S4 Capital is a new age/new era digital advertising and marketing services company, leading the way in building integrated teams to bring a full suite of best-in-class offerings to world-renowned brands. Firewood is part of the S4 Capital group. Together, we accomplish amazing work through our people, by remaining agile and in real-time partnership with our clients. We’re bringing together creative and technology deeply rooted in innovation with a disruptive model that breaks down barriers. If you’re intrigued, read on as we may have an interesting match for you.
About the opportunity:
The ideal candidate is highly organized and has strong technical skills, including working with modern web technologies, writing legible code, and staying up to date with best practices. He/she is not afraid of the command line and loves to collaborate, working fast and flexibly to get the job done. Your time will be spent at our office in San Francisco or Mountain View, California.
At this time, all positions are exclusively work from home due to COVID-19. Once the company decides to resume normal office operations, your time will be spent in our offices, though frequency is subject to change based on business needs and general health and safety considerations.
Responsibilities will include:
- Work with Technical Leads, Designers, Project Managers, and others to implement technical solutions that efficiently scale.
- Maintain a transparent workflow, addressing and communicating issues that could impact development life-cycle dependencies and deadlines.
- Suggest operational and workflow improvements to constantly improve the in-house development approach.
- Assist Technical Project Management team in the planning and prioritization of requests.
- Follow quality assurance plans and protocol to ensure flawless execution and deployment.
- Analyze and monitor key metrics to drive request prioritization and issue resolution.
Requirements
Your experience will include:
- 5 years of experience in working with enterprise software and systems.
- Working knowledge of object-oriented design and development skills.
- Must have experience with Node.js, Express, and No-SQL (preferred MongoDB).
- Server-side development experience with Python and/or Go.
- Some familiarity with Google Cloud Vision API and/or Tenserflow.js.
- Experience with GCP and AWS preferred.
- React/Redux knowledge preferred.
- Familiarity with Front-end templating engines such as Handlebars is a plus.
- Experience with deployment pipeline automation a plus (e.g. Docker).
- Must have experience with Git or other software versioning tools.
- Experienced with all ancillary technologies necessary for Internet applications: HTTP, TCP/IP, POP/SMTP, etc.
- Understanding of Web Services protocols such as REST, SOAP and API design for extensibility and portability.
- Resourceful problem solver who quickly gathers information and is comfortable with new technologies and concepts.
- Must be a results-oriented and highly motivated self-starter who can work independently to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and very strong attention to detail.
- Passion to stay up to date with modern web technologies.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.