Position: Lead Server Architect
Location: San Francisco

Summary:
Kyte is looking for an “ace” server-side architect with an enthusiasm for working with new technologies and building massively scalable system infrastructures. You will be leading our back-end development team and driving forward a challenging agenda of both new functionality and support for rapidly growing traffic. This position is full-time and you will be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco, close to MUNI and BART.

About Kyte:
Kyte is the online and mobile video platform for media and entertainment. The Kyte Platform combines the real-time, interactive and community building capabilities of the social web with the analytics, control, and monetization features of professional video platforms, enabling companies to converge online and mobile audiences, build community, and monetize. Leading media and entertainment brands including Universal Music Group, Turner Broadcasting, MTV, ESPN, and many others are using the Kyte Platform to engage with audiences and monetize their brand. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a European office in Zurich, Switzerland. Investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Telefónica, Nokia Growth Partners, Steamboat Ventures, TeliaSonera, DoCoMo Capital, Holtzbrinck Ventures, Swisscom and others.

Experience:
Success leading teams in high pressure environments
Grid computing and clustered cache solutions
High performance socket and HTTP tunnel data transport
Staged Event Driven Architecture
AJAX and other “rich web” techniques
Spring 2.x
Hibernate 3.x
Mobile web/WAP development
Complex Ant build systems
Performance testing tools

Requirements:
10+ years experience writing high-performance, web-related software with Java/C++
Expert with client/server networked applications
Expert with object-oriented framework and design
In-depth knowledge of Unix, Windows, web servers, and application servers
Experience building massively scalable internet applications
Strong leadership skills

Contact:
Interested parties please email resume to jobs AT kyte DOT com.