Flytedesk powers media and advertising on college campuses. We build the technology that college media organizations and universities use to manage their operations. We build the technology that small businesses and national brands use to reach students. We work with brands, campaigns, and causes as their college partner in understanding, reaching, and driving outcomes with students.

We have a presence at almost every college in the country and the ability to reach 20 million students through campus billboards, student influencers, campus email newsletters, college newspapers, digital ads, SMS, and more.

We started flytedesk as the tool we needed at our college newspapers and have grown to become the single largest funding source for student journalism. Brick by brick, we’re creating a sustainable business model for college media by providing a coveted service to advertisers. We’re mission-driven, profitable, remote, and radically transparent. We’re back by an all-star cast of leaders in our industry, our customers are like family, and our team is both unfailingly collaborative and all-in to push our business and customers forward.

When we first started, we figured we’d build a simple way to aggregate a few different types of media on college campuses, plug it into existing demand sources, and boom – profit. It wasn’t that easy.

We built the ecosystem we wanted to see, and what emerged is a minor miracle. While the rest of the media industry is being decimated… we’ve created a business model that’s actually working.

We build three main things: the core platform (infrastructure, databases, and internal tools), a publisher platform (that colleges use to manage their ad inventory), and DSP (that buyers use to select/buy/measure inventory). Our goal is that you come in and understand all three, and then move into a tech lead position when we split into teams dedicated to each component.

The right candidate will be comfortable learning quickly, thoughtful about the impact of what they’re building, solution-oriented, non-dogmatic, committed to excellence, excited to communicate with stakeholders across the business, and intent on building something big for a community that deserves it. 

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Identify inefficiencies and architect solutions for automation
• Contribute to sprint planning and PR reviews
• Implement / help define best practices in code and data structures

skills

Must Have:

• • PHP, NodeJS

  • DevOps experience (AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab, Docker, Nginx / Apache, etc.)

  • MySQL / NoSQL databases / Elastic Stack

  • Linux system administration skills

  • Experience with Application architecture and Systems architecture

  • Experience with CI/CD environment

  • Good attitude and a team player (our team is too small for jerks)

  • 5+ years experience

Nice to Have:

• • Experience with microservice architecture

  • Apollo GraphQL + Apollo Federation

  • Go or Python (microservices may be built with these)

  • Cloudformation or other infrastructure-as-code solutions

  • Experience with Vue.js or other reactive frameworks (i.e. React, Angular)

  • Experience contributing to a scaling engineering org

  • Some experience with ad tech/media/student media/startups a plus!