About the Role
Serving billions of impressions per month on a variety of websites with different audiences, we collect data from our publisher embed technology and use this data to serve better advertisements for our publishers. Our publishers expect a stable high-quality product that they can build their businesses around. The back-end engineers make sure that we are able to scale our systems to store large volumes of data and service billions of requests each month while providing in-depth analytics to our publishers.
You will get the opportunity to work on a variety of our back-end systems and have ownership of features from conception through delivery.
Challenges and Opportunities for the position
Have a personal impact: You’ll be involved in planning, architecting, and ultimately releasing to production new products and features that will help drive this business forward. The work here is incredibly rewarding if you take pride in what you produce.
Work on an organized team: You’ll slot into an incredibly efficient engineering team. An agile work environment with a well-defined workload, scope, and tasks that will have you focusing on what you need to do and producing great work within a two-week sprint cycle.
Opportunity to have fun: The engineering team here means business but has fun while doing it. We keep things light while accomplishing a ton of work in short periods of time. Everyone here is invested in what they produce but can still find the time to smile and joke around.
Better yourself and others: We are constantly looking to evolve. Investigating new technologies and techniques, we never stay stagnant. It’s a great group of engineers who are looking to keep learning. Management is very open to change, so introducing new ways of doing things is appreciated and encouraged.
Responsibilities and Duties
Collaborate effectively with the design, product, and engineering team on a variety of applications.
Generate clean, efficient, modular, and maintainable code on both the front-end and back-end.
Audit existing codebase for performance enhancements.
Develop new products from the ground up aiding in architectural decisions.
Responsible and thorough testing of output in all supported browsers and devices.
Maintain design standards and integrity throughout product interfaces.
Stay abreast of programming trends and push the tech-forward whenever project feasibility arises.
Qualifications
Professional competencies
5+ years of experience in Java.
In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch) along with ORM Technologies like Hibernate and Mongoose.
Experience developing web applications using frameworks like Spring Boot, ExpressJS, Play Framework, NestJs etc.
Fundamentals in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
Experience in integrating 3rd party API, libraries based on the documents.
Extensive experience in web application architecture and development.
Experience in continuous integration and backtesting frameworks.
Great communication, solid collaboration skills, with a strong teamwork ethic.
Able to search for possible solutions and apply them.
Ability to break hard problems down into smaller and simpler problems and guide the junior developer to complete them.
C1 or better level of English (or international equivalent)
Cultural competencies
Creative confidence
Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills
Skilled at receiving feedback, as well as providing it
Entrepreneurial & adaptable; great learning skills
Transparent & communicative, patient
Curious, research-minded, data-informed
Most importantly, you should be a nice person that people like to work with
You like to work hard, trust your judgment and get stuff done!
Benefits
We offer a diverse package and the chance to grow financially with the company, including:
Competitive Salary
Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
Annual Performance Bonus
Stock options (so you have ownership in the company and benefit as it grows)
Flexible work schedule
New York, NY
Insticator is a global leader in increasing engagement, research revenue and ad revenue for publishers through interactive content while enhancing viewability and purchase intent for brands.
Over 350 million online consumers are reached monthly across Insticator’s vast network of elite publishing partners that include Ancestry.com, Intermarkets, Evolve Media, Inquirer, and more.
Insticator empowers thousands of content creators monthly with its revenue and engagement increasing products, while providing monetizing content opportunities for publishers and brands.
Our Core Values are
Sleeves up
100% Viewability
Be Defiantly Great
Unconditional Empathy
We were just rated the 680th fastest growing company in North America 2018 and are apart of the Inc 5000!
Mission: Fix a broken internet with care!