This is a development position in the technical department of a digital marketing company, working on application development, application integration, automated testing and deployment of applications, publishing structure and unit testing in various development environments. 

Job Functions:

• Develop extensible online applications
• Write and Maintain Unit Tests
• Develop and Maintain Automated Testing Frameworks
• Perform Load/Performance Testing
• Maintain & Enhance Build & Deployment Scripts
• Liaise with programmers (internal & external)
• Ability to set development standards
• Assess stability of existing applications
• Implement changes and new functionality in coordination with project management and development team
• Design and implement optimized database architectures and interfaces

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Candidate needs to be aggressive in learning new things as well as taking responsibility for work product and meeting deadlines with minimal supervision.  They need to have worked in an online environment and have published applications that have withstood live deployment.

• Open source familiarity
• Django framework
• Python (preferred at least 2-4 years experience)
• Knowledge of quality control methods and philosophy
  • § Linux command line proficiency
  • § SVN, Build, make, and other GNU tools
  • § Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • § Experience designing and optimizing MySQL databases and queries
  • § Experience with caching layers and memcached
  • § HTML/CSS/Javascript, including AJAX and REST

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Developing for a clustered server environment
• Knowledge of scalable web architecture
• Web Interface Design experience
• Ability to read/understand C
• Project management experience