Software Engineer- Advertising and marketing analytics (potrero hill)

Trulia Inc. (Trulia.com) is the fastest growing real estate website in the US according to Comscore data. Trulia counts amongst its clients the top 100 largest real estate firms in the world and is backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, the leading investors behind Oracle, Cisco, Yahoo!, Google, YouTube, PayPal, Facebook, Macromedia, Walmart.com, and many other blue chip companies.



We are currently looking for an experienced software engineer to build and expand upon our advertising and distribution platforms. The successful candidate has proven experience building and maintaining large-scale, data-intensive, innovative solutions to support marketing and distribution efforts to maximize the reach of trulia's network and delight trulia's partners.



In this role you will solve complex optimization problems, innovate in application scalability and configurability, and constantly focus on providing the best possible value to trulia's partners.



You should be familiar with high-volume B2B and B2C advertising and analytics platforms (e.g., ad servers, large reporting intranets) and the technologies supporting these types of applications:



• Automated data collection and crunching techniques (shell, SQL and perl/java/python/php/etc. scripting)

• High-volume, high-availability distribution platforms (ad servers, etc)

• Data aggregation, manipulation, and analysis ("ETL" processes)

• Data mining, statistics and summary data validation

• Data warehousing

• Reporting

• Database performance issues (query speed, data partitioning, etc)



Responsibilities include:

• Creating and maintaining large software and database systems supporting

 Ad distribution and scheduling

 performance tracking summary data for business partners

 content syndication and tracking

• Creating and maintaining ETL processes for the sales, marketing and operations teams

• Pulling ad hoc data and reports as needed



Requirements:

• 3-5 years experience with strong software architecture and development skills (Java, python/perl/php)

• 3-5 years' experience working with large data sets and databases (MySQL preferred)

• experience with syndication and distribution (ads or content)



Additional Information about Trulia.com:

• A fast-paced, fun environment with very sharp motivated people and a great opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed.

• A high profile, high influence job in a cutting edge field with an experienced management team and a strong record of success

• Compensation will be based on experience and will include stock options and an extremely competitive benefits package.

• Trulia is regularly featured in the press, including CNN, the New York Times, Time Magazine and the Wall Street Journal amongst others.

• We're a small successful company, expanding rapidly. This is a great opportunity to join a team of smart, fun people with a vision to help millions of consumers find their dream home.

• Our company culture and mantra is summarized by BOFFI: (Best idea wins, Output matters not input, Feedback is continuous, Fun every day, Integrity above everything else).