Posted on Oct 22nd, 2009. by john.
Yes – We’re hiring! Burt is an aggressively expanding early stage IT startup based in Sweden. We’re trying to disrupt the AdTech industry by creating great tools for the people who have the most impact – those who create the ads. It’s not easy, but it’s fun! Now we need your help. Are you up for it? (extended background)
We’re looking for a talented Java developer with knowledge of building large scale, distributed systems and API development.
Burts platforms are built using Java, with portions written in Ruby and JRuby. We run them on Ubuntu, deployed on Amazon EC2. We use various technologies and knowledge of any of them is a big plus: Ruby, JRuby, SQL, Hadoop (Pig, Hive), Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, SDB), xNIX (Ubuntu, Bash-scripting)
You may have any or all of this general knowledge and traits:
- A general interest in programming.
- A knowledge of more than one programming language. You’re likely to have taken up a language for no other reason than “it seemed fun”.
- Experience from various programming paradigms, such as procedural, object oriented, functional or declarative.
- A great understanding of design patterns, why they exist, how they’re used and how they can be adapted in different situations – and discussing this with others.
- Having taught a programming or related course.
- Not quiet when people around you discuss programming problems, even if they’re strangers.
- When working with great people hours don’t matter, since spending time with interesting people is what you like best.
- Experience working with TDD, Agile, Scrum, and other development methodologies.
If only some apply to you, don’t let that scare you. We’re basically looking for someone who is awesome, and who enjoys working with other awesome people on challenging problems. We believe in the principle “work hard, play hard”. You should too.
Please send your résumé to jobs@burtcorp.com.
Posted on Oct 22nd, 2009. by john.
Yes – We’re hiring! Burt is an aggressively expanding early stage IT startup based in Sweden. We’re trying to disrupt the AdTech industry by creating great tools for the people who have the most impact – those who create the ads. It’s not easy, but it’s fun! Now we need your help. Are you up for it? (extended background)
We’re looking for a talented Ruby on Rails developer with a passion for creating great web applications.
The frontends of Burt’s products are developed using Ruby on Rails. We use various other tools and platforms in our process and architecture and knowledge of any of these is a big plus: JRuby, Java, Cucumber, Rake, RSpec, Capistrano, Passenger/Apache, MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Ubuntu.
You may have any or all of this general knowledge and traits:
- A general interest in programming.
- A knowledge of more than one programming language. You’re likely to have taken up a language for no other reason than “it seemed fun”.
- Experience from various programming paradigms, such as procedural, object oriented, functional or declarative.
- A great understanding of design patterns, why they exist, how they’re used and how they can be adapted in different situations – and discussing this with others.
- Having taught a programming or related course.
- Not quiet when people around you discuss programming problems, even if they’re strangers.
- When working with great people hours don’t matter, since spending time with interesting people is what you like best.
- Experience working with TDD, Agile, Scrum, and other development methodologies.
If only some apply to you, don’t let that scare you. We’re basically looking for someone who is awesome, and who enjoys working with other awesome people on challenging problems. We believe in the principle “work hard, play hard”. You should too.
Please send your résumé to jobs@burtcorp.com.
Posted on Oct 15th, 2009. by gustav.
Note: Full time in Gothenburg (that’s in Sweden) or New York would be ideal, but we’re open to hiring super awesome people that work remotely from other places, or as freelance contractors, so long as you’re not afraid of doing some traveling. The only thing we really care about is that you have talent, ambition and an overall awesome personality.
These are the positions we’re looking to fill right now:
Web Application developer
Platform developer
If you know you’re super awesome, but want to do something else at Burt, please send your résumé to jobs@burtcorp.com.
About Burt
We’re five people working around the clock to put a dent in the advertising industry by creating awesome tools for ad agencies. For whatever reason, our industry has been extremely focused on improving the ad distribution and production, but great tools for planning, concept development, campaign optimization and analysis are few and far in between. +100 billions of advertiser dollars are wasted every year because of this; publishers are struggling to make ends meet and not to mention the fact that users have to put up with +10 horrific ads per page, just to compensate for their lack of effect.
The reason we picked this space is simple: we’re creating the tools we always wished for in our daily work at premium agency Daddy, and later at even more premium agency CP+B.
Current products include a “Google Analytics for banners“, a “Photoshop for Copywriters” and a platform that optimizes every ad for every user to maximize impact. And yes: doing three products with a tight team is tough; but no: we’re not crazy.
Our products are dead-easy to use but the underlying technology is extremely complex. Basically, we’re doing the heavy lifting (the fun stuff) so that agencies can focus on insights, ideas, production and improving over time.
Burt has blue chip clients, patient investors, love and respect (spotlighted at Techcrunch50, DEMO, Cannes Lions, SIME and Plugg to name a few). We pay decent salaries, are generous with equity and will send you to that conference you always wanted to go to. Or buy that 30″ screen nobody else lets you have. We know you deserve it.
And we have lots of fun together. Also, we’ve had revenues from day one. However, revenues isn’t really a such a big issue in ad tech (people are used to paying here), the challenge is to create products that people want to use, and that’s why we need you.
So, here’s what we’re looking for:
Someone who’s nice and reasonable. Who can work insanely hard when needed (which is not always but often enough). We’re looking for someone smart with a broad range of interests, who loves learning new things – at this stage there is no such thing as a fixed role. Engineers tag along on sales calls and the CEO (me) commits stuff to Github. The upside is that you get to dive in wherever you find something interesting to do, the downside is that everyone else will be on your case.
The Burt development HQ is located in the beautiful downtown of Göteborg, Sweden, but we’ve got people working in Stockholm and London, UK.
Alright. So these are what we’re looking to fill right now:
Frontend developer
Platform developer
Send resumes, questions or whatever to jobs@burtcorp.com.
