Job posting at Redfin is a well-funded startup looking to hire great software developers to take on the $60B real estate industry.
How much management experience you have or what programming languages you know are less important than:
- Successful history: we’ll look for key contributions to teams working on strategic projects, preferably at a startup.
- Innovative ideas: we’ll ask you how you would improve Redfin’s ability to scale queries, how to import cleaner data with less latency, and what ideas you have to mine new knowledge from the data.
- Raw coding skills: we’ll look for a strong academic background in computer science or a related technical field; in the interview, you’ll be given plenty of coding challenges so we can really see you think.
- Customer instinct: we’ll look for your ability to empathize with customers and build customer-driven applications; our engineers live and breathe the business problems faced by our customers and agents.
What you’ll get from us:
- A young, brilliant team with which to collaborate;
- Open source tools including Java, Hibernate, Spring, Dojo, PostgreSQL, Apache, Linux, Eclipse, Subversion, JUnit, Guice, Selenium, and more;
- Support and resources to solve interesting problems;
- An office in downtown Seattle close to all the action;
- A commitment to your career, so you can grow with the company.
What you need to know about Redfin:
- The company is taking on a $61 billion industry;
- The management team has experience building start-ups into profitable, publicly traded companies;
- The business has been growing by leaps and bounds; customer satisfaction is high.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 4+ years of work experience as a software developer or manager
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