About Adknowledge Inc.
Founded in 2003, located in Kansas City, Missouri and sales offices in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Adknowledge operates a central online marketplace (www.bidsystem.com) for advertisers seeking additional ways to market their products and services online and extend their reach beyond Google and Yahoo.

Adknowledge benefits advertisers, publishers and consumers alike by delivering ads that are more relevant than typical online advertisements. The company accomplishes this by utilizing its proprietary and leading-edge behavioral targeting technologies.

In addition, Adknowledge provides full-service solutions to a wide spectrum of publishers seeking to monetize their digital assets. Examples include search engines, email list owners, Internet Service Providers, Facebook developers, affiliate networks and web site operators.

Adknowledge is a privately held company with 110 employees, 70 in technology and operations and 40 are sales and marketing. Of the technology professionals, the majority are versed in programming, statistics and operations. Overall, our culture is highly focused on developing new technologies and product enhancements.

JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Senior Developer for our Tagline product, you will be part of a team who is responsible for designing and implementing high volume LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) applications.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating user interfaces to perform complex and customized server-side transactions,
• Developing interfaces with back-end statistical analysis systems which increase the relevancy of advertisements displayed to end-users
• Creating reporting and administrative systems to meet internal and partner requirements.

The ideal candidate will be individually driven with a team mentality and enjoy fast-paced and iterative development within a small entrepreneurial, technology culture.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux development
• Stellar debugging & analytical skills
• 3+ years developing in Unix environment
• 2+ years non-academic SQL development with any DBMS, Oracle

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with C/C++
• Linux development experience
• Prior experience in online advertising
• Requirements analysis and design skill set

Challenges:

• Learning the business of on-line advertising,
• Capturing large quantities of data, and applying in real-time to optimization systems,
• Creating high performance and highly available solutions through parallelism,
• Creating and maintaining a company competitive advantage in a dynamic industry,
• Rapid change within a small, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture

Measures of Success:

• Successfully analyze business requirements and translate into application designs.
• Suggest features or improvements which enhance application yield, quality and scalability.
• Create aggressive schedules for application features and complete on schedule.
• Identify and resolve critical bugs/features within stated SLA

Please use the link below to submit resume

We are currently looking for a Lead PHP Developer / Project Manager to work in our Midtown Manhattan office. This position is responsible for helping manage software and development projects for our company's Web division. This person will be driving a variety of intranet and external projects through the complete development life cycle, from initiation to completion, working closely with Director of Technology and various departments with in the company. The emphasis is on enhancing existing applications and platforms, as well as creating and deploying new web based applications and platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a close knit development team that applies open source web technologies to deliver online media projects and applications
• Focus on creating the next generation of interactive media applications
• Take a leadership role, providing guidance to junior and mid-level developers.
• Research new platforms and architecture to support current and future business requirements.
• Develop, maintain and support large, high-availability, web based internal applications and reporting tools; support high-traffic commercial websites
• Learn and understand existing platforms and create transition or support plans
• Develop and maintain feature add-ons as well as new web applications based on the existing platforms
• Define and manage the overall project lifecycle process
• Establish communication plans for assigned projects
• Function as the primary point of contact for client management.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience building and tuning secure, scalable database-driven high volume Web sites (Online Media Web experience is a plus)
• Expert-level Object Oriented Design and Programming skills
• Working knowledge of entire product lifecycle from scoping to maintenance
• Strong knowledge of PHP 4, PHP 5, and PHP Frameworks (Smarty)
• Proficiency with AJAX, JavaScript, and other open-source Web 2.0 technologies
• Strong Technical skills using Oracle and MySQL database platforms
• Experience with revision control systems such as Subversion or CVS
• Demonstrated use and knowledge of design patterns.
• 2+ years of progressive experience in project management
• Four-year degree from a university or college (mandatory)
• Experience working in an environment using standard methodologies and governance frameworks
• Excellent analytical/problem solving skills, ability to think creatively and solve complex technical problems
• Excellent oral/written communication and interpersonal skills in order to effectively partner with the technologies and business communities
• Track record of establishing and maintaining a positive, team-oriented work environment.

Send resume to: resumes [at] techresourcesinc.com