CONTENT ENGINEER

Content is the bread and butter of the ShopStyle experience. Our international portfolio of hundreds of retailers and thousands of big label fashion products makes shopping for the hottest products and the best deals in fashion a breeze... and it takes sharp, motivated, and innovative people to make the experience a reality. The ShopStyle Content Team seeks a strong tools engineer to help us reach, and surpass, our goals.

You possess a mix of strong UNIX scripting and Java programming skills. You know databases and text processing inside and out. You have experience defining and implementing tools and metrics for quality control, and a knack for creative solutions to tricky problems. DRY and KISS are guiding principles for you. We're a startup, so you're a self-starter, you're a quick study, and you understand the value of sharing your knowledge. Your top-notch communication skills will be indispensable working with a tight, dynamic and diverse engineering and marketing team. And your work will have impact.

Responsibilities:

• Develop automated test tools and processes for continuous content acquisition for a large retail product database
• Refine existing product categorization rules and define new rules as necessary
• Monitor existing continuous content acquisition process, report and triage issues, and review/verify fixes as necessary
• Define and measure quality metrics for new and existing data integration projects
• Contribute to existing content acquisition codebase
• Document and test all work

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 2 years Java experience in a production environment; experience with Hibernate or other ORM tools very desirable
• At least 2 years of experience with perl and Bash. Experience with Python, Ruby, and other languages is a huge plus. Knowing when to use the right tool for the job is a must
• Experience working with XML, including schema/DTD development and XSL transformation techniques, SAX and DOM parsers, etc
• Strong SQL skills (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLServer)
• Strong UNIX skills, and the ability to work closely with systems administrators
• Strong debugging skills
• Understanding of source control (Subversion, git, Perforce) strategy and application
• Previous experience with web crawling and business-to-business data integration
• A love of learning new things, and passion for giving our users the best possible experience
• Fluency in French, German, Spanish or Portuguese a plus 

Internal Position #588