Senior Software Engineer

Jumpstart Automotive Group, a division of Hearst Magazines, offers high-impact and performance-driven marketing and advertising solutions that achieve optimum results.

• Architect, build, ship, and maintain high quality web applications and services that address the needs of our operations, product development, publisher, analytics, and finance teams.
• Collaborate with other teams to come up with unique, high-performing, and user-friendly ad products.
• Devise and contribute to best practices within the team for development, build, release, and monitoring.

• 5+ years experience building production web software that is highly scalable and maintainable
• CS degree or equivalent real-world experience and knowledge of CS fundamentals
• Proficiency in at least one server-side language (Python, Ruby, PHP, or Java: Node.js experience a plus!)
• Solid understanding of modern front-end web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript)
• Experience with newer JavaScript frameworks (AngularJS, React/Flux, etc.)
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases; able to write SQL.
• Experience both implementing and consuming Web APIs (SOAP, REST)
• Knowledge of flow control techniques in asynchronous programming
• Experience and knowledge of digital advertising and technology a bonus, including but not limited to: ad serving, programmatic media, tracking and measurement, fraud detection, optimization, etc.
• Have opinions about the best way to do things, and the ability to effectively convey your views both verbally and in writing