Director of Engineering
- company:
- Zimride
- location:
- Palo Alto
- category:
- Engineering Management
About You
You are an extraordinarily talented and experienced engineer willing to get your hands dirty with everything from system admin to CSS. You are also comfortable managing our small development team and have the leadership skills needed to head Zimride's product. You're capable of working with our full stack: PHP, Zend Framework, Memcached, Smarty templates, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Google Maps API, Facebook Platform, svn, trac, Linux, Apache, and AWS EC2/S3.
Your Responsibilities
Lead application architecture Help mentor other engineers and conduct code reviews Design and implement features that help improve the Zimride user experience Optimize code for speed and reliability Oversee system security and stability Plan and manage team sprints Help build out development team
You Must Have
B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent Tons of experience with object-oriented PHP programming Expertise in MySQL query optimization and server administration Experience leading other developers Experience operating, tuning, and scaling Linux-based web applications Great oral and written communication skills Ability to thrive in a startup environment
Bonus Points For
Experience with Zend Framework Experience with mobile development Experience building APIs Previous work with social networks Contributions to open source projects Passion for sustainability and/or transportation Programming Challenge (Optional) Calculate the detour distance between two different rides. Given four lattitude / longitude pairs, where driver one is traveling from point A to point B and driver two is traveling from point C to point D, write a function (in your language of choice) to calculate the shorter of the detour distances the drivers would need to take to pick-up and drop-off the other driver.
zimride@techventure.com
