Software Engineer

About Vistar Media

Vistar Media turns movement data into actionable insights about consumer behavior.

Thanks to the rise of mobile devices, people are on the move now more than ever before, taking their work and entertainment with them. Vistar Media uses data-driven technology to provide insights into audience movement patterns and help brands, media owners and “smart city” innovators engage with consumers as they go about their daily routines.

We like to think of ourselves as an economic engine for connected cities, whether by providing media owners new ways to monetize their real estate assets, opening potential revenue streams for “smart city” initiatives, or helping brands engage consumers through targeted, impactful media.

Position

We're a startup with an established, well-tested codebase, but we aren't afraid to shake things up. We want to solve our problems with the right tools, whether they’re cutting-edge, or tried-and-true. We're happy to explore new territory (who isn't?), but we won't jump on something shiny for the sake of it. Our engineers work with many different languages and platforms every day. If this gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you.

Your qualification

• Be well versed in at least one compiled, one interpreted language and one Web Framework
• Have extensive experience with Distributed Systems
• Have coded a non-trivial system soup to nuts. CSS, Persistence, Deployment, Et Cetera
• Understand Linux to a degree where you’d be comfortable admin’ing a fleet of boxes
• Be able to design and implement a large, efficient codebase
• Be able to ballpark the computational complexity of a snippet of code
• Understand HTTP
• Be able to decompose business requirements into a set of RESTful Resources
• Be opinionated about your tools. Love Angular? Great. Hate Angular? Great 
• Have experience with the Full Stack. From the Database to CSS
• Be able to both identify and implement a practical test suite

Will be a plus

• Have run a system on EC2
• Know how to decompose an algorithm to Map/Combine/Reduce phases
• Have worked with language abstractions like CoffeeScript and Less
• Have experience coaxing functional requirements out of business requirements
• Know right where to look when your friend has messed up their .Htaccess
• Have experience in the advertising industry
• Write a practical Test Suite for your personal code and push it to a CI Server
• Like using tools like Git Flow to organize releases, features, and fixes

Additional details

Some of our Arsenal

• Scala
• Python
• Java
• Go
• CoffeeScript / TypeScript
• Spark
• PostgreSQL / PostGIS
• Amazon Web Services
• React, Flux And Redux
• Flask