SixApart: Senior Software Engineer-Advertising System

Six Apart (www.sixapart.com), the company behind LiveJournal, Movable Type and TypePad, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the technical aspects of Six Apart’s advertising efforts across all its product lines, which include two of the most highly trafficked sites on the internet. The Senior Software Engineer-Advertising System will create and maintain an ad serving infrastructure, analyze the performance of various types of campaigns and optimize revenues from advertising. They will also define the approval processes for advertising campaigns and work cross-functionally to review and approve campaigns. The Senior Software Engineer-Advertising System is an interdisciplinary individual who works closely with Marketing and Sales, from within Engineering, to maximize advertising revenues while maintaining security and privacy.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain Six Apart’s ad serving infrastructure.
• Develop A/B testing protocols and continuously improve ad revenues.
• Evaluate proposed ad campaigns and perform any engineering duties necessary to roll them out.
• Write/deploy web-based reporting tools allowing access to and analysis of advertising campaigns.
• Provide regular reports to company stakeholders.

To apply, please send your resume to sixapart@techventure.com with the subject line Position: Senior Software Engineer-Advertising System.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering
• BS/CS or equivalent
• Good understanding of statistics
• Strong programming skills with experience writing high-volume web applications and a good working knowledge of SQL
• Experience with Perl, data analysis, security considerations and/or advertising server software preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A love of experimentation and tweaking, and the patience to achieve greatness one step at a time
• An appreciation of business requirements, and the ability to work collaboratively with non-engineers to solve business problems
• Detail-oriented and highly attentive to commitments and schedules