Rover — a mobile and web platform connects pet owners with dog sitters, walkers, and doggy day care services — is hiring for several engineering positions as it continues to expand its Seattle-based team.
The company recently announced that it hit an annual run rate of more than $100 million in gross billings, and has been consistently expanding its customer base and online tools since its founding in 2011.
One open position is the Senior Django Software Engineer, who will work with Rover’s technology and product management teams to improve their Django-based web application. The position requires at least five years working with Django and Python, and includes work in front-end web development and test automation. Learn more and apply on GeekWork, and check out other openings at Rover. 
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Valant
Position: Sr. Software Engineer (Service/API/Data)
Summary: “The Valant mission is to use great technology to exponentially scale the quality of health care and to make high quality health care available for everyone. We are a post-revenue, well-funded Seattle company looking to add more enthusiastic, passionate individuals to be a part of the next industry transformation.”
Learn more and apply on GeekWork.
The Seattle Times
Position: Vice President, Advertising
Summary: “The Seattle Times, the nationally-renowned and award-winning digital and print media company, is the leading source of news, sports, business, technology, entertainment and other content for the trendsetting Pacific Northwest and beyond. As a news media company with a laser focus on journalistic standards and excellence, we provide clarity above the content clutter and engage readers across digital and print platforms to provide news that matters where, when and how they want it… The Times is seeking an experienced advertising executive who appreciates our evolving variety of products and multiple ways to distribute and target advertising, sponsored messages and content.”
Learn more and apply on GeekWork.
Avvo
Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Summary: “Avvo is expanding its Dev Ops team to support the growing infrastructure of our organization! The Sr. DevOps Engineer will focus on enhancing the performance and reliability of our services with exceptional knowledge of web-service scaling best practices. Our ideal candidate has strong working knowledge of MySQL, particularly replication and high availability configuration. This position will report to the DevOps Lead and will be a secondary on-call escalation, supporting the primary on-call with more severe issues.”
