About the Company
About Insticator
Insticator improves engagement and increases ad revenue for publishers by providing interactive content while simultaneously increasing site views and driving purchase intent for brands.
Over 350 million consumers are reached monthly across Insticator’s vast network of elite publishing partners, including: Warner Bros., Ancestry.com, Tribune Media, Rodale, Evolve Media, Crave Media, The Atlantic, Toronto Sun, and more.
Insticator empowers more than 6,000 content creators monthly, monetizing content opportunities for publishers and brands. We are a Inc 5,000 company and a Red Herring Global 100 recipient.
The Insticator Values
We recruit, promote, and reward based off of our four core values:
- Sleeves Up - At Insticator we provide the autonomy and creativity needed to own your role, iterate where needed and drive impact on a massive scale.
- 100% Viewability - Insticator is passionate about open feedback at all levels of the company. This allows us to fail fast, create in real time and build an open company culture.
- Be Defiantly Great - We are defiant, that’s in our lifeblood, we accomplish what other people think are impossible. Challenging the status quo is our lifeblood.
- Unconditional Empathy - Our customers are real people with real business needs, and we are here to listen and tackle accordingly. If we care and respect each other, there is no challenge we can’t overcome.
Job Overview
Serving billions of impressions per month on a variety of websites with different audiences, we collect data from our publisher embed technology and use this data to serve better advertisements for our publishers. Our publishers expect a stable high quality product that they can build their businesses around. The back-end engineers make sure that we are able to scale our systems to store large volumes of data and service billions of requests each month, while providing in depth analytics to our publishers.
You will get the opportunity to work on a variety of our back-end systems and have ownership of features from conception through delivery.
Challenges and Opportunities for the position
- Have a personal impact:: You’ll be involved in planning, architecting, and ultimately releasing to production new products and features that will help drive this business forward. The work here is incredibly rewarding if you take pride in what you produce.
- Work on an organized team:: You’ll slot in to an incredibly efficient engineering team. An agile work environment with well defined workload, scope, and tasks that will have you focusing on what you need to do and producing great work within a two week sprint cycle.
- Opportunity to have fun:: The engineering team here means business but has fun while doing it. We keep things light while accomplishing a ton of work in short periods of time. Everyone here is invested in what they produce but can still find the time to smile and joke around.
- Better yourself and others:: We are constantly looking to evolve. Investigating new technologies and techniques, we never stay stagnant. It’s a great group of engineers who are looking to keep learning. Management is very open to change, so introducing new ways of doing things is appreciated and encouraged.
Responsibilities and Duties.
- Collaborate effectively with the design, product, and engineering team in New York on a variety of applications.
- Generate clean, efficient, modular, and maintainable code on both front-end and back-end.
- Audit existing codebase for performance enhancements.
- Develop new products from the ground up aiding in architectural decisions.
- Responsible and thorough testing of output in all supported browsers and devices.
- Maintain design standards and integrity throughout product interfaces.
- Stay abreast of programming trends and push the tech forward whenever project feasibility arises.
Qualifications.
Professional competencies
- 5+ years of experience developing production level with back-end technologies.
- Strong Fundamental Java and Database skills.
- Fundamentals in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Experience in developing web applications.
- Experience in integrating 3rd party API, libraries based on the documents.
- Extensive experiences on web application architecture and development.
- Experience in continuous integration and back testing frameworks.
- Great communication, solid collaboration skills, with a strong teamwork ethic.
- Able to search for possible solutions and apply them.
- Ability to break hard problems down to smaller and simpler problems and guide the junior developer to complete them.
Cultural competencies
- Creative confidence
- Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills
- Skilled at receiving feedback, as well as providing it
- Entrepreneurial & adaptable; great learning skills
- Transparent & communicative, patient
- Curious, research-minded, data-informed
- Most importantly, you should be a nice person that people like to work with
- You like to work hard, trust your judgment and get stuff done!
Benefits.
Full-time employment benefits
We offer a diverse package and the chance to grow financially with the company, including:
- Competitive Salary
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Annual Performance Bonus
- Stock options (so you have ownership in the company and benefit as it grows)
- Flexible work schedule
- Top of the line computers
- 401k
- Free breakfast and lunch on Fridays and office snacks
- We sponsor H1B Visas and Green Cards
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave