Factual is hiring Clojure engineers

[Zach Tellman]

It's been six months since I last announced this, so: Factual is perpetually hiring smart, driven engineers to solve deep problems in data analysis and systems engineering.  We have offices in both SF and LA, and remote candidates with a strong background in analysis will be considered.

Factual provides an index of things in the world (businesses, places, and products).  You can either use this directly via our API [1] to ask questions like "what are the three coffee shops nearest to me", or indirectly by giving us your own real world data to enrich and refine [2] [3].  Factual uses Clojure extensively [4], both for realtime systems and batch data analysis.  Systems written purely in Clojure handle the following:

* realtime intake of 70k datapoints/sec from our partners

* batch processing of 7 billion new datapoints every day, comprising terabytes of compressed textual data

* generating, storing, and serving 150 million records, refreshed daily

Both of these numbers have at least doubled in the last six months, and could very easily do so again.  There are also other projects that use Clojure alongside Java to work at similar scales.

Libraries developed in the course of working on these projects include:

https://github.com/factual/skuld

https://github.com/factual/clj-leveldb

https://github.com/aphyr/merkle

https://github.com/ztellman/clj-tuple

https://github.com/ztellman/narrator

Several other libraries are on the cusp of being open sourced, when we get a chance.

We need people who enjoy using technology as a lever to accomplish amazing things (wasn't it Archimedes who said "give me a large enough data center..."), who want to work alongside people they can continuously learn from, and who want to be just a little uncomfortable with the scale and scope of their responsibilities.

If this sounds interesting, contact me at zach at factual.com.  I'm heading up the small but growing SF office, and am happy to talk in person with anyone in the Bay Area who'd like to know more.

[1] http://developer.factual.com/working-with-factual-places/

[2] http://www.factual.com/products/geopulse-audience

[3] http://www.factual.com/products/resolve

[4] http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure

[Petr]

Do you consider non US candidates?
Wihout extensive data analysis experience?

[Zach Tellman]

We will consider candidates from outside the US if they're willing to relocate here.  I'm happy to talk in more detail if you like, just email me at the above address.

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