Brilliant Java Engineer

COMPANYOVERVIEW

BranchOut,is the largest professional networking service on Facebook. BranchOutallows users to leverage their extended Facebook friend network to identifyinside connections for incredible opportunities such as finding a job,recruiting great talent, getting warm introductions for sales leads, orexpanding the power of their professional network. BranchOut alsooperates as the largest job board on Facebook with over 3 million jobs and20,000 internships. BranchOut is backed by Accel Partners, Norwest VenturePartners, Floodgate and several of the most prominent angel investors inSilicon Valley.

DESCRIPTION

TheBranchOut team is a small group where everyone is part of the creative process.The ideal candidate is creative yet pragmatic, comfortable multitasking yetable to focus on a problem with laser-like intensity, and (above all) a fastlearner. Our codebase is written in Java, but we're not really lookingfor heavy J2EE expertise. A few years experience with high-trafficweb-development patterns is much more important, regardless of the stack. Youmay, however, be asked to provide a code sample in Java.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Integrating features with various third-party APIs, including Facebook Graph API
• Designing custom search functionality with Lucene
• Working closely with product design and front end UI to perfect user experience and reduce friction
• Brainstorming new features and product directions (if you work at BranchOut, your input is valued, no matter what your job title is)
• Improving in-house analytics tools and merging performance metrics from a variety of sources
• Develop overall strategies and implement scaling solutions

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