.
The new challenges revolve around the people, methods, and software that can separate, aggregate, disseminate, and present this information in the most efficient way possible.
The opportunities that lie within and around Big Data are tremendous.