Engineering Manager

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Marketing used to be an exercise in one-to-many communication: billboards, magazine ads, and - more recently - having a powerful social media presence. At Custora, we’re helping to turn this model on its head, using mountains of data to help our customers direct the right campaigns to the right users rather than blasting the same message to the largest audience possible. Using predictive analytics, we deliver insights to our customers that have proven to be enormously valuable, and we are looking for talented front-end developers to help communicate these insights in ways that are both intuitive and actionable.

Custora is a small but rapidly-growing company. Providing valuable insights to our customers through our dashboard is at the heart of the business, but we don’t currently have a dedicated team charged with managing it. Members of the front-end team will take ownership of all things client-side at Custora, contributing to each of the following areas:

We have hard problems to solve. The front end application is our customers’ window to the sophisticated machine learning models we’re running, and provides the platform for the experiments they are continuously running. Communicating all of this clearly, intuitively, and in an easy-to-use way is critical to our company's success.

Plenty of responsibility. We're a small team, and each of us owns the projects we are most passionate about. You'll have the opportunity to own large parts of the software.

Try new things. Experimentation is one of our core values at Custora, and we need engineers who will apply new approaches to solving our problems. As our data grows and we move from a batch processing model to real-time analytics, we are ready and able to try new solutions.

Have fun while you’re doing it. We believe that solving hard problems is easiest in a fun, relaxed, and collaborative environment. Our team enjoys a good joke as much as fixing a tough bug, and we’re looking for engineers who are excited about helping us ensure that Custora continues to be a place where people look forward to going to work.

Oh, the things you’ll do:

  • Build data visualization tools that give meaning to complex concepts and provide actionable insights to our customers
  • Implementing the customer facing aspects of new features as they become available in our API, using the best technology available
  • Creating special reports like the Custora Pulse to help us reach a wider audience
  • Working directly with the design team to provide a uniform, modern look to all of our web-based experiences

The stack

While we make use of a wide variety of tools, our primary web stack is AngularJS and Ruby on Rails deployed on AWS. We make extensive use of R for statistical analysis, and our primary data stores are MySQL and Redis.

Now let’s talk about what it’s like to work here.

Every Monday, we eat as a team to catch up on projects and also learn about “something interesting” (We’ve covered post-modern wrestling, poker game theory, history of the MTA, cellular biology research methodologies, and modern dance technique to name a few).

We’re not a massive company, which means we all get to work together (to varying degrees) and experiment with (figure out) how to do things. It’s an amazing environment to both explore your professional interests and shape your career trajectory.

Like many young businesses we move quickly. You build something, and the next day it comes to life. You see and feel an immediate impact with the collective efforts of the team.

This one Friday, Dan spent 3 hours making quite possibly the best egg-pudding ever for the entire team.

Every Wednesday, we have WETIKI.

We have a book of cultural values that helps guide how we communicate and collaborate. It’s a continual work in progress, but we've started to appreciate its importance as we continue to grow.

We’re building a company and a team we love. We’re in it for the long run.

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science, or a deep competency in Computer Science achieved via other means
  • A love, or at least appreciation, of Javascript as a real, powerful language and experience deploying large-scale, production applications using it
  • Experience with AngularJS or similar framework
  • Proven track record working in a startup or other fast-paced environment
  • High standards for code quality and maintainability
  • Experience with data visualization using tools like d3
  • Familiarity with Ruby on Rails a major plus
  • Excellent problem-solving skills

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Generous equity
  • Health and Dental 100% covered
  • Daily catered lunch (except Friday, when we go out as a group or order in from our favorite places)
  • Flexible Vacation Policy - Take as much time as you need for vacation and sick days
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Location

We're a skip from Bryant Park in the heart of the Garment District, with easy access to all the trains and an outdoor terrace overlooking Manhattan.

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