GinzaMetrics is Hiring Developers to Improve Search and Content Marketing

Location: Anywhere (we're a fully distributed team), but we prefer Austin, TX or Europe

GinzaMetrics (YC S10) is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with additional locations in Tokyo, Austin and Europe.

We produce an organic search (SEO) and content marketing analytics SaaS platform that is used every day by brands, agencies and ecommerce companies to improve their findability on the web.

We launched in late 2010 and have been growing ever since. Our customer base now spans 45 countries with data coverage in over 120 countries and 25 languages. Because of our architecture, business model and focus on automation, we're able to provide far more insight across larger data volumes than other players on the market and we do so at a fraction of the cost. We're growing quickly, have solid, recurring revenue and many customers that love our platform.

If you're interested in large-scale web crawling, building flexible, real-time analytics across streaming, disparate data sets, and helping companies get better at reaching their customers through high quality content, we'd love to speak with you.

What it's like to work at GinzaMetrics:

Because we're a fully distributed team, we place a high value on communication, responsiveness and autonomy. We're a hard-working team and we solve bigger problems than our small team size would seem capable of solving. Our business is growing quickly and our #1 goal is to make our customers happy every day.

We don't provide everyone with massages or an unlimited supply of kale chips, nor do we distract ourselves with ping pong tables or video games. But, being a distributed team gives us the flexibility to choose our own working environments, meet up in interesting locales, and serve an international market from anywhere we choose. So whether you're into kale or kegs, you can do as you please while managing your workload and location. We can promise that you'll be challenged every day.

Our stack / tools:

- Ruby / Rails

- MySQL / PostgreSQL

- Cassandra

- JavaScript

- jQuery

- Angular.js

- Highcharts

- D3.js

- Amazon S3

- Lots of APIs (ad networks, social networks, etc.)

- Redis

- Resque

- Github

- Memcache

- Chef

- Jenkins

Technical Requirements:

We're looking for mid- to senior level, full-stack developers with experience in Ruby on Rails or similar environment (experience in other languages and frameworks such as Python / Python frameworks is fine, but we're not going to rewrite things in your favorite language)

- Strong understanding and experience with UNIX / Linux tools and concepts

- Familiar with web application security principles / encryption best practices

- Ability to ramp up in our environment and be productive in 1 week (we provide a comprehensive ramping-up guide)

- Solid understanding and experience in SQL and SQL optimization (indexes, queries, write-read performance, etc.)

- Solid understanding of NoSQL principles and tradeoffs

- Solid understanding of distributed systems / architectures

- Strong knowledge of unicode / internationalization / encoding issues

Bonus / really great to have:

- Understanding / experience with large-scale ETL

- Understanding / experience large-scale data warehousing technologies

- Understanding / experience with OLAP (we don't use MDX, etc. but understanding this sort of model will help you adapt to our platform quickly)

- Experience with Cassandra, Storm, Kafka and / or similar tools

- Experience with web crawling, text mining and headless browser automation

Other Requirements:

- Fanaticism about our market and our product

- Ability / willingness to quickly ramp up on our industry and become an expert in the field

- Courage

- Ability to communicate well and make recommendations in the context of an overall set of possible solutions, with benefits / tradeoffs for each

- Humility towards team members, hubris towards op...