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Posted By: MJH Personnel Associates Ltd
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Date Posted: 10th Mar 2010
Salary: 65000 GBP per annum + share options
Location: London E
Reference Code: 2241642
Views Since Posting: 221
Full Description:

Title: Technical Architect
Ref: MJH1092
Location: Cambridge or London
Salary: to £65,000 + share options

Keywords:
Technical, Architect, C++, Multi-Threaded, PHP, Java, MYSQL, Linux, Unix, OO, Object Orientated, Cambridge.

Company Summary:
Our client is a pioneer in a new class of Internet search technology that\'s aimed at dramatically improving the experience of finding known facts on the Web. Their first service is a major step toward fulfilling a longstanding Internet industry goal: providing consumers with instant answers to complex questions, with a single click.

Job Description:
Our client is looking for an intelligent experienced and hands-on Technical Architect who specializes in scalable and resilient systems. They\'re open-minded about which background candidates come from provided you can demonstrate experience of designing and implementing high performance architectures - ideally in C++ but possibly in Java if the candidate also has C++ experience.

Your responsibilities will include:

Designing and delivering substantial enhancements to our product architecture to improve performance, scalability, availability and maintainability. This will include spearheading work to implement changes at the software level.
Designing tools and approaches to enable them to benchmark and analyse their system.
Analysing the way in which the system will behave under future growth in data and traffic.
Recommending and leading the implementation of best practice approaches for creating maintainable and efficient large-scale loosely-coupled systems.
Mentoring developers in scalability techniques such as SOA.

Requirements:
Suitable candidates for the role of Software Developer will need to have:

At least 5 years in a world-class engineering environment using Object Orientated (OO) languages including C++.
Experience of designing low latency distributed computing systems.
Proven ability to architect solutions to complex problems from basic requirements.
Strong understanding of multi-threaded programming, ideally in C++.
Knowledge of Unix socket programming and Internet networking protocols.
Some experience of using MYSQL replication in distributed applications.
Ideally some experience of using Virtualisation (eg Xen) and/or Cloud computing (eg Amazon EC2).

Benefits Summary:
Excellent salary plus share options and a competitive local benefits package.

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