## About the Position

Leapfrog Online is seeking a Software Engineer to help us develop, support and extend our marketing technology platform. Our platform encompasses a number of different products including content management, consumer tracking, real-time analytics and third-party data integrations. As a Software Engineer, you'll work closely with our Systems Engineering and Test Engineering teams to build performant, scalable and reliable products. This is a hands-on and highly collaborative position that will help guide the future of our marketing technology platform.

## About the Team

Joining the Leapfrog team means being part one of the largest digital marketing companies in the world, one that helps brands uncover new customers and revenue through leading and innovative digital direct marketing technology. If you are interested in data driven marketing and emerging digital technology (mobile, tablet, attribution), then read on!

## Examples of Recent Work

If our team or position descriptions aren't clear enough on what this job will require, here are some examples of recent work that you could be doing if you worked with us:

- Building a distributed automated testing and reporting platform to validate product and service offerings at scale, using python, Django, PostgreSQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Selenium, and PhantomJS.

- Working with AngularJS, Rails, PostgreSQL/ltree, Redis, and Memcached to create a cutting-edge content management and publishing system to crank out non-trivial websites fast.

- Wrapping gnarly third-party SOAP APIs with humane, RESTful JSON/HTTP APIs.

## Responsibilities

- Building and maintaining high-traffic web sites using the Rails, Flask, and Django web frameworks.

- Crafting deep integrations into our clients’ platforms and third-party services.

- Leveraging statistical modeling techniques to optimize treatments.

- Integrating internally and externally generated data to help our platform deliver the right message to our client’s consumers in real time.

- Participating in pairing sessions, code reviews, lightning talks, and researching things independently.

## Qualifications

- For this position we require a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of two years’ experience in web-based software development using open source technologies.

- Ideally, you should have experience in Python or Ruby but relevant experience in other languages is fine too.

- You should understand (or be excited to learn) pragmatic engineering practices like iterative releases, test-driven development, object oriented design and continuous integration.

- You should have 'in the wild' (read: not a tutorial) experience using web application frameworks (Rails, Sinatra, Django, or Flask are ideal, but others like Spring are acceptable also) to build high-traffic web sites and applications.

- Non-trivial experience with any SQL-based RDBMS (PostgreSQL experience is especially useful).

- Knowledge of version control systems (especially Git).

## Perks

Leapfrog Online is a great place to work. We have competitive pay, a matching 401k package, life & disability insurance as well as bonus potential. We have a casual environment and strive to maintain a work/life balance. In addition, Evanston is a great neighborhood with good food (Edzo's, Whole Foods, and 50+ other restaurants) and our office is steps away from the Dempster Purple Line and a short walk from the Davis Metra.

The real perk of this job is the ability to contribute to a profitable and growing company that strives to give employees the ability to master their craft, increase their skills and be autonomous in their work. We are a small enough company that you can witness and be rewarded for your contributions, but large enough to partner with Fortune 100 companies.  We support an individual's contribution to the community at large with multiple philanthropic activities and encourage employees to be part of their larger working collective by attending and supporting prominent conferences.