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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Adaptly
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Clojure, Databases, Django Web Framework, Fault Tolerance, Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Cassandra
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-adaptly-com-8378115

## About the Role

You're a hacker - you find a way to just get things done

 - You're a Javascript/HTML/CSS guru
 - You're proficient in Ruby or Python
 - You have an interest in Clojure and Scala
 - You're excited by new technologies and languages but still are still pragmatic
 - You thrive in taking ownership and figuring out what needs to be done
 - You're self-aware, self-driven and continue to learn and grow everyday

## Description

At Adaptly we strive for innovation through technology. Our engineering team is faced with building an elegant innovative platform to facilitate ad buying and analytics across all the social networks. Adaptly is solving large complex problems that requires the ability to develop fast while developing smart.

Our engineering team is small, diverse, passionate and driven. From hipsters to prepsters, we work together as a team to achieve our goals. Daily conversations range from arguing about the best way to write a test, to comparing the difference between postgres, cassandra and hbase.

Our stack at the moment is aws, ruby on rails, django, postgres, backbone, hadoop, and mongo. Every new challenge has a different solution, we believe in solving the problem in the best way possible, as such we are always exploring new technologies.

Roles & Responsibilities

 - From day one, immediately take ownership of new projects to make significant contributions to our technology
 - Work with developers, product managers and designers to ideate, construct and implement user stories with intuitive and elegant user experiences
 - Implement processes and algorithms to scale databases that handle the collection and storage of massive amounts of real-time social data
 - Devise and build out systems that are decoupled, elegant and fault tolerant


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