Node.js Platform Engineer

IAC’s family of websites is one of the largest in the world, comprised of more than 150 brands and products.

IAC is a leading media and Internet company comprised of some of the world’s most recognized brands and products, such as HomeAdvisor, Vimeo, About.com, Dictionary.com, The Daily Beast, Investopedia, and Match Group’s online dating portfolio, which includes Match, OkCupid and Tinder. "

The Application Platform Team oversees the web application architecture for the Ask.com family of websites, and help design and develop the services, platforms, and frameworks that enable our front-end teams to build awesome experiences at scale.

What you will do

• Design and build Ask.com’s next-generation web application platform
• Obsess over performance and scalability across our tech stack
• Advance Ask.com's technical culture through presentations, meet-ups, conferences, etc.
• Work closely with front-end developers to understand their needs and explore technology trade-offs
• Help define architecture and technology choices through research and prototyping
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code
• Thrive in a highly collaborative team and engineering organization

• Passion for high performance and scalability
• Solid understanding of software architecture best practices
• Experience building frameworks and APIs that enable maintainable and reusable application development
• Advanced JavaScript skills (OO, functional, Node.js)
• Extensive experience with another language is a big plus
• Solid CS fundamentals in Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Networking, etc.
• Solid web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, HTTP, Cookies, Redirects, etc.)
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience