We are looking for a junior engineer to join our data platforms pod on Group Nine Media’s Tech team in New York City, NY.

One of our core beliefs is that a workplace filled with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, interests, and personalities makes our team and our work better. We are a team of people from various social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds who value professional development, diversity, work/life balance, and doing meaningful work while having fun.

As the junior engineer on the data platform pod, you’ll work at the intersection of data platforms, data science and insights teams at Group Nine Media:

The Data Platform Team: this will be the team you’ll work on. We are a small, agile team responsible for building and architecting the platform where all our big data is collected, monitored, and transformed for Group Nine’s insights, data science, and sales teams to make data-driven decisions and predictions.

These are the technologies and tools that we use, and you can expect to get more experience with these as a junior engineer on our team:

• Google Cloud Platform
• App Engine
• BigQuery
• Bigtable
• Dataflow
• Docker
• Kubernetes, Helm
• Go, Java, Python, Ruby
• PostgresQL
• Looker

The Insights Team: This is the team you will be working closely with. You’ll get an understanding of how big data is used at Group Nine Media to make decisions, set goals, and drive sales.

The Data Science Team: This team uses our data platform to run prediction models and create tools that will help the Audience Insights team with their day to day. You will be exposed to how big data is used create machine learning tools.

The ideal candidate:

• Has some experience in programming, managing data, and/or data journalism. This experience can come in the shape of school projects, weekend tinkering, or professional work experience. If you have other related skills like knowledge in math or statistics, let us know in your CV and application.
• Is interested in learning how big data can help our mission-driven brands (Thrillist, The Dodo, NowThis, and Seeker) reach and inform our audiences.
• Loves to learn new skills and coming up with innovative ways to solve problems.
• Is endlessly curious about how and why things work.

Are you someone who has been working in one concentration of programming and is interested in a career shift? Are you someone who has always coded on the side but has never officially held an engineering title? Are you interested but think that you might not qualify because you can’t check off every bullet point above? Apply anyway and let us know if you have a related skill that you think could benefit our team.

Your application should include a resume and a personal statement. Use your personal statement to tell us what makes you different than other candidates. How you make that personal statement is up to you (a cover letter, a website, or maybe even a poem). But make sure between these two things, you include:

• Your portfolio/Github link.
• A list of tools you’ve used in development or relating to big data.
• A list of programming languages that you’ve used professionally and personally.
• Why you’re interested in working at Group Nine Media.
• What about you would make you successful in this role.
• If you are making a career shift, let us know why and what interests you about this role.

We offer great benefits such as medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), PTO, company paid AD&D, life insurance, short and long-term disability, and much more!

Group Nine Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. Everyone is encouraged to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.