Chief Architect Web based consumer software

Palo Alto, California

Chief Architect
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. Responsible for the overall technical design and architecture of all parts of the system
·Spend significant time creating, reviewing, implementing, testing, and improving designs for components or features and guiding use of new technology throughout company
. Report directly to the CTO

Primary Responsibilities:
·Lead or Manage a small team of Software Architects
·Provide technical leadership and motivation to teams of Developers on multiple  projects
·Function as the key technical participant in designing and spec’ing out features and products (working with Product Managers, User Experience designers, and Executives)
·Lead infrastructure, scalability, maintainability, and security related projects
·Design and develop systems and frameworks to allow rapid development of robust software
·Design and build extremely scalable and reliable consumer internet products and services
. You must be capable of implementing your designs and coding 80-90% of the time as well.

Skills/Qualifications:

·5+ years of leadership and management and 7+years development experience
·Excellent leadership skills including ability to influence people across the organization
·Extremely experienced in consumer product development
·Excellent web analytical skills, able to analyze statistics and logs
·Excellent knowledge of networking and TCP/IP in particular
·Excellent complex system debugging skills
·Extensive large, complex, scalable system design and architecture experience
·Very organized (can manage multiple simultaneous projects, can project manage large complex projects)
·Able to work very quickly with a knack for getting things done
·Able to work in a fast paced environment, with rapidly changing requirements, on products that ship to millions of users
·Excellent verbal and written communication skills
·Self-directed, analytical, accountable, and organized
· 5+ years of internet product development experience, 5+ years of database /  backend experience.
·Expert in PHP, C++, and Java programming on Linux/Unix
·Deep proficiency and experience in web-based application development, server-side programming, and SQL, MySQL and other database technologies.
·Proficiency in caching systems and related architectures (memcached, akamai, etc)
·Demonstrated ability to architect and build scalable, high performing and reliable systems
·Strong computer architecture and computer science fundamentals
·MS or PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent

All qualifed candidates will be contacted within 48 hrs.

Please apply to: Dane Santos  < dane at masonconcepts dot com >

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