We had a great time at the NYC Startup Job Fair last week and are excited to meet even more new people at tomorrow’s NY Tech Day. Make sure to stop by our booth and say hi.
When: Thursday, April 24th from 10am - 5:30pm
Where: Pier 92, 711 12th Avenue (55th Street and Westside Highway)
We’ll see you there!
Jirafe will be at the NYC Startup Job Fair tomorrow, Friday the 19th, so be sure to stop by our table and say hello!
As a reminder, here are our current open positions.
In the last year, Jirafe experienced tremendous growth for which we couldn’t be more thankful or thrilled about. We moved into a new office, nearly doubled our team in size, and exceeded our goals of helping thousands of eCommerce merchants reach new heights.
But that doesn’t mean we’re stopping there!
We’re currently looking to add two back end engineers, a big data engineer, and an MBA intern to our already super-talented team. Check out the job descriptions below and if you think you’re the right person for the gig, email us your resume and cover letter explaining why, to jobs [at] jirafe.com.
1) BACK END ENGINEER
As our startup grows, we are looking for a senior back end engineer to join our extremely talented technical team. The right candidate will be an analytical and articulate individual who is a highly skilled software engineer, with total understanding of the methodology of delivering products in a real time, big data environment.
We’re looking for someone who loves what they do. You can demonstrate clear mastery of one (or several) languages. You’ll work in a busy environment, helping both the product and engineering teams conceptualize and deliver on design specifications. You’ll help mentor and drive the engineering team to solve complex problems in a dynamic environment. You will be given lots of responsibility, lots of freedom, big and fun problems to solve and help and advice when you want it from a team that enjoys working together.
Responsibilities
- Work with engineering team to implement our product strategy
- Understand the current architectural landscape and work with the team to create a technical roadmap to support the the product and company vision
- Help design and engineer the architecture for scalability, high-availability, performance, flexibility, operational efficiency, security and maintainability (20K data req/s). Requires deep collaboration across the team
- Work closely with VP Engineering to ensure timely delivery of projects/releases
- Proactively offer options for features/improvements, and recognize potential growth bottlenecks before they become issues
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, and be happy to defend those decisions
- Lead by example and help build consensus across technology and products
- Initiate standards, guidelines and best practices
Experience
- Ideally degree qualified in Mathematics, Computer Science, Science or - Engineering or equivalent work experience
- Expert knowledge of java, python, scala, or ruby
- Expert knowledge of standard development tools (e.g. subversion, git)
- Strong knowledge of web application development (including Javascript, CSS, Ajax)
- Strong understanding of OO languages and and OO paradigm
- Strong understanding of design patterns
- Experience with unit testing and/or quality assurance engineering
- Excellent knowledge of systems architectures
- Experience in agile development methodology would be advantageous
- Good written and oral English
2) BIG DATA ENGINEER
Does big data excite you? Are you an expert in working with big data implementations and streaming architecture? If this sounds like you, join Jirafe and help architect a high-speed, continuous analysis engine that lets eCommerce merchants use analytics and marketing automation to grow their business.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate, design, and build software components and subsystems that provide big data and streaming solutions tuned to customer-driven use cases, problems, and requirements
- Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design to perform large-scale data analysis
- Build and test stable components of a large analysis platform
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Minimum of two years of software development experience supporting data analytics systems and/or data management systems.
- Demonstrated experience building applications for large data sets using some of the following: Storm, Kafka, Cassandra, Cascading, Hadoop, and Reddis
- Ability to design, implement, test, and document complex algorithms
- Ability to manage priorities and tasks as needed in a fast-paced work environment
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with a diverse team
3) MBA INTERN
Are you looking for a phenomenal internship experience in a fast-paced technology startup? Want to be hands-on for the summer doing real work with a great team? Looking for a role in product management, product marketing or partner development at a startup backed from top venture firms?
We are looking for passionate interns currently completing their MBA program that want to join the Jirafe team where we are changing the game in the area of eCommerce analytics and data-driven automation. You will have the opportunity to work on complex problems with some of the latest big data, cloud and e-commerce technologies. Most importantly, you will have the opportunity to be a member of the team doing meaningful work in the areas of product strategy, user-centric product design, product development and product marketing, with a sprinkling of business development.
Responsibilities
- Work in the area(s) of product management, product marketing and partner development
- Develop actionable initiatives to advance the business and its product offering for customers
- Build business cases to quantify opportunities
- Collaborate with our leaders in product, analytics and engineering and make recommendations for the senior management team
- Produce a report at the end of your internship with actionable product or process enhancement recommendations based on your findings
Requirements
- MBA candidate from top-tier institution, undergraduate degree in technology discipline preferred
- Professional experience with internet-based media, online applications, or e-commerce
- Comfortable with and ability to quickly grasp bleeding-edge technologies and business models
- Strong data-driven approach; experience with data warehousing or data mining a plus
- Self-starter and natural ability to work in a lean environment
- Solid balance of strategic thinking and ability to get things done
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Not sure if Jirafe is the right place for you? Our Careers page explains why we’re an awesome place to work. We can’t wait to hear from you!
![As a big thank you, each of our beta testers from around the world received this one-of-a-kind Jirafe t-shirt. We asked each tester to send us a photo wearing our gear and the pictures just started to trickle in.
Here’s Miklós from Digital Knowledge rockin’ his Jirafe t-shirt with pride. Looking good, Miklós!
Want to share your photo? Tweet us at @Jirafe or email them to debie [at] Jirafe.com!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/f8ff4f8b9a2c6aafd382da0e6ebeb024/tumblr_mhre9wDA0g1qecq4to1_500.jpg)
As a big thank you, each of our beta testers from around the world received this one-of-a-kind Jirafe t-shirt. We asked each tester to send us a photo wearing our gear and the pictures just started to trickle in.
Here’s Miklós from Digital Knowledge rockin’ his Jirafe t-shirt with pride. Looking good, Miklós!
Want to share your photo? Tweet us at @Jirafe or email them to debie [at] Jirafe.com!
Jirafe and Yottaa shared 18+ site performance metrics you should care about. Listen to some tips on shrinking the amount of Javascript files you have and embedding images right in-line to increase load speed.
Last Saturday Jirafe flew out to San Francisco to co-host a PrestaShop meetup with the wonderful PrestaShop team! Jesse (Jirafe) joined Matt (PrestaShop) and a room full of developers, marketers and ecommerce business owners to talk all about the latest functionality in version 1.5.
The room was full of questions about how to build better, stronger businesses online. We talked about how to measure success, how to reach a mobile audience and a whole lot more.
When we were all done, the place turned into a really fun workshop where people from all different businesses shared their insights, talked about their challenges and their successes within the ecommerce world.
All-in-all it was a great success. We can’t wait to host another one of these events with the PrestaShop team. Stay tuned to the blog or join our mailing list to make sure you never miss when Jirafe is coming to your city.
One obvious reason is that Facebook has many more users across the globe than Pinterest, but Jesse Middleton, the director of business development at Jirafe said there are a few other factors at play.
“The number one thing is Facebook is about your friends — people that you trust, and Pinterest is more aspirational,” Middleton said. “You wind up with this idea that, ‘my friends are telling me this item is good.’”
Read the rest over at Forbes.com…
The folks at e-commerce analytics firm Jirafe have compiled a bunch of data on online spending habits broken down by state.
The study looked at the 97 million Americans who shopped online between August 2011 and August 2012. It found that people in California make up a whopping 13.3 percent of all online spending in the U.S.
—Business Insider posted a great article outlining our study of spend across the entire United States. Read the whole thing over a BI’s site.
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