Scala Software Contract Position

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Apologies for off topic abusing of the Scala mailing list, but a Scala employment opportunity is probably still of general interest to the community.

Office Depot, in Boca Raton FL, has a need for an experienced software designer/developer with strong Scala skills to join a small 3-5 person team.  Candidate must be able to commit to 20-40 hours per week as a contractor.  Minimum 8-12 weeks engagement, which may extend up to a year.  Remote working (telecommute) is acceptable, or you could spend the winter in South Florida.

The application is a stateless, shared nothing architecture, high transaction (millions of calls a day), scalable, concurrent, highly available system.  Significant work has already been done and candidate will join the project deep in the development phase.

Ideal candidate:

 - Strong Scala language knowledge, actors and concurrency. We are developing against Scala 2.8, Java 1.6.  Yea, we fly pretty close to the sun.

 - CS, Math, Science degree or equivalent work experience.

 - Strong development / coding skills.

 - General experience in software development methodology and delivering a software project.

 - Use of version control, GIT.

 - Appropriate use of unit and regression testing.

 - Good knowledge of the HTTP protocol, JSON, REST.

 - Bonus experience, front end experience with Yahoo YUI, Javascript, AJAX or Lift

 - No SQL, RDB or ORM frameworks involved.

Sure the usual dull web stuff, forms and CRUD functionality, but there are also interesting project aspects such as:

 - Emphasized use of Algorithms, with research, reading, comprehending and implementing algorithms from papers.  Google Scholar is your friend.

 - Multi-Paxos algorithm for distributed consensus also Paxos-Commit, and Paxos-Lease.

 - UDP multicast (IGMP)

 - KV Storage via Cassandra

 - Emphasized use of open source solutions, with aspects of the project itself eventually open sourced.

Interested?  Please contact me with a light weight resume or CV.  Please highlight any direct Scala experience with proprietary or open source software.

Ray Racine

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[rodant]

Hello Mr. Racine,

your announcement at the Scala user list attracted specially my attention. I'm an independent Java developer with founded knowledge and increasing experience in Scala, currently using the Lift framework, see also my open source project at http://github.com/rodant/ScalaSWT. I have worked in the last ten years building enterprise Java applications, but having a mathematical background and experience in research positions implementing numerical algorithms, see the last items of my project history.

Because of all the mentioned things, I think I could be an adequate candidate for the position and I would make a good contribution to the project. Despite the offer of spending the winter in Florida sound very awesome, for me only a remote working is possible.

If you also think, I could work on the project, please let me know it and may give more details about the concrete tasks. More information about the work and contract conditions are also welcome.

Best regards,
Antonio R. Rodríguez Santiesteban.

2009/11/1 Ray Racine <ray.racine@...>

Apologies for off topic abusing of the Scala mailing list, but a Scala employment opportunity is probably still of general interest to the community.

Office Depot, in Boca Raton FL, has a need for an experienced software designer/developer with strong Scala skills to join a small 3-5 person team.  Candidate must be able to commit to 20-40 hours per week as a contractor.  Minimum 8-12 weeks engagement, which may extend up to a year.  Remote working (telecommute) is acceptable, or you could spend the winter in South Florida.

The application is a stateless, shared nothing architecture, high transaction (millions of calls a day), scalable, concurrent, highly available system.  Significant work has already been done and candidate will join the project deep in the development phase.

Ideal candidate:

 - Strong Scala language knowledge, actors and concurrency. We are developing against Scala 2.8, Java 1.6.  Yea, we fly pretty close to the sun.

 - CS, Math, Science degree or equivalent work experience.

 - Strong development / coding skills.

 - General experience in software development methodology and delivering a software project.

 - Use of version control, GIT.

 - Appropriate use of unit and regression testing.

 - Good knowledge of the HTTP protocol, JSON, REST.

 - Bonus experience, front end experience with Yahoo YUI, Javascript, AJAX or Lift

 - No SQL, RDB or ORM frameworks involved.

Sure the usual dull web stuff, forms and CRUD functionality, but there are also interesting project aspects such as:

 - Emphasized use of Algorithms, with research, reading, comprehending and implementing algorithms from papers.  Google Scholar is your friend.

 - Multi-Paxos algorithm for distributed consensus also Paxos-Commit, and Paxos-Lease.

 - UDP multicast (IGMP)

 - KV Storage via Cassandra

 - Emphasized use of open source solutions, with aspects of the project itself eventually open sourced.

Interested?  Please contact me with a light weight resume or CV.  Please highlight any direct Scala experience with proprietary or open source software.

Ray Racine

rracine@...

ray.racine@...

ray.racine@...

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius

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