Competitive Salary plus Stock Options

We are looking for an intelligent, experienced and driven hands-on Technical Architect who specializes in scalable and resilient web-based (or similar) systems. If you want to tackle tough technological challenges then this could be a perfect fit for you.

We’re open-minded about which background you come from provided you can demonstrate experience of designing and implementing high performance distributed architectures. C++ experience is required, ideally with Java as well. You are probably the sort of person who reads http://gotw.ca, http://allthingsdistributed.com or http://highscalability.com.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing, championing, leading 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 us to benchmark and analyze our system.
• Analyzing 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.
• Leading developers in implementation of scalability techniques.
• Solving tough technological challenges within a team who are just as bright as you.

Experience & Qualifications Required:

• At least 5 years in a world-class engineering environment using Object Orientated (OO) languages including C++.
• Experience (ideally in a commercial environment) of designing low latency distributed computing systems that have availability, reliability and performance guarantees.
• Proven ability to architect solutions to complex problems.
• Strong understanding of multi-threaded programming, ideally in C++.
• Knowledge of UNIX socket programming and Internet networking protocols.
• Experience using Boost, the C++ Standard Library, and at least one build system other than make; awareness of the ACE framework.
• Some experience of using MySQL replication in distributed applications.
• A good degree in science, mathematics or engineering (minimum 2.1).
• Proven experience in data sharding and distributed processing.

Skills & Attributes Required:

• Understanding of distributed algorithms or distributed systems engineering methods, including message-based design and grid computing.
• You are as passionate about making code maintainable as you are about making it efficient in the places it matters.
• Knowledge of which bits of C++ not to use, and how to avoid reinventing the wheel.
• Concise clear written communication skills (ideally demonstrated in your CV!) and excellent verbal communication ability.
• A creative and positive approach to solving complex problems.
• Capable of adapting to change quickly and effectively.

Experience with working with virtualized machines (eg Xen/Amazon EC2) would be an advantage too.

Competitive Salary plus Stock Options

Are you a recent graduate in Computer Science, Mathematics or Science/Engineering with a 2:1 or above from a leading university?

We are looking for intelligent and keen graduates who have a passion to assist in the building of leading web applications with the potential to be used by millions of users. We are currently looking for graduates for the following opportunities;

Graduate C++ Developer

Working within our development team, you will be a strong C++ coder, collaborator and enjoy looking for the next cool challenge to solve within a fast-paced and engineering-driven environment. You will be writing, documenting, refactoring, unit testing and supporting the scalable multithreaded C++ code that powers the core capabilities of our products.

You will have;

• Concise clear written communication skills (ideally demonstrated in your CV!) and excellent verbal communication ability.
• Excellent technical and analytical skills.
• Ability to find novel solutions to complex problems.
• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team as well as being able to focus and deliver individual milestones.
• A proactive and enthusiastic individual, who is capable of adapting to change quickly and effectively.

Graduate Web Developer

Working within our front end team, you will be experienced in PHP, HTML and AJAX, ideally using JQuery or a similar library) and other web technologies. You will be primarily focussing on our websites and the user interface components of our web-based products.

You will have;

• Knowledge of the technical details of web technologies, browser related issues and standards.
• A passion to create a great user experience.
• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team as well as being able to focus and deliver individual milestones.
• An enthusiastic individual, who is capable of adapting to change quickly and effectively.
• Knowledge of MySQL would also be beneficial.
• Graphical design skills would be a plus.

Graduate Knowledge Processing Developer

Working within our Knowledge team, this role is about developing tools to enable the mass population of our knowledge base from external sources.

You will have;

• Some experience of PHP and MySQL.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• A logical and methodical approach, with the ability to prioritise.
• Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn quickly.
• Concise clear written communication skills (ideally demonstrated in your CV!) and excellent verbal communication skills.

Competitive Salary plus Stock Options

We are looking for an extremely bright individual to join our Knowledge team.

Our technology depends on our own knowledge base of the world's knowledge stored in machine understandable form, which is used to answer users' questions. The role involves defining real world objects and concepts in ways that both computers and people understand and to add essential knowledge to our engine.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Researching and inputting knowledge into our system.
• Quality control and administration of our proprietary knowledge databases.

Experience & Qualifications Required:

• Broad general knowledge.
• Fluent English essential.
• Knowledge of mainstream languages would be a plus.
• Basic computer skills essential
• Database experience would be beneficial.
• Good Degree preferred.

Skills & Attributes Required:

• Logical with the ability to conceptualize knowledge.
• Interest in the semantic web and related areas an advantage.
• Concise clear written communication skills (ideally demonstrated in your CV!) and excellent verbal communication ability.
• Flexible and adapts to change quickly and effectively.
• Must be computer literate.

If you are interested in this role, please answer the following questions and provide them with your application:

(1) How does True Knowledge store 'pasta' and 'cheeseburger'? Explain why you think we store them in this way.

(2) A human being’s age can be calculated by calculating the length of time between their birth and the current date. A building may take a number of years to construct. How would you rigorously define the age of a building?

(3) Name three fundamental ways in which a tree differs from a postal worker. Try to make your choices as broad and as different from each other as you can. Name three fundamental things they have in common.

Competitive Salary plus Stock Options

We are looking for an extremely bright and naturally inquisitive developer who has a passion for solving complex problems.

Our technology depends on our own knowledge base of the world's knowledge stored in machine understandable form, which is used to answer users' questions. The role is about developing tools to enable the mass population of this knowledge base from external sources. Some of these tools are major software applications for which new techniques are being constantly developed.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Writing high quality code in PHP to enable the automated extraction and addition of knowledge from external sources.
• Sourcing and integrating off-the-shelf solutions.
• Working as part of a team on improving and developing tools and techniques.

Experience & Qualifications (two of the following three are essential):

• Three years in an engineering environment using Object Orientated PHP.
• One year's experience coding database-driven applications (preferably MySQL).
• Experience in the manipulation of large quantities of data.

Skills & Attributes Required:

• Ability to find inventive solutions to complex challenges.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• A logical and methodical approach, with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Enthusiastic and a willingness to learn quickly.
• Concise clear written communication skills (ideally demonstrated in your CV!) and excellent verbal communication skills.
• Writing high quality code in PHP to enable the automated extraction and addition of knowledge from external sources.
• Sourcing and integrating off-the-shelf solutions.
• Working as part of a team on improving and developing tools and techniques.

We are looking for an intelligent, experienced and exceptional C++ Software Developer who has a passion for building leading web applications with the potential to be used by millions of users.

We’re open-minded about which background you come from provided you can demonstrate being a great C++ coder (ideally with Java as well), collaborator and enjoy looking for the next cool challenge to solve within a fast-paced and engineering-driven environment. You probably read http://gotw.ca, and maybe http://allthingsdistributed.com.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Writing, documenting, refactoring, unit testing and supporting the scalable multithreaded C++ code that powers the core capabilities of our products.
• Contributing to architectural discussions on improving performance, scalability, resilience and maintainability.
• Code reviewing by your peers.
• Providing advice and support to users of our API.
• Technical trouble-shooting, documentation and not forgetting bug-fixing.

Experience & Qualifications Required:

• At least 5 years actively participating in a world-class engineering team using Object Orientated (OO) languages, including C++.
• Commercial experience using both the C++ Standard Library (including the STL) and significant parts of the Boost library.
• You have a strong understanding of multi-threaded programming in C++.
• Proven ability to architect solutions to complex problems.
• A good degree in science, mathematics or engineering (minimum 2.1).

Key Skills & Attributes Required:

• You are as passionate about making code maintainable as you are about making it efficient in the places it matters.
• Knowledge of which bits of C++ not to use, and how to avoid reinventing the wheel.
• Concise clear written communication skills (ideally demonstrated in your CV!) and excellent verbal communication ability.
• Excellent technical and analytical skills.
• Ability to find novel solutions to complex problems.
• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team as well as being able to focus and deliver individual milestones.
• A driven self-starter, who is capable of adapting to change quickly and effectively.

Experience with any or all of the following would be advantageous:

• Virtualized machines (eg Xen/Amazon EC2).
• Linux & the GNU tool chain.
• Agile development.
• The ACE library.

We are looking for a bright Computer Science student to work within our development team during this summer.

You will be writing, documenting, refactoring, unit testing and supporting the scalable multithreaded C++ code that powers the core capabilities of our products.

Current undergraduate (or graduate) working towards a degree in computer science at a world ranking university.

You will be a good C++ coder, have concise clear written communication skills and excellent verbal communication skills along with being a proactive and enthusiastic individual.

If you like challenging work, in an open environment and you feel you have a “can do” attitude, this is the opportunity for you.