Adknowledge Inc.

Founded in 2003, located in Kansas City, Missouri and sales offices in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Adknowledge operates a central online marketplace (www.bidsystem.com) for advertisers seeking additional ways to market their products and services online and extend their reach beyond Google and Yahoo.

Adknowledge benefits advertisers, publishers and consumers alike by delivering ads that are more relevant than typical online advertisements. The company accomplishes this by utilizing its proprietary and leading-edge behavioral targeting technologies.

In addition, Adknowledge provides full-service solutions to a wide spectrum of publishers seeking to monetize their digital assets. Examples include search engines, email list owners, Internet Service Providers, Facebook developers, affiliate networks and web site operators.

Adknowledge is a privately held company with 110 employees, 70 in technology and operations and 40 are sales and marketing. Of the technology professionals, the majority are versed in programming, statistics and operations. Overall, our culture is highly focused on developing new technologies and product enhancements.

Job Description

As a Senior Developer for our Tagline product, you will be part of a team who is responsible for designing and implementing high volume LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) applications.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating user interfaces to perform complex and customized server-side transactions,
• Developing interfaces with back-end statistical analysis systems which increase the relevancy of advertisements displayed to end-users
• Creating reporting and administrative systems to meet internal and partner requirements.
• The ideal candidate will be individually driven with a team mentality and enjoy fast-paced and iterative development within a small entrepreneurial, technology culture.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux development
• Stellar debugging & analytical skills
• 3+ years developing in Unix environment
• 2+ years non-academic SQL development with any DBMS, Oracle

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with C/C++
• Linux development experience
• Prior experience in online advertising
• Requirements analysis and design skill set

Challenges:

• Learning the business of on-line advertising,
• Capturing large quantities of data, and applying in real-time to optimization systems,
• Creating high performance and highly available solutions through parallelism,
• Creating and maintaining a company competitive advantage in a dynamic industry,
• Rapid change within a small, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture

Measures of Success:

• Successfully analyze business requirements and translate into application designs.
• Suggest features or improvements which enhance application yield, quality and scalability.
• Create aggressive schedules for application features and complete on schedule.
• Identify and resolve critical bugs/features within stated SLA

Please email your resume to Cynthia Cutler, Senior Recruiter: ccutler@adknowledge.com