Job Details: Sr. Software Engineer - Core Ad Server Technology
| Job Title: | Sr. Software Engineer - Core Ad Server Technology |
| Company: | Confidential |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | DOE |
| Skills: | PHP, C++, Java, SQL |
| Date Posted: | May-06-08 |
Position Title: Senior Software Engineer -- Core Ad Server Technology
The company is the Internet's Ad Marketplace. The company makes it easy to buy and sell advertising online, giving advertisers and publishers more transparency and control than any other ad network. The company has created a simple and more effective advertising marketplace for advertisers and publishers of all sizes. The company helps advertisers tap into highly targeted demographics across 50,000+ premium and trusted sites, reaching over 85 million unique users every month. The company serve ads on over one billion pages a day.
Job Description: Senior level software development position within the core ad server team. This is an extremely important position for an experienced developer to have an impact on the direction of ad server development at the company. The senior engineer will work closely with the product team and with the rest of the development team to specify, design, and develop, world-class software to be used in an extremely high-volume environment. New and innovative ad products will be developed within this group.
The applicant will be required to take a software test prior to being considered for the position.
Reporting to: VP of Engineering
Responsibilities:
• Work closely with the Product Development Team to define and prioritizing product enhancements. Comment on feasibility and effort analysis as appropriate.
• Work closely with the Product Management team and the Development team to develop ad server functionality to spec. Author the software in PHP (moving to C++ or Java in the short term).
• Author technical specifications based on product specs. Review these specs with the rest of the group, incorporating best practices. Implement good software design.
• Write unit tests for the functionality you develop. Help others to develop unit tests. Work closely with QA to help to automate these tests.
• Assist the operations and build teams with software deployments to the production systems. Ensure quality software development processes are implemented and proper programming and release procedures are adhered to. Actively research and implement tools and processes to enhance team productivity and system quality. Abide by the Company coding specification and modify it when necessary.
Required Skills:
• First and foremost this person must be a highly motivated, self-starter, be able to be productive with minimal supervision, and must value self-learning.
• Highly proficient in programming and in SQL. A proficiency test will be administered.
• Proficiency in source control systems, preferably cvs or svn
• Must be highly organized and detail-oriented
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills, especially the ability to author and communicate a software technical spec.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a small (2-3 people) group.
• Must check your ego at the door and be able to work well in a tight group of enthusiastic engineers. Must be able to work collaboratively, listen, and incorporate new ideas into your designs.
Minimum Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience in software development
• 3+ years in C++ and Java, PHP a plus
• 3+ years in **extremely** high transaction volume applications
• 3+ years working with RDBMS, preference given to MySQL experience, specifically query optimization
• Experience working with distributed LAMP systems
Preferred Qualifications:
• An understanding of ad targeting technology
• Industry knowledge of the Internet advertising business such as CPM and CPC-based advertising
• undergraduate degree in applicable field, preferably Computer Science or related field
• C, C++ experience
• Linux systems administration experience
| Location: [rss] | US-CA-San Francisco |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | Heather Cooper |
| Contact Phone: | |
| Contact Email: | hcooperjohnson@gmail.com |
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