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Big Data Software Engineer – Toronto, Canada

Ali Ghafour on October 10, 2012 - Comment(s)


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Viafoura is seeking software engineers to build amazing products out of big data

Appropriate candidates have experience with multiple components across the big data stack: front-end client-side instrumentation, experimentation, logging APIs, ETL, datawarehouse schema design, MapReduce,visualization, and analytics. The ideal candidate is motivated by the opportunity to build data products that affect millions of people

Viafoura is well-funded, exciting company with a growing list of clients that includes some of the largest media companies in the world.

Responsibilities

  • Build systems to capture and represent information about user interactions on web, mobile web, and mobile apps
  • Develop data processing pipelines that convert core datasets into powerful signals and metrics of user behavior
  • Develop experiment management interfaces that allow product engineers to easily define and deploy controlled product experiments
  • Author tools for computing and visualizing the effects of product experiments
  • Develop best practices for data collection and experimentation, and communicate those to product engineering teams
  • Develop innovative tools for data visualization, exploration, and discovery
  • Drive powerful analyses of how users engage with publishers content
  • Create new algorithms to mine massive amounts of data

Requirements

  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field
  • A passion for working with big data, and improving and understanding the user experience
  • And more than one of the following:
    • Knowledge of Perl, PHP, Python or other scripting language
    • Knowledge of relational databases and query languages such as SQL or Hive
    • Knowledge of C, C++, or Java
    • Knowledge of web technologies including XHTML and JavaScript
    • Experience working with web or mobile based applications
    • Experience analyzing massive data sets using distributed parallelized infrastructure such as Hadoop or MapReduce

Apply Now!



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