Unvarnished is changing the way professional reputation works on the web.
Imagine LinkedIn and Yelp's offspring, and you have an idea of what we're up to: a professional review site to ensure that professional excellence is properly recognized, honest, candid feedback is surfaced where needed, and there is market incentive for improvement. Sounds pretty exciting and maybe a little scary, right?
**We're looking for some reputation software wranglers**
Who:
Do-it-all, familiar with front-to-back, web-native software engineer who loves to get their hands dirty. Ready to engineer the future of professional reputation on the web.
Required skills:
* Sharp: As a tack. Were big fans of people with lots of raw horsepower who can figure it out, even if they didnt already know it.
* Driven: Prefer to get things done, as opposed to talk about how maybe we should think about starting to consider getting something done.
* Startuppy: Excited about working on a small team where theres no such thing as not my job. (You will be the 3rd, 4th, or 5th engineer on our team)
* Languages: Familiarity with both compiled (Java / C++) and scripting (PHP, Python, Ruby), and even JS / CSS / XHTML .
Extra Credit:
* SOA FTW: Experience working within service oriented architectures. And even architecting them.
* Algos, algos, algos: Interest in algorithms and beautiful code.
* Need for speed: Familiarity / hacked around with high availability caching.
* Big ol data: Map reduce tools (Hadoop) and distributed storage (cassandra, etc.)
* Lemme draw you a graph: Edges, nodes, ranks, proximities and weights are your friends.
* In the clouds: Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, virtual machines, and so on.
Company FAQ:
*Who: Small team of eBay, LinkedIn, VMware, and Yahoo folks.
*What: The future of professional reputation
*Where: Offices in San Mateo
*When: ASAP
*Why: You want to change the way an incredibly important part of human culture comes into the post-network world.![]()
Imagine LinkedIn and Yelp's offspring, and you have an idea of what we're up to: a professional review site to ensure that professional excellence is properly recognized, honest, candid feedback is surfaced where needed, and there is market incentive for improvement. Sounds pretty exciting and maybe a little scary, right?
**We're looking for some reputation software wranglers**
Who:
Do-it-all, familiar with front-to-back, web-native software engineer who loves to get their hands dirty. Ready to engineer the future of professional reputation on the web.
Required skills:
* Sharp: As a tack. Were big fans of people with lots of raw horsepower who can figure it out, even if they didnt already know it.
* Driven: Prefer to get things done, as opposed to talk about how maybe we should think about starting to consider getting something done.
* Startuppy: Excited about working on a small team where theres no such thing as not my job. (You will be the 3rd, 4th, or 5th engineer on our team)
* Languages: Familiarity with both compiled (Java / C++) and scripting (PHP, Python, Ruby), and even JS / CSS / XHTML .
Extra Credit:
* SOA FTW: Experience working within service oriented architectures. And even architecting them.
* Algos, algos, algos: Interest in algorithms and beautiful code.
* Need for speed: Familiarity / hacked around with high availability caching.
* Big ol data: Map reduce tools (Hadoop) and distributed storage (cassandra, etc.)
* Lemme draw you a graph: Edges, nodes, ranks, proximities and weights are your friends.
* In the clouds: Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, virtual machines, and so on.
Company FAQ:
*Who: Small team of eBay, LinkedIn, VMware, and Yahoo folks.
*What: The future of professional reputation
*Where: Offices in San Mateo
*When: ASAP
*Why: You want to change the way an incredibly important part of human culture comes into the post-network world.
Source: Joel On Software