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Data Engineer

Mindspark is a leading digital consumer products company that builds, markets and delivers fun and useful “digital snacks” -- popular interactive products that cater to a range of interests. Mindspark’s groundbreaking products are viewed by millions of users daily, and include games, virtual worlds, and a broad range of online experiences. Continuing the trend of launching new products such as Vimeo and Daily Burn, to massive success; Mindspark’s software and search expertise keeps us on the cutting edge of Internet services!
As an IAC company, Mindspark is part of a family including many of the most successful media and Internet brands in the world, including Match.com, Ask.com and About.com. Recently ranked fourth in Fortune magazine’s world's most admired companies list in the Internet Services & Retailing sector, we provide incredible career opportunities for our team in a supportive, collaborative and fun work environment.


Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. seeks Data Engineer responsible for developing and expanding in-house reporting systems and working with product development team to capture and summarize performance metrics. Develop and support automation, monitoring and inventory tools for other IT groups.  Duties Include:
  • Tracking and reporting status of programs
  • Write reporting applications or scripts using Perl to collect revenue reports for web products.
  • Develop web UI’s using HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, jQuery for backend scripts and monitoring tools.
  • Write scripts to monitor processes on systems
  • Install and build packages on Debian, Red Hat and CentOS systems
  • Write patches for Perl module like LWP.
  • Write scripts to generate reports using DBI from MySQL.
  • Write queries on NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
  • Develop and maintain project documents using Confluence.
  • Use Source Control SVN to manage Projects and work.
  • Write load tests for mod_perl and other applications
Minimum Requirements:  Masters degree in Computer Science or related field, plus 2 years experience in the job offered or related.  Experience must include:
  • 2 Years of Perl development experience.
  • 2 Years of Object Oriented development experience
  • 1 Year web development experience with Perl, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery 
  • 2 Years experience using Perl with Oracle and MySQL
  • 1 Year of experience with apache module development
  • 2 Years of system admin experience using Debian, Red Hat and CentOS
  • 1 year shell scripting experience
  • Strong background in C, C++ development required
  • Must be able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, data sources and protocols.
[Experience may be gained concurrently.]


Candidates may apply online or to mallory.denison@mindspark.com, referencing Req. #38760-025.