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Friday, August 2, 2013

Front-End Engineer – San Francisco, CA

Front-End Engineer – San Francisco, CA



Seeking Front-End Engineer
972 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
Experience Required: 1-3 years
Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree

Job Description:
AdRoll, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with offices in NY and Dublin, is a premier advertising technology startup that helps brands run highly targeted, data driven digital marketing campaigns. Recently named the fastest growing private advertising company in the nation by Inc. Magazine (#7 overall) and best place to work by SF Business Times, AdRoll has nearly 200 employees (and growing fast), over 7,000 customers, is increasing revenue at 400% per year and is backed by some of the savviest investors in the space, including Merus Capital, Accel Partners and Peter Thiel. We strongly believe in team chemistry and have a lot of fun building a world-class company. If you are passionate about growth and innovation, then come revolutionize the advertising technology space with us.
Team up with a colorful, but tight-knit engineering squad of a dozen. Code alongside our group which includes the youngest engineer ever at Microsoft (our CEO), a former World Champion of Street Fighter, the president of Python Italy, and more!
We run the retargeting platform with the largest customer base and swim in the complex, yet exciting new world of real-time advertising. We work with many great brands you've heard of (American Apparel, Tom's Shoes, Microsoft, Tivo, Hipmunk) and many more you haven't.

Job Responsibilities:
As a front-end engineer, you love building responsive, well-composed client side applications. You have a knack for putting yourself in the shoes of the user. You will spend your time between the client and the server, with the majority spent on the client. You know how to make things fast or feel snappy. You might be building out our application interfaces, updating the marketing website, and working on our API.
You like to dig into the newest in development tech. Our stack consists of a very healthy dose of Python (Pylons/Pyramid) as app server, modern Javascript libraries on the front-end (jQuery, Backbone.js, Underscore, D3, SASS, CSS3, HTML5), git for source control and Erlang, Redis and PostgreSQL on the backend.

Job Qualifications:
Object Oriented Javascript
jQuery
CSS3, SCSS (Sass)
HTML5
Clean & Organized Code
Knowledge or interest in learning Python
BS in computer science or related field or relevant work experience.
Has personal projects related to the web
Great attitude and good team player
Loves learning

Bonus Points:
Backbone.js
Underscore.js
CSS Spriting
Appreciate of Clean UI
Focus on good user experience (examples would be great)
Adobe Photoshop
Demonstrated skills in building easy to use products by yourself or where you were in charge
Good set of evaluation materials like an up-to-date portfolio or a github account

Please send resumes via email at: lucy@military-civilian.com.

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