Software Engineer at Involver in Austin, TX

THE MARKET

Marketing has fundamentally changed. Not just today compared to 10 years ago; everybody can see that. Rather, marketing is in a constant state of flux these days. It’s different today than it was 12 months ago. What works today might not work tomorrow. And it’s likely to keep changing at a rapid pace to keep up with the similarly frenetic pace of change in communications, business and technology. Why? Because social media has ushered in a new landscape of possible interactions with prospects and customers.

Platforms like Facebook and Twitter have unique rules for engagement and they both, along with the hundreds of other networks, are in a constant state of change supporting innovation. And if we utilize them well, we now have the ability to connect with our prospects and customers and maintain relationships over time in a scale never before imagined.

ABOUT US

Involver is the web's most trusted social marketing platform used by more than 100,000 brands and agencies worldwide. We help marketers quantify the value of their social marketing investments with market defining products like Involver's Audience Management Platform and over 30 of the most used applications on Facebook fan pages.

We are one of the fastest growing companies in our space with a seasoned senior management team with a wealth of experience at Microsoft, Yahoo!, DoubleClick, Google and more. In 2009, Involver was named a Facebook Preferred Developer and one of the most innovative companies on Amazon’s Cloud Computing platform. Involver is the trusted partner of the world’s top brands including Facebook, The White House, Sony/RCA Records, 2010 Winter Olympics, and many of the world’s most respected agencies.

GENERAL

As an Involver Software Engineer you will be responsible for applying the principles and techniques of model view controller frameworks, mathematical analysis, database design and object oriented programming in order to develop scalable and maintainable web-based software solutions. You will extend, enhance, and improve the Involver platform and its suite of products in order to solve business problems for Involver’s clients.
Responsibilities:

• Build scalable solutions that can handle extensive growth in user load.
• Implement the infrastructure required to import hundreds of thousands of pieces of content from different external sources every day.
• Use document-oriented databases, event-driven web systems, and other optimized infrastructures in order to achieve scalability in data access and application performance.
• Investigate new APIs from content providers such as Facebook before they become public.
• Build engaging, dynamic, and interactive application user experiences for connecting brands and people.
• Coordinate directly with individuals at Fortune 500 companies to define and implement new features.
• Ensure reliability, and continued scalability of the Involver application platform for its millions of users.

Skills/Experience Required:

• You have a love of computers, software engineering, architecture design, and application development. You consider solving computer science and engineering problems your craft, and are always seeking to hone your skills.
• You are mathematical in your approach to problems, and are highly analytical.
• You enjoy applying science & technological solutions to B2B-related problems.
• You are independent and driven. You will be given areas to manage, and need to be able to do it without close supervision.
• You have demonstrated success in a deadline driven environment.
• You have interest in social media (working experience in this area is a plus).
• You have strong interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills.

An Ideal Candidate would have the following background:

• B.S. Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or solid software engineering work experience.
• Good experience with dynamic languages (e.g. Ruby) and MVC frameworks (e.g. Ruby on Rails or Django).
• Prior experience working within a developer platform (e.g. Facebook, iOS).