Kargo is the leader in mobile brand advertising. Bringing together creativity, technology, and quality, Kargo empowers advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today – the phone. Through Kargo’s high-end editorial alliance of world-class publisher partners, as well as its proprietary advertising automation tools and award-winning creative studio, brands and agencies have the ability to reach 100% of smartphone users in the United States with memorable, measurable mobile ad experiences. Kargo and Kargo leadership are regularly recognized for the company’s growth and achievements, including: Adweek Mobile Innovator (2017), Business Insider’s “Hottest Pre-IPO Ad-Tech Startups” list (2015 and 2016), the Crain’s New York Business Fast 50 list (2015 and 2016), the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award (2016), the EY Entrepreneur of the Year NY award (2016), Great Place to Work (2017), Top 25 Workplaces in NYC (2017), and the Inc. 5000 list (2015, 2016 & 2017). Kargo employs 250 people in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Auckland, and Sydney.
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Kargo is looking for a Software Engineer to join our focused and passionate Ad Tech team. We are building sustainable, reusable, and scalable codebases in an agile environment and are true believers of doing it right the first time. We want our engineers to be self-starters, eager learners, who will grow with our company.
You should have comfortability working alongside Engineering, Product, and Design teams to develop clean code. Ultimately, you will help shape and define our creative and collaborative processes and will follow a best practice approach to producing high-performing products.
The Responsibilities:
- Develop a lean JavaScript library to render mobile advertising as quickly as possible while paying close attention to user experience.
- Build backend services in Node.JS to automate outdated processes.
- Work closely with other engineers to set Best Practices and help improve upon the way we build products.
- Participate in architecture planning, code reviews, and learning sessions to help spread knowledge.
- Identify and initiate investigations into new technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate production designs that deliver exceptional user experiences
The Requirements:
- Strong portfolio (ie. Github) demonstrating past work experience
- Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS (Node.JS or Angular experience is a plus)
- Familiar with the current technical capabilities and limitations of mobile devices - “what works where” across devices, OS versions, platforms, SDKs, and mobile web
- Ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, multi-task, and meet fast-evolving deadlines with a curiosity and passion for building rich, new experiences
- An aptitude and honed intuition for tasteful, visual design details.
- A clean sense of design aesthetics and a natural propensity towards simplification over complication.
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively.
- Bonus points to those familiar with iAB-compliant ad formats.
