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Senior Software Engineer/ Architect

Meltwater Group seeks Senior Software Engineers/ Architects to expand our research & development Think Tank in our downtown San Francisco Global Headquarters.

Your Role

Play a key role leading the Think Tank, developing and enhancing distributed crawlers, search engine and web applications. Drive technology and design choices on a variety of cutting edge solutions to difficult problems. In addition, you will play a critical role in early-stage research and development of new product lines and feature-sets.

We value the ability to learn and apply new technologies and concepts as efficiently as already mastered technologies. Maintaining an open mind is vital!

Requirements

- Experience with large scale and distributed systems

- Strong OOD, OOA and design pattern skills

- Experience with search engines, cryptology, Linux, Java, Apache, MySQL, Perl is desired.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in teams

- Proven ability to deliver under time constraints

About The Meltwater Group

Meltwater Group's vision is to enter high growth markets where innovative technologies challenge existing business models.

Meltwater News, our first division, delivers real-time intelligence on clients' media exposure, competitors, industry trends, and any other subject they want to track in over 45,000 global publications in 23 languages. We index a vast collection of internet sources daily, and filter this information for our clients. We provide a rich, flexible user interface for our clients to define their options.

Meltwater News is the #1 player in Europe, with rapidly expanding operations in North America, Asia, Australia and Africa.

Meltwater Drive, our latest venture, is an web based communication tool that increases our clients' productivity and eliminates poor back-up routines by providing secure data backup, automatically. Features include remote access to data with any internet connection and secure file sharing.

Founded in Norway in 2001, Meltwater Group now provides software solutions to over 7,500 of the most admired companies and organizations worldwide. In the last five years, we have established 27 offices between Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the UK & Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States. The company has zero debts and has been profitable since the beginning. We are aggressively growing and need the right team on board. If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply.

Details

- We are looking to fill these positions immediately

- Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience

- Comprehensive benefits package includes four weeks paid vacation, full medical and dental insurance, flexible working hours and more!

- Fun and open working environment in Downtown San Francisco

To apply for the positions you MUST provide:

1. A cover letter

2. A copy of your CV/ Resume

3. A completed copy of the questionnaire (see below)

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Send the above to: recruitment.thinktank@

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|Full Name | |

|Availability Information | |

|When can you begin employment? | |

|Please specify a date. | |

|What is your employment eligibility? | |

|Where did you find out about this job? | |

|Professional Information | |

|Please state your University Degree(s), University attended and| |

|Graduation year. | |

|Number of years of full-time working experience? Please | |

|elaborate. | |

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|Number of years of development experience? | |

|Please elaborate. | |

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|Activity Information | |

|List all your prior/current summer jobs and part-time/ contract| |

|positions. | |

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|List current and past awards, honours, and distinctions. | |

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|Further Information | |

|Meltwater News has 3 core values. These are Fun, Winners and | |

|Respect. What does this mean to you? | |

|Please describe a development project which you found | |

|particularly challenging. | |

|Describe a personal achievement that describes you well as a | |

|person. | |

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