Entry Level Full Stack Engineer

Overview

Vox Media builds smart media brands people love, empowering trusted digital voices with proprietary technology to create and distribute stories to an audience of hundreds of millions of young adults worldwide. Vox Media is eight distinct brands: The Verge, Vox, SB Nation, Eater, Polygon, Racked, Eater, Curbed, and Recode. And our ad technology is so great that we’ve created a premium advertising network in 2016; we proudly call it Concert.

And our Revenue Team…

We all dislike internet ads. Often times they are distasteful, annoying and track far too much personal information. Let’s rebuild a better advertising paradigm together. Join us and rethink what is possible with a holistic content and advertising experience. The future of journalism funding is in our hands.

Our award-winning ad-tech teams build the custom display advertising platform and authoring tools that power our beautiful high-impact ads, immersive native advertising features, and reporting dashboards that help our teams measure success.

Our team is playful, helpful, and eager to make online advertising better. We want to deliver great products without losing our humanity. Let’s be wonderful together.

The Role

We show the world’s best ads in the most hostile environments. Working alongside other engineers you will triage, fix problems and help build robust platforms to make sure our ads are always well presented.

We want to talk to you if you’ve created a project, particularly in a team environment, written in Ruby and/or Javascript, or if you’re a graduate of a Computer Science program, and are interested in creating better internet ads while working with a team of great humans.

And You…

You can identify problems and take initiative to propose a solution. You will focus on finding great solutions to complex problems by collaborating with your team. Ask questions and learn from others when there’s something you don’t know and be willing to share your ideas, voice your opinions and teach others when you can fill in the gaps.

It is important that you can make steady progress on tasks and know when to ask for help. We are a remote team, and it’s key to know the balance of diving into a problem and waving the flag asking for another member of the team to lend an ear or hand.

We are building advertisements, and you should be comfortable working in Ruby backends with ads that are rendered with Javascript, HTML and CSS.

Do you love people? You are probably perfect. We expect our developers to be respectful and empathetic teammates. This includes being helpful and willing to go the extra mile for others. We all sink or swim together.

You are not expected to have all the answers. Instead, you should want to grow and improve. As a member of our team, you’ll need to accept feedback gracefully and learn from your mistakes and criticism. It is important that we are all growing in our skills, so everyone on our team (including you!) will review their teammates’ code.

From time to time we will be hiring other lovely humans, so you will be sitting in on interviews. Let’s build a great team together.

About working at Vox Media

For more on the things we’re building and problems we’re solving, and what it’s like to work with the Product, Design & Technology teams, see our Product Team blog. In an effort to an provide an inclusive and respectful working environment, all team members adhere to our code of conduct.

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. We strive to embody nine values in our daily work. We want to take risks and be ambitious while demanding quality. We believe that great collaboration happens when we can cultivate our diverse passions through an inclusive culture founded on respect. We want to be nimble enough to embrace change and celebrate our achievements.

Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.

This is a permanent, full-time position with excellent benefits—including flexible hours and generous parental leave. Vox Media strives to provide comprehensive healthcare options for our employees and to ensure that our healthcare and other benefits are LGBTQ-inclusive. You’ll be joining a group of focused, hard-working, creative people who are passionate about doing work that’s challenging and fun—and who strive to maintain a healthy work/life balance.