Software Engineer- Discovery

SWE- Discovery

Bebo (www.bebo.com), located in San
Francisco, has over 40 million - registered
members viewing billions of pages monthly;
it is the largest social networking site in the
UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third
largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the
US. Officially launched in July 2005, received
the 2006 Webby Award People's Vote as the
best social networking site in the world.

Our recent merger with AOL will bring
tremendous opportunity by combining
Bebo's fast growing user base with the social
graph of AIM and other assets.

At Bebo you will:

- Expand your skills and grow your career
with a creative, game changing team
connecting friends, facilitating self-
expression, and providing the full experience
of media entertainment on the web;
- Enjoy a supportive work environment,
flexible hours, fantastic office space in
beautiful SF SOMA, and great perks;
- Dive right into best practices of product,
scaling, community, and the business sides
of building a great web app.

Responsibilites

- Develop and consistently seek to improve a
real-time search engine that is used by
millions of people around the world.

Requirements

- Deep knowledge of Java and Linux
- Theoretical and practical background in
search technology
- Vast experience with back-end systems
development
- Strong passion in developing/programming and debugging commercial grade software
- Experienced in and desire to work in a fast-paced iterative product development environment
- Experience working on high traffic/ high availability / large consumer facing websites
- Self-motivated and driven individual who wants to take ownership of features and projects
- Comfortable working in a less-structured environment around rapidly changing technologies

Preferred Experience

BS/MSCS or equivalent
Experience wtih java MVC frameworks


NCBC-AOL


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