Beeswax

New York, NY | Posted: 5 years ago

Beeswax, named one of Business Insider’s “hottest pre-IPO AdTech startups” is looking for a software engineer to build and maintain the REST APIs that our customers rely on. Our goal is to offer the most extensible set of APIs in the world of online advertising. You can read more about our APIs at www.beeswax.com/docs.

Our current REST API runs on AWS ECS and is built using PHP, MySQL and Nginx. Our APIs serve internal clients in our stack written in Python, Java and C++ in addition to external customers.

Beeswax is an engineering-led company that places the highest value on building great software. Because advertising is extremely high scale (millions of transactions per second) and our team is smaller than most, Beeswax engineers are involved with hard to solve scaling problems all the time.

This position reports to the CTO, a long-time engineer manager from Google who was a key technical leader in the process of scaling Gmail.

Responsibilities include:

• Building new features for customers and internal users


• Maintaining existing features and fixing issues as they arise


• Architecting solutions to complex systems tasks


• Testing, managing and releasing high-quality code


• Working with other engineers to produce a highly reliable and easy to use advertising API

Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science


• Strong familiarity with backend REST APIs and relational databases, SQL knowledge and PHP experience is a plus


• A desire to be deeply involved in product definition. Our engineers are expected to contribute to the direction of their projects.


• Working knowledge of Javascript, HTML and CSS


• Ability and desire to build great software