Chief Architect - Ad delivery & Analytics

Share your excellent technical skills with us ... and make a difference!

How would you like to be part of a growing dynamic team, develop cool products and actually make a difference?

We are ShareThis, and we are looking for highly accomplished engineers. Read on and let us know if you’d like to share in the experience.

ShareThis is a service in the social media space. We enable site publishers to provide a simple one-button option to users to share site content with others through email, social networks, and social bookmarking. ShareThis promotes sharing of interesting content among users connected by a social graph and shared interests. We are able to accumulate significant data on sharing behavior, providing insights on interests, and influence circle of users. We have experienced significant growth both in adoption by site publishers and share actions by users. Over 130,000 publishers have incorporated the ShareThis widget driving 4 billion+ page views monthly.

Responsibilities of this position include:

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming. Lead a team of 2 engineers by providing design guidance, development support, code reviews and overall technical leadership for system architecture. Involves overseeing design, development, testing/QA, implementation and maintenance of software applications. Build websites, and develop and build widgets and the databases that store data collected by the widgets/cookies. Perform server administration and support integration of the ShareThis widget into publisher websites. Create cloud infrastructure for online advertising. Integrate with third party systems for online advertising. Build ad serving/decision making software engine and create a real time bidding software engine. Build work-flow tools to automate ad-creation & execution processes. Create tools to process and analyze ad execution data and performance. Technology tools utilized include: Java, algorithm development, TCP/IP, HTML, JavaScript and PHP programming, and CSS.

Idealized Candidate Profile:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related technical field followed by two years of work experience in the job offered or two years of experience in a computer-related occupation. Experience must include: building widgets, Java, algorithm development, TCP/IP and HTML, JavaScript and PHP programming, and CSS. Any suitable combination of education, training, or experience is acceptable. Less than 50% travel required to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States.

If after reading this description, you would like to share in the experience, please email you resume right away to careers@sharethis.com Or mail resume to: 4009 Miranda Avenue, Suite 200, Palo Alto, California 94304 indicating job reference number 6370.1.

5 June 2012