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If you are interested in a position at Election Media Media, kindly submit your resume in a Word document or PDF format, either electronically or physically to our New York office.
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Election Media is looking for a passionate, dedicated and brilliant developer to join the engineering team. As part of the 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, writing clean code, and want to be involved in building a new product from the ground up then we are interested. Smarts are required, set your own hours. On-site position is in Cambridge, MA or New York City - remote work is a possibility.
- Join our team to develop the core advertising and optimization platform
- Code high-volume ad delivery software using primarily C++ and Python
- Work closely with engineering team to scale / architect ad platform
- QA our ad platform
- Work closely with Statistics team to implement algorithms
- 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
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or related field (PhD a major plus)
- Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems and a willingness to learn
- 3+ years OOP PHP, Java or C++
- 2+ years Python, PERL and/or Ruby
- 3+ years SQL / mySQL
- 3+ years Javascript
- Experience with SVN / CVS
- Extensive knowledge of open source technologies (PHP, MySQL, memcache etc.)
- Experience writing software that communicates directly with 3rd party software (crawlers, automation scripts, API's etc.)
- Self-motivated and reliable a MUST
- Ask smart questions
- Ivy League or comparable education (Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UC Berkeley, CMU)
- Previous startup experience
- Experience with Amazon ec2 and S3 (If not, research these)
- Experience with ad serving technologies
- Experience with large scale distributed computing (MapReduce, Hadoop, Cluster Computing)
- Scalability / Redundancy / High volume environments
Election Media is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any individual, employee, or application for employment on the basis of race, color, marital status, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, handicap, or any other legally protected status recognized by federal, state or local law.