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• London E
• Posted 10th Mar 2010
• Posted by: MJH Personnel Associates Ltd
• Salary: 65000 GBP per annum + share options
• Job Type: Permanent
• Reference: 2241642
• This job has been viewed 228 times since it was posted.

Job 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.