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Visual and interaction designer for digital music company

brianwhitman — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:58:59 -0800

The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company based in Somerville MA, USA (next to Boston, we're in Davis Square) is looking to add to our team of scientists, engineers, artists and music lovers. Our focus is on the best technology solutions to music information and synthesis: tools for music discovery and marketing, digital music creation and production. We're a two-year old startup, a small but intense company with consumer and partner products currently in alpha. We're looking for someone with an excellent visual sense to help us with web development and client application development. The job entails a mix of interaction design and visual design, using whatever tools you are comfortable with. Knowledge of web standards, CSS, XHTML, etc a plus, as is knowledge of motion tools such as Flash, Processing, OpenGL, Quartz Composer, etc. You will be working with web developers and application developers to make simple and gorgeous user experiences on top of our next generation music and audio technology. For this position please send along a CV and portfolio to jobs at echonest . This is full time in-office salaried position.

Senior PHP Developer

Freen — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:00:32 -0800

We are a small, well funded, rapidly growing company looking to hire good people who are good developers. We're looking for a good senior level php/mysql developer and project manager to help us build a high quality, extensible, and scalable codebase. Qualified candidates will have at least 3-4 years of industry experience managing web and interactive media development projects. Knowledge of PHP, PERL HTML, Javascript, MySQL, etc. are desired as is any general experience with a wide range of web development technologies and frameworks. Previous industry experience in Digital Media, Web Development/Design, or Interactive Media is ideal. Candidates must have a Bachelors Degree. The Senior Developer/Project Manager will be responsible for requirements gathering and analysis, managing the entire project life cycle, design, documentation, scheduling, and resource allocation. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and have the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. Applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. DUTIES: * Participates in a team of (initially) four to six programmers * Programs in PHP/MYSQL and some PERL to maintain existing systems such as CMS, Ad Server, Statistics reporting/logging systems, and client reporting tools. * Responds to new feature requests maintaining key systems in accordance with long-range software development roadmaps under strict revision control * Assists with maintenance of several large networks of GNU/Linux-based application, database, and development servers based on open-source software * Updates job knowledge by keeping abreast of industry developments, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and maintaining personal networks * Documents software and systems REQUIRED SKILLS: * PHP * Expertise in configuration and maintenance of MySQL * Perl * Expertise in configuration and maintenance of Apache web server * Significant Experience managing teams of developers. * Experience managing offsite development teams. * HTML/CSS (hand-coding in dynamic web programming applications only!) * XML * Experience with other scripting and programming languages (Bash, Python, C, etc.) a plus! * Proficiency in *NIX command line and with common *NIX tools * Usage of Subversion/CVS in a complex development environment * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Superior time management skills * Software development cycle fundamentals * Object-oriented design (OOD) experience * Software debugging

Web Software Developer - Yelp.com

Hackworth — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:13:36 -0800

Seeking Stellar Software Engineer Yelp is the ultimate urban city guide that taps into the community’s voice and reveals honest insights on local businesses and services from people just like you. The content found on Yelp comes from a vibrant community of real people who are as passionate about their neighborhood as they are about sharing their insights. Yelp is conveniently located 1 block from the Montgomery BART. As a member of our engineering team, you would be a crucial part of developing and deploying new site features for our community. We work in a tight-knit yet relaxed atmosphere, were you would have direct input on the development of our product. Experience: Candidates should have extensive knowledge of relevant technologies (Python, SQL, Unix). Requirements: * Top tier coder, serious Python skillz * Sense of humor * Good communication skills * BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience. If this sounds like you, please send a cover note (we'd like to hear what you think of Yelp, why you think you’re the right person for the job, etc.) and resume and please put the job title in the subject. Again, it wouldn’t hurt to see you on the site as well – the ideal candidate will be someone who really sees the fun and usefulness of Yelp – we are not looking to just fill a position! Not familiar with Yelp? See what Time, LATimes, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, PC Magazine, and BusinessWeek have to say about the company! : http://www.yelp.com/press Yelp is backed by Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Max Levchin

AJAX and User Interface wizard needed

twiggy — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:20:17 -0800

Note: This is volunteer work with revenue potential. You've heard this one before, but come to me for more details and I'll explain my idea to you and you may just agree with me that there's serious money to be made. I'm a programmer. I could do this stuff myself. However, I work a full time job, and I'm also not spectacular with making things pretty, graphically. I've put some time into developing the idea, but spent $0 because I have a mortgage to pay. I'm looking for someone else willing to dedicate some time to something that might just take off and be something amazing. What I need: A whiz-bang AJAX developer capable of making really great UI functionality that works in both IE and Mozilla. Safari would be great too. If you've seen things like iGoogle's drag and droppable components, NetVibes, etc, you know what I'm after. What the project is: See my MeFi profile for a glimpse. There's way more ideas behind it than just what's there, but that'll give you a general idea. In a nutshell, I want to give people the ability to tie all of their different internet presences into one place. Compensation: At the very worst, I could provide you with some perks such as space on my colocated webserver so you can host a site or two. It's a LAMP server and I'd be happy to install any fun toys (within reason) you want. At the very best, the idea is executed well, takes off, and a company is formed. You're hired on as lead interface developer. You're given a significant share of any ad revenue taken in by the site.

Senior System Administrator

Hackworth — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:49:40 -0800

Yelp is the ultimate urban city guide that taps into the community’s voice and reveals honest insights on local businesses and services from people just like you. The content found on Yelp comes from a vibrant community of real people who are as passionate about their neighborhood as they are about sharing their insights. We're looking for a Senior System Administrator who can support our fast growing website and internal systems. The ideal candidate is a natural leader who has touched all aspects of a large production environment and can scale along with the company. Responsibilities: * Configure system and network parameters. * Monitor system stability and performance. * Help develop tools to monitor and maintain systems. * Ensure 24x7 operation. * Rapidly scale systems to meet demand (add boxes!). * Occasional desktop support. Requirements: * Several years of Linux or UNIX system administration experience * Knowledge of Apache, firewalls, load balancers and MySQL * And a sense of humor! If this sounds like you, please send a cover note (we’d like to hear what you think of Yelp, why you think you’re the right person for the job, etc.) and resume. Again, it wouldn’t hurt to see you on the site as well – the ideal candidate will be someone who really sees the fun and usefulness of Yelp – we are not looking to just fill a position! Not familiar with Yelp? See what Time, LATimes, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, PC Magazine, and BusinessWeek have to say about the company! Yelp is backed by Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Max Levchin

Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer

Hackworth — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:17:32 -0800

Seeking Stellar Software Engineer Yelp is the ultimate urban city guide that taps into the community’s voice and reveals honest insights on local businesses and services from people just like you. The content found on Yelp comes from a vibrant community of real people who are as passionate about their neighborhood as they are about sharing their insights. Yelp is conveniently located 1 block from the Montgomery BART. Responsibilities: * Help design cutting-edge features for the local space * Write lightning fast code * Surprise consumers with your creative insights * Accept all the awards and accolades with modesty Experience: Candidates should have extensive knowledge of relevant technologies (Python, SQL, Unix). Requirements: * Top tier coder, serious Python skillz * Sense of humor * Good communication skills * BS in Computer Science or related field If this sounds like you, please send a cover note (we’d like to hear what you think of Yelp, why you think you’re the right person for the job, etc.) and resume and please put the job title in the subject (and mention that Tom sent you!). Again, it wouldn’t hurt to see you on the site as well – the ideal candidate will be someone who really sees the fun and usefulness of Yelp – we are not looking to just fill a position! Not familiar with Yelp? See what Time, LATimes, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, PC Magazine, and BusinessWeek have to say about the company! Yelp is backed by Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Max Levchin

J2EE Developer

Icky — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:22:09 -0800

Speranza Systems (http://www.speranzasystems.com) is looking for J2EE web application developers to help us build the Speranza Command Center. The Speranza Command Center is an application targeted at helping corporate treasury departments manage their relationships with internal corporate structures and the bank accounts owned by those entities. We're building an application that focuses on standardizing processes and provides a secure and auditable record of account related activities. Looking for Java developers with 3-5 years of experience in building J2EE applications. Other nice-to-have skills include: Ruby, Document generation (FOP, iText, etc.) BPM/Workflow development, UI design. We're a funded startup located in Portland, Maine.

Web Startup Jack-of-All-Trades (Design, Develop, and Business Dev)

heresiarch — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:04:45 -0800

Thinkature is a Cambridge, MA based startup developing innovative visual collaboration products. We launched our first version last week, and have had a great response so far. We're really serious about good usability, good design, and good code. This is an intense experience, so it's also really important that candidates be in the Boston area. We're currently a two person operation, so we're looking for someone who wants to get involved at the start of something we believe will be really great. This is an almost-founder like position, so it's critical that you're really excited about web applications, collaboration, and being involved in decisions about every aspect of a young company. Here are some of the kinds of jobs we hope you could do:

Do web design. (the usuals - HTML/CSS)
Hack on the client-side (we use Javascript in ways rarely seen on the web)
Enhance server-side functionality (our custom HTTP server is written in Python)
Test like a fiend on a variety of browser platforms (our current release supports all the major browsers)
Engage in high level design discussions about the direction of the product
Engage in low level design discussions about details of specific features
Develop relationships with potential future user groups
Run pilot deployments with specific user groups
Maintain community relations (writing on our blog, reading/commenting on others, plus staying involved in our forum and on our wiki)
Help us manage money and other administrative tasks

We're not expecting candidates to demonstrate experience in all of these areas, but the more of them you can demonstrate experience in, or reasons why you might be good at them, the better. More than anything else, though, we want to hire a smart, passionate, and flexible person. If you're interested, please get in touch with me and we can start a dialog. Feel free to include whatever supporting materials you think are appropriate for convincing us that you'd be a good fit.

Senior web developer (see inside for flash dev., windows dev. and QA)

Dataphage — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:13:56 -0800

We are a San Francisco startup, with several regular MeFi readers. We need very good developers that would enjoy working in a startup. I personally work in the web team, and need a web developer and/or a flash developer, there are other jobs available at http://www.slide.com/static/jobs. The following is copy-pasted from the above URL.

WEB DEV: Slide is seeking an individual who is passionate about engineering and wants to push the limits of what is possible on the web.Responsibilities:You will be responsible developing our website front-end using CSS, HTML and JavaScript and knows when and why to use tables. Knowledge of when an XMLHTTPRequest is useful, and when it is just cool. Experience to hand tune markup for efficient rendering.

Requirements:

B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
3+ years of solid software development experience
Expertise in Flash Development / JavaScript / HTML / CSS
Extensive web design experience
Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle.
Strong analytical skills and ability to assist other team members in problem solving.
Excellent knowledge of Internet/Web technologies, such as browsers, firewalls, and http.