AdSafe is an early-stage, venture capital funded internet advertising technology company located in the heart of Soho. We are a leader in the display adverting space, having been named a “Top 20 Hottest NYC Start-up” by Business Insider and an “OnMedia Top 100 Private Company”.
We strive to provide an exciting, entrepreneurial environment in which creative minds can thrive. We are a flat organization that values talent and hard work over hierarchy. We’re currently looking for smart, highly motivated interns who are comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment to join our team for the summer.
AdSafe uses proprietary algorithmic modeling and human analysis to rate the brand safety of content on all commercially supported web pages across the internet. Using our brand safety ratings, AdSafe enables advertisers to control the placement of their display advertising and ensure that their advertising never appears on inappropriate pages. AdSafe is headquartered in New York, NY with operations in Santa Barbara, CA and London, England.
Open Positions Include:
Job Title: Software Engineer
AdSafe Media is hiring passionate, dedicated and brilliant engineers 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, and want to be involved in building a company from the ground up then we are interested.
Responsibilities:
o Join our team to develop the core advertising and optimization platform
o Code high-volume ad delivery software using primarily Python
o Work closely with engineering team to scale / architect ad platform
o Innovate to improve our core technologies
o Think outside the box / be highly creative
o Be willing to learn new technologies
o Help build report interfaces and data feeds
o Ask smart questions
Requirements:
o B.S., M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or related field
o Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems and a willingness to learn
o Experience with source control (SVN)
o Extensive knowledge of open source technologies
o Has built a system that has operated on greater than 20 machines
o Well versed in HTTP protocol
o Experience writing software that communicates directly with 3rd party software (crawlers, automation scripts, API's)
o Self-motivated and reliable
Job Title: Testing Engineer
AdSafe 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.
Responsibilities:
o Perform tests (regression, security, performance, stress, whitebox, blackbox) for all products before release
o Create, manage and execute test cases on all products
o Contribute to automation of product testing
o Track bugs to specific sections of source code
o Work closely with developers to report defects and verify bug fixes
o Provide developers with well documented testing suites to assist them
Requirements:
o Proven ability to deliver bug free world class systems
o Great attention to detail
o Ability to author test plans and cases, conduct security and stress tests, and debug at source level after identifying, investigating, and prioritizing bugs
o Familiarity with Bugzilla, Trac or similar system
o Experience with automated testing suites
o Basic Linux operation to trace log and debug
o Working knowledge of SQL is preferred
o Great verbal and written communication is a must
o Out of the box, creative thinker
o Self-motivated; extreme pride in work
o Team player
o Extremely fast learner
Job Title: UI Engineer
Enjoy working on web apps? AdSafe Media is searching for stellar UI engineers to help make AdSafe's interface a truly enjoyable experience.
All UI engineers...
o Bring UI mockups to life using HTML and Javascript
o Work closely with the entire engineering team building the core optimization platform
o Are given problems to solve, not solutions invented by someone else
o Pick what features they want to work on from a product backlog (and also add their own...)
o Receive equity in the company
o Get all the perks including free food and drinks, medical and dental benefits, and vacation time
All candidates should have...
o A degree in Computer Science or related field
o 3+ years HTML + Javascript
o 3+ years OO design and implementation
o 1+ years Javascript framework EXT, Java, Java templating Velocity or Tapestry
o Experience with Subversion
o A love for clean and maintainable code
o A love for learning and tinkering with new things
The ideal candidate should have experience with...
o Contributing to open source software projects)
o Lots and lots of APIs (both writing and using)
o Startups and the fast paced environments they bring with them
Job Title: Computer Science / Data Mining Intern
The intern will report directly to the Chief Information Officer and serve a critic role in helping to architect and refine our content rating system while also assisting with incremental technology development projects.
Responsibilities:
o Managing the implementation of crowd-sourced human page scoring data
o Aggregating data from scorers and delivering to partner technology providers for integration into AdSafe’s
algorithmic rating model
o Researching and aggregating sample webpages in particular content categories
o Refining the decision making logic utilized by algorithmic models
Requirements:
o B.S., M.S. or Phd in computer science
o Proficient and self-sufficient in Linux and Java.
o Familiarity with and passion for Digital media a plus
o Familiarity or experience with machine learning and information retrieval technologies is a plus.
Interested? Please send cover letter and resume to:
Numan@adSafemedia.com and cc Matt@adsafemedia.com
Source: Joel On Software