PriceGrabber.com, an Experian company, is a leading online comparison shopping service that revolutionized the way consumers make online purchasing decisions by enabling them to find the right product from the right retailer at the best price. Through continued innovation and consistent focus on providing the best comparison shopping experience on the Internet, PriceGrabber.com has established itself as the most trusted and effective online destination for savvy shopping. Founded in 1999, PriceGrabber.com continues to see growth year over year. PriceGrabber.com has 26 million consumers visiting the site, over 13,000 sellers on the site listing millions of products, and has partnerships with over 400 leading Internet sites.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Coach, manage, mentor, and lead a team of 5 software engineers dedicated to Search Engine Marketing into the next frontier of development.
Collaborate on and contribute to a growing codebase of Search Marketing products and tools that serve to manage millions of dollars in revenue per month.
Come up with bleeding-edge solutions in a highly competitive and ever-evolving SEM landscape.
Define software architecture for the next generation of highly automated applications.
Have a “can-do” attitude and work closely with other bright engineers as well as a team of highly-motivated analysts and statisticians.
REQUIREMENTS:
MUST be authorized to work in the US for any employer.
Serious Perl skills; if these mean anything to you, you’re on the right track:
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MySQL or other relevant RDBMS experience, preferably with exposure to optimizing queries for large-scale data sets
Fluency in GNU/Linux. (Visual programming? Not here!)
Experiencing leading and growing a team.
Ability to work collaboratively in a shared code environment.
Application development fundamentals, including but not limited to object-oriented programming, test-driven development and automation.
SVN/CVS experience.
NICE-TO-HAVES:
B.S. (or M.S.) in Computer Science.
Experience developing SEM products on the client-facing side (i.e. major online retailer, agency, CSE, etc.); experience in the financial sector specific to yield-based optimization is also great.
Previous development of automated bidding systems.
Familiarity with working in an Agile/Scrum project management environment.
Frontend development using PHP in a GNU/Linux, Apache, and MySQL paradigm.
User interface design for interactive web-based applications.
Working with offshore teams in a collaborative environment.
For more information: please click here. For consideration for this position please submit your resume and cover letter to us via email.
