Join us @gogobot.com

Do you want to revolutionize the way people travel? Are you passionate about travel and believe in the power of social technology? Do you want to join a high caliber team of people with the ambition to change the world?

About gogobot
We are an early-stage startup based in Menlo Park, California. Founded by Travis Katz (MySpace) and Ori Zaltzman (Yahoo!) with top-tier VC backing, gogobot is harnessing the power of the social web to revolutionize travel.

We believe the internet should deliver personalized, trusted experiences. We believe in creating experiences that consumers will love and want to tell their friends about. And we believe passionately that planning your trips and sharing your travel experiences should be fun, easy and social.

We are seeking people who are passionate about innovation with the ambition to change the world.

Join the travel revolution! Send us a note at jobs@gogobot.com

Sr. Back End Engineer
You will be responsible building the back-end infrastructure for a revolutionary social travel service. You will design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable server systems. This is a full time position in Menlo Park, California.

Requirements:
B.S. in Computer Science with 4+ years or M.S. in Computer Science with 2+ years of industry experience
Experience building large-scale server applications and reliable software
Expert level understanding of XML, JSON and Web Services
Expert level experience with an object oriented programming language (Ruby preferred)
Expert level experience with Database schema design, SQL and MySQL
Experience building social products (FB Connect, twitter API) is a plus
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Highly motivated self-starter
Ability to tackle challenging problems on a tight schedule
Prior experience with building platform technologies a plus
Knowledge in machine-learning, nature language processing, and/or information retrieval are pluses
You learn new languages and technologies quickly, are innovative, enjoy challenges and have a great work ethic

http://www.gogobot.com/jobs