Burt is looking for a distributed computing and data storage engineer. You should love big data and cluster computing, especially in the context of solving large-scale, real-world problems that improve our core products. An interest in teaching and enabling coworkers with this technology is ideal. The ideal candidate will dream about distributed systems for the parallel processing of massive quantities of data, be familiar with Hadoop/Pig/HBase and MapReduce, and frequently think to themselves, “Yeah, that works for 500 MB of data; what about 500 TB?”. This position is full-time and based in our main office in Gothenburg, Sweden(*).

Responsibilities

• Work on the scalability, resilience, and efficiency of backend components, particularly Hadoop.
• Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa.
• Work with data analysis to construct creative solutions for supporting Burt’s products.
• Optimize our infrastructure at both the software and hardware level.
• Focus on scaling horizontally rather than vertically.
• Debug runtime problems and understand the interactions between systems,
• Build systems, libraries, and frameworks within, around, and on top of Hadoop.
• Code using primarily Java, Scala, and Python/Ruby.

Preferred experience

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Experience with large-scale Hadoop clusters is a big plus
• Experience or interest in distributed network systems
• Knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java on *nix
• Experience developing with Python, Ruby, or PHP
• Experience with filesystems, server architectures, and distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of a compiled language

Working for a startup is fun and fast paced. If you haven’t experienced it before, it’s like no job you’ve ever had. If you’re full of energy you’ll quickly find that this is a wonderful place to let all that energy out. Our employees create their roles, instead of us creating them for them.

Read more about our company and what you can expect from working at Burt here.

Is this you? Contact jobs@burtcorp.com, and send us an updated CV, cover letter and examples of your work.

(*)  A EU citizenship or a EU working permit is required for this position.

We’ve filled this position, but if your profile matches and you’re awesome(*) please send your CV and cover letter anyway.

In our industry having 99.99% uptime is the difference between getting payed by the customer and paying the customer. If you’ll ever work for a company that really appreciates your work – it’s us!

As a skilled systems administrator you’ll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe (**) (here, here, here, here and here) to provide technical support and administration to our ever-growing number of machines.

You have experience in running high-traffic web sites. You know how to build a high performance and secure web application stack all the way from routers to servers to load balancers.

You listen well, produce quickly and you’re proactive with problems. You really know how to get things done, but more importantly you know when to say ‘No.’.

Your beard is trustworthy.

Working for a startup is fun and fast paced. If you haven’t experienced it before, it’s like no job you’ve ever had. If you’re full of energy you’ll quickly find that this is a wonderful place to let all that energy out. Our employees create their roles, instead of us creating them for them.

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineering groups to design, build, and maintain systems
• Build and maintain a scalable storage cluster
• Write scripts to monitor and automate processes
• Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
• Document current and future configuration processes and policies
• System failure analysis and recovery

Knowledge and skills required:

• Experience in operations department of large-scale Internet service
• Experience with Linux/Unix/BSD
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, security, storage, SQL databases, and memcache
• Practical knowledge of shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python)
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
• Track record of practical problem solving

Valuable Additional Skills:

• Experience automating systems maintenance tasks
• Experience building fault tolerant, scalable systems
• Experience with Ruby and preferably at least one more language
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or another web application framework
• Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Hadoop and similar technologies
• Experience with Ruby, Java
• Experience with Ruby on Rails stack performance tuning

If you’re interested, contact jobs@burtcorp.com, and send us an updated CV, cover letter and examples of your work.

(*) Awesomeness subject to arbitrary review.

(**) Our development and operations offices are currently located in Gothenburg, Sweden. A EU citizenship or a EU working permit is required for this position.

We’ve filled this position, but if your profile matches and you’re awesome(*) please send your CV and cover letter anyway.

We’ve found that having an application that feels great to use is what really sells our products. Our big idea is to help creatives create better advertising. With applications that are easy to use, and nice to look at, we’ve come a long way with that idea, but we think we can do even better.

We’re looking for an exceptional interaction designer who can own the domain of user interaction design across all Burt’s products. Emphasis on the role is on design.

We’re amongst the many web companies that put interaction design at the very heart of our company. Being a data driven company we’ve got a scientific approach to design. We’re looking for someone who shares our approach and can take our products to the next level. You’ll be working with an exceptional team of engineers, who are all fans of great design.

A degree in human computer interaction is a plus. Other possible backgrounds include engineering, math, statistics and art. You’ve got to know both your design and IxD toolkit well (iterative wireframes, interactive prototypes, etc). We expect you to have a portfolio to show us, and your visual examples should be stunning. Preferably you’re located close to Göteborg, Sweden (**), or are willing to relocate.

You’re comfortable working with teams, and you often take a leading role in design discussions. You listen well, but you’re also good at knowing when to say ‘No’. You can work independently on many projects at the same time, without dropping the ball.

Working for a startup is fun and fast paced. If you haven’t experienced if before, it’s like no job you’ve ever had. If you’re full of energy you’ll quickly find that this is a wonderful place to let all that energy out. Our employees create the roles they like, instead of us creating them for them.

If you’re interested, contact jobs@burtcorp.com, and send us an updated CV, cover letter and examples of your work.

(*) Awesomeness subject to arbitrary review.

(**) Our development and operations offices are currently located in Gothenburg, Sweden. A EU citizenship or a EU working permit is required for this position.

We’re looking for a talented Engineer with knowledge of building large scale, distributed systems and API development.

Burts platforms are built using Ruby, with portions written in Java 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, Mongo DB, RabbitMQ, SQL, Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, SDB), xNIX (Ubuntu, Bash-scripting)

This position is required to work extensively out of our development and operations office located in Gothenburg, Sweden (*).

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.

Contact jobs@burtcorp.com, and send us an updated CV, cover letter and examples of your work.

(*)  A EU citizenship or a EU working permit is required for this position.

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.

This position requires working extensively out of our development and operations office located in Gothenburg, Sweden(*).

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 applies 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.

Contact jobs@burtcorp.com, and send us an updated CV, cover letter and examples of your work.

(*)  A EU citizenship or a EU working permit is required for this position.

We’re 18 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.

Alright. So these are what we’re looking to fill right now:

Read more about what jobs are available at Burt right now.