All-Star Developers

Invite Media is hiring passionate, dedicated and brilliant developers to join the core engineering team.  As part of the core engineering team you will work closely with the founders in a fast paced challengingenvironment 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, hate spaghetti 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 or New York City – remote work is a possibility
• Oh, and we also offer free food (all meals), drinks, medical, dental and vacation.
• We will pay for relocation (super hacker status required). $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 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

Requirements

• B.S., M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or related field (PhD or current PhD student 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

Pluses

• Ivy League or comparable education (Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UC Berkeley, CMU)
• Experience with Amazon ec2 and S3 (If not, research these)
• Experience with ad serving technologies
• CURL
• Experience with large scale distributed computing (MapReduce, Hadoop, Cluster Computing etc.)
• Scalability / Redundancy / High volume environments
• Previous startup experience