Principal Engineer

First is a venture-funded startup at the intersection of predictive analytics and real estate tech. We identify when and why people will move, and build products to change the game for real estate professionals and consumers.

As one of our first engineers, you'll be a senior leader helping guide key architecture and technology decisions. You will reliably scale our data platform to support products and the needs of our data science team. This includes choosing and deploying our server and compute infrastructure (e.g., Ansible, Hadoop, Spark, etc) and building frameworks to support the development of our predictive models.

- Passion for startups and building tools that will be used to change the face of real estate - Generalist mindset, excited to jump into many parts of the stack to ship working software - 8+ years software development experience; 5+ years experience in Ruby - Clear, effective communication skills, both written and verbal - Experience with agile practices, including TDD, continuous delivery, object oriented design, SOLID principles, etc - Comfort with asynchronous development: pull requests, chat, email, etc Extra bonus points for - Experience with graph databases - Neo4j or others - Operational skills, or willingness to learn - Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc - Proficiency in GitHub flow - Experience with pair programming (remote or in-person) - Open source contributions, side projects and gems