UberMedia, located in Pasadena, California, builds applications and web-based services that make it easier for users to find, follow and communicate with others on Twitter and other social media platforms and for those on Twitter to attract a relevant following.

The Senior Software Engineer will work with the software development team to design and implement the web, middle tier, and database systems for our next-generation social media monetization platform. The key goal for this person will be to bring the platform successfully to market, and then to scale.

• Develop highly secure service oriented architecture (SOA) to properly manage and deliver our content leveraging open source stacks.
• Create the web portal where advertisers and publishers interact with our system. Will also implement the e-commerce platform that collects payments and apportions advertising dollars.
• Utilize client-server API's that allow machine interactions with our systems.
• Work with third-party partners to achieve smooth interoperability with our system.
• Participate in a highly visible software development and quality assurance process.
• Work with the IT department to manage deployments and upgrades.
• Work with the Design team to implement user interface requirements and to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
• Work with team and managers to help define software release products and development cycles.
• Deliver clear documentation of requirements and system software, development tools, and other support systems and infrastructure. Will also create clear documented test results, and participate in software readiness reviews.
• Experienced with agile development methodologies like Scrum.
• Commitment to software development practices like design patterns, defensive programming, and unit testing.
• Desire to design and implement solutions with significant data dependencies with NoSQL platforms in addition to traditional relational database platforms when appropriate.
• Knowledge of map-reduce, preferably using the Hadoop platform.
• Understanding of asynchronous event driven architectures.
• Ability to collaboratively architect high-availability and high-scalability systems.

• At least 4 years of hands-on development experience with relevant tools and platforms, such as Java, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, HTML5, PostgreSQL (or Mysql).
• Experience developing web platforms with experience in web frontends, SQL back-ends, and client-server internet applications.
• Technical expertise in web systems architecture, design, maintenance, administration and development on the Linux platform.
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills.

• Knowledgeable about information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
• Experience with Hadoop, Hbase, Cassandra, Lucene, Solr and Solrj Apache projects highly desirable.
• Experience developing e-commerce systems.
• Familiarity with SEO, SEM, etc.