Development Manager/Director of Development Wetpaint

Wetpaint is looking for a Development Manager or Director of Development to lead our talented and energetic team of developers. You will join a next-generation media and technology startup with a culture of continuous innovation. In a year, we built a media property with over 4 million unique visitors, we?ve become the number two social publisher in the world, and we?ve accumulated over a million engaged Facebook fans. The main enabler behind that is our world class technology infrastructure, which is comprised of complex systems that can spot emergent trends before they are picked up anywhere else, handicap content for the amount of traffic it will drive, and figure out where, when and how to best merchandise this content across channels ? web, mobile, and social. At the heart of these systems, which we refer to as our Platform, is a core focus on using data collection, analytics, machine learning, and optimization techniques on data from social media streams and other sources.

What you?ll do
-Lead the development team and make sure they deliver on time and with quality
-Own the development processes, standards and procedures within the team
-Coach and deploy your team optimally towards the overall success of our projects
-Drive the system and software architecture of our applications
-Be hands-on and expect to be sitting down with your developers debugging issues or discussing their designs
-Contribute to our projects with your own ideas, strong opinions and educated domain knowledge

Skills

-5-10 years of experience as a Development Manager or Development Lead

-Strong technical skills (in Java, Ruby, Linux, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, Lucene, Hadoop, ?)

-Experience in web development, machine learning, data analysis or distributed systems

-Versatile self-starter with an eye for detail and a strong sense of ownership

-Passion for solving hard problems and shipping high quality software

-Comfortable working in a highly-collaborative agile environment


About Wetpaint

From its earliest roots, Wetpaint has been a web publisher specializing in scalable content platforms designed to capitalize on disruptive changes in online technology and publishing. Our initial community platform, wikis by Wetpaint, reaches 10 million monthly unique users. The company?s new proprietary publishing platform is engineered to produce premium branded media destinations featuring professionally-authored content across an array of categories ? with a 5-10X economic advantage over traditional web publishing models. Wetpaint Entertainment (www.wetpaint.com), custom-tailored for young women who love TV and fashion, is our first property on the new platform. Recognizing that technology and audience expectations have changed media forever, Wetpaint has re-visioned what it takes to create, monetize, and distribute top-shelf content efficiently ? and how to best package it in ways that garner audience loyalty and brand distinction.

Founded in 2005 by Internet pioneer Ben Elowitz, and with offices in Seattle and New York, Wetpaint is backed by top-tier investors Trinity Ventures, Frazier Technology Ventures, Accel Partners, and DAG Ventures. Recognized with awards and honors by Time, OnHollywood, Washington Technology Industry Association, and AlwaysOn, Wetpaint offers a destination for millions of people to consume content, contribute to their community, and interact with other fans who share their passions.

With a CEO that has founded two very successful startups previously (Fat Brain and Blue Nile) and a leadership team comprised of veterans from Amazon, Starbucks, McKinsey, and Microsoft, we aren?t afraid of diving in where others failed ? and we have results to show for it.

Location:	83 South King Street Suite 850 Seattle, WA 98104 United States