Web Startup Jobs

[full-time] Amazing Software Engineering Intern (Fall/Spring) at Vivek Sodera

2008-09-19 16:49:25

Location: Anywhere
URL: http://www.rapleaf.com

Description:

Rapleaf (http://www.rapleaf.com) is a well-funded San Francisco startup (currently at 15 people). We gather publicly available information from the social web on hundreds of millions of people. Rapleaf has built the largest portable social graph in the world. We provide rich insight on customers for clients such as retailers, airlines, hotel chains, social networks, lead gen firms, telcos, political campaigns, and more; these clients learn about their consumers in order to give them a better user experience.

Role: – Help build out Rapleaf’s next set of groundbreaking features – Build algorithms to normalize data on over a hundred million people – Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on – Change the world

Note: This job is really hard. You’ll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world and they are going to expect that you to excel. We’re doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.

Qualifications: – Currently an undergrad or grad student – Looking for part-time (if located in the Bay Area) or a fulltime internship – One of the best computer science/engineering students within your peer group – Amazing coder who takes no prisoners. Master of all things Internet. One of the best coders in existence – Gifted critical thinker who can learn new languages, platforms, extremely fast. Ruby on Rails. You can pick this up quickly – Intensely driven and proactive person – Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy – Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job. – Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty. – Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance – Strong desire to build a more ethical society

Location: – Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

Compensation/Perks: – This is a paid internship – School credit available – Kitchen stocked with food – Flexible hours around your class schedule for part-time internships during school year – Will fly you out to the Bay Area for fulltime internships – Collegiate atmosphere and environment – This has potential to develop into a fulltime position as an early employee in the company

At Rapleaf, we’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.

If interested, please email jobs@rapleaf.com. If you know someone who may be interested, we also offer a $250 referral award.

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[full-time] Amazing Software Engineer (Employee #16) at Vivek Sodera

2008-09-19 16:48:48

Location: Anywhere
URL: http://www.rapleaf.com

Description:

Rapleaf provides search services that find information about people on the social web, on behalf of businesses and consumers. Top retailers, telcos, political organizations, hotel chains, social networks, and other consumer facing companies use Rapleaf’s services to gain insight about their consumers and improve their consumers’ experience. Consumers use Rapleaf’s services to discover, manage, and control their online information.
Headquartered in San Francisco, the company has processed over 200 million unique searches for businesses and consumers.

Amazing Software Engineer

Role: – Build out Rapleaf’s next set of ground-breaking features. – Work on creating a portable identity, social graph, and reputation. – Build algorithms to normalize data on over a hundred million people. – Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on. – Change the world and make it more profitable to be ethical.

Qualifications: – Amazing coder who takes no prisoners. Master of all things Internet. One of the best coders in existence. – Learn new languages extremely fast. We use Ruby on Rails … you can pick this up quickly. – Intensely driven and proactive person. – Extremely hard working. This is a start-up – team members work long hours. – Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy. – Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players. – Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job. – Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty. – Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance. – Strong desire to build a more ethical society. – Desire to be an early employee and want to be a real owner in Rapleaf’s future. – Want to work with extremely large datasets and build portable APIs that thousands of other companies can build applications on top of. – Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation available if necessary) – All levels of experiences should apply (0-25+ years experience).

Note: this job is really hard. You’ll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world and they are going to expect you to kick some butt. We’re doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.

Location: – Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

Perks – High cash comp | high equity – Rapleaf is willing to pay for the best talent – Personal MacBook Pro or Windows based machine – Medical insurance, 401k. – Kitchen stocked with food – Work with some of the smartest engineers – Contribute to the Rapleaf Dev blog (http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/)

At Rapleaf, we’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.

If interested, please email jobs@rapleaf.com. If you know someone who may be interested, we also offer a $10,007 referral award.

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[full-time] Incredible Systems/Network Administrator at Vivek Sodera

2008-06-30 17:02:30

Location: Anywhere
URL: http://www.rapleaf.com

Description:

You will maintain Rapleaf’s entire infrastructure and enhance the system to do great things, as we’re on the trajectory to change the world.

Role: – Manage all Rapleaf servers (Linux – CentOS, Redhat), backups, web servers (Apache clusters) – Manage relationship with hosting provider and hardware vendors – Systems administration (DNS,LDAP,NFS,TCP/IP,SELinux) – Scalability and expansion (Hadoop) – Some scripting (Shell, Ruby, Python, or Perl) – Administer MySQL databases (multi-master replication, snapshot backups) – Learn how to scale with Ruby on Rails – Manage billions of data items/pages being served – On-call duty

Note: this job is really hard. You’ll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world and they are going to expect that you kick ass. We’re doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.

Qualifications: – Master of all things Internet and Linux. – Incredibly smart, can learn fast, and takes no prisoners – Learn new platforms fast. We use Ruby on Rails – you can pick this up quickly. – Intensely driven and proactive person. – Extremely hard working. This is a start-up – team members work long hours. – Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy. – Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players. – Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job. – Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty. – Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance. – Strong desire to build a more ethical society. – Desire to be an early employee and want to be a real owner in Rapleaf’s future. – Want to work with extremely large datasets and indirectly build portable APIs that thousands of other companies can build applications on top of. – Ability to lift and install servers (50 lbs) – Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation available if necessary)

Location: – Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

Perks: – Good salary/stock compensation. – Personal MacBook Pro or Linux based machine – Medical insurance, 401k. – Kitchen stocked with food – Work with some of the smartest engineers – Contribute to the Rapleaf Dev blog (http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/)

At Rapleaf, we’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.
If interested, please email jobs@rapleaf.com. If you know someone who may be interested, we also offer a $10,007 referral bonus.

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[full-time] IT Position Available with Rapidily Growing Start-Up at New Fortune Media Inc.

2008-04-07 09:40:17

Location: Philadelphia, PA
Description:

We are looking for an experienced IT Person to join our growing company in its early stages. The right applicant will have a passion to for creating something new and watching it grow from the ground up.

Job Requirements

- Experience working with medical industries is a plus but not required

- Proven experience building scalable web sites / web services from the ground up

- Fluent in client side technologies – Ajax, Javascript, Adobe Flex, CSS, XHTML, experience with UI libraries such YUI, Prototype, scriptacoulus is a plus

- An awesome portfolio of work demonstrating excellent visual design

- Previous experience designing for large scale web applications is a plus

- The ability to work at the speed of a startup, but with attention to detail

- Demonstrated mastery of Photoshop to create pixel-perfect mockups

- Solid understanding of additional Adobe CS3 applications

- Solid understanding of design pitfalls, especially with regards to web standards and browser compatibility issues

- Ability to learn and apply new concepts and techniques

- Demonstrated expertise in hand-coding XHTML/CSS to create semantic, standards compliant versions of your designs is a huge plus

- This is a great opportunity to be part of the core product team in an early stage startup aiming at a huge market opportunity.

PLEASE SEND RESUMES ATTACHED TO AN EMAIL WITH YOUR COVER LETTER EMBEDDED IN THE EMAIL. ALSO, IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUS WORK YOU WOULD LIKE PRESENT ALONG WITH YOUR RESUME PLEASE ATTACH THE LINKS INSIDE THE EMAIL.

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[full-time] Database Administrator at hi5

2008-04-05 05:56:19

Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.hi5.com

Description:

hi5 operates the largest PostgreSQL installation in the world across hundreds of database and storage servers. Our unique systems store billions of friend relationships and instantly make this information available. To support the network’s global reach and a breadth of third party applications, hi5 uses a combination of open source and home grown technologies to deliver a highly available, highly scalable infrastructure on economical Linux servers.

We are looking for a talented Database Administrator to join our growing team.

Responsibilities:
Administer production DB instances (all PostgreSQL)
Administer pre-production DB instances
Be on-call rotation (2nd level, supports operations first responders).
Work with operations to scale production DB instances and surrounding

Requirements:
Production, HA, scalable RDBMS Administration experience at still-existing company
Unix, preferably Linux experience
Shell or perl scripting experience
SQL authoring and tuning experience
Experience within or interacting with operations teams
Experience within or interacting with product development teams
Applied knowledge of DBA best practices and concepts
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Great sense of humor, particularly during production crises

Preferred:
If no PostgreSQL experience, qualified candidate must possess production experience in at least 2 other RDBMSs, one of which must be Oracle.
Software Engineering experience
Application level architectural experience
DB scripting (PL/pgSQL)
Object/relational modeling
JDBC

If this sounds interesting to you, please contact Cecilia Wong at cwong@hi5.com

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[full-time] Account Manager - Internet Security Industry at Steve Anderson

2008-04-04 08:23:12

Location: Anywhere
URL: http://www.borderlan.com

Description:

Phone based sales with leading products. We provide Data-Loss Prevention, Log File Managemen, AV, Internet Filtering etc.. www.borderlan.com.

Account Manager job now open. This is a great opportunity to break into 100K+ income with a great high-end sales career. Avoid the long commutes and come work for a winning team in North County San Diego. This is a cubicle, telephone sales job. We will consider entry-level post college grads and those with sales experience. BorderLAN Security calls on businesses and various organizations that need our products and services. The average sale is around $10,000 so this is no telemarketing job! It’s a high-end sales opportunity that requires the right type of person. You have to love the phone, the hunt, and be ok with professional job stress. We have fun, work hard and are very flexible for any personal family needs. Telecomute outside of San Diego will also be considered.

BorderLAN LLC, www.borderlan.com is a North County San Diego Reseller established in 2006 focusing on Internet Security Products. The product lines range from Internet Filtering, SPAM filtering, firewalls, bandwidth shapers, encryption, backup, Log Management, Reporting and Professional Services. We have a growth initiative and are looking to hire and train 3 more employees in the Security Sales group. Our growth initiatives will continue until we reach 50+ employees. We are moving to a new location in late March 08’ and want to fill the positions ASAP.

About the Positions: (Currently 1 open)
You will be entering as an Account Manager. Account Managers find deals by calling on the phone, emailing and marketing. For the first 4 weeks we offer 5-hour flexible workdays where you will be on the phone, attending webinars and learning about the products, and will have a commission only pay structure at 10% of sales. If after the 4 weeks you are performing to your managers expectations, you will be offered a base salary plus $10 p/hr plus 10% commission on all sales. After you have completed 90 days of employment with BorderLAN and have attained 20K in sales, your probationary period will expire and management will evaluate your status. Typically this results in moving you to full time 8hrs. Your annual quota for year one will be 900K. Once your quota has been achieved, the president will consider you for a promotion to Sr. Account Manager, which offers increased base pay, additional vacation time and higher health bonus. Throughout your employment the bulk of your pay is commission (about 82%), therefore, sales efforts such as 50 calls p/day is a requirement to keep building a pipeline of business. There is no signing bonus, but we will train you for free.

What we are looking for is:
A college grad, or anyone who has work experience but wants to launch a career in security sales, and build to sales management. Our positions are lucrative and demand a self-starter with a hunger for learning. We hire attitude and enthusiasm above everything else, so phone skills, and communication skills are essential. We also look for someone with charisma, as we will be occasionally going onsite to our prospects and presenting in front of groups. We are still in startup mode in our facility and practices.

Education: College Graduate preferred.

Skills Required: Typing, communication, perfect English speaking skills, phone skills, able to learn, hunter mentality, willing to take on any challenge.

Additional Benefits of working with BorderLAN are that our Management has managed over 100 employees and has successfully trained college grads to make well over 100K and helped launch them into their careers. As we grow this company we plan to purchase our first facility (Estimated April 2008), and will first look to create and promote good employees internally for any future positions like sales management.

Send us your Resume and we can discuss the opportunity in more detail. Let’s see if it’s right for you.

If interested please review our website and send a resume to steve@borderlan.com. Please do not call regarding employment questions. We will be contacting the candidates who look promising for a phone interview. If you want to work out of your home office instead of our facility please make a note on your email or resume.

Location: Carlsbad, CA
Compensation: First 1 months Commission only @10%, Months 2-12 $10/phr w/ 10% comm., Months 13+ considered for Sr. Account Mgr $15 p/hr w/ 10% commission.
Telecommuting is ok.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

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[full-time] Flash/Actionscript Developer at terransys

2008-03-28 20:10:26

Location: Cupertino, CA
URL: http://www.terransys.com

Description:

I’m a technical recruiter in the Bay Area recruiting for a company that is developing tools which enable users to create “hypervideos” and share them through websites, blogs and email.

“Hypervideo” allows the viewer to monetize anything they see in the video, and get more information about it simply by clicking on it.

They’re looking for a Flex/Actionscript Developer with:

*3+ years experience with Macromedia/Adobe Flex/Flash-based complex RIA’s. *Solid knowledge and experience in applications that utilize MVC and other design patterns in Java/Actionscript *Experience with CSS, D/HTML, XSL/XML

This is a white-hot startup, folks. If this job description piques your interest, then please contact me.

Send replies to: dkj@terransys.com

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[full-time] System Administrator / IT Manager at (a stealth-mode startup)

2008-03-28 09:26:17

Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.thetalentfactor.net

Description:

Exciting stealth-mode startup is seeking an Engineer that is passionate about System Administration.

In this role, you would enjoy having ownership of scaling a startup with notable Silicon Valley backing. Work may be required after normal business hours or on weekends for emergency outages or scalability drills.

Ownership of:

Installing and maintaining Linux/UNIX servers
Managing, extending, and maintaining deployment scripts and resources
Answering developer questions
Maintaining the office network and writing system software and utilities
Running various core infrastructure services

Maintaining network monitoring and alert systems and responding to security issues

Required Skills and Experience:

In-depth knowledge/experience of Linux/UNIX operating systems
Experience with one or more higher level system languages, such as C, Perl, or Python
Understanding web technologies, protocols, and languages, including Apache Web Server, SSL, Java, SQL
Familiarity with deployment and versioning systems

Prior startup experience strongly preferred

Send replies to: resumes@thetalentfactor.net

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[full-time] Looking for Online Account Clerk at Global Craft Inc.

2008-03-27 22:00:42

Location: Minneapolis, MN
URL: http://www.myway.com

Description:

INTRODUCING GLOBAL CRAFT INC
Global Craft Inc. is a group of business men and women who deal on Art
and Craft originating mainly from Asia. Our products are diverse and of
the highest quality,depicting ‘comfort’ and ‘real affluence’.Being
that Asia’s traditional crafts are getting more attention as very
important cultural assets,we are proud of our products and so we’d like to show
them to the rest of the world.Thus,we are currently expanding our
market base beyond the Asian continent and into North america,South
America,Europe and Africa.

WHY WE NEED YOU
No doubt,doing business across borders has never been an easy task.We
are currently searching for reliable representatives who can help us
establish a medium of getting to our various customers in their
regions(mainly USA,Europe and North America).The time frame it takes to
have their payment checks sent to us and processed is rather long.This has
caused a setback in our sales.The representatives we sought after will
serve as our payment officers/contact persons in these regions.Their sole
responsibility will be to receive and process payment checks on our behalf.We
believe this will go a long way in bridging the gap between us(the
sellers) and our customers(the buyers).At this point,we cannot
overemphasize the fact that only honest,reliable and competent persons are
needed by us.We will be glad to welcome you on board if you fit in and have
an interest to work for us.

REMUNERATION
We have a rather generous and highly competitive remuneration package
for our new team of sales representatives.We offer a 10% commission on
every payment made via you to us.

THERE IS NO FINANCIAL OBLIGATION AT YOUR END All we need from you is
total reliability and your committiment to work for us.There are no
hassles as this is a work at home opportunity and would’nt in any way
interfere with your present job or status.This offer is irrespective of
your qualification or present field of work.Setting you up and
registering you with our company remains our responsibility.
Let us know your thoughts.If interested do send promptly by
email(pridemike@myway.com) the following:

1.FULL NAMES
2.CONTACT MAILING ADDRESS
3.STATE
4.TELEPHONE NUMBER
5.FAX NUMBER
6.OCCUPATION
We look forward to working with you.Please have your response sent to
Mr.Moses Mike via email:pridemike@myway.com and he will be more than
pleased to give you further details.
Thanks In advance.

Sincerely,
Moses Mike.
Marketing Manager
(Global Craft Inc)

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[full-time] Lead iPhone Programmer - Cocoa & Objective C at Mahmoud Hafez

2008-03-27 19:13:20

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description:

Our well-funded startup is committed to revolutionizing the way people think about their mobile phones.

To make this happen we focus on working hard, fostering a creative job setting, working harder, indulging in our successes, and then working even harder still – you could say our ambition teeters on the insane, the good kind though.

We use white boards as wallpaper, have a coffee machine that’s worth more than some of our cars, and ping-pong ideas over… well… ping-pong.

We are seeking the best-of-the-best from the programming world to lead our development team – someone who is brilliant, creative, disciplined, friendly, and passionate about changing the way people communicate.

This position is for a lead mobile software developer. Our software will first be created for the iPhone and then move onto other platforms. We need someone who can map out the entire project, and then break the software into modules so that he can assign parts to other programmers.

Requirements: – Extensive experience programming in C, Objective-C, C++, Cocoa – Ability to establish client/server remote procedure and function calls. – Skill to build software from product requirement specification – Ability to map out software plan and lead a team – Understand object orient design for long term development. Experience with open source software packages.
-Ability to fix bugs from bug tracker and effectively communicate bug fixes to other developers.
-Work with tables and database structures. (SQL based)
-Understand Server Interactions
-Previous experience with web site development or mobile web sites. (HTML, WML, XHTML)
-Build metrics gathering tools for page views, server calls, and
-Mac OS X development

Highly Desired: – experience programming in Java – experience developing applications for mobile devices
-J2ME – MVC Architecture – CVS/Subversion

Compensation is extremely competitive and includes a completive salary, employee stock options, fun job perks and health benefits.

Feel free to email directly to this posting or call Mahmoud Hafez at 661-645-1873

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