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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[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] 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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[freelance] upgrading site at fayez

2008-05-08 22:10:03

Location: Saudi Arbia
URL: http://www.tatwair.com

Description:

we have website need to be upgraded

we need PHP, Ajax and Java script programer

email us

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[full-time] Amazing Software Engineer (Employee #15) at Vivek Sodera

2008-04-23 19:28:15

Location: San Franciso, CA
URL: http://www.rapleaf.com

Description:

Amazing Software Engineer (Employee #15)

Rapleaf (www.rapleaf.com) is a well-funded San Francisco startup (we currently have 14 people on the team). We index publicly available information from the social web on hundreds of millions of people and build products and analytics on top of this data. We built the largest portable social graph is the world and we’re building the platform to develop a myriad of applications.

Rapleaf’s B2B arm provides deep insight on consumers for businesses. Business customers include retailers, airlines, hotel chains, social networks, lead generation firms, telcos, political campaigns, and more; these clients learn about their existing consumer base in order to provide them a better consumer experience.

We’re looking for people that have the talent and passion to fill the dream of a portable identity and reputation. We want people who want to work on incredibly complex problems, coming up with the solutions that will change the world. If you’re one of these people, we want to meet you. Please contact us at: jobs@rapleaf.com

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.

Qualifications: – One of the best computer science/software engineers within your peer group. – Gifted critical thinker who can learn new languages and platforms really extremely fast – we use Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Java – Intensely driven, proactive, and hard working – Thrives on working with extremely talented and gifted people that you can learn from and who can learn from you – Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job. – Embraces the chaos, risk, and uncertainty that comes with working at a startup. – 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. – Will consider most levels of experience (2-20+ years experience).

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/) – Collegiate, fast-paced atmosphere and environment

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

If interested, please email jobs@rapleaf.com or go to blog.rapleaf.com/jobs. If you know someone who may be interested, we also offer a $10,007 referral award (refer someone —> they get hired —> we send you a check).

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[full-time] Ruby on Rails Coder at Ruby on Rails Coder

2008-04-07 16:49:46

Location: San Bruno, CA
URL: http://www.allvoices.com

Description:

Allvoices is a global community around news, events and people.

We’re a VC funded startup with a small team whose mission is to bring diversity of reporting and opinion to everyone.

Our goal is to create a global community that shares news, videos, images and opinions tied to events and people that have impact.

We’re looking for an experienced Rails developer to join the core development team, and make a major contribution to our developing service

Qualifications:

3+ years experience in software development with a track record of delivering
have developed high availability, reliable systems in a 24×7 context
first class team spirit
can effectively multi-task competing priorities
self starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills

stand behind your code and won’t hesitate to provide production support

Technical skills:

1+ year Ruby on Rails, or an appetite to learn it, backed with expert level java/c++ or other OO language
HTML, CSS, JSON, and Javascript
Hands on experience with Ajax
Experience with MySQL

Familiar with the Apache / Mongrel / Linux stack

Send replies to: rails@allvoices.com

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[full-time] Hot Startup - Lead Java Engineer at Riviera Partners

2008-04-03 23:27:18

Location: Palo Alto, CA
URL: http://www.rivierapartners.com

Description:

Come change the way people think about music…
My client is about to change the way music fans discover, listen and buy music. They’re a talented team of engineers; the founders include successful serial entrepreneurs and they’re backed by the most prestigious technology investors. They believe the music industry is about to change and need your help to make it happen. You love music. You love technology. You’re talented, self-motivated and enthusiastic. Come and join the right team, hard at work to change the world of music and media.

Responsibilities
We’re looking for someone who can design, architect and implement the site’s e-Commerce infrastructure. This includes (and is not limited to): Our interaction with various payment systems (e.g. Cybersource, Paypal, etc) Our interaction with vendors for submitting and checking the status of customer’s orders (e.g. from ftp to web services) Support for our customer facing shopping cart infrastructure and billing history Reporting & accounting tools Overtime, we are expecting the successful candidate to mentor more junior engineers in order to grow the e-commerce features of the site well beyond where they stand today.

Requirements
The candidate has at least 7 years worth of experience working with Java, in particular with JDBC and networking protocols (from FTP, HTTP all the way up to SOAP). In addition he has proven expertise dealing with a SQL database at large scale (MySQL preferred) including understanding and knowledge of transaction log based replication.

This position will require coding the stack of software from JDBC all the way up to the Ajax calls as specified by our web development team. Know how in optimizing that stack from Tomcat all the way down to MySQL indices is a requirement.

Experience with client side technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) a plus.
Passion for music appreciated.

Send replies to: vince@rivierapartners.com

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[full-time] Java Developer/Architect at Remington

2008-04-03 23:24:07

Location: San Jose, CA
URL: http://www.remingtoni.com

Description:

A Redwood City based startup is seeking a skilled Senior Java Developer/Architect. They are looking for someone to work on their software that allows organizations to harness the untapped power of existing computers so that everyone can access computing affordably. The position is 100% hands-on in a Java environment, working with web services. Must have anywhere from 5-10 years of experience, and back end experience as well. The position is for growth, and they are looking to expand their company rapidly in the next 2 years

Send replies to: alicia@remingtoni.com

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[full-time] Senior Web Developer at The Talent Factor

2008-04-03 18:39:42

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

Description:

Overview:
Start-up needs a high-energy, web developer who loves gaming!

Required Skills and Experience:
• Experience building scalable web applications and PHP, MySQL, and Apache
• Strong knowledge with UNIX environments and setting up web services
• Excellent communication skills technical and non-technical team members

Preference for:
• Experience with Subversion, XHTML/CSS, and JavaScript are a plus
• A strong passion for games. Hardcore gaming experience definitely a plus!

Benefits:

Many – unique and standard

Send replies to: resumes@thetalentfactor.net

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