November 3rd, 2007

Release/Deployment Engineer in Currenex (redwood city)

Currenex/State street has an opening for Release/Deployment Engineer
in Redwood city.

ABOUT CURRENEX

Currenex Inc. (www.currenex.com) develops and runs a leading real-time
distributed Foreign Exchange trading platform. Developed in Java, our
system handles hundreds of millions of messages per day and our
performance is measured in milli and even microseconds. We are
connected to every major bank and financial institution in the world.

Currenex is a wholly owned subsidiary of State Street Corp
(www.statestreet.com), the world’s leading provider of financial
services to institutional investors. State Street has $11.9 trillion
in assets under custody and $1.7 trillion under management. Being part
of State Street opens every door in the financial world, but Currenex
continues to function largely as an autonomous software startup. We
understand the value of our software engineers and strive to maintain
a developer-friendly work environment.

JOB DESCRIPTION
Position is located in Redwood City, where you will build, install,
and configure applications for in-house servers. Administer SCM.
You must have BSD, Linux, or Solaris command line experience, and be
comfortable using vi or Emacs style editor. You must understand
branching, merging, and managing code lines, and be familiar with
basic programming concepts. You need the ability to work with little
supervision and take the initiative when problems arise.
Although the position is not on-call, if available, you must be able
to participate in an escalation team.

Requirements:

• Prior experience as a build/release engineer
• Troubleshooting application and system problems
• Exceptional Perl programming
• SCM concepts and processes
• Security conscious and process oriented
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Work independently without supervision
Desired Skills
• 3+ years Unix systems in a production environment
• Perforce management and best practices
• Java, Ant, Apache
• PKI, Unix security concepts and tools

Contact: Fang Fang (fangfang_70[at the rate of]yahoo[dot]com)

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