Javascript Engineer (Detection Team)
At White Ops, we’re all hackers. This doesn’t mean you have to hold a key to the internet (although one of our founders does!), but it does require approaching problems in unconventional ways. We are attacking criminal botnets through the ad fraud that finances their operations. Our proprietary technology detects and prevents sophisticated online fraud. By reducing the incentives for crime, we are making the internet a better place. Our mighty team of humans have several things in common:
We are hackers.
We create tau for ourselves and each other.
We think big and move fast.
We practice humility.
We “pwn it”.
What we do:
We keep the internet safe by fighting organized cybercrime. Our products accurately detect and prevent even the most sophisticated bots and our customers include some of the web's largest and most forward-thinking companies.
Our detection markers use the entire network stack, from live packet analysis up through app-layer interrogation via JavaScript and mobile application SDK integrations. The development team works across environments, including JavaScript, native Android and iOS, and network analysis.
What you'll do:
- Ship things and help others ship things with velocity and quality
- Build amazing code following best practices
- Proactively remove blockers
- Translate project goals into technical design
- Evaluate and implement strategies to improve application performance
- Develop tests, tools and scripts to simplify others work
Who you are:
- You're a Javascript guru
- You have understanding of prototypal inheritance
- Typescript experience is a plus
- You have a unit testing mindset
- You have a deep understanding of how browsers work
- Experience with the digital advertising industry is a plus, but not required
- You have SQL knowledge
- You have excellent communication skills -- both over the phone and in person
- You have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
What would be achieved in 90 days?
- Added an additional 5 signal classes to the codebase
- Handled multiple releases, and fully understands release process
- Fully ramped up to code base to be able to take on significant new feature development
- Earn kudos from peers for quality code
- Fixed 5 priority bugs
- Outlined a way to reduce technical debt in one major area.
- Developed technical documentation for 1 major application component
In the first year you will have:
- Become the owner and architect for 1 major application component
- Implemented countless new and creative ways of gathering signal
- Introduced & implemented 2 new best practices to the team
- Reduced technical debt in one major area, and improved the lives of your fellow developers.
- Made significant inroads into mentoring a more junior engineer
We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to solve the challenges involved in protecting the Internet. Our dynamic team of humans have incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
About White Ops:
Our mission is to protect the internet by verifying the humanity of every online transaction. Founded in 2012 in a Brooklyn sci-fi bookstore, we now serve trillions of monthly decisions for some of the web’s largest platforms. Our technology protects digital advertisers, publishers, ad tech, and enterprise businesses globally by detecting and blocking bots. It’s an ongoing war that we happily fight every day.
Life at White Ops:
Our HQ office is centrally located in NYC in the heart of the Flatiron District. We had approximately 100% headcount growth in the past year and we are growing the company deliberately, with a keen eye towards maintaining a culture that values diversity, lifestyle, and career growth. We are doing meaningful work and we need people to join our mighty team. We are proud of our overwhelmingly positive presence on Glassdoor and Built in NYC. We have offices located in NYC, DC, Victoria, and London.
We have many world class customers who use our platform • We're focused and propelled by a substantive mission • We're building a very sophisticated product that fights a real threat to humanity • We're committed to building a product companies need • We have created an environment that optimizes your skills and brings out your best work •