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Frontend Engineer (R&D)

Our client’s Engineering Team builds high-scale, web and mobile e-commerce applications that run non-stop around the globe. They work in small collaborative teams to architect massively scalable and reliable systems.

As part of the Front End team you’ll create platform solutions that personalize Publisher pages. It helps if you know the common architecture of a distributed system and be able to build one, scale it up and fix any performance, scalability and reliability issues.

Responsibilities

Work on their frontend JavaScript platform to support billions of page views for hundreds of millions of unique users
You will develop web platforms, from page level to server side , supporting Taboola’s personalization, monetization, and analytic products
Collaborate with the Product team on strategy and delivery of technology solutions.
Take technical requirements and create solutions accounting for server communication, data computation, DOM manipulation, and UI/UX feasibility

Requirements

3-5 years of advanced Front End Development experience
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
Proficient in web application development and writing JavaScript code
Experience with standard HTML/DOM, CSS and Cookies including JS manipulation
Experience with JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, and frameworks like BootStrap, AngularJS, ReactJS, and NodeJS
Experience with building lightweight, efficient, cross browser and scalable platform side JavaScript
Understanding and experience of Object Oriented design and data structures usage
Working knowledge or previous experience of API creation, SQL, NoSQL is beneficial

Backend Software Engineer, Big Data

As part of their Los Angeles R&D team, you’ll use a variety of technologies and development practices to build robust and scalable platforms. It helps if you know the common architecture of a distributed system and be able to build one, scale it up and fix any performance, scalability and reliability issues.

Responsibilities:

Various backend services to support billions of page views for hundreds of millions of unique users generating terabytes of data each day
Develop models, algorithms and serving infrastructure to support large-scale data-mining and machine learning systems
You will work closely with our Product team to reach optimal technology solutions
Drive the performance of backend applications for realtime processing of data

Requirements:

BS/Master in computer science or equivalent
5 or more years of experience writing Java code
Strong understanding on database concepts
Experience with any of the following: Python, Scala, Spring Framework, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Google Big Query, Cassandra
You should have experience with version control systems such as Git, CVS or Subversion
Good understanding of backend integration concepts and technologies such as web services, messaging, ESB and securities
Proficient at dealing with data and comfortable writing data manipulation applications
You should have strong analytical skills analyzing data and building models and algorithms

Director of IT Project Management

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY. US CITIZENS AND GREEN CARD HOLDERS ONLY.
CLIENT IS IN WEST LOS ANGELES, NEAR THE 405/10 FREEWAYS INTERCHANGE.

Our client is seeking a full-time Director of IT Project Management with experience managing deployment of software system solutions across a large enterprise as well as key technology infrastructure projects. The position will direct and oversee a team of project managers. The ideal candidate is a team player who is quality-minded and able to thrive in a fast-paced, and highly mutable business environment. The candidate should possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills in order to develop and deliver optimal solutions to business challenges. The candidate will review proposals to determine costs timeline, funding, staffing requirements, and goals and work closely with internal departments and senior management to ensure the successful completion of projects.