Senior Software Engineer

Return Path is the expert in deliverability. Every day, our customers trust our data and insights to help them optimize their email marketing. Partnered with best-in-class email service providers, we help marketers take their email programs to the next level by driving more response and increasing revenue.

At Return Path “Big Data” is a big deal! We’re swimming in data, terabytes of it, and we need a few smart, versatile software engineers to help us solve the most pressing challenges in the email industry. For example, our certification team sees 40+ million email data messages every day, and builds useful products powered by all that data. If you love solving complex problems in a simple way, have solid programming skills and are passionate about achieving meaningful business results, then you maybe the right fit as a Senior Software Engineer at Return Path.

As a Senior Software Engineer here, you will be working alongside other dedicated and passionate engineers, product managers and data analysts, all focused on accomplishing big goals, like stopping spam and ending phishing. While you don’t need a fancy degree to work here, you do need to embrace learning and continuous improvement, have a strong technical skill set, and favor simple solutions over complex ones. The people we hire are pragmatic, versatile, data-driven and self-directed.

• Passion!
• Practical and professional software development experience
• Very strong grasp of algorithms and data structures
• Command of your favorite modern programming language: Perl, Java, Python, PHP, etc.
• Command-line scripting skills
• Significant experience in one or more of the following:
• Python
• Large volume data processing
• Strong SQL skills, Oracle PL/SQL experience
• Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment
• You’re very comfortable working in a Unix environment
• You are interested in working in an agile/lean environment
• Endless ideas about how to leverage Return Path’s unique email data
• +Pluses+
• Experience tackling tough data problems with Hadoop
• Knowledge of email technology, e.g. SMTP, DKIM, MIME
• Active contributor to open source software

In addition to the above, you must be a good fit at Return Path. To be successful here, you must demonstrate Personal/Professional Growth,Professionalism, Execution, and Strategic Thinking; have a Positive Impact and a great sense of humor.