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About Vicinity Media

Address
41 Waterloo Road, Wynberg, Cape Town, 7800
Company size
15-50 employees

Summary

What we do

Vicinity is a mobile location-based ad network serving ads to users on publisher sites such as IOL, Times Live, The Sowetan, and Goal.com based on their distance from store locations. This increases the relevance of mobile ads for users and brand ROI.

Why Work For Us

Vicinity is a highly innovative company with underlying complexity to their products offering a unique opportunity to work on stimulating and interesting features and products while being challenged to grow your skills even further.

Our Culture

Vicinity has a start-up, fun bantering and easy going culture. All is welcome.

Our Engineering Processes

Vicinity follows a Scrum framework and is very agile in the development management in order to adapt to customer needs and competitors.

Our Hiring Process

We have a four-stage hiring process:

  1. Initial telephonic interview (15min to 30min)
  2. In-person interview with Product Manager for 40mins and with the CEO for 20mins (1h)
  3. Online technical assessment (1.5h, but test allows up to 5hrs)
  4. Culture fit - meet the team (30min)

Perks at Vicinity Media

Barista-made Coffee
Company sponsored online learning
Flexible hours
No dress code
Flexible leave policy
Bring-your-own-device policy
Friday beer o'clock

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
AngularJS
AngularJS
Laravel
Laravel
Javascript
Javascript
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
HTML5
HTML5
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
nginx
nginx

utilities

Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53
Google Analytics
Google Analytics

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
Git
Git
Android Studio
Android Studio
npm
npm
Xcode
Xcode
Bitbucket
Bitbucket

business tool

Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello
JIRA
JIRA

Office Photos

Office photo
Office photo
Office photo