Social Marketing Platform on Rails in San Francisco

Tags: Austin, Full Time, Jeans & Sandals, On-site, San Francisco, Team Member, Urban Center, VC Backed StartupAs a Software Engineer you will own your projects and drive them from creation to deployment. You will be responsible for applying the principles and techniques of model view controller frameworks, mathematical analysis, database design and object oriented programming in order to develop scalable and maintainable web-based software solutions. You will extend, enhance, and improve our platform and its suite of products in order to solve business problems for our clients.

Responsibilities


Build scalable solutions that can handle extensive growth in user load.
Implement the infrastructure required to import hundreds of thousands of pieces of content from different external sources every day.
Use document-oriented databases, event-driven web systems, and other optimized infrastructures in order to achieve scalability in data access and application performance.
Investigate new APIs from content providers such as Facebook before they become public.
Build engaging, dynamic, and interactive application user experiences for connecting brands and people.
Coordinate directly with individuals at Fortune 500 companies to define and implement new features.
Ensure reliability, and continued scalability of our application platform for its millions of users.



Skills/Experience Required


3+ years of professional experience in software development
B.S. Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent degree
A love of computers, software engineering, architecture design, and application development.
You consider solving computer science and engineering problems your craft, and are always seeking to hone your skills.
Mathematical in your approach to problems, and are highly analytical.
The ability to apply science & technological solutions to B2B-related problems.
Independent and driven. You will be given areas to manage, and need to be able to do it without close supervision.
Demonstrated success in a deadline driven environment.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills.



An Ideal Candidate would have the following:


Strong experience with dynamic languages (e.g. Ruby) and MVC frameworks (e.g. Ruby on Rails or Django)
Excellent experience working with databases such as MySQL and MongoDB Prior experience working within a developer platform (e.g. Facebook, iOS)
Interest in social media



About Us

We are the web's most trusted social marketing platform used by more than 900,000 brands and agencies worldwide. We help marketers quantify the value of their social marketing investments with market defining products and over 30 of the most used applications on Facebook fan pages. We are one of the fastest growing companies in our space with a seasoned senior management team with a wealth of experience at Microsoft, Yahoo!, DoubleClick, Google and more. In 2009, we were named a Facebook Preferred Developer and one of the most innovative companies on Amazon’s Cloud Computing platform. We are the trusted partner of the world’s top brands including Facebook, The White House, Sony/RCA Records, 2010 Winter Olympics, and many of the world’s most respected agencies. Some of the benefits of this dynamic workplace include our great full benefits package for FT employees, a fun group of coworkers, unofficial happy hours (we all like to hang out with each other), a beautiful, dog-friendly office in SOMA (and an awesome office in Austin, too), catered breakfasts, a kitchen stocked with yummy snacks and much more.

This position, Social Marketing Platform on Rails in San Francisco, was posted on February 7, 2012. The job is located in San Francisco. Since this job has been published, it has been viewed 34 times.