Open Positions:

IMDb.com is a top 25 website with billions of pageviews and hundreds of millions of unique users a month.

Do you want to have an impact? Be a part of the team charged with defining the technical direction for the company. We're building the next generation of the IMDb software platform to support rapid development of engaging user experiences across our web and mobile products.

Does solving big problems excite you? You will build the service architecture to serve tens of millions of data items to all those pageviews and users, and the analytics platform to understand how our users behave. You'll have a ground-floor say in the design and implementation of this important, highly scalable, distributed system.

Do you like collaboration? We work with teams across the company to develop the core technologies that drive IMDb.

Do you have the need for speed? We have set ambitious latency goals and need great developers to help us meet them.

A love of movies is suggested, but not required; be prepared to be surrounded by debates about the best Hitchcock film ever made and discussions about what might happen this season on True Blood.

As a separately operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, we offer the benefits and stability of a Fortune 500 company, combined with engaging, close-knit, results-focused environment of a small company. It's the best of both worlds.

IMDb is at the forefront of digital and mobile entertainment. You may find yourself developing systems on a Java Spring website, Android, iOS for iPhone and iPad development, Windows Mobile, and HTML5. We also collaborate with Amazon teams such as Amazon Instant Video, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Kindle, connecting us with the larger Amazon development community.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4+ year relevant work experience
4+ years professional experience in software development
Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as C++, Java, or Perl.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building and delivering highly scalable, reliable, and complex software systems on-time and on budget.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project.
Experience developing in a Linux environment.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Development Engineer, Platform #144499
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

Software Developer, IMDb.com (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is one of the largest and most ubiquitous sites on the web, used by millions of people every day. We have a deep, authoritative data set, millions of passionate users and a growing collection of exciting new features that bring the two together.

We are looking for passionate, results-oriented software engineers to build innovative features on IMDb.com. Our engineers work full stack - front (HTML5, CSS, JS) to back (Apache, SOA, MySQL) and everything in between (MVC Frameworks, Spring).

In this role, you will have an enormous opportunity to shape the IMDb experience used every day by millions of passionate movie and TV enthusiasts worldwide. Active participation in architecture, design and code reviews is expected. A love of movies and TV is a big plus.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 2+ years relevant work experience
2 years professional experience in software development
Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or PERL

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer #133585

Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

Software Developer, IMDb Social Networks, Gaming, and Recommendations (Seattle, WA)

Wield the power of the world's most authoritative movie and entertainment database, and the most online consumer-data-surrounding entertainment on the biggest movie website on the planet. IMDb seeks entrepreneurial minded software developers as we move our recommender systems, social network integration, and "gamification" of the site up to a whole new level. This is a challenging and enjoyable problem space, and we're looking for the best engineering minds to complement our small but productive "audience engagement" team.

You'll work on the systems and algorithms powering IMDb's movie recommendations, find novel ways of leveraging social graphs, and enhance the "gamification" of IMDb. You'll work front-to-back on IMDb's architecture (built-in Java and Perl) to deliver features to help our users discover, watch, and rate more stuff, and let them have fun in the process. You'll have fun, too.

IMDb is a top-20 website, owned by Amazon. While we use Amazon's technology and offices, IMDb has its own unique culture, with a centralized operations team and a small but cohesive technical staff. You'll feel like you're at a small company, but with all the upsides of a big company.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4+ years relevant work experience
4 years professional experience in software development
Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or Perl

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective product software engineers
Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
Experience developing and tuning recommender systems is desirable
Experience with front-end web development with AJAX and Java Spring MVC also a big plus
A love of movies and entertainment doesn't hurt!

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer #151103

Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

Head of Business Development, IMDb (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 57 million unique visitors each month. In the last 12 months, we have launched leading entertainment applications for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7 and just recently the IMDb Trivia App. Our mobile and tablet apps have received rave reviews by both users and media. Since the launch of our mobile initiative, we’ve been growing at a rate of almost a million new installs (users) per month.

IMDb is seeking a talented, highly motivated and experienced individual to lead IMDb Business Development, driving continued growth in this space as well as other strategic areas for the business. This role will work closely with IMDb and Amazon leaders on partnerships and strategic business opportunities. You will be required to handle multiple high-priority projects across various categories, including digital and social media, mobile, gaming and advertising at the same time and effectively negotiate terms that benefit IMDb and our customers. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your strong understanding of the Internet, high-tech and media industries inside one of the world’s leading technology companies to structure innovative and impactful partnerships.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

Take the lead to identify, evaluate, negotiate and manage strategic Internet partnerships and marketing deals that drive free cash flow for IMDb and support the strategic objectives of IMDb's business.
Drive business development efforts to distribute IMDb apps across various platforms and devices. Specifically, you will help us significantly grow our mobile and tablet business through the creation and management of strategic partnerships with mobile networks, handset, TV and other similar type manufacturers and mobile application developers for distribution of IMDb mobile offerings.
Prioritize and develop strategic affiliate relationships working with the consumer product and contributor teams.
Conduct reporting and data analysis to analyze partner performance.

Basic Qualifications:

At least 4-6 years of business development experience in the Internet, media and high-tech industries.
Demonstrated track record of identifying and executing successful partnerships and large scale marketing deals, particularly in the e-commerce, online advertising, and digital media industries.
Significant experience structuring and negotiating complex agreements and leading cross-functional groups to orchestrate and successfully conclude deals.
Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated ability to think strategically, innovatively and creatively using sound business judgment and quantitative skills.
Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial along with a proven ability to influence others internally and externally.
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment while prioritizing and managing multiple responsibilities.
Solid understanding of Internet business models and web technologies.
A good sense of humor.
Experience in mobile marketing or marketing for wireless products/services or high tech startups strongly preferred.
MBA from a highly-regarded institution.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Head of Business Development #140719
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

Online Acquisition Marketing Manager, IMDb Pro (Los Angeles, CA)

IMDb (www.imdb.com) is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million unique visitors each month. IMDb offers a searchable database of over 1.5 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and over 3.2 million cast and crew members, making it the Web's most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on movies, TV and celebrities. We are seeking a Senior Marketing Manager to manage our worldwide member acquisition and retention efforts for IMDb Pro, a subscription version of IMDb designed exclusively for professionals who work in the entertainment industry.

You will be responsible for driving the worldwide Pro subscriber numbers through creative and relevant messaging to customers both on and off of IMDb. The right candidate will blend strong marketing communication skills, project management and customer segmentation experience.

Responsibilities:

Define the strategy for subscriber acquisition and retention.
Own the roadmap of priorities and partner with the development team to deliver results.
Analyze our customer acquisition and retention metrics and formulate data driven marketing decisions that lead to both new subscriber growth and retention of existing subscribers.
Assess the performance of campaigns and specific customer segments, and continually improve and refine our approach to optimize the effectiveness of marketing and retention campaigns.
Achieve aggressive worldwide subscriber count goals.
Optimize our pricing model and evaluate our discount and coupon strategy.
Further define and develop the Pro brand identity.
Identify, define, and manage customer research efforts.
Act as the primary coordinator with peers in technology, legal, finance, and the IMDb organization.
Extensive experience managing online marketing campaigns including search engine marketing and optimization, social media marketing, and email marketing.

The successful candidate will be a tenacious, ambitious, self-starter with a passion for creating value for customers. The candidate will have proven marketing and analytical capabilities, strong persuasive writing skills, the tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment. He/she must have a deep understanding of marketing, our customer's needs, and the competitive landscape to drive member growth. Experience with subscription businesses and direct marketing are a big plus.

Basic qualifications:

3+ years of marketing experience
2+ years experience in CRM / loyalty / retention marketing
BA/BS required

Preferred qualifications:

5+ years of marketing experience – preferably within a subscription business and with some direct marketing background
4+ years experience in CRM / loyalty / retention marketing
Demonstrated ability to formulate data driven decisions that lead to results
Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, manage, and prioritize multiple projects
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and ability to navigate a complex and unstructured cross-functional environment
Strong writing and speaking skills
MBA preferred

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Online Acquisition Marketing Manager, IMDb Pro #147264
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

Senior Product Manager, IMDb Pro (Los Angeles, CA)

IMDb (www.imdb.com) is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 57 million unique visitors each month. We’re looking for an entrepreneurial product leader to help shape the future of IMDb Pro, a subscription version of IMDb designed exclusively for professionals who work in the entertainment industry. As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for driving significant growth of our IMDb Pro service by conceiving, prioritizing, and executing development projects that provide the best user experience for our professional customers and generate subscriber and revenue growth. You will monitor user feedback and industry trends, collect requirements, develop functional specifications, coordinate and refine technical and UI designs, and deliver high-quality projects on-time. You have the primary responsibility for all project deliverables and act as the single point of contact for all project communication. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your understanding of the high-tech and entertainment industries.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

Conduct and/or oversee user interface design, usability testing, requirements definition, research, metrics analysis, technical specification, software development, software testing, launch efforts, product marketing.
Work cross-functionally with designers, software development engineers, legal department, senior management, and fellow product managers on an iterative product development cycle.
Manage bottlenecks, resolve escalations, anticipate and make feature and resource trade-offs, balance the business needs against technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building great customer experiences.

Membership on the IMDb Pro team is a big opportunity for your work to be used by professionals in the entertainment industry. If you're up for the challenge, we'd love to speak with you.

IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, though we operate as an independent subsidiary. IMDb employees are full-fledged Amazon.com employees; which means you reap the benefits of working for a Fortune 500 company while also working on a smaller, more nimble team. It is the best of both worlds!

Basic Qualifications:

4+ years of Product Management experience
A bachelor's degree is required

Preferred Qualifications:

A computer science background or equivalent technical background is strongly preferred. An MBA is preferred.
Must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically.
Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope technical requirements and prioritize project work.
Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills are critical to success in this position.
Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary; general manager / owner mentality and an entrepreneurial drive; demonstrated ability to have fun and inspire team members to enjoy work, be action-oriented and stretch their imagination.
Committed to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge.
Successful history of shipping innovative products.
Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills, ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases. Ability to clearly communicate data insights to others.
Demonstrated ability to dive deep in understanding the product, our business, and the competitive landscape.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior Product Manager, IMDb Pro #150929
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

Software Development Engineer, IMDb Pro (Los Angeles, CA)

Are you a great software engineer looking for that next big challenge? Come join a team of other exceptional engineers building next-gen applications for the movie industry right in the entertainment capital of the world - Los Angeles.

The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), an Amazon.com company, is seeking exceptional software engineers in its Los Angeles office. With over 100 million unique users a month, IMDb is the world's largest movie database, featuring over 2 million actors, actresses, and filmmakers as well as over 1 million movies from 1890 through today.

Our mission in Los Angeles is to engage with our industry clients and build the next generation of IMDb's Professional Service products. Along with integrating with our recent acquisition of Without A Box (www.withoutabox.com) into the Amazon/IMDb technical fabric, you will use state of the art technologies to build scalable and reliable web services and applications that inform and thrill millions of customers a day.

Qualified candidates will have experience working in a variety of codebases. They will be able to build and operate large, scalable cooperating services. Candidates must be able to work in an agile development life-cycle. Above all, candidates must have a passion for innovation, learning and improvement.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

A degree in Computer Science with 2-5 years of software development experience.
Strong desire to build high-performing, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
Proven experience with Java (Spring), Perl or C/C++ with a solid understanding of Web technologies and SQL.
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Be highly innovative, flexible and self-directed.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Development Engineer, IMDb Pro #144205
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

Software Developer, Video (Seattle, WA)

We are looking for a talented software engineer to help us build the next generation of our video system. Want to help put a play button on every page? We're looking for people excited and knowledgeable about video on the web.

We hire engineers with a passion for architecting, building, testing and maintaining robust, scalable systems, and who enjoy working on the entire stack, from front to back.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 2+ years relevant work experience
2 years professional experience in software development
Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or PERL

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer #130732

Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

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Open Software Developer positions in Bristol:

Software Developer, IMDb Content Technology (Bristol, UK)

Join the team behind the world's most popular entertainment database and help us build the next generation of features on IMDb! We've launched recent features like News and Video aggregation, Facebook and Twitter integration, Watchlist, location-aware Showtimes and more. We're expanding our online presence into mobile apps and living-room devices, and we're building a new tech platform based on cutting-edge scalable Amazon technologies.

As a member of the Content Technology team, your goal would be to help build systems allowing us to massively expand IMDb's content selection, while maintaining its reputation as the most accurate source of movie, TV and celebrity data in the world. We're a highly-motivated, collaborative, agile team who thrive on solving challenging problems with innovation.

We want to grow our Bristol team by finding and hiring the very best software developers. We believe the best developers for our team are those who:

Relish the chance to build lean, service-oriented systems and scale them to IMDb proportions.
Exercise great judgement and know when to refine existing techniques and when to prototype and invent brand new solutions.
Are skilled at understanding and refactoring existing code.
Have a passion for learning, self-development, and helping others.
Are excited about IMDb's business and about delivering a great experience for our customers.

IMDb provides a world-famous database of unique, exciting entertainment content spanning Movies, TV and Celebrities. We operate at massive scale, serving 100 million visitors per month with our awesome websites and mobile apps. IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, though we operate as an independent subsidiary. IMDb employees are fully-fledged Amazon employees, meaning they reap the benefits of working for a Fortune 500 company while also working on a smaller, more nimble team. It is the best of both worlds!

Responsibilities:

Participate in the development of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services.
Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
Participate in the full development cycle end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
Collaborate with local engineers and data managers, and work closely with remote business and engineering teams in New York, Seattle and Los Angeles.

Qualifications:

Results-oriented person with a delivery focus.
Strong coding skills in Java and/or Perl, coupled with experience in object-oriented design and development.
Experience working with enterprise development, eg databases, web services, SOA, messaging, enterprise integration, distributed systems, etc.
Fluent English, solid communication skills and the ability to work well independently, with a local team, and as part of a distributed global team.
Several years' experience in Software Development, on top of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer, IMDb Content Technology #151841
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

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