ShopWiki Jobs
Junior Engineer – Shopwiki
Description:
ShopWiki is a comparative shopping search engine that accumulates its data from crawling online stores. We are looking for a smart junior software engineer to help identify, solve, and implement solutions to problem areas in an effort to crawl the web more efficiently and extract data with greater precision. An ideal candidate will excel in pattern recognition, have an abundance of creativity, have a disciplined approach to coding and can tell the difference between treating a symptom versus treating the disease.
Language:
Fluency in any language and willingness to learn and use Java as one's primary language
Years of experience:
0-3 years of work experience
Duties:
Continued development of ShopWiki's Crawling and Extraction technologies/algorithms/heuristics as well as a shared load of maintenance of existing code
Requirements:
- Must be able to turn ideas into code
- Must know what classes and objects are
- Must understand what multi-threading is and its pros/cons
- Must know how to work with cvs/subversion (Bonus points for already knowing git)
- Must be familiar with the Unix development environment
- B.A. or higher in CS or equivalent field