Sr Java/Web Developer
ABOUT THE COMPANY: RANKER (#URL_156a0398411125d5168b6d7d01ef5c9fcb1f06073a28e30b13b0e07ad0829f25#)  #URL_00929b972366e2cf9eea7ef060232361c201119fb450e0772324870195ae6fb6# is the leading platform for crowdsourced rankings of everything – topics both entertaining and practical (pop culture, sports, music and just about everything else anyone cares about).  Ranker is a rapidly growing, well-funded and profitable startup.  The company is building to be one of the most popular businesses in the digital world.HIGHLIGHTS:#URL_00929b972366e2cf9eea7ef060232361c201119fb450e0772324870195ae6fb6# launched in August of 2009 and has grown to more than 16 million monthly unique visitors and generate over 250 million pageviews.  A Quantcast top 200 site (top 100 for mobile)   Forbes named Ranker one of 15 Explosively Growing Companies to Watch in 2013.Raised over $3.1M from investors including:Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Siemer Venture Capital and various angels.Entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Founder of Factual – Gil Elbaz (bio)Led by serial entrepreneur and CEO, Clark Benson (bio) – former Founder of eCrush.ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY: SENIOR JAVA WEB DEVELOPERRanker is looking for a Senior Java Developer with a broad skillset and understanding of high-transaction web environments to join the small and rapidly growing engineering team.  This is a very hands on-opportunity to join and have an immediate, tangible impact in one of Southern California’s fastest growing consumer facing web startup.  We are a collaborative team working on a highly scalable consumer web application.Specific to the technology… The Ranker technology stack consists of custom CMS framework built on Spring MVC running inside Tomcat.Ranker leverages data sets of millions of entities, aggregate linked data graphs into Ranker to expose them to the user base for the list building platform.Large scale data processing and Ranker go hand-in-hand as we continue to target structured data sets of value to augment our existing knowledge base.The Ranker engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining a highly trafficked site (over 3.5 million monthly visitors and growing), a distributed app and most importantly large scale data aggregation.Utilizing a RDF triple store Ranker ingests tens of millions entities (which include over 50MM triples) to push the limits of how data aggregation can impact a consumer site as well as building out our distributed application framework into multiple verticals. 
Title: Sr Java/Web Developer
Salary: None
Description: ABOUT THE COMPANY: RANKER (#URL_156a0398411125d5168b6d7d01ef5c9fcb1f06073a28e30b13b0e07ad0829f25#)  #URL_00929b972366e2cf9eea7ef060232361c201119fb450e0772324870195ae6fb6# is the leading platform for crowdsourced rankings of everything – topics both entertaining and practical (pop culture, sports, music and just about everything else anyone cares about).  Ranker is a rapidly growing, well-funded and profitable startup.  The company is building to be one of the most popular businesses in the digital world.HIGHLIGHTS:#URL_00929b972366e2cf9eea7ef060232361c201119fb450e0772324870195ae6fb6# launched in August of 2009 and has grown to more than 16 million monthly unique visitors and generate over 250 million pageviews.  A Quantcast top 200 site (top 100 for mobile)   Forbes named Ranker one of 15 Explosively Growing Companies to Watch in 2013.Raised over $3.1M from investors including:Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Siemer Venture Capital and various angels.Entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Founder of Factual – Gil Elbaz (bio)Led by serial entrepreneur and CEO, Clark Benson (bio) – former Founder of eCrush.ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY: SENIOR JAVA WEB DEVELOPERRanker is looking for a Senior Java Developer with a broad skillset and understanding of high-transaction web environments to join the small and rapidly growing engineering team.  This is a very hands on-opportunity to join and have an immediate, tangible impact in one of Southern California’s fastest growing consumer facing web startup.  We are a collaborative team working on a highly scalable consumer web application.Specific to the technology… The Ranker technology stack consists of custom CMS framework built on Spring MVC running inside Tomcat.Ranker leverages data sets of millions of entities, aggregate linked data graphs into Ranker to expose them to the user base for the list building platform.Large scale data processing and Ranker go hand-in-hand as we continue to target structured data sets of value to augment our existing knowledge base.The Ranker engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining a highly trafficked site (over 3.5 million monthly visitors and growing), a distributed app and most importantly large scale data aggregation.Utilizing a RDF triple store Ranker ingests tens of millions entities (which include over 50MM triples) to push the limits of how data aggregation can impact a consumer site as well as building out our distributed application framework into multiple verticals. 
Requirements: Mid-Senior level experience, Unspecified education
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