At Recast, we're building the next generation of media measurement technology. We're scientists and engineers applying cutting-edge techniques to the hardest problems in a multi-hundred-billion dollar market. Every year, billions of dollars are wasted on ineffective and unmeasurable marketing campaigns — Recast helps marketers measure the unmeasurable and save millions of dollars of marketing budget. Our mission: Rid the world of wasted marketing spend Billions of dollars are wasted every year on ineffective marketing spend. These dollars flow from innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs into the coffers of some of the world’s largest companies. Wasted marketing dollars barrage consumers with advertisements for products they’ll never purchase, and crowd out the messages for products that might actually be useful. By helping marketers better measure and optimize their marketing budgets, Recast is helping businesses grow more profitably and invest more money in improving products rather than wasting money on useless advertisements. Effective marketing requires deep empathy with customer problems, creative genius, and, critically, the ability to accurately measure what’s working in a world that’s constantly shifting under our feet. Unfortunately, today’s marketers are flying blind trying to piece together disconnected and biased data sources into a coherent whole. Marketers need tools that are unbiased, accurate, and actually answer the questions that will help them make better marketing decisions. Recast is building exactly those tools. Recast is built by scientists, for marketers. We are committed to using the world’s most advanced techniques and technologies to solve problems for marketers. We take our jobs as scientists seriously: we are committed to pursuing the truth in all its glory and we don’t shy away from uncomfortable truths (even if it means telling a customer something they don’t want to hear). By providing an independent and unbiased assessment of marketing performance, Recast gives marketers a central source of truth they can trust.
Careers at Recast
- Build, test, troubleshoot, and integrate front-end elements into our application using Ruby on Rails, modern javascript frameworks and vanilla js, and styling with CSS and frameworks like Tailwind
- Help us develop new features and functionality to allow our customers to better serve the information they need when they need it.
- Add self-serve reporting and data visualization features so that our clients can dig in and build their own reports
- Lots of interacting with your colleagues to overcome challenging and new problems to solve. We work very collaboratively and need colleagues who aren’t afraid to jump in and help in whatever way they can!
- Full-Stack web-development experience with Ruby on Rails or other similar web frameworks (Django / Flask / MVC)
- Front-End experience with JS frameworks and libraries such as React, Vue, Svelte, etc.
- Styling for the web using either plain CSS or libraries like SASS, LESS, Tailwind, etc.
- You have decent design-sense and can take an app from idea to MVP quickly and independently
- Working with javascript plotting libraries like D3, cube.js, or plotly
- Experience working with other engineers on your team to teach them using different techniques - pairing, mobbing, reviews, etc.
- Working directly with a product team to ensure that the vision and the technical execution needs match up.
- Estimating both how difficult technical projects will be, and also how long they may take given different inputs.
- Working at a fast-paced SaaS startup
- Working directly with data scientists to productionize their code
- Taking ideas that might start out vague to some, and helping to turn them into concrete implementations collaboratively with colleagues both inside and outside Engineering
- Working with lots of complex data structures and pushing-the-limits visualizations
- Teaching others on your team and learning just as much from them - we are all student-teachers
- Building tools that interface with JAX & other ML-like libraries