Web Startup Jobs

[full-time] Amazing Software Engineer at Caitlin MacDonald

2009-09-27 19:29:17

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

Description:

Rapleaf is a San Francisco startup that crawls for publicly-available people information across the social web, and builds products and analytics on top of this data. With data on hundreds of millions of people, we have one of the largest social graphs and social databases in the world. We’re looking for people who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world.

APPLY ONLINE AT WWW.RAPLEAF.COM/CAREERS

* Role: * Build out Rapleaf’s next set of groundbreaking features * Build algorithms to normalize data on over half billion people * Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on * Report to the VP Engineering; work directly with the CEO, other engineers, and management * Change the world * Qualifications: * Amazing coder who takes no prisoners; master of all things Internet; one of the best coders in existence * Someone who learns new languages and platforms extremely fast – we use Ruby on Rails, Hadoop (HDFS), and Java * Intensely driven, proactive, and hard working * Extremely hard working; this is a start-up – team members work long hours * Quick learner and real doer; err on execution over strategy * Looks forward to 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, 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 incredibly challenging. You’ll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world that expect the best. We’re doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years. * Perks: * Great cash comp & high equity – Rapleaf is willing to pay for the best talent * Choice of any laptop – Mac, Windows, or Linux * Medical insurance, 401k * Kitchen stocked with food * Work with some of the smartest engineers * Contribute to many open source initiatives such as Hadoop * Contribute to the Rapleaf Engineering Blog * Live and work in San Francisco – the best city in the universe

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[part-time] UI designer for web 2.0 startup at Ryan

2009-06-11 12:54:41

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

Description:

We’re in need of one UI designer to join our college-based startup — www.Noteswap.com — and help us design a layout that is simple and intuitive, light and beautiful.

This designer will be the chief visionary for our summer redesign, and must be extremely design savvy, gets social media and web 2.0 design, and is an out of the box thinker that balances creativity with strong technical skills. Must have a keen seen of design scalability, user behavioral tendencies, click awareness, and other points needed for an effective, sticky, and viral website.

Noteswap is an academic community for college students to come together, communicate, and share a host of different class-specific material. Our concept is extremely viral (featured in 15+ publications) and has true game changing potential.

If you are someone who excels in this field, is self-driven, writes good clean code, is preferably enrolled in college, and borderline arrogant in his/her abilities; we want to hear from you! Funding is spotty, so you must be willing to work for equity.

Skills

1-2 years experience in web applications design, programming and testing using:

Ruby on Rails
PHP
Javascript
AJAX
XML

Bonus:
(1) Please provide us with sample code you’ve written.
(2) Do you have any past start-up or entrepreneurial experience?
(3) Which blogs do you frequent the most?

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[full-time] Principal SWE/Tech Lead - Ruby on Rails at RedBubble

2009-01-12 13:35:43

Location: Sf
URL: http://www.redbubble.com

Description:

RedBubble (www.redbubble.com) is a website for people throughout the world to share their creative passions. The site operates as a gallery, community, market place, and fulfillment service for a wide variety of art – including photography, design and digital art.

RedBubble was launched in Australia in February 2007 and has gained significant traction over the last 18 months (24 million page views per month, 70,000 members, 100,000 items sold and shipped in the last 18 months). The company is well funded by a group of private investors who ‘know the Internet’. The business model has been demonstrated – now the question is will RedBubble be a top 5000, 500, or 50 website.

In order to fully realize this potential, RedBubble relocated from Australia to San Francisco in September 2008.
The Position

You are the person around whom RedBubble will build a world-class technical team. You’ll have experience building and leading high performance technical teams and will be comfortable working in a start-up environment. In fact you’ll thrive on the challenges of a start-up.

Responsibilities/Most Important Functional Tasks

Leadership and mentoring of the development team
Ruby on Rails application development including data modeling and design

Ultimately responsible for the software produced by RedBubble and keeping the website up … and going fast.

Background Required

Experience building and leading high performance technical teams
At least two years experience in a start-up environment
You’ll be experienced and comfortable with the full stack. Everything from hardware, networking, operating system and hosting issues, MySQL database optimization, application development, HTML, and even some CSS. You won’t necessarily be working deeply in all of these areas, but your staff will – and sometimes you’ll need to dip in.
Significant experience building consumer facing e-commerce or social networking websites
Significant commercial experience with Ruby on Rails, agile development, and leading agile teams
Understanding and appreciation of the role of design and usability – it’s not just about the tech at RedBubble
Experience with usability testing and A:B testing (experience with multivariate testing would be well regarded)
Significant experience with the process of unpacking ideas and working out the best way to execute them from the technical, user, and business perspectives

A very good degree in Engineering

Interested? Send your resume to holly@redbubble.com with the job title in the subject line, please.

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[full-time] Web Business Analyst at Blurb

2009-01-11 17:21:53

Location: Sf
URL: http://www.blurb.com

Description:

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. Blurb’s creative publishing service is simple and smart enough to make anyone a published author – every blogger, cook, marketer, photographer, traveler, entrepreneur, poet, everyone. Located in downtown San Francisco and funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners, Blurb is bringing book publishing to the masses.

The Business Analyst will provide critical operational support to the Blurb team by providing timely, accurate and insightful business analysis and reporting. This individual will provide regular reports on business performance, create and manage forecast models, and design and deliver analyses and business cases to better understand, evaluate and guide existing programs and initiatives. Responsibilities will also include periodic accounting and/or finance projects, including assistance with daily/monthly e-commerce reconciliation, financial reporting and/or the month-end close process.

The Web Business Analyst reports to the Finance Director.

Key Responsibilities:

Enhance and maintain core reporting tools, such as weekly/monthly “dashboards”
Analyze and provide insight on individual marketing program performance (including Search Engine Marketing, Partner Marketing, and Offline Marketing), including regular performance reports and recommendations for program optimization
Collaborate with marketing on defining and pulling data sets based on market segmentation/programming needs, analysis of purchase patterns, etc.
Assist functional managers with creation of business cases for proposed new products, initiatives or programs
Support month-end reconciliation and reporting process, develop robust and insightful forecasting models, and assist in annual budgeting/planning process
Provide one-off analysis and insight for Board reporting and discussion

Drive automation, improved accuracy and increased efficiency in all reporting and analysis initiatives, including ongoing evolution of data warehouse model

Required Characteristics and Qualifications:

*Guru at comfortably working with large data sets, building insightful financial models and presenting summary insights in a user-friendly way

Expert-level experience with MS Excel (nested functions, pivot tables, import/export)
Proficiency with SQL (basic join’s, grouping, ordering)
Proficiency with GAAP accounting principles
Good knowledge and understanding of web-based marketing programs
Exceptional attention-to-detail with the ability to juggle multiple projects and meet aggressive deadlines
Self-motivated, resourceful, curious and creative in solving problems and understanding the dynamics and nuances of the Blurb business model
Excellent communication/presentation skills, including proficiency with MS Powerpoint
Minimum of 5 years experience in a similar operating function

Preferred: advanced training in statistical analysis, econometrics and/or trend forecasting

Interested? Send your resume to operationsjobs@blurb.com with the subject heading “Web Business Analyst.”

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[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] Software Engineers (Job Id 1050) _ " A different kind of Animal" (Scottsdale, AZ) at SaaS Accelerator

2008-08-10 23:49:36

Location: Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ
URL: http://www.saasaccel.com

Description:

SaaS Accelerator, LLC

“Enterprise SaaS Solutions: A different animal”

Overview:

Simply put, SaaS customers rely on their vendor to think of them as unique, and SaaS providers are basing their business on selling a single solution that is not.

SaaS Accelerator employs an unique project methodology that ensures a realistic, on-time and successful implementation for every participant.

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SaaS Accelerator – A software and consulting startup, is looking for Software Engineers to work on multiple customer engagements. The engineer we seek will have the ability to work with customers under a variety of circumstances, understand their issues, able to create/design solutions to their issues, and able to meet (or preferably exceed) their expectations.

Primary Responsibilities:

——> Participate in all aspects of the customer implementation cycle – including, but not limited to:
— gathering requirements
— analyzing customer\“s business and technical requirements
— designing a solution around those requirements
— implementing the appropriate solutions
——> Implement the software design using Java and other related web technologies
——> Tactical and strategic project task deliverables, with high levels of quality and customer satisfaction
——> Work with core development to ensure custom programming requests are reasonable and viable, and will not conflict with development of base product functionality
——> Integrate solutions with various 3rd party platforms
——> Investigate new and emerging technologies

Required Qualifications:

——> 2-5 years Software Engineering experience – Consulting/Professional Services experience is very advantageous
——> Proven experience with full software lifecycle; Fluent in Java [2+ years]
——> Experience with web design (CSS, JavaScript, xHTML, Cold Fusion, ASP, or LAMP)
——> Applied knowledge of internet protocols and techniques (XML, HTML, HTTP)
——> Experience with Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming
——> Strong oral, written and presentation skills
——> Strong organizational skills
——> Ability to assess customer needs and define solutions in a dynamic environment
——>Self-starter with strong problem solving skills
——> BS in Computer Science or related field

Bonus for:
——> eCommerce and SaaS experience
——> Ability to travel on a minimal basis (

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[full-time] Sr. Web Engineer - PHP (Big Tent - San Francisco) at Big Tent

2008-07-18 16:39:50

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

Description:

Sr. Web Engineer – PHP (Big Tent)

Big Tent (www.bigtent.com) provides a free, secure online platform that medium- and large-sized groups use to make themselves more effective. We help groups take care of membership, dues collection, communication, recommendations, and many other functions, freeing up group members and leaders to spend time doing what they care about most. We have hundreds of groups and thousands of members using our site every day – including neighborhood groups, PTAs, alumni associations, mother’s clubs, etc.

We recently closed a $5M round with Menlo Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures. We’re well on our way to building a great company as well as a powerful technology solution to share with community groups.

Big Tent is located in South Park/SOMA, San Francisco with a small team of passionate super-achievers, motivated by building a great business with a tangible impact on how real-world groups communicate and support each other every day.
Job Description

You will work on the database and application layers of our application as we continuously increase the functionality and scale of our application.

Requirements

* Expert knowledge of PHP, database design and implemention in MySQL, object-oriented programming, and XHTML * Experience scaling Web applications, including at least basic knowledge of LAMP stack installation and configuration * 4+ years of Web development experience with proven ability to deliver a polished product * BS/MS Computer Science degree strongly preferred * Energized by the opportunities and challenges of a start-up

Desirable

* Experience in administering systems or networks * Experience with CSS, JavaScript, and other Web front-end technologies

Interested? Send your resume to fadi@bigtent.com with the job title in the subject line, please.

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[full-time] Tester wanted at mark

2008-07-12 12:02:32

Location: Adjud
Description:

tester wanted asap

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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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