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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.