Summer Internships: Special Project Engineers
This summer, GenieDB is looking to hire a crack team of Special Project Engineers.
GenieDB’s Software Engineers develop ground breaking distributed database technology which finds applications in business everywhere from high speed, automatic trading systems to geographically diverse stock control systems and highly available, mission critical web presences.
We have vacancies in our North London office for people who are seeking 2 – 3 month technical internships over the summer period.
Location: London, UK
Responsibilities:
* Develop prototypes and demonstrate ideas quickly and coherently.
* Work as part of a team to achieve specific milestones on Special Projects.
* Assessment and exploration of development / test / business automation ideas and opportunities.
* Automate your role before your internship ends.
Skills:
Projects at GenieDB require a wide range of different skills. If you have an interesting mix of any of the following then we’d like to hear from you.
* Be studying for a MEng / MSc / MSci or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
* Comfortable in a UNIX / Linux based networked environment.
* Knowledge of virtualisation technologies and reasons for using them.
* Comfortable with multi-threaded, multi-process and multi-node distributed techniques.
* Ability to form distributed consensus both in Software and with colleagues.
* Programming experience in a range of high and low level programming languages such as C / FORTH / Python / Perl or Scheme.
* An understanding of SQL and noSQL engines, features and tradeoffs.
* Have your own ideas about software lifecycle management / QA automation and development models.
* A passion for automation.
If you’d like to join us, all you need is an aptitude for problem solving and a passion for distributed systems.
Please send your CV and a brief covering letter to internships@geniedb.com
We look forward to hearing from you.