Software Developer

To apply for this position, please email jobs@wetpaint.com and attach your resume.

Wetpaint is looking for rock-star developers to join our team of talented and energetic engineers. You will become part of a next-generation media and technology startup with a culture of continuous innovation. In a little over a year, we built a media property with over 10 million unique visitors, we’ve become the number one social publisher in the world, and we’ve accumulated over a million and a half engaged Facebook fans. The main enabler behind that is our world class technology infrastructure, which is comprised of complex systems that can spot emergent trends before they are picked up anywhere else, handicap content for the amount of traffic it will drive, and figure out where, when and how to best merchandise this content across channels – web, mobile, and social. At the heart of these systems, which we refer to as our Platform, is a core focus on using data collection, analytics, machine learning, and optimization techniques on data from a variety of sources.

What you'll do

Scale a Rails application to deliver highly personalized content to a large number of users
Design and deliver cutting-edge platform applications and web services from DB schema up to the UI
Use social media API’s to better connect our sites to our users
Write fault-tolerant data collection systems against external web services
Analyze and identify data patterns and derive insights in near real-time
Work with nice, smart people on a young and growing system
Be part of an agile team that is obsessively results-focused and values autonomy, mastery and purpose

Skills

Successful history of professional Java or Ruby On Rails development
Experience writing well-designed, performant, high-traffic, customer-facing web applications or services
Experience with test-driven development
Experience collecting and mining large data-sets on a distributed system
Exposure to Linux, JRuby, Postgres, Hibernate, MySQL, Lucene, Hadoop, Map-Reduce, Elasticsearch
Versatile self-starter with an eye for detail and a strong sense of ownership
Have a github account with a very interesting project on it

About Wetpaint

From its earliest roots, Wetpaint has been a web publisher specializing in scalable content platforms designed to capitalize on disruptive changes in online technology and publishing. Our initial community platform, wikis by Wetpaint, reaches 10 million monthly unique users. The company’s new proprietary publishing platform is engineered to produce premium branded media destinations featuring professionally-authored content across an array of categories — with a 5-10X economic advantage over traditional web publishing models. Wetpaint Entertainment (www.wetpaint.com), custom-tailored for young women who love TV and fashion, is our first property on the new platform. Recognizing that technology and audience expectations have changed media forever, Wetpaint has re-visioned what it takes to create, monetize, and distribute top-shelf content efficiently — and how to best package it in ways that garner audience loyalty and brand distinction.

Founded in 2005 by Internet pioneer Ben Elowitz, and with offices in Seattle and New York, Wetpaint is backed by top-tier investors Trinity Ventures, Frazier Technology Ventures, Accel Partners, and DAG Ventures. Recognized with awards and honors by Time, OnHollywood, Washington Technology Industry Association, and AlwaysOn, Wetpaint offers a destination for millions of people to consume content, contribute to their community, and interact with other fans who share their passions.

With a CEO that has founded two very successful startups previously (Fat Brain and Blue Nile) and a leadership team comprised of veterans from Amazon, Starbucks, McKinsey, and Microsoft, we aren’t afraid of diving in where others failed – and we have results to show for it. Read more about Wetpaint.