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Jobs at ImageShack


ImageShack's mission is simple: to provide an easy-to-use media hosting and sharing service for everyone. Our services' simplicity and reliability made us popular. If you are curious, want to be challenged, are open-minded, and have an easy-going attitude, we want to talk to you.

We offer competitive salaries and stock option plans that give a real meaning to the term "shareholder".








Software Developer - Back End

Yfrog is ImageShack's mobile media platform, and is the leading media sharing service for Twitter. We are actively looking to add an experienced JAVA engineer to our team to help build a robust back-end capable of handling our fast-growing volume of users and media.

Responsibilities

  • designing the application architecture capable of handling millions of requests from as many users on a daily basis
  • defining the data architecture for storing and retrieving millions of user info, media info, etc
  • developing the application to handle all the media and other requests without sacrificing the user experience
  • integrating with ImageShack’s core platform for all the media-related actions

Qualifications

  • a thorough understanding of JAVA
  • experience in RESTful API development and execution
  • well-versed in object-oriented approach to programming
  • a strong background in data architecture
  • experience in advanced database programming principles such as SQL
  • a working knowledge of asynchronous application programming (e.g. AJAX, XML-RPC, etc)
  • 4+ years of web software development experience, preferably at a consumer Internet company

The ideal candidate has:

  • made a substantial contribution to a widely used open source project
  • knowledge of distributed systems, distributed databases (e.g. Hadoop, Hbase)


How to apply

To apply, please email your resume with a short cover letter to:



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