Ally Sluchevsky

Experienced Software Engineer (FillZ)

Do you want to use your software skills where they will have a real impact on the business′s bottom line and the performance of a global online marketplace?
The FillZ team is looking for an experienced engineer with a strong sense of ownership, customer focus and a passion for designing clean solutions to complex problems. If you are excited about the prospect of leveraging technology to address the technical and analytical challenges of running a cloud-based inventory management system supporting hundreds of customers, numerous marketplaces, and processing 25 million transactions per day, we′d like to meet you.

This position is based at our headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

As a member of our team you will help design and evolve FillZ to support a new level of scalability and customer growth. You will be involved in all aspects of the FillZ product, from seller registration and inventory management, through pricing and payment processing, to cloud-based deployment and operations. The diversity of these responsibilities ensures that this position offers a broad and exciting range of technical challenges and opportunities.The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:
- 3+ years experience developing in multiple OO languages, with a solid understanding of OOD
- 3+ years developing high-performance, highly available and scalable applications using technologies such as CouchDB, ActiveMQ, Flume, caching tiers and relational databases
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Solid experience testing complex systems and a passion for producing high-quality code
- Solid background in algorithms and data structures
- Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Familiar with development and administration in a Linux (or Unix) environment
- Able to learn quickly and dive deeply to diagnose the root cause of problems

Experience with the following would be beneficial:
- Ecommerce
- Cloud-based deployment and operations
- Perl, Scala, JavaScript, Akka, Camel, Hadoop, Lucene, AWS, HTML, AJAX, Tomcat
- Service-oriented architectures and common Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Agile practices and methodologies such as Test Driven Development and Scrum

FillZ provides competitive salaries and great benefits. If you enjoy constantly broadening your technical skills, building software that affects users around the world, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity and product innovation, please check out http://www.abebooks.com/careers to learn more or to apply online.
We appreciate your interest in FillZ!