Job Order #:2102APS 

Title: Principal Architect 

Location: San Jose, CA

Type: Full Time Employee (FTE)

Salary:  Market

Principal Architect

Primary Responsibilities:

- Key member of the technical team

- Lead or Manage a small team of Software Architects

- Provide technical leadership and motivation to teams of Developers

- Function as the key technical participant in designing and spec’ing out features and products (working with Product     Managers, User Experience designers, and Executives)

- Lead infrastructure, scalability, maintainability, and security related projects

- Design and develop systems and frameworks to allow rapid development of robust software

- Design and build extremely scalable and reliable consumer internet products and services

- Responsible for the overall technical design and architecture of all parts of the system

- Spend significant time creating, reviewing, implementing, testing, and improving designs for components or features and     guiding use of new technology throughout company

Skills/Qualifications:

- 5+ years of leadership and management experience

- 7+ years development experience

- Excellent leadership skills including ability to influence people across the organization

- Extremely experienced in consumer product development 

- Excellent web analytical skills, able to analyze statistics and logs

- Excellent knowledge of networking and TCP/IP in particular 

- Excellent complex system debugging skills

- Extensive large, complex, scalable system design and architecture experience

- Very organized (can manage multiple simultaneous projects, can project manage large complex projects)

- Able to work very quickly with a knack for getting things done 

- Able to work in a fast paced environment, with rapidly changing requirements, on products that ship to millions of users 

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

- Self-directed, analytical, accountable, and organized

- Minimum of 5+ years of internet product development experience, 5+ years of database /  backend experience

- Expert in PHP, C++, and Java programming on Linux/Unix

- Deep proficiency and experience in web-based application development, server-side programming, and SQL, MySQL and other     database technologies.

- Proficiency in caching systems and related architectures (memcached, akamai, etc)

- Demonstrated ability to architect and build scalable, high performing and reliable systems

- Strong computer architecture and computer science fundamentals

- MS or PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent