Location: Palo Alto, CA
URL: http://bit.ly/crave-tf
* Crave is an early stage startup founded by two EA alums with expertise in commerce, games, and the social web. The company is seed funded by top angels in Silicon Valley including Max Levchin, Russ Siegelmen, Jeff Clavier, and Dave McClure.
* Our mission is to make the real-life game of collecting more fun. We are developing a social commerce site where fans can share, discover, and buy/sell anything collectable.
* We are hiring team members who want to get in on the ground floor and help create the best site&community for passionate fans of everything from Transformers to Barbie to comics.
About Opportunity:
* We are looking for a software developer who has substantial experience developing web applications and interest in joining a business and product at its initial stage.
Responsibilities
* Lead: Own significant portions of the product with increasing leadership as the business scales
* Engineer: Develop every aspect of the product across the full stack from database to UI
* Agile: Work within and help run an agile production process that focuses on the customer first
* Scale: Build or enhance the product to scale with the business as we go from one user to millions
Technology
* Web: Ruby on Rails, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), JSON, HTML5, AJAX
* Data: MongoDB, MySQL
* Cache: memcached, Redis
* Server: Linux, nginx
* Source Control: Git, GitHub
* Other: Python, Scala, Erlang
* Social Platform: Facebook, Google, Twitter
About You:
* Productive: Take pride in your throughput and attention to detail
* Team Player: Enjoy working with other talented people who have good ideas, and share yours
* Local: Live in or around the SF Bay Area and able to commute to Palo Alto
* Focused: Know what its like to work for a startup, and ready to make this startup a big part of your life
* Skilled: Use the tools, technology and process listed above. If you havent you
* Are fired up to do so
* Are probably hacking with one or more of them on your own time
* Would love to get paid to do so
* Curious: Up to speed with the latest technology and a self learner
* Pragmatic: Know how important it is to design, build, and deploy things simply
* Exact: Have a penchant for test-driven development
* Fun: Can name your favorite childhood cartoon and likely have several of the action figures or dolls
To apply: Apply Here: http://www.applytracking.com/x.aspx?track=2aNq0Lh7wH4%2bdxNsiNNbWAia2DEpNxnvoFBT2OqwfHqpXKF3dfNR9bLrjgVbp0qNRIAhSoqlB0fCetsYHKQhwsA5tCkVHNg%2f
Source: 37 Signals Jobs
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