You will be responsible for the availability, performance and delivery of our web services, as well as taking an active role in the development of the platform.
Examples of upcoming projects
- Architecting and scaling our AWS based infrastructure, planning and executing a migration to a hybrid cloud approach
- Automating the provisioning and configuration of new hardware and services
- Developing a framework for improved end-to-end testing
- Autoscaling our Hadoop cluster
- Performance tuning our Elasticsearch cluster
- Migrating existing data and web services into Cassandra
- Implementing an event-based messaging system on xMQ
- Developing a split real-time and batch data processing pipeline
Skills & Requirements
- Experience scaling web services at both the software and hardware architecture level
- An intimate understanding of AWS best practices, Linux administration and configuration management tools
- Can demonstrate proficiency with, or have a willingness to learn Python
- Experience in getting the best out of: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis
Perks
- Choose your own kit – just send us a shopping list before you start
- Dedicated R&D time set aside to explore new ideas
- Flexible working arrangements, including support for working from home
- Cover for presenting at conferences
- Childcare vouchers
- Season ticket loans
- Friday lunch o’clock provided by Rangespan
- 5 weeks holiday
About Rangespan
Rangespan’s technology helps retailers expand and optimise their product range to more closely match online market demand. It includes data analytics that tracks and ranks more than 120 million products, to provide retailers with better visibility of the range that they don’t already offer. The company also operates a supplier integration platform that automates dropship supplier management and product set-up tasks, to reduce the costs of product range expansion.
Founded by ex-Amazon executives in 2011, Rangespan now works with hundreds of leading retailers and suppliers, including six of the UK’s 20 largest online retailers.
Rangespan is looking for a lead DevOps engineer to join our development team in Paddington, West London.
You will be responsible for the availability, performance and delivery of our web services, as well as taking an active role in the development of the platform.
Upcoming projects
- Architecting and scaling our AWS based infrastructure, planning and executing a migration to a hybrid cloud approach
- Automating the provisioning and configuration of new hardware and services
- Developing a framework for improved end-to-end testing
- Autoscaling our Hadoop cluster
- Performance tuning our Elasticsearch cluster
- Migrating existing data and web services into Cassandra
- Implementing an event-based messaging system on xMQ
- Developing a split real-time and batch data processing pipeline
Skills & Requirements
- Experience scaling web services at both the software and hardware architecture level
- An intimate understanding of AWS best practices, Linux administration and configuration management tools
- Can demonstrate proficiency with, or have a willingness to learn Python
- Experience in getting the best out of: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis
You will be part of a brilliant team of talented people and have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies. Perks include dedicated R&D time to explore new ideas as well as cover for attending industry conferences.
Get in touch for more information - james@rangespan.com.
About Rangespan
Rangespan’s technology helps retailers expand and optimise their product range to more closely match online market demand. It includes data analytics that tracks and ranks more than 120 million products, to provide retailers with better visibility of the range that they don’t already offer. The company also operates a supplier integration platform that automates dropship supplier management and product set-up tasks, to reduce the costs of product range expansion.
Founded by ex-Amazon executives in 2011, Rangespan now works with hundreds of leading retailers and suppliers, including six of the UK's 20 largest online retailers.
We are looking for a Support Engineer to join our small team of developers and data scientists, to ensure the smooth running of day-to-day technical operations. The Support Engineer is the first line of contact for our business team and customers (suppliers and retailers), and is responsible for providing high-quality technical support for the Rangespan platform across a wide range of technologies.
* Software Developer
Rangespan is always on the lookout for world-class Software Developers to join our technology team. Ideal candidates are seeking a broad, varied, and hands-on role and bring the pragmatism and maturity necessary to manage their own day-to-day responsibilities.
* Data Scientist
Data science is the heart and soul of Rangespan’s product, and is essential to its success. Data Scientists at Rangespan are helping to build the world's largest catalog and most efficient order management system. Typical projects include application of machine learning techniques (categorisation & ranking), statistics (time series prediction), natural language processing (information extraction), information retrieval and more.
Founded by ex-Amazon executives and engineers, Rangespan is an ambitious e-commerce software company that makes it easy for retailers to offer deep product selection. Our values (http://www.rangespan.com/about/values/) summarise the way we work.
We make heavy use Python, Django, MongoDB and AWS to solve complex problems with huge data sets. We take an agile approach to development and are looking for more great developers to join our team. You will have a broad, hands-on role developing extremely high-scale systems and web services for retailers and suppliers.
Founded by ex-Amazon executives and engineers, Rangespan is an ambitious e-commerce software company that makes it easy for retailers to offer deep product selection. Our values (http://www.rangespan.com/about/values/) summarise the way we work.
We make heavy use Python, Django, MongoDB, MySQL and AWS to solve complex problems with huge data sets. We take an agile approach to development and are looking for world-class developers to join our team. You will have a broad, hands-on role developing extremely high-scale systems and web services for retailers and suppliers.
Positions available:
* Senior Software Developer
* Data Scientist
For more information, please see http://bit.ly/nKvh5n or email jobs@rangespan.com.
You may find http://www.interviewzen.com/ useful. It's a hiring tool I'm building around the idea that you can tell a lot about someone's coding ability by seeing them in action.
Ha! I had this exact same idea not long ago, that's interesting. Have you talked to (potential) customers? I've had multiple times questions like "what's the advantage over google docs/screen sharing?" (which is free).
Feedback has been very positive so far - customers are finding it makes the initial screening process much easier. One advantage over Google Docs is the ability to do time-shifted interviews, making it a good first filter for job postings.
Feel free to drop me a mail and we can chat further.
Inspired by the recent submission from cdixon (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190710) regarding developing new startup ideas and being the "opposite of secret", I thought we could put the theory into practice.
Feel free to add your own ideas and leave feedback on the others. If you see something you like, get in contact and make it happen!
Good start, but I think this highlights the reason why around these parts "ideas are worthless". Very very very few people are inclined to actually give 2 specks of a damn about some sentence written in some cell on some spreadsheet.
What I'm getting at:
Show don't tell.
So how about a list of products/service prototypes that people are actually building, and making that a starting point. I'd much rather take 10 seconds to click around on an app, than read text in a cell as noted above.
You will be responsible for the availability, performance and delivery of our web services, as well as taking an active role in the development of the platform.
Examples of upcoming projects
- Architecting and scaling our AWS based infrastructure, planning and executing a migration to a hybrid cloud approach
- Automating the provisioning and configuration of new hardware and services
- Developing a framework for improved end-to-end testing
- Autoscaling our Hadoop cluster
- Performance tuning our Elasticsearch cluster
- Migrating existing data and web services into Cassandra
- Implementing an event-based messaging system on xMQ
- Developing a split real-time and batch data processing pipeline
Skills & Requirements
- Experience scaling web services at both the software and hardware architecture level
- An intimate understanding of AWS best practices, Linux administration and configuration management tools
- Can demonstrate proficiency with, or have a willingness to learn Python
- Experience in getting the best out of: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis
Perks
- Choose your own kit – just send us a shopping list before you start
- Dedicated R&D time set aside to explore new ideas
- Flexible working arrangements, including support for working from home
- Cover for presenting at conferences
- Childcare vouchers
- Season ticket loans
- Friday lunch o’clock provided by Rangespan
- 5 weeks holiday
About Rangespan
Rangespan’s technology helps retailers expand and optimise their product range to more closely match online market demand. It includes data analytics that tracks and ranks more than 120 million products, to provide retailers with better visibility of the range that they don’t already offer. The company also operates a supplier integration platform that automates dropship supplier management and product set-up tasks, to reduce the costs of product range expansion.
Founded by ex-Amazon executives in 2011, Rangespan now works with hundreds of leading retailers and suppliers, including six of the UK’s 20 largest online retailers.
For more information, please email jobs@rangespan.com or visit https://www.rangespan.com/