Employment

Starling is not currently hiring for any positions.

Most of our work is done in Haskell and Ruby running on Linux or NetBSD boxes. However, we expect our developers to be (or become) familiar with a broad range of technologies and, more importantly, the concepts behind those technologies. If you feel that, because you know one object-oriented language or RDBMS in depth, you can pick up another one easily, you may be the kind of person we’re looking for. If you can write an RDBMS, you’re even more likely to be the kind of person we’re looking for.

If you have limited experience, this may not be a major problem. While a vast amount of experience can be very useful, we’re less concerned with what you know than how fast you learn.

Things that would typically be helpful to us include strong theoretical and practical knowledge in any of the following areas:

• Functional programming
• Agile development
• Automated testing and release management
• Relational database management systems
• Design, maintenance and monitoring of production systems
• TCP/IP network protocols and the applications that use them
• Operating systems design and development
• Computer and network security
• HTML and Ajax and all that good stuff
• Microsoft Windows programming
• Financial markets (e.g., derivatives trading)

We work in English. Japanese language skills, while not required, are useful.

For details of how to apply, and our interview process, please see the Interview Process page.