Wanted: One Bomb-ass, Rockstar Developer
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Email me at: shantibraford @ gmail if you have any insight into getting these guys a pimp-ass developer.
I have heard incredible things about this company through word of mouth.
If you know friends interested in exploring new job opportunities, remember that with the US economy taking a nosedive, the companies that will truly persist will be the ones that innovate.
Rapleaf Highlights:
-Now have a database of over 130 million people, growing at 800k/day
-In the past couple of months we’ve hired a VP of Business Development and 3 engineers
-Looking for a product manager, systems engineer, and more software engineers.
-Unveiled our business website: http://business.rapleaf.com
At 14 people currently onboard, we’re lean, mean, and we’re looking for #15, #16, etc. to join this amazing team. To apply or for more info, check out the job description below or go to:
http://blog.rapleaf.com/jobs
p.s. – We offer a $10,007 referral award for any person you refer that we end up hiring.
Amazing Software Engineer (Employee #15)
Rapleaf (www.rapleaf.com) is a well-funded San Francisco startup. We gather publicly available information from the social web on hundreds of millions of people. Rapleaf has built the largest portable social graph is the world. We’re building the platform for thousands of applications.
Rapleaf’s B2B arm provides deep insight on people. Clients include 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.
We’re looking for people that have the talent and passion to fill the dream of a portable identity and reputation. We want people that are tired of all these little apps that are just features and want to work on something that is going to change the world. If you’re one of these people, we want to meet you.
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 that you kick ass. We’re doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.
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.
Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)
Perks:
- Good salary/stock compensation.
- 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/)
shantibraford@gmail if you have any insight
