Senior Software Engineer Job
Senior Software Engineer Philadelphia, PA
Invite Media is hiring passionate, dedicated and brilliant engineers to join the core engineering team. As part of the core engineering team you will work closely with the founders in a fast paced, challenging environment to help shape the technology landscape and culture of the core product. If you enjoy working on high volume platforms, architecting solutions to large scale problems, writing clean code, and want to be involved in building a company from the ground up then we are interested. Smarts are required, set your own hours.
- All core engineers receive equity
- All on-site positions are in Philadelphia, PA
- Oh, and we also offer free food (all meals), drinks, medical, dental and vacation.
- We will pay for relocation. $5,000 bounty is available for any direct referral to a candidate that gets hired.
Responsibilities
- Join our team to develop the core advertising and optimization platform
- Code high-volume ad delivery software using primarily Python
- Work closely with engineering team to scale / architect ad platform
- Innovate to improve our core technologies
- Think outside the box / be highly creative
- Be willing to learn new technologies
- Help build report interfaces and data feeds
- Ask smart questions
Requirements
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or related field
- Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems and a willingness to learn
- Experience with source control (SVN, CVS)
- Extensive knowledge of open source technologies
- Has built a system that has operated on greater than 20 machines
- Well versed in HTTP protocol
- Experience writing software that communicates directly with 3rd party software (crawlers, automation scripts, API’s)
- Self-motivated and reliable
Pluses
- Experience or familiarity with Amazon EC2 and S3
- Experience with ad serving technologies
- Experience with large scale distributed computing (MapReduce, Hadoop, Distributed Computing)
- Familiar with log processing and data analysis
- Scalability / Redundancy / High volume environments
- Previous start-up experience
To apply, send your resume to jobs@invitemedia.com
