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by manicminer 3390 days ago
Room Key | Software Engineer (Clojure) | Charlottesville, VA | https://www.roomkey.com/careers.html

Room Key is looking for a software engineer with strong server-side web development experience - preferably with the Clojure programming language - to join our backend web development team in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Solve interesting problems! At scale! Using Clojure! Room Key's website regularly handles over 500,000 unique visitors per day.

Ideally you have: - Phenomenal testing principles (and perseverance), incl. perhaps a grounding in basic stats - Excellent communication and collaboration skills - Willingness to fulfill multiple roles - BS in Computer Science (but equivalent real-world experience is even better) - Experience with Clojure or other functional programming languages - Experience with several database types: object stores (redis), relational (postgres). Experience with Datomic a big plus. - Experience with JVM-hosted development - Experience with Amazon Web Services (the more the better) and Kafka - Experience with GIS and spatial analysis - 5+ years professional web experience - Experience with service oriented architectures - Demonstrated interest/experience in high performance, scalable systems - Enthusiasm, team-contributor mindset and obsessive attention to detail

Don't be shy! If you are enthusiastic but only have a subset of our ideal qualifications, we still want to hear from you.

Please note: No remote work is available and we cannot sponsor visas for overseas applicants.

Visit https://www.roomkey.com/careers.html for full details.