Big Data and API-loving Back-end Developer at an undisclosed company

This undisclosed employer, located in the heart of Montreal, is a subsidiary of one of the leading North American local search companies. We are a fast-paced, entrepreneurial internet company where ideas and execution drive everything we do. We are aggressively expanding using cutting edge marketing and technology to connect even more consumers with great local businesses and we are looking for a back-end developer to join our innovation team in Montreal.

The ideal candidate adores solving big back-end problems. He (or she) loves playing with big data including search, load, transform and data extraction. He (or she) should also be extremely comfortable around APIs, knowing how to expose data and deal with external API limitations. He (or she) has testing in his/her blood and knows his/her way around servers.

If you’re interested designing, developing and deploying products in local search, local commerce, local advertising, lead generation, APIs, scheduling, mobile, SoLoMo, collaborative consumption, payments, geodomains and similar concepts, this opportunity is for you.

Responsibilities

Develop new internal APIs to help the creation of new products.
Integrate third parties APIs.
Develop and plan new multilingual applications using our own API.
Configure and deploy servers using provisioning tools.
Build a data management system that can handle data from international sources.
Develop our ETL chain

Experience:

Ruby (Python, or other OOP language)
Rails / Sinatra
JavaScript
PostgreSQL
ElasticSearch
Redis
Chef
Amazon Web Services

Other skills

Problem solving and creativity
Autonomous
Experience working on small teams or independently to achieve big goals
Ability to work with high level or detailed product requirements
Ability to adapt to quick changes in the development cycle
Comfortable with uncertainty
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Contributor to open source projects

Please include your github username.

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Sebastien Provencher

Vice President of Product Innovation at HomeAdvisor Canada

Bilingual professional with over thirteen years of hands-on online product management and business development experience. Recognized for my capacity to understand markets, create online strategic visions from scratch, develop business models and build/deploy products in large or small work environments. Creative strategic thinker with strong communication and problem-solving skills. I also (sometimes!) write a blog on Local 2.0, the intersection of Local Search and Social Media, at http://sebprovencher.com and I (very often!) tweet at @sebprovencher. I'm generally considered an expert in both of those fields. Quotes: "Seb is one of the smartest thinkers I have ever met when it comes to the Internet." Mitch Joel, Web Guru, http://tinyurl.com/675m2k "When Sebastien speaks I listen. You should too.", Mike Blumenthal, renowned local search expert, http://bit.ly/gpT3BF On the list of "100 entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter", http://bit.ly/8Y5kt One of the top Web 2.0 influencers in Quebec, http://bit.ly/eLrJbk I'm an experienced conference panelist or speaker in both English and French. Je suis un panéliste ou conférencier expérimenté en français et en anglais. Specialties: - Product Management & Development (both from the user and advertiser point of view) - Business Development / Partnerships - Strategic Planning - Business Plan & Business Case creation - Local Advertising & Local Search - Social Media - Entrepreneurship