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Free food. Stock options. Competitive salaries. Health coverage. Fun office. Flexible hours.


Working at Invite Media

Invite Media is a venture-backed startup located in beautiful Center City Philadelphia (right next to Rittenhouse Square). We are currently working in stealth mode on an exciting opportunity in the online display advertising space. 

At Invite Media, you will get the chance to work alongside other tremendously talented individuals. Our statistics team includes both PhD's and professors.  Members of our tech team have worked at Google and Microsoft; others have previously started their own companies. Our advisors have founded and been involved with successful companies such as Strategic Data Corporation, TACODA, TurnTide and Site Advisor.  

We are very passionate about our work and we are looking for the same kind of people to join our team.

We are also very much a startup. This means everyone gets stock options, flexible hours, free food (good food at that) and a fun office environment. Transportation is covered, and relocation for employees is available.

 
Open Positions

All-Star Developers

Quality Assurance (QA)

Intern Positions
 

We're an "ad" company, so we might as well line the walls with advertisements!
 
Plenty of whiteboard space
Standard issue monitors (as many as you can handle) and plenty of desk space
 
Every now and then we throw events, this time we rented out a night club on the second floor

An always stocked refrigerator, complete with a whiteboard for requested items to buy
 
Lots of candy around the office

Our office is three blocks from City Hall, in the heart of historic Center City Philadelphia
 
There are tons of convenient restaurants, and we're one block from beautiful Rittenhouse Square Park


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 challenging environment 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 Python, Java, and C++
  • 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


Testing Engineer (QA)

Invite Media is searching for a full-time testing engineer to help us launch and maintain our customer-facing and internal services. We are looking for a unique individual who can challenge their team members to release reliable and maintainable software. The position is based in Philadelphia, PA.

Responsibilities

  • Perform tests (regression, security, performance, stress, whitebox, blackbox) for all products before release
  • Create, manage and execute test cases on all products
  • Contribute to automation of product testing
  • Track bugs to specific sections of source code
  • Work closely with developers to report defects and verify bug fixes
  • Provide developers with well documented testing suites to assist them

Requirements
  • Proven ability to deliver bug free world class systems
  • Great attention to detail
  • Ability to author test plans and cases, conduct security and stress tests, and debug at source level after identifying, investigating, and prioritizing bugs
  • Familiarity with Bugzilla, Trac or similar system
  • Experience with automated testing suites
  • Basic Linux operation to trace log and debug
  • Working knowledge of SQL is preferred
  • Great verbal and written communication is a must
  • Out of the box, creative thinker
  • Self-motivated; extreme pride in work
  • Team player
  • Extremely fast learner

Pluses / Great to have experience with
  • Python
  • Java
  • Twisted
  • JavaScript
  • Buildbot
  • Selenium
  • SVN
  • Grinder
  • Online advertising experience (Adsense / Doubleclick / Panama)
  • High volume environments
  • Start-up experience
  • Experience in Agile/SCRUM environment
  • Managing other testers/QA teams


Intern Positions

Since Invite Media was founded by young entrepreneurs, we are open to giving students the opportunity for internship positions in many areas of our company. The following positions are available for interns to take part in throughout the year:

Developers

We are looking for individuals who are enthusiastic about solving problems. The candidate should be willing to learn and improve their work based on the evaluation of other team members. An understanding of SQL queries and object orient programming concepts. Individuals interested in pursuing computer science are preferred.






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