Job: Lead Architect / Developer for Optimor's math-based Comparison Engine

Optimor’s math-based Comparison Engine needs a Lead Architect / Developer

Come help us revolutionise comparison shopping: Optimor’s [
www.optimorlabs.com ] next generation comparison technology provides
personalised and accurate recommendations to consumers, integrating
state-of-the-art research in mathematical statistics by senior Oxford
academics. We are a start-up seed-funded by one of Europe’s leading early
stage investors, TAG, and the DTI, located in Oxford. If you like
farecast.com, we promise to excite you more!
We are looking for a hands-on Lead Architect/Developer that thinks
rigorously to lead development of our data-driven web service and the
underlying comparison engine. You will be one of the first senior employees
and will help shape the company.’

Responsibilities:
* Lead the architectural design for our first publicly released product
* Design, build, and test both web applications and core
math-recommendation engines
* Coordinate back-end and front-end web developers as well as work with our
leading mathematicians
* Help build the development team

Requirements:
* Enthusiasm for what you do
* Extensive and demonstrable experience architecting, building, and
deploying production web applications and scalable software systems
* Demonstrated proficiency in an object oriented language (pref. C++) and
algorithm design/implementation
* Solid knowledge of web technologies: Linux / MySQL / Ruby on Rails (or
equivalent) / Apache / Javascript / Ajax / HTML / XML / CSS / Flash
* Excellent communication skills and technical team management experience
* Willingness to “own code” and build pieces of the system
* Passion for agile methodologies and test-driven development
* MS Computer Science (or equivalent field), demonstrating strong
analytical problem-solving ability
* Legally entitled to work in the UK

Extras:
* Experience with Data Mining Architectures (esp. Web Content Mining)
* Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, SQS, S3)
* Experience with Kapow Technologies' web robot platform
* Background in statistical decision theory / pattern recognition is a
strong plus
Compensation:
* Competitive base salary, benefits, and share options
* Successful candidates look forward to assuming strategic roles as the
company expands

MS or PhD graduates will be strongly preferred.
Please send your CV to [email protected]. Principals only please.