Senior Software Engineer
About Oyster
Oyster.com, the best hotel research and shopping website, is expanding and we are looking for a senior software engineer to join our team.
Financed by Bain Capital Ventures and led by an accomplished and experienced management team, Oyster.com is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive and objective hotel information combined with a world class shopping experience. Formed in March 2008, Oyster.com management includes Microsoft alumnus Eytan Seidman, formerly Director of Core Relevance on Live Search (now Bing.com) -- and two highly accomplished serial entrepreneurs, Ariel Charytan and Elie Seidman. Our engineering team includes members who architected and scaled Microsoft's search engine between 2003 and late 2007. They hold computer science degrees from Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard.
Senior Software Engineer
The engineers at Oyster develop and maintain the web services that power Oyster.com. Responsibilities will range from scaling our hotel commerce engine to writing a mobile app that takes advantage of the millions of high resolution hotel photos in our data store. You will need an eye for customer friendly design along with the skill to build services that stand up to millions of pageviews and users.
Our technology stack contains custom tools, open source projects, and commercial software. You will work with Python, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Windows, CentOS, C++ and more.
Oyster has been repeatedly praised by the best and brightest; The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Economist, USA Today, 37 Signals and many others. We are especially proud of being called a "well executed site" by 37 Signals -- some of the toughest critics in the business.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a preference towards web development
- No requirement for language experience. We largely use Python and C++.
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
What We Offer
Joining our team full-time brings genuinely unique benefits:
- 30" monitors with the best computers money can buy
- We believe that one excellent worker is far better than two adequate performers; as such, we pay well and reward star performers as stars
- Medical, dental, and a 401(k)
- Meaningful equity/stock options in a startup with a very bright future
- Friendly coworkers who are the best in their respective fields
- A seasoned and successful entrepreneurial leadership team that has already achieved great success and knows how to focus and get stuff done
