OpinionLab is seeking a Functional Software Developer with strong agile skills to join our Chicago, IL based Product Development team in the West Loop.
OpinionLab has chosen Clojure to solve our data processing problems. As a member of our small (less than 20) but dedicated Product Development team, you will play a critical role in the architecture, design, development, and deployment of our Clojure based applications and services. Our ongoing challenge is to transform streams of independent comments into actionable intelligence for our customers in real time. If you like to scrub, munge, parse, and categorize data to discover what it really means, we have plenty of work for you.
You will fit in at OpinionLab if you are always:
- Learning and improving your craft
- Helping others grow, sharing what you know, and jumping in wherever you can
- Leaving everything better than you found it
- Having ideas, passion, and never being afraid to speak up
- Holding a positive roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-things-done attitude
- Taking pride in what you do
- Living in a thoughtful, honest, and courageous way[1]
- Adapting and pivoting with ease
- Practicing Agile or Lean to deliver quality products
- Thinking how an end user will use your program
You will be responsible for:
- Building software through your passion of BDD, TDD, continuous integration, pairing, and iterative development
- Developing scalable data collection, storage, processing & distribution platforms & services
- Architecting and designing a mission-critical SaaS platform and associated APIs
- Using and contributing to open-source technologies and framework
- Learning and teaching Clojure to other developers individually and in a study group
- Participating in planning, review, and retrospective meetings (à la Scrum)
Compensation:
- Commensurate with experience.
- Benefits include medical, dental, life and disability insurances, paid holidays, vacation and sick days, 401K with employer match, FSA plan
To apply for this job, please send a cover letter detailing your abilities and your most recent résumé to careers@opinionlab.com or apply directly at www.opinionlab.com/company/careers. Only qualified candidates will be contacted.