Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.playhaven.com
Who We Are:
PlayHaven is a small, fast-moving group of engineers fortunate enough to have landed on a product that is gaining traction quickly. We're smart, experienced, ambitious, videogame-loving entrepreneurs, and we sometimes spend an unhealthy amount of time analyzing various TV shows.
We are backed by some of the best investors on both the East and West coasts.
What We Do:
We are disrupting the mobile advertising / discovery space by providing app developers a set of tools to effectively promote their apps for free. For the developers, our product is in a unique position to help app developers promote their apps without needing an up-front advertising budget. For the users, we provide them an effective way to discover the next app they would love.
Why You Want to Work at PlayHaven:
We're looking for a multi-talented senior engineer and a chief software archtiect. If you join us now, you'll be in a position to deal with a wide set of current technologies. Here's some of what we're working with:
- Nginx/Tornado/Python
- MongoDB
- iPhone/iPad Development (Objective-C)
- Webkit-facing HTML5/CSS/AJAX
- Apache/MySQL/PHP
- Amazon Web Services
- Rapidly changing requirements, evolving product, demanding customers
Even if you are inexperienced with several of these, you should be able to talk about each one and how it compares to things you are familiar with.
A Good Candidate:
- SQL: Modeling, Optimizing, Joins, Constraints, Indexes
- MVC: ORM, Templating
- NOSQL
- Caching
- Web: HTML5, CSS, AJAX
- Systems: Ubuntu/GNU, Mac, Basic Administration
- Languages: Python, PHP, Objective-C
- Styles: Object-Oriented, Functional, Declarative, DSL
- Topics: Security, Concurrency, Optimization, Memory Management, Systems Architecture
- Work-style: Startup hours, Startup experience, Scary fast learner
You should know most everything here inside and out.
A Great Candidate:
- Advanced System Admin
- Strong UI/UX Aesthetic: Portfolio, and chops to implement your designs
- Languages: Ruby, C#/.NET
- Consumer web/mobile startup experience
To apply: Send your cover letter and resume to: ray [at] playhaven [dot] com Tell us a little bit about yourself: What do you like? What do you want to do? Links to any personal / open source projects.
Source: 37 Signals Jobs