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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.

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