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.

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

iOS and/or Android App Developer

Position: iOS and/or Android Developer

Reporting to: Product

Description:

We are looking for talented iOS and/or Android Engineers to join our mobile team to help develop and bring our apps to the next level.

 As an engineer with us, you will be part of the team responsible for our native Android, iPhone and iPad apps and helping to push the envelope of technical innovation within our mobile products. 

 Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of iOS development experience or 1+ years of Android development experience
• 2+ years of Object Oriented development experience (Java, C++, or C#)
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Solid understanding of object oriented programming
• Agile software development experience

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Server-side/full stack development experience
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI)

 Benefits:

• Full Medical and Dental insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Telecommuting

iOS and/or Android App Developer (Senior)

Position: iOS and/or Android Developer (Senior)

Reporting to: Product

Description:

We are looking for talented iOS and/or Android Engineers to join our mobile team to help develop and bring our apps to the next level.

As an engineer with us, you will be part of the team responsible for our native Android, iPhone and iPad apps and helping to push the envelope of technical innovation within our mobile products. 

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of iOS development experience or 3+ years of Android development experience
• 6+ years of Object Oriented development experience (Java, C++, or C#)
• Developed applications designed to run on all iOS enabled devices
• Experience with supporting several versions and form factors of Android
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Solid understanding of object oriented programming
• Experience with extended iOS features (push notifications, location services, camera, etc)
• Agile software development experience

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Server-side/full stack development experience
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI)

 Benefits:

• Full Medical and Dental insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Telecommuting

UX Designer

Position: UX Designer

Reporting to: Product

Description:

Listen up! You get a chance to work on ScanLife’s apps that help millions of users save money and time every single day! We are continuously looking to get better, and we have room for a motivated UX designer that will help us get closer to our vision. Our apps have millions of users, which means that each time we deploy your awesome work, it makes a whole lot of difference in the real world!

A little bit about you. You are:

• motivated to make the world a better place and solve problems that make a difference in people’s lives. Our users have problems, and we want to solve them in delightful and unique ways. In order to do that, we have to learn fast, and your role is critical when it comes to speed of learning.
• familiar with the concepts of design thinking and how rapid prototyping works.We love to be customer oriented, and we find great deal of satisfaction in knowing our users, who they are and what they do, but most importantly, why they do things they do.
• passionate about details and delivering strong user experience that helps the user achieve their goal. We like to promise what we can deliver, and you can help us deliver an awesome experience.
• a fan of speaking with current and potential users of our products and conduct user interviews in order to gather insights and deliver user personas, test concepts and ideas through wireframes or prototypes, and engage in usability tests of beta products before we ship them to the masses.

Basic Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

• Own overall end-to-end user experience - from the big picture (owning the overall user experience and consistency across an entire product) down to specifics of UI layout for a feature or service flow.
• Create wireframes, storyboards, walkthroughs and paper prototypes to communicate your designs to the rest of the team. Iterate in low fidelity to arrive at the best possible design.
• Develop detailed wireframes, user flows, mockups, and other product deliverables to effectively communicate designs and product requirements.
• Work with an awesome cross-functional team of software developers and a product manager.

Skills/Experience Requirements:

• Fluency in best practices for mobile and web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Excellent interpersonal skills and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively in small and large groups and defend your design artifacts.
• Stay current with the latest design and technology trends across web, desktop, and mobile platforms, and adopt modern techniques as appropriate.
• 2+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, instructional designer, information architect, or similar role.
• Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Visio or Omnigraffle, and Axure.

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. 

DevOps Engineer

Description: Scanbuy is seeking a technical professional to be responsible for system architecture, performance, scalability, cost, and production operations. We are really good at high availability and rapid deployment and are looking for someone to help us get even better.

Location: NYC Preferred but Remote is OK for the right candidate

Reports To:  Manager, Engineering Operations

As a member of our DevOps team, you will:

Responsibilities:

• Work with the team to improve the performance, availability and scalability of the current system
• Help with production releases
• Continue to improve monitoring and alarm systems
• Continue to improve our deployment practices
• Support our “Big Data” effort, with NoSQL and ElasticSearch administration
• Manage cloud services including load balancers, web servers, and database servers
• Use scripting to automate processes and maintain the application environments
• Design and implement load and performance measurement tests
• Participant in on-call rotation, and handle out of hours outages

Required:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in CS or a similar technical field
• 3 or more years work experience with DevOps or Ops
• Experience with Linux system administration
• Experience with MySQL database administration
• Experience with or a strong interest in NoSQL databases (HBase, MongoDB, Redis)
• Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP networking and Internet
• At least one year’s experience with deploying and managing production systems on a cloud infrastructure (especially AWS)
  • Scripting Skills in Python, Shell, Ruby, Perl, or other
  • Experience with monitoring systems like Nagios, Icinga, Ganglia, Cacti, or Big Brother etc. 

Bonus Points:

• Coding skills in Java, and experience with JVM monitoring and tuning
• Experience with ElasticSearch cluster
• Experience with Hadoop cluster
• Experience with RabbitMQ cluster
• Familiarity with Ansible, Chef, AWS OpsWork, Puppet, Docker, or Pingdom

About Us:

Scanbuy is the leading global provider of mobile barcode solutions. Used in over 125 countries around the world every day, the ScanLife scanner app is the gateway for consumers to make more informed purchases and for companies to connect to consumers in their daily lives away from a computer.

The ScanLife platform is made up of the scanner apps for mobile handsets, the back end resolver for decoding scans from around the world, and the Code Management Platform, a web-based application that allows code publishers to manage their codes and access analytics. The platform and other Scanbuy IT infrastructure are now all cloud-based and we need someone with strong technical and business experience to rationalize and improve on what we have done so far.

We are a globally distributed Agile organization. That means we empower our teams to do their best work in their own way, and we depend on them to uphold high engineering standards and to do the right thing for our customers and our business. You will be on a Kanban team working closely with a few other colleagues to ensure that we continue to deliver value to our customers in the best way you know how. 

Technical Support Engineer

Title: Technical Support Engineer

Location: Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY

Reports To: Manager, Technical Services

Description

Scanbuy is seeking a Technical Support Engineer who will be responsible for troubleshooting and diagnosing production software issues within our web application and also our handset apps. The Tech Support Engineer acts as a bridge between the business and engineering teams for customer and user issues and works closely with developers to report, diagnose, and solve product defects and customer problems. This is a hands-on technical role that involves interaction with internal and external customers and may include scripting and other light programming.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-depth technical support as needed to help Customer Support resolve customer problems
• Provide technical support Scanbuy employees who need help with various parts of the product
• Adjust system accounts as necessary to make certain codes available to customers
• Create system usage reports using SQL on the production system for internal use
• Maintain and improve the automated monthly reports used by Finance and Accounting to run the business
• Be the point of contact with our partners for handset app preload testing, deployment, tracking, and reporting.
• Execute app tests and produce test reports as required
• Participate with the development team to do release testing of the ScanLife system
• Create scripts and other software tools as needed

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or other technical field
• Two years’ experience working in a technical organization such as corporate IT or high tech development
• The ability to write complex queries in SQL
• Knowledge of MySQL and/or MS SQL a plus
• Experience in scripting with Perl, PHP, and/or Shell
• Knowledge of using Salesforce SF data connectors such as Boomi a plus
• Experience in manual or blackbox testing of released applications on iOS and Android a plus
• Good written and oral English communication skills
• High standard of personal performance and self-motivation

Software Engineer - Mobile Application Development

Title: Software Engineer

Location: New York, NY or Telecommute

Reports To: CTO

Description

Scanbuy is seeking a software engineer for mobile application software development. We are looking for a developer to join our development team with a primary focus on our iOS and Android ScanLife apps. 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 we’d like you to be ready and interested to do some back end Java development on the ScanLife Code Management Platform when the team needs you to do that. We’d like you to driven just enough that you will have a personal project to show us and talk about.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance barcode scanning applications on all handsets and operating systems
• Develop and grow in-depth expertise for developing applications on one or two handset operating systems
• Help Scanbuy achieve and maintain clear leadership among mobile scanning applications
• Participate in Agile development as a member of a Scrum development team

Required

• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline. MS degree would be a plus.
• Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming or Embedded Device programming
• Programming experience in at least two of C, C++, Java, Objective C, C#
• 2 years experience in mobile handset software development on iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry SDK
• Demonstrable interest in and exposure to modern programming tools and practices such as Open Source, TDD, Git, Continuous Build and Integration
• Successful release of a mobile app to the Apple App store, Android Market Place, or BlackBerry App World
• Ability to develop against a variety of web architectures and services (HTTP, SOAP, REST, etc.)
• Passion towards user interface, engaging experience.
• Enthusiasm to collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers.

Bonus points for

• Knowledge of UI frameworks (Android/iOS)
• MVP application design.
• Advanced experience in performance, functional & unit testing.

We are a distributed Agile organization. That means we empower our teams to do their best work in their own way, and we depend on them to uphold high engineering standards and to do the right thing. You will be on a Scrum team working closely with a few other colleagues to build value for our customers in the best way you know how. We value deep levels of expertise and experience coupled with the willingness to pitch in as needed to make the team successful. The choice of tasks you work on will be your own in concert with the needs of your team. Our CTO is a Certrified ScrumMaster Trainer, so we do real Scrum here. We are looking for ‘test-infected’ developers who understand automated unit testing and feature testing. TDD experience would be a huge plus.

If you telecommute, you will be working from home for the most part, but that won’t prevent you from interacting with your colleagues every day. We will only consider you for telecommuting if you have significant experience being on a scrum or other Agile team.

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.