New York City, NY. Full time
At Visual Revenue (an Outbrain company), we collect, analyze, and visualize tons of data – think billions of pings a month. We feed this data into our ever-hungry predictive analytics engine, which (with a little help from some super clever algorithms) then provides online publishers suggestions on how to best promote their content on their website. As our newest frontend engineer, you'll help us constantly improve, tweak and develop our dashboard, API and automated modules – there is loads of room for scope here, so bring it ON! You'll get to work with the team to figure out big ticket items ranging from mobile apps, responsive design, 3rd party javascript and tonnes of other awesome frontend stuff.
FRONTEND
What you'll bring:
- Passion for building anything frontend
- Awesome at JS/HTML/CSS and writing legible code
- Ability to find the right tool for the job. Quickly evaluate different libraries but not afraid to roll your own stuff
- Extra points: Experience with CSS transitions, JQuery, Google Closure toolkit, Java, Python, and Selenium
- Bonus: eye for design, experience in Agile development
Stuff you'll do:
- Participate in design and implementation of new features
- Evolve frontend architecture
- Develop UI and frontend logic
- Integrate and expand backend APIs
- Build apps and automation modules
- Develop and extend internal tools
BACKEND
What you'll bring:
- Hardcore programming skills
- Architectural and data modeling
- Experience with building big data systems
- BS or MS in Computer Science (or related field)
- Extra points: Experience with EC2, S3, EMR/Hadoop, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, Storm, and Kafka
- Bonus: Experience with Python, Java, Machine Learning and Agile development
Stuff you'll do:
- Scale existing backend
- Design and develop new features
- Build internal tools for engineering and account services
- Integrate with external data sources
- Expand and evolve APIs
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Alex Poon
VP, Engineering | Visual Revenue, an Outbrain company
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