Building "The Bloomberg of the Online Advertising Ecosystem": Proximic is setting the new golden standard of real-time Data Services in display advertising and we are delivering big data insights and solutions for marquee customers in the industry. Proximic specializes in Contextual and Brand Protection Data to improve ad targeting, and Audience Interest Data to improve predictive modeling. Our non-linguistic contextual profiling technology called Pattern Proximity™ along with our Dynamic Category Matching™ engine provides the most granular, accurate and actionable data in the market.
Proximic is a privately funded company based in Palo Alto, backed by successful investors. We are a team consisting of industry veterans and smart people who love making a difference in the industry, are thrilled with the current opportunities in the ad tech and data space, and enjoy what we do. We're looking for talented, motivated and impactful people to help our business grow!
Come help us scale in the marketplace.

We are hiring

• Senior Java Engineer - Go to job description
• Java Engineer - Go to job description
• Senior JavaScript Engineer - Go to job description

We offer

• Competitive compensation
• An excellent entrepreneurial work atmosphere allowing dynamic driven innovation
• Strong opportunities for advancement as we build our US business
• Strong benefits package competitive in the valley for like companies

The process

Applicants will be screened over the course of 2 to 4 interviews, in order to determine suitability and fit. Both oral discussion regarding Java knowledge at a systems-level as well as review of a complex data structure interaction in Java will be conducted.

To apply

Please submit a cover letter, resume and source code examples of your work (if this isn't possible, you may also submit an online portfolio of your work) to jointeam@proximic.com.
Thank you!

Senior Java Engineer

Project Need and Scope

We are looking for a dynamic contributor to Proximic's core development team, who enjoys building innovative technology and applications designed for huge scale and effectiveness. Work with us to create game-changing products for the advertising data space, that have immediate market impact with large, well-known customers. This position is full-time and based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. Applicants must be suitable for immediate employment.

Responsibilities

• Develop extensible, scalable, reliable software for distributed processing/ querying and responsiveness
• Propose and test improvements to ad targeting, optimization, brand protection and test algorithms
• Understand and affect the product direction related to data applications that emotionally excite and fiscally benefit our customers
• Adhere to modern development processes (task breakdown & estimation, code reviews, unit tests, version control, ...)
• Work on full execution cycles from scoping to implementation within "realistically aggressive" time frames as needed within a startup environment

Requirements

• B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred - M.S. or Ph.D. a plus
• 3+ years experience of in server side development of multithreaded, complex, scalable systems
• 5+ years of systems-level Java, Linux and SaaS technologies
• Strong experience in building high performance applications and using different caching techniques in real world situations
• Proven track record of excellent coding skills to write reliable / clean and maintainable software
• Structured thinker, effective communicator, excellent programming and analytic skills
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming in Java
• Experience in online advertising systems (display or SEM), computer linguistics, applied statistics and/or machine learning a plus
• Start-up-comfort: wear many hats in a fast-paced environment, willing and eager to learn and design new technologies; must be flexible in approach
• Highly self motivated, proactive, hardworking innovator with a "team-first" attitude (must check ego at the door)

Java Engineer

Project Need and Scope

We are looking for a dynamic contributor to Proximic's core development team, who enjoys building innovative technology and applications designed for huge scale and effectiveness. Work with us to create game-changing products for the advertising data space, that have immediate market impact with large, well-known customers. This position is full-time and based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. Applicants must be suitable for immediate employment.

Responsibilities

• Ability to develop extensible, scalable, reliable software for distributed processing/ querying and responsiveness based on thorough requirements
• Test improvements to ad targeting, optimization, brand protection and test algorithms
• Understand and affect the product direction related to data applications that emotionally excite and fiscally benefit our customers
• Adhere to modern development processes (task breakdown & estimation, code reviews, unit tests, version control, ...)
• Participate in full execution cycles from scoping to implementation within "realistically aggressive" time frames as needed within a startup environment

Requirements

• B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred - M.S. or Ph.D. a plus
• 1-2 years experience of in server side development of multithreaded, complex, scalable systems
• 1-2 years of systems-level Java, Linux and SaaS technologies
• Strong experience in building high performance applications and using different caching techniques in real world situations
• Proven track record of excellent coding skills to write reliable / clean and maintainable software
• Structured thinker, effective communicator, sound programming and analytic skills
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming in Java
• Experience in online advertising systems (display or SEM), computer linguistics, applied statistics and/or machine learning a plus
• Start-up-comfort: wear many hats in a fast-paced environment, willing and eager to learn and design new technologies; must be flexible in approach
• Highly self motivated, proactive, hardworking innovator with a "team-first" attitude (must check ego at the door)

Senior JavaScript Engineer

Project Need and Scope

We are looking for a dynamic contributor to Proximic's core development team, who enjoys building innovative technology and applications designed for huge scale and effectiveness. Work with us to create game-changing products for the advertising data space, that have immediate market impact with large, well-known customers. This position is full-time and based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. Applicants must be suitable for immediate employment.

Responsibilities

• Develop extensible, scalable, reliable JavaScript that is robust across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, etc.)
• Construct data visualizations of extremely large data sets
• Deliver architectural documentation prior to code development
• Use test driven development methodology and incorporate user-interface automated testing

Requirements

• B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred - M.S. or Ph.D. a plus
• 5+ years experience of in robust client-side web app development
• 5+ years experience building and debugging cross-browser web applications
• Very strong coding experience using web-presentation technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Specific to Java - a strong background in algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming
• Very strong coding experience with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Dojo, etc) and debugging tools (Firebug, etc)
• Experience a plus in online advertising systems (display or SEM), computer linguistics, applied statistics and/or machine learning
• Proven track record of excellent coding skills to write reliable / clean and maintainable software
• Structured thinker, effective communicator, excellent programming and analytic skills
• Highly self motivated, proactive, hardworking innovator with a “team-first” attitude (must check ego at the door)