Careers

About Us

Scanbuy is the global leader in developing mobile engagement solutions that power intelligent connections between the physical and digital world-intelligently and effectively.

Our mobile engagement suite, ScanLife, empowers brands, retailers and marketers to create, manage and deliver personalized, uniquely tailored experiences directly to consumer smartphones—collecting sophisticated business intelligence during the life of the campaign. ScanLife enables the delivery of coupons, product information, video, websites, social networking, surveys, ecommerce and much more. ScanLife processes millions of scans from over 150 different countries.

The company is headquartered in New York City with local offices throughout North America, Europe and Latin America. Scanbuy has the largest and oldest patent portfolio of any company in the industry.

Please submit your cover letter and resume to info@scanbuy.com for consideration.

Software Engineer

Title: Software Engineer

Location: New York, NY

Reports To: CTO

Description
Scanbuy is seeking a software engineer for java-based backend and mobile application software development. We are looking for a developer to join our development team. To be a good fit, you should be a good developer, self-managing with Agile experience, and enjoy an environment with few limits. We want you to be good at apps and at the same time work on back-end Java development on the ScanLife Code Management Platform. We’d like you to driven just enough that you will have a personal project to show us and talk about. This position requires a creative, logical, and self-driven person with high standards for quality, attention to detail and responsibility. We work as a distributed engineering team using agile methodologies such as Kanban/Scrum. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package based on ability and experience level/

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance java-based back-end (server-side) software applications.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance mobile applications on iOS and Android development platforms.
• Integrate products with APIs, web services and other third-party services.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance company RESTful APIs and other web services.
• Support and train customers on how to use company applications and services.
• Help Scanbuy achieve and maintain clear leadership among mobile scanning applications.
• Participate in Agile development as a member of a Scrum development team.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Software Engineering. MS degree would be a plus.
• Two-year combined development experience prior, since or during college degree.
• Development experience using Java.
• Basic JavaScript and front-end web development experience.
• Experience in developing mobile development for Android and/or iOS platforms.
• Object oriented design skills.
• Experience with Spring, Hibernate and MySQL.
• Experience integrating and creating web services using REST, JSON and XML.
• Understanding of distributed architectures.
• Experience with Redshift, ability to generate comprehensive data query.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as JUnit or TestNG.
• Continuous integration experience using Jenkins or similar.
• Agile process experience.
• Comfortable in a Linux environment, preferably RHEL/Centos/AWS Linux or Ubuntu.
• Comfort with version control systems like git.

Nice to Have Skills

• AWS, EC2, Redshift data pipeline experience.
• Build automation and continuous deployment.
• Front-end development, PHP, JavaScript content management system.
• Mobile development basic knowledge (Android and/or iOS)
• JMS/RabbitMQ experience.
• Bash/shell scripting, Python.
• Ember.js or similar JavaScript MVC framework.
• Ability to write SQL queries for MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.
• Scripting capability in various languages: Bash, Python, Perl or Ruby.

Data Scientist (Data Modeling)

Location: New York, NY

Reports To: CTO

Description
Scanbuy is looking for a data scientist with data modelling focus and experience to work on Scanbuy growing data business. Someone who can leverage their experience, knowledge and passion with modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence to help grow that business by leveraging billions of data points currently sourced by Scanbuy.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data points inventory (behavior, demographic and location) to identify behavioral patterns
• Build and test behavior and demographic models to predict consumers characteristics and interests.
• Help drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality

This position requires a creative, logical, and self-driven person with high standards for quality, attention to detail and responsibility.

We work as a distributed engineering team using agile methodologies such as Kanban/Scrum.

Skills & Requirements

• BS degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Computer and Information Sciences, or Business Analytics and Project Management. MS degree would be a plus.
• 1~2 years of professional experience in data science.
• Solid data science fundamentals: Linear algebra, probability, sampling and sampling distributions, descriptive and inferential statistics, hypothesis testing, linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, KNN, principal component analysis (PCA), perceptron, neural networks, naïve Bayes, SVM, random forest, time series forecasting, clustering, market, basket analysis, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Natural Language Processing (NLP) or ER modeling.
• Knowledge of Python (NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, NLTK), R, Java, C#
• Experience of basic services in AWS ecosystem: EC2, RDS, data pipeline etc.
• Experience with machine learning.
• Familiar with Linux OS, preferably RHEL/Centos/AWS Linux or Ubuntu
• Comfort with source control (github)

Nice to Have Skills:

• Previous experience with artificial intelligence.
• Understanding of Big Data stack including Apache Storm, Kafka, Cassandra
• NoSQL experience: HBase, MongoDB
• MapReduce, Hadoop

Data Scientist (Data Engineering)

Title: Data Scientist (Data Engineering)

Location: New York, NY

Reports To: CTO

Description
Scanbuy is looking for a data scientist with data engineering focus and experience to work on Scanbuy growing data business. Someone who can leverage their experience with Python and database engineering to help grow that business by onboarding new data sources to serve more data buyers.

Job Description

• Build and enhance the ETL codebase for added efficiency and capacity.
• Build large-scale batch data pipelines
• Leverage best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Help drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality

This position requires a creative, logical, and self-driven person with high standards for quality, attention to detail and responsibility.

We work as a distributed engineering team using agile methodologies such as Kanban/Scrum.

Skills & Requirements

• BS degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Computer and Information Sciences, or Business Analytics and Project Management. MS degree would be a plus.
• 2~5 years of professional experience in database development
• Solid scripting capability in Bash, Python, MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Experience with ETL and/or other “Big Data” processes.
• Experience with data warehousing, analytics, reporting on terabyte scale
• Experience of basic services in AWS ecosystem: EC2, RDS, data pipeline etc.
• Experience of AWS data warehouse tool Redshift
• Familiar with Linux OS, preferably RHEL/Centos/AWS Linux or Ubuntu
• Ability to write SQL queries for MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Scripting capability in various languages: Bash, Python, Perl or Ruby
• Comfort with source control (github)

Nice to Have Skills:

• Understanding of Big Data stack including Apache Storm, Kafka, Cassandra
• NoSQL experience: HBase, MongoDB
• MapReduce, Hadoop

Sales Representative

Title: Sales Representative

Location: New York, NY

Description

The Sales Representative is responsible for delivering a broad range of company products and services to clients in order to achieve business goals.  We are hiring a highly-motivated sales representatives looking for experience in a face-paced environment. The Sales Associate will call on retailers, brands and agencies to build new business, to prepare proposals and quotations and to win business.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify, pursue and establish contact with potential customers
• Actively present company products and services to business prospects and customers
• Build relationships with new and existing advertising agencies
• Negotiate agreement terms and close deals
• Achieve sales goals and targets
• Ensure effective internal communication within the Sales, Marketing, Support and across the company

Requirements

• Solid sales abilities
• 2-3 years relevant sales experience preferred
• Understanding of mobile advertising markets
• Ability to acquire inventory from a variety of publishers, content owners
• Strong communication, writing and customer service skills
• Excellent problem solving and organization skills
• Self-motivated with a tenacious work attitude
• Negotiation skills to interact with a variety of customer types
• Able to meet deadlines along with working under pressure
• Highly innovative and proactive
• Willing to travel
• Bachelor’s degree
• Rolodex of brand marketers and/or agency relationships

Paid Sales Support & Marketing Interns (New York)

Paid intern positions available for applicants seeking hands on experience in Sales Support & Marketing.

A global leader in mobile engagement is seeking interns to support corporate sales & marketing initiatives and programs such as lead generation, support, research, social media and events.  Individuals should be dynamic, take initiative, be dedicated to teamwork, work well with deadlines, and have strong organizational skills.  You should be eager to learn sales & marketing techniques that drive business.

Skills Needed:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good relationship development skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to take initiative and manage multiple projects concurrently
• Excellent research ability and command of the internet
• Computer skills: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to gain valuable sales & marketing experience. The position will report to the Vice President of Marketing but will interact with all departments. 

Marketing Interns

Title: Marketing Intern

Location: New York, NY

Reports To: Chief Marketing Officer

Description

A global leader in mobile engagement is seeking marketing interns to support corporate marketing initiatives and programs such as lead generation, research, social media and events.  Individuals should be dynamic, take initiative, be dedicated to teamwork, work well with deadlines, and have strong organizational skills.  You should be eager to learn marketing techniques that drive business.

Skills Needed

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good relationship development skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to take initiative and manage multiple projects concurrently
• Excellent research ability and command of the internet
• Computer skills: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)

Paid intern positions available for applicants seeking hands on experience in Marketing. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to gain valuable marketing experience. The position will report to the Chief Marketing Officer but will interact with all departments.