Senior Software Engineer

Tired of seeing bad ads? Join us at talktUp! talktUp is an exciting, well-funded Internet startup in Bellevue, WA. We have some great ideas, and more importantly, some exciting products and need your help to take them to the next level. We are seeking an experienced software engineer to join our small but rapidly growing team.

Here's what sets our environment apart:

• Opportunity to impact and lead our most strategic engineering initiatives.
• A fun, creative, and focused team that learns through challenges and collaboration.
• A strong compensation package, benefits, stock & bonus opportunities, etc.
• Respect for the tech, we will provide you with anything else you need for success, be it a 30 inch monitor, noise canceling headphones, refreshments, food, etc! Matt will even dress up in his pink bunny costume, always entertaining!
• We have a great office located in Bellevue, but we totally understand if you need to work remotely. We are very telecommuting friendly.
• Fast yet strategic company growth -- ground-level stock opportunity.

Some of the problems you'll solve:
• Build an ad engine that makes hundreds of millions of decisions a day
• Build an ad serving platform from the ground up
• Create an ad serving platform delivering millions of ads
• Inject hundreds of thousands of offers
• Organize and duplicate millions of business listings
• Integrate with local business and offer data sources such as Factual and Yippit
• Most importantly, help us make ads suck less!
Responsibilities

• Be an integral part of talktUp’s shared technology team, capable of working on the various tasks necessary to improve our framework.
• Evolve and develop future technologies.
• Work as a key member of the development team to execute innovative designs
• Produce code from the ground up that utilizes cutting-edge techniques and is portable across browsers and devices
• Be involved in projects from brainstorm to delivery
• Designing and developing systems for scaling capabilities
• Design and implement core backend components for serving ads
• Help design, build and maintain APIs
• Whatever it takes!
Requirements

• Incredible coding skills. Obsessive about efficient and scalable code.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Passion and desire to make an impact
• Sound object-oriented design skills and knowledge of application architecture patterns
• Experience with MVC design paradigm
• Solid understanding of Front End technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
• Expert in PHP, Ruby on Rails and/or C#
• Experience designing and building REST APIs
• Knowledge of Erlang a plus
• Previous experience in startups is a big plus