[PLUG-JOBS] Software Developers -- Challenging Projects, Brilliant Coworkers
Robert X. Church
rxc at rentrak.com
Wed Aug 20 22:57:14 UTC 2008
Rentrak Corporation is always looking for talented developers to add
to our team in beautiful Portland, Oregon.
* We're looking for a few brilliant:
* Software Developers
* Senior Software Developers
* Project Managers
You're probably used to being the smartest developer on your team (but
are too humble to admit it), and are looking for a place where you can
work alongside talented peers building great software for interesting
projects. At Rentrak, we're a small enough company that you can make a
big difference, but we're big enough to ensure your paycheck never
bounces.
Here are just a few things Rentrak programmers have done recently:
* Wrote customized extensions to Open Source tools, to process
queries hundreds of times faster than commercial RDBMSs
* Built a goal-seeking system to dynamically generate optimal SQL
queries for end-user data requests
* Celebrated our 3 billionth transaction processed
* Implemented software to categorize and predict consumer behavior
based on television viewing history
* Competed for fame and fortune at a Rentrak sponsored programming contest
* Created systems that predict movie sales in theaters, retail
stores and video rental locations
* Celebrated a coworker's birthday with a group skydive
* Gave a Tech Talk to Google about our brilliant database technology
* Rented a room at a local brewery and played games all night with
project teammates
Our teams are relatively small (three to six people), and we have a
development environment influenced by XP. We have a nice open work
area so our developers can share their brilliant ideas, learn from
each other, expand our extensive custom libraries and work together to
solve tough problems. We keep our source code base well factored and
filled with unit tests.
We work with a stunningly large amount of data, and everyone here does
an amazing job of turning it into something manageable. We have a very
high hiring bar, and we feel that all the people who work here could
easily get a job at any of the major tech companies. Our management
understands this and works hard to make sure our developers are happy
and productive.
Job Descriptions
We're looking for ridiculously smart developers to help us reinvent
our industries. Experience with functional or dynamic object-oriented
development experience is great (e.g., Lisp, Smalltalk, Scheme, Ocaml,
SML, Haskell, Ruby, Unlambda, C++/STL/Boost, or advanced use of Python
or Perl). RDBMS experience is also helpful, especially with
terabyte-plus databases.
Rentrak's developers work with their teammates on all aspects of the
development process: requirements gathering, system design, database
design and tuning and, of course, lots of unit tests and coding.
Senior Software Developers
How to Apply
If you'd like to join us, e-mail our friendly and helpful corporate
recruiter at careers at rentrak.com. Be sure to tell us all about the
most fun problem you've solved or side-projects you've worked on.
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