Software Engineer Intern

About the Company

About Insticator

At Insticator, we’re on a mission to create a smart, unified platform built to collect, aggregate and monetize all of a publisher’s first-party data. Our suite of engagement products empowers publishers and consumers alike to amplify their voices and express their opinions in safe, interactive environments. From our Commenting Platform backed by hybrid AI and human moderation to our Trivia & Polls Unit which enables audiences to interact with content that speaks directly to them, Insticator reaches and pulls insights from over 350 million users monthly. 

Our vast roster of partners includes Gannett, USA Today, Major League Baseball, Ancestry, WebMD, and countless others. Headquartered in New York City, Insticator’s global footprint spans offices in Miami, Canada, India, the Philippines, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

The Insticator Values

We recruit, promote, and reward based off of our three core values:

• Sleeves Up - At Insticator we provide the autonomy and creativity needed to own your role, iterate where needed and drive impact on a massive scale.
• 100% Viewability - Insticator is passionate about open feedback at all levels of the company. This allows us to fail fast, create in real time and build an open company culture.
• Be Defiantly Great - We are defiant, that’s in our lifeblood, we accomplish what other people think are impossible. Challenging the status quo is our lifeblood.

Job Overview

Serving billions of impressions per month on a variety of websites with different audiences, we collect data from our publisher embed technology and use this data to serve better advertisements for our publishers.  Our publishers expect a stable high-quality product that they can build their businesses around.  The back-end engineers make sure that we are able to scale our systems to store large volumes of data and serve billions of requests each month while providing in-depth analytics to our publishers.  

You will get the opportunity to work on a variety of our back-end systems and have ownership of features from conception through delivery.  

Challenges and Opportunities for the position

• Have a personal impact:: You’ll be involved in planning, architecting, and ultimately releasing to production new products and features that will help drive this business forward. The work here is incredibly rewarding if you take pride in what you produce.
• Work on an organized team:: You’ll slot into an incredibly efficient engineering team. An agile work environment with the well defined workload, scope, and tasks that will have you focusing on what you need to do and producing great work within a two-week sprint cycle.
• Opportunity to have fun:: The engineering team here means business but has fun while doing it. We keep things light while accomplishing a ton of work in short periods of time. Everyone here is invested in what they produce but can still find the time to smile and joke around.
• Better yourself and others:: We are constantly looking to evolve. Investigating new technologies and techniques, we never stay stagnant. It’s a great group of engineers who are looking to keep learning. Management is very open to change, so introducing new ways of doing things is appreciated and encouraged.

Responsibilities and Duties.

• Collaborate effectively with the design, product, and engineering team in New York on a variety of applications.
• Generate clean, efficient, modular, and maintainable code on both front-end and back-end.
• Audit existing codebase for performance enhancements.
• Maintain the documentation system by adding more documentation for existing and new features.
• Provide technical support to the non-engineering team.
• Develop new products from the ground up aiding in architectural decisions.
• Responsible and thorough testing of output in all supported browsers and devices.
• Maintain design standards and integrity throughout product interfaces.
• Stay abreast of programming trends and push the tech forward whenever project feasibility arises.

Qualifications.

Professional competencies

• Able to demonstrate good fundamental engineering skills and an understanding of core CS concepts. 
• Strong Fundamental Java or any server-side web languages and Database skills.
• Experience in developing web applications.
• Experience in integrating 3rd party API, and libraries based on the documents.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Great communication, solid collaboration skills, with a strong teamwork ethic.
• Able to search for possible solutions and apply them.

Cultural competencies

• Creative confidence
• Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills
• Skilled at receiving feedback, as well as providing it
• Entrepreneurial & adaptable; great learning skills
• Transparent & communicative, patient
• Curious, research-minded, data-informed
• Most importantly, you should be a nice person that people like to work with
• You like to work hard, trust your judgment and get stuff done!