Our Los Angeles area startup is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience building web services that drive commerce across websites, mobile apps and online games.  This is an exciting opportunity to get in early with a new venture and help us build a very exciting product  from scratch!  Our company has the resources to offer a competitive and flexible compensation package.

Responsibilities:
* Full-time, reporting to the CTO
* Co-Architect major systems for our products
* Co-develop products with internal and external teams
* Lead internal and external development teams
* Help to build an internal development team with best of breed development culture
* Build development, testing and staging environments
* Create automated and manual build and quality control systems
* Regularly, consistently and clearly document all designs and implementations

Requirements:
* Education
- BA / BS in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent experience
* Management Skills and Experience
- excellent communication skills in both written and verbal form
- delivering projects on-time and to specifications
- process and standards driven developer
- Agile project management
* Operations Experience
- using source control systems like CVS, SVN, Perforce or Git
- deploying robust build and deployment systems and processes
* QA Automation Experience
- building suites of unit tests
- building and using load test scripts
- simulating disaster/outage scenarios
* Software Experience
- 5+ years development in Python or Java
- 5+ years developing high-throughput and high-availability services and systems
- Experience developing RESTful APIs using JSON and AJAX
- Strong HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
- building or using advertising-based technologies a plus
- games industry experience is a plus
* Frameworks/Platforms
- Strong with frameworks/platforms (Django, Pylon, AppEngine)
* Databases
- 5+ years of database development using RDBMS/SQL server
- 1+ years experience using NoSQL servers (i.e. Hadoop, CouchBase, BigTable)
* Infrastructure
- 2+ years experience using Amazon EC2 or other cloud based infrastructure