Junior and senior superhackers wanted, Sweden

Facebook, Google and Amazon have with great success been using new technologies and tools to build high performance and reliable services on the Internet. Now our client is looking for great programmers who want to take these technologies even further. These positions are especially interesting to those of you wishing to join an exceptional development team with some of the worlds most renown Erlang programmers.


The position

Our client is looking for new colleagues who can help develop the system which is the core of our client services that serve millions of consumers around Scandinavia. You will have the opportunity to learn Erlang - a functional and concurrent programming language which makes it easy to program in mulitcore and distributed environments.

As a developer your work will help our client reach 1,5 million consumers and support the 4000 e-stores that daily work in the system. Your code will analyse and process transactions for several billion kronor per year in a complex and distributed environment.

In your work you will cooperate closely with the rest of the development department in an atmosphere of performance and entrepreneurship. If you have the ambition to grow and learn then we have the tools and desire to help you do so. We have chosen to create a development department that stimulates every developer and gives them great personal freedom. We develop using the Scrum agile methodology with two week iterations, or sprints, and each team has great freedom to organise it’s own work.

Our client is looking for those of you who are very talented programmers with a love of writing high-quality code have a strong desire to get things done want to work with the latest technologies within web (e.g. Erlang, Ajax and Google-wave) are creative and innovative are analytical can work independently are interested in usability have an academic qualification, preferably within Computer Science or a similar subject love to program in functional languages (e.g. Erlang, Haskell, Scheme) or modern high level languages such as Scala, Ruby and Python.

We look positively on candidates with experience of: GUI-development, internet banks, distributed databases, Scrum, electronic payment methods, statistical analysis, Erlang, XML, HTML, Yaws, OTP, Mnesia.

To qualify for the position you are expected to pass several tests most of which are designed to test your ability as a programmer. A typical test question could be “write a function which compares two strings containing persons full names and checks to see if they are identical except for the order of the names”. 

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