About Vicinity Media

Address

41 Waterloo Road, Wynberg, Cape Town, 7800

Company Size

15-50
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
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 EC2
Amazon VPC
AngularJS
Laravel
Javascript
MySQL
PHP
HTML5
Bootstrap
nginx

DevOps

Ansible
Git
Android Studio
npm
Xcode
Bitbucket

Utilities

Amazon Route 53
Google Analytics

Business Tools

Slack
Trello
JIRA