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Python Engineer - Philadelphia, PA - Relocation Assistance Provided.

50onRed operates a premium ad network and serves over billions of online ad impressions each month. We work with large advertisers such as Groupon and eHarmony, and develop innovative products to monetize many of the web's largest shopping, dating, and social websites. 50onRed was recognized by Philly.com as one of the best places to work in Philadelphia.

We want Python Engineers to join our team that are smart, passionate and thrive on the challenges of building scalable software in a high-volume, big data world. Our core platform handles over 5 billion (with a "b") transactions per day and Python is a key ingredient in making that all possible. If that gets you excited, we should talk.

As part of our team, you will be surrounded by best-in-breed software engineers who are well versed in not only Python, but also with Java, PHP, AWS, and NoSQL... (not to mention ping-pong and craft brews!) We work hard on tackling the challenges of big data and we have fun doing it.

Qualifications:

-Commercial Python development experience (more than just scripting) -NoSQL, MongoDB, or other "big data" -Comp Sci background and strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and scalable software design -Ability to alternate between different development tools and languages - no one trick ponies welcome here! -Energetic and passionate about technology -Desire to work with an amazing group of devs, engineering backend applications that are the core of our business!

Perks: -Friday summer hours -Catered lunch -Fully stocked kitchen -Competetive Bonus Plan -So much more!

Email recruiting@50onRed.com if you are interested.

This position is based out of Philadelphia, PA and located conveniently by 30th Street Station. We have a beautiful view of the city line, art museum, and we're part of the heart of the growing Philadelphia technical community. We offer relocation assitance and can even provide temporary company housing.

Front-End Developer - Philadelphia, PA - 50onRed - Relocation Assistance Provided

For anyone that sees this, I also work at 50onRed as the Director of Product and am hiring someone for my team.

As Wellington said, 50onRed operates an ad network that serves billions of requests per day. To support those operations we also build dashboard and campaign management interfaces that are used by 1,000's of advertisers.

One unique thing we have to offer at 50onRed is that the product team is given a lot of freedom to drive the product based on customer needs, feedback, and data we collect on usage and engagement. And it's not just lip service! So, with that being said, the product team houses product managers, community managers, UX engineers, and now we are looking for a front-end developer.

Why is it cool to be on the product team? If you have a strong opinion on something the product should do, you no longer need to worry about your boss in engineering telling you no because it's a PITA due to some backend reasons. Now, the product team will have your back and work on getting any changes implemented to get what you need done.

What will the front-end developer do? You will be an EXPERT in javascript, html, and css. And not building simple jQuery toggles or copy pasting some code from stackoverflow. Our dashboards are moving quickly towards being more "AJAX-y". To help with the amount of JS, we are creating re-usable javascript widgets that can be used across different parts of the app. You should understand the implications of different JS decisions on browser performance, flexibility of how the widget can be used in different scenarious, etc. You can take a mockup from our UX Engineer (that was created after discussions with you, of course) and code it up with ease.

Why 50? Because you want to make decisions that impact 1,000's of customers in your first week. We push code frequently and test how it's used by our customers. We get feedback from our customers instantly. You want to take ownership and drive a product to be better. Do you think we should be a one page web app and use Angular? Great, sell us on it and let's do it. You think Prototype is 100x better than jQuery? Ok, then sell us on that instead. (Might be hard!) But... the point is that we are open to using any technology that is right for the job as long as it is the right business decision. No emotional attachments to code.

Email frank@50onred.com, I'd love to talk to you if you think you'd be a good fit.

I worked on a project (probably one of your competitors) that was an ad network. It also used Python as the language of choice (with gevent to handle all of the requests). It's an interesting choice for such system. Do you have a blog with info on your stack? It'd be fun to read about how you handle such traffic. Also, if you want to talk shoot me an email (on profile).

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