Are you a passionate web developer who wears skinny jeans, checks Foursquare before heading out & loves developing in Python and/or Javascript (or other languages you love)? We are looking for you!
We are Second Funnel - a small, growing startup making the web more visually interesting & relevant. We believe advertising currently sucks and it can be made awesome. How? Through visual content that peeks your curiousity & leads to more related and interesting content (think: Pinterest meets marketing).
Our visual marketing platform is used by top brands (Gap, Samsung) and retailers (NewEgg) to engage their audience and find new customers. Our headquarters is located in Kitchener, ON, with much of the team operating virtually throughout North America.
- You are a cool cat. You look the part, have your own style & have fun showing it.
- You think like your user. You empathize with their needs, wants and desires. If they are young, you give them animated gifs. If they are flamboyant, you give them color. If they have ADHD, you give them sub-second load times. You want to know what makes them tick, why they click, and how to get them to click on more things... for science.
- You are passionate & curious. We might find you on StackOverflow asking and answering questions, hacking away at an open-source project on Github, or writing about something else awesome on your blog. You get excited about technology.
- You love challenges & are tenacious. You get excited about working on new and different projects. When life gives you lemons, you make life rue the day it thought it could give you lemons!
You will be buiding a digital marketing engine that uses the best visual content to turn browsers into shoppers. We combine marketing technologies to create a kick-ass web experience that makes online shopping fun & entertaining.
Under the hood, there are recommendation engines to find out a customer's intentions, dynamic advertisments pulling in rich content & optimizing its placement, and work on open-source tools to make life better for other developers. Languages we use include Javascript and Python (in particular, Django), and technologies like AWS, Ansible, South, Linux, the list goes on!
- See the immediate impact. We push code daily that is in use immediately! Your work is very visible to the world - everyone you know will be able to use it. The fashionable people in your life will be particularly proud!
- Ownership of your work. You will be working on projects that directly affect the success of the company, and more importantly, you will have a lot of say in how projects get done.
- You pick your hours. We want you to set the hours that work best for you. We accommodate all hours, as long as it overlaps with 10:30am to 3:30pm (ET).
- Flexible location. We operate as a virtual team, with team members located throughout North America. It's fun to operate at the Kitchener office, but you can work from anywhere as long as you are online & taking part.
- Workations! A few times a year we bring the team together someplace awesome to work and play. Recent locations include Ontario cottage-country, Lake Tahoe, CA and Santa Cruz, CA.
- Competitive compensation & great benefits. We offer competitive salaries, great equity compensation, and great benefits (we went a little crazy with the massage therapy...)
Talk to us: hiring@willetinc.com
If sparks are flying because of our mutual awesomeness, we'll want to see:
- A copy of your resume
- A reason why you would be a good fit
- Something that shows your passion including, but not limited to: Github, Bitbucket, StackOverflow, Blog, Website, Portfolio, Programmer's StackExchange, CodeGolf StackExchange, other StackExchange sites, TopCoder, Project Euler...