Web / Server Engineer (Xoopit)
Xoopit (www.xoopit.com), located in San Francisco, brings the best of social networking features to email. We are a small, tight team dedicated to taking a tool billions of people use everyday and making it infinitely better. Email is one of the web's killer apps and it's due for a serious makeover. Now's your chance to get in on the ground floor and work with a highly passionate and committed team.
The Job
You will design and build core features and services across Xoopit's entire product line. You will roam across the entire technology stack and run with features from conception to deployment and operation. Your code will be elegant and scalable. You'll work with the rest of the team in a super charged and highly fun environment.
The Qualifications
- Most importantly, you are an amazing programmer. This is way more important than how many years of experience you have. If you are the coding envy of your peers, we want to talk to you.
- Extensive server-side coding experience (Python, Java, C++, or C). We use Java.
- Performance, Scalability, and Security are at the front of your mind. Always. For that matter you know how to build distributed systems as well.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- You like working with others, and others like working with you.
- Pluses: SQL, Lucene, web crawling, RSS.
We're looking for passionate teammates who love tackling new frontiers and want in on the ground floor. As a part of our early team, you will be involved in all aspects of the company including research, design, development, and strategy and will have opportunities for significant stock equity ownership.
Interested? Send your resume to fadi@xoopit.com with the job title in the subject line, please.
Web / AJAX Engineer (Xoopit)
Xoopit (www.xoopit.com), located in San Francisco, brings the best of social networking features to email. We are a small, tight team dedicated to taking a tool billions of people use everyday and making it infinitely better. Email is one of the web's killer apps and it's due for a serious makeover. Now's your chance to get in on the ground floor and work with a highly passionate and committed team..
The Job
Your role is to be an AJAX and all around javascript monster. You love going from mockup to implemented features in record time. You make sure things look good. You make things go fast. On top of that, your code is elegant and the envy of all your server side peers. On the design side, you are expected to work closely with a great UI designer to ensure the best possible user experience. Lastly, you will get to work with an inspiring team and have a lot of fun!
The Qualifications
- Most importantly, you are an amazing programmer. This is way more important than how many years of experience you have. If you are the coding envy of your peers, we want to talk to you.
- AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML required. Fluent in HTML/CSS. Java a plus.
- You know how to interact with backend systems engineers.
- You know how to iterate. You love working with awesome UI designers.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- You really love to build end-user applications.
- User Experience. User Experience. User Experience!
We're looking for passionate teammates who love tackling new frontiers and want in on the ground floor. As a part of our early team, you will be involved in all aspects of the company including research, design, development, and strategy and will have opportunities for significant stock equity ownership.
Interested? Send your resume to fadi@xoopit.com with the job title in the subject line, please.
Application Platform Developer (Bebo)
Bebo (www.bebo.com), located in San Francisco, has over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly; it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.
Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.
At Bebo you will:
- Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative, game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression, and providing the full experience of media entertainment on the web;
- Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA, and great perks (see below);
- Dive right into best practices of product, scaling, community, and the business sides of building a great web app.
We are seeking a brilliant engineer for the Application Platform team. All members of this team will have a significant role in shaping the technical direction of next generation web apps and will help 3rd-party developers make Bebo apps great for millions of users.
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering experience using Java, preferably to 1.5 or higher
- Experience with OOD, OOP, DHTML, AJAX, Oracle, Resin, Memcache, MVC, Freemarker, TDD, and XP all advantageous
- Experience writing grammars and parsers, generating and manipulating XML, JSON, etc a plus
- Experience designing and building APIs, Rest services, Web Services or tools very desirable
- Team player, excellent communication skills, enthusiasm for agile development necessary
- Knowledge of the F8 platform a major plus
- Knowledge of OpenSocial a plus
In return we pay you a highly competitive salary and present you with:
- A wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs;
- A Matching 401K plan;
- All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy;
- On-site massage;
- Choice of a new MacBook Pro or IBM ThinkPad with huge (20” or 30”) LCD screen;
- Fun toys, games, parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy (disclaimer – some may consider Tequila or Beer as a non-healthy sport ;))
- Respect and appreciation to who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your skin color, age, nationality, sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, bank account, waist or chest size, hair style, etc..
Interested? Send your resume to fadi@bebo.com with the job title in the subject line, please.
Sr. Linux Sys Admin/Ops Eng (Bebo)
Bebo (www.bebo.com), located in San Francisco, has over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly; it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.
Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.
We are seeking a Senior Linux System Administrator to help us keep a healthy performance while scaling to meet our rapid growth.
At Bebo you will:
- Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative, game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression, and providing the full experience of media entertainment on the web;
- Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA, and great perks (see below);
- Dive right into best practices of product, scaling, community, and the business sides of building a great web app.
Some of your responsibilities will be to:
- Find bugs in code while working with agile product development engineers with frequent release cycles;
- Build tools and automated tests to optimize product development efforts;
- Build and maintain full production process and documentation for all hardware and software changes;
- Develop and maintain security best practices;
- Develop tools and automation scripts for all routine tasks.
To qualify for this role you need:
- 5 years of Linux system administration experience in a large scale 24/7 web environments;
- Solid understanding of SMTP, HTTP, DNS and other internet protocols;
- Skill in developing automated scripts using Perl or other scripting language;
- Strong understanding of network security principles;
- Experience working with x86 hardware in a large installed base of servers;
- Working knowledge of C as it applies to patching applications and Linux kernel;
- Linux performance tuning experience;
- Working knowledge of Debian packaging tools such as apt, dpkg and debhelper;
- Cisco networking experience including PIX firewalls, CSS load balancers, and BGP routing;
- Experience developing in Java or supporting Java applications;
- Experience with Fiber channel SANs, specifically Hitachi and AMS line;
- Oracle database adminstration experience.
In return we pay you a highly competitive salary and present you with:
- A wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs;
- A Matching 401K plan;
- All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy;
- On-site massage;
- Choice of a new MacBook Pro or IBM ThinkPad with huge (20” or 30”) LCD screen;
- Fun toys, games, parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy (disclaimer – some may consider Tequila or Beer as a non-healthy sport ;))
- Respect and appreciation to who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your skin color, age, nationality, sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, bank account, waist or chest size, hair style, etc..
Interested? Send your resume to fadi@bebo.com with the job title in subject line, please.
Flash Engineer (Bebo)
Bebo (www.bebo.com), located in San Francisco, has over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly; it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.
Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.
At Bebo you will:
- Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative, game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression, and providing the full experience of media entertainment on the web;
- Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA, and great perks (see below);
- Dive right into best practices of product, scaling, community, and the business sides of building a great web app.
We are seeking a Badass Flash Programmer who wants to use cutting-edge Flash, Javascript, and smart product decisions to make the most entertaining, user-friendly, and open media experiences on the web. When not coding Flash, and 'til we get the next great idea, you will be hacking Java code to create a seamless and delightful experience for our global community.
To qualify for this role you need:
- Strong Flash programming (ActionScript 2 and 3) experience with some design skills
- Good communication and customer facing skills
- Computer Science degree
- Solid OO programming background
- Solid knowledge of the data access layers
- Web development experience
- Interest in media and music
- JAVA experience
Most of our engineers have:
- A degree (BS/BA/MS) in Computer Science or a related field
- 3+ years experience developing and shipping products
- Hobbies like DJ'ing, flying, filmmaking, biking.and skydiving
In return we pay you a highly competitive salary and present you with:
- A wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs;
- A Matching 401K plan;
- All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy;
- On-site massage;
- Choice of a new MacBook Pro or IBM ThinkPad with huge (20” or 30”) LCD screen;
- Fun toys, games, parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy (disclaimer – some may consider Tequila or Beer as a non-healthy sport ;))
- Respect and appreciation to who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your skin color, age, nationality, sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, bank account, waist or chest size, hair style, etc..
Interested? Send your resume to fadi@bebo.com with the job title in the subject line, please.
Software Engineer (Bebo)
Bebo (www.bebo.com), located in San Francisco, has over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly; it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.
Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.
At Bebo you will:
- Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative, game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression, and providing the full experience of media entertainment on the web;
- Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA, and great perks (see below);
- Dive right into best practices of product, scaling, community, and the business sides of building a great web app.
We're seeking engineers to expand our small, close-knit team. We're passionate about building fresh and useful web applications for ourselves and the millions of friends on bebo.com.
To qualify for this role you need to:
- Be passionate about making great products;
- Be experienced in all parts of web development, including
- Storing and querying large tables in a database (We use oracle),
- Building web pages with readable code (We use java),
- Writing clean html/css/javascript (We try to keep it simple);
- Be great at two of the following
- Scaling applications,
- Figuring out great product experiences/UI,
- Working with bizdev/sales/partners to make plans into reality.
Most of our engineers have:
- A degree (BS/BA/MS) in Computer Science or a related field
- 3+ years experience with mysql/oracle, java/php, html/css/javascript
- Hobbies like DJ'ing, flying, filmmaking, biking.and skydiving
In return we pay you a highly competitive salary and present you with:
- A wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs;
- A Matching 401K plan;
- All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy;
- On-site massage;
- Choice of a new MacBook Pro or IBM ThinkPad with huge (20” or 30”) LCD screen;
- Fun toys, games, parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy (disclaimer – some may consider Tequila or Beer as a non-healthy sport ;))
- Respect and appreciation to who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your skin color, age, nationality, sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, bank account, waist or chest size, hair style, etc..
Interested? Send your resume to fadi@bebo.com with the job title in the subject line, please.
Open Media Developer (Bebo)
Bebo (www.bebo.com), located in San Francisco, has over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly; it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.
Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.
At Bebo you will:
- Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative, game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression, and providing the full experience of media entertainment on the web;
- Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA, and great perks (see below);
- Dive right into best practices of product, scaling, community, and the business sides of building a great web app.
We're seeking engineers to expand our small, close-knit team. We're passionate about building fresh and useful web applications for ourselves and the millions of friends on bebo.com.
To qualify for this role you need:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- 2+ years of web development experience, including solid OO programming background and knowledge of data access layers
- Good communication and customer facing skills
- Interest in media and music
- Experience with JAVA and .JSP is highly desired.
In return we pay you a highly competitive salary and present you with:
- A wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs;
- A Matching 401K plan;
- All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy;
- On-site massage;
- Choice of a new MacBook Pro or IBM ThinkPad with huge (20” or 30”) LCD screen;
- Fun toys, games, parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy (disclaimer – some may consider Tequila or Beer as a non-healthy sport ;))
- Respect and appreciation to who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your skin color, age, nationality, sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, bank account, waist or chest size, hair style, etc..
Interested? Send your resume to fadi@bebo.com with the job title in the subject line, please.
International Team Engineer (Bebo)
Bebo (www.bebo.com), located in San Francisco, has over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly; it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.
Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.
At Bebo you will:
- Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative, game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression, and providing the full experience of media entertainment on the web;
- Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA, and great perks (see below);
- Dive right into best practices of product, scaling, community, and the business sides of building a great web app.
We're seeking a talented engineer to expand our small, close-knit Bebo Internationalization Engineering team. Jump in and learn how to build and design viral websites throughout Europe. We're passionate about building fresh and useful web applications for ourselves and the millions of friends on bebo.com.
To qualify for this role you need:
- Java programming skills
- UNIX apps development skills
- Experience setting up web servers
- Experience editing and configuring LINUX boxes
- Debugging skills
- Some shell scripting
- I18n experience
Desirable
- Experience working with Resin app server
- Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- Experience with viral marketing or foreign language skills
In return we pay you a highly competitive salary and present you with:
- A wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs;
- A Matching 401K plan;
- All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy;
- On-site massage;
- Choice of a new MacBook Pro or IBM ThinkPad with huge (20” or 30”) LCD screen;
- Fun toys, games, parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy (disclaimer – some may consider Tequila or Beer as a non-healthy sport ;))
- Respect and appreciation to who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your skin color, age, nationality, sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, bank account, waist or chest size, hair style, etc..
Interested? Send your resume to fadi@bebo.com with the job title in the subject line, please.
Senior Software Engineer - Test Automation (Bebo)
Bebo (www.bebo.com), located in San Francisco, has over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly; it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.
Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.
At Bebo you will:
- Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative, game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression, and providing the full experience of media entertainment on the web;
- Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA, and great perks (see below);
- Dive right into best practices of product, scaling, community, and the business sides of building a great web app.
To qualify for this role you need:
- Java programming skills
- JUnit test development experience
- Experience with OOD, OOP, Oracle, Memcache, MVC, Freemarker, TDD
- Web development experience
- Team player, excellent communication skills, high motivation, & enthusiasm for agile development
Desirable
- Groovy/Grails/Webtest development experience
- Load and performance testing experience
In return we pay you a highly competitive salary and present you with:
- A wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs;
- A Matching 401K plan;
- All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy;
- On-site massage;
- Choice of a new MacBook Pro or IBM ThinkPad with huge (20” or 30”) LCD screen;
- Fun toys, games, parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy (disclaimer – some may consider Tequila or Beer as a non-healthy sport ;))
- Respect and appreciation to who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your skin color, age, nationality, sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, bank account, waist or chest size, hair style, etc..
Interested? Send your resume to jobs@bebo.com with the job title in the subject line, please.
Web Engineer--Open Source Crawlers (MerchantCircle)
Are you enthusiastic about Open Source technology?
Do you keep apache.org bookmarked, or even better, subscribe to its RSS feed?
Are you experienced with web crawlers (or spiders, aggregators, bots, fetchers, whatever you like to call them)?
If so, MerchantCircle has an opportunity for you. We're looking for a web engineer to use these resources for the benefit of small businesses.
MerchantCircle (www.MerchantCircle.com), referred to as the "Myspace for Businesses" by BusinessWeek, is the fastest growing and largest online network of small business owners in the country. Based out of Los Altos and privately-funded, MerchantCircle is dedicated to helping local businesses get more customers quickly, easily, and cost effectively. Earlier this year, MerchantCircle was named one of the Top 100 Private Companies and Newcomer of the Year by AlwaysOn Media. MerchantCircle is expanding its dedicated and fun-loving team to keep up with the significant customer growth experienced since launching in June of 2006.
Requirements
- Experience developing or customizing and implementing web crawlers; familiarity with Nutch or Heritrix specifically is highly desired.
- Experience with large data set web services
- Experience implementing web applications in Python/Ruby/Perl
- Front-end skills: HTML/CSS/Javascript/Ajax
- Database and database programming
Desirable
- Experience designing and developing web application features in Python (our main implementation language)
- Experience with the Hadoop framework
- Mac OS X experience (our developers are on Macs)
- Experience with Apache Lucene
- Experience with production servers for a high-traffic website
- Linux systems administration (Ubuntu/Debian)
- Experience with database replication (Postgres/Slony)
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related discipline
Interested? Send your resume to merchantcircle@techventure.com with the job title in subject line, please.
PostgreSQL DBA (Blurb)
Blurb (www.blurb.com) is an early-stage startup, located in downtown San Francisco. We have developed a very easy to use web-based platform to simplify the book publishing process and make it accessible to consumers and professionals. We are well funded with growing revenue and have a great team drawn from companies such as Apple, Intuit, Kodak, Sony, CNET, Lonely Planet and Microsoft.
Are you a problem-solver, a great communicator and a “people person” who enjoys helping others? Do you love all things digital, photographic and technical? Are you looking for an opportunity to get involved with a cutting-edge start-up in San Francisco’s financial district? Are you looking for a challenging, rewarding job with great opportunity for career growth? If the answers to the above are yes, then the DBA position at Blurb may be the role for you.
Responsibilities
The role reports to the CTO and is responsible for the following
- Design, optimize, and support all Blurb databases
- Configure, tune, test, and maintain production databases for all Blurb mission critical system
- Drive the design and implementation of a data warehouse project to provide mission critical business analytics for all Blurb departments
- Provide support and advice for developers writing applications on the Ruby On Rails platform for best practices for schema design, index
- Work with the systems management and executive team on our overall data storage and aging policies
Characteristics
Required...
- Experience with the design and support of large, high-volume production databases
- Expert understanding of PostgreSQL, including experience with or good understanding of clustering and database replication scenarios
- In depth knowledge of database design, including logical and physical design, as well as SQL
- Experience with design and support of a Data Warehouse, including design and support of ETL processes
- Strong Linux administration skills, as well as knowledge of systems security and data security
- Analytical skills – comfort with tools/processes involved in data-driven decision-making
- Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environment – self-starting, ambitious and flexible
Preferred...
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS or equivalent
- Experience in writing database driven web applications using Ruby on Rails
- Previous experience at an early stage start-up
Recent Press
- Please check out our press page to read about Blurb in the news.
Interested? Send your resume to careers@blurb.com with the subject heading “DBA.”
Senior Software Engineer - PHP (Moka5)
Moka5 (www.moka5.com) provides innovative technology optimized to best deliver and manage virtual desktops as a service. With moka5 Virtual Desktop Technology, IT administrators can more easily create, deploy, and manage virtual desktops while improving security and giving users the freedom to work anywhere. Founded in 2005 by a team of Stanford University researchers in virtualization technology, moka5 is an innovator and thought leader in desktop virtualization and managed services. The company is based in Redwood City, Calif. and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
Characteristics of the competitive candidate
- 7+ years of experience in software development
- Strong in both server side and client side development
- Superb coding skills in PHP is essential for this role
- Solid experience in LAMP stack in web server environment
- Experience with XML document management and XSLT document transformations from PHP
- Strong self starter with track record of accomplishment
Moka5 is a company that is well funded, has experienced leadership, and is in a very fast growing market (virtualization). We offer a significant technical and professional challenge to individuals wanting to truly make a difference.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Senior Software Engineer - C++, systems (Moka5)
Moka5 (www.moka5.com) provides innovative technology optimized to best deliver and manage virtual desktops as a service. With moka5 Virtual Desktop Technology, IT administrators can more easily create, deploy, and manage virtual desktops while improving security and giving users the freedom to work anywhere. Founded in 2005 by a team of Stanford University researchers in virtualization technology, moka5 is an innovator and thought leader in desktop virtualization and managed services. The company is based in Redwood City, Calif. and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
Characteristics of the competitive candidate
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- Extensive experience working with C/C++ and windows API
- Background in file systems, storage, and network devices
- Experience with systems utilities such as real-time backup, desktop firewalls, anti-virus
Desirable
- Background in Systems Performance/ Reverse engineering
- Previous experience working for a startup
Moka5 is a company that is well funded, has experienced leadership, and is in a very fast growing market (virtualization). We offer a significant technical and professional challenge to individuals wanting to truly make a difference.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Application UI Engineer (Moka5)
Moka5 (www.moka5.com) provides innovative technology optimized to best deliver and manage virtual desktops as a service. With moka5 Virtual Desktop Technology, IT administrators can more easily create, deploy, and manage virtual desktops while improving security and giving users the freedom to work anywhere. Founded in 2005 by a team of Stanford University researchers in virtualization technology, moka5 is an innovator and thought leader in desktop virtualization and managed services. The company is based in Redwood City, Calif. and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
We are looking for an experienced software engineer who understands the subtleties of developing an application with a great user experience. We need someone who has developed user interfaces on more than one project and on more than one platform -- someone with experience with several UI toolkits and a variety of approaches.
You will work closely with product management, user-interface designers, graphic artists and the rest of the engineering staff to deliver products which radically simplify virtualization for our users. You should be comfortable presenting your designs to the executive staff, describing the benefits of one approach over another, and leading a discussion to a decision. You should be comfortable working on a small team and working on a variety of different tasks. You may be creating mockups in the morning, presenting to the team in the afternoon, and writing code the next morning.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement user interfaces for our moka5 Engine and upcoming products.
- Design and develop new user interface elements and behaviors.
- Collaborate on new product designs and new approaches to existing product designs.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software development experience
- 2+ years of experience with object-oriented application development
- 2+ years of experience with C++
- Ability to design and build user interfaces that people appreciate and enjoy
- Excellent communication, organization, and presentation skills
Desirable
- Experience with consumer-facing commercial software development
- Experience developing software on multiple platforms
- Experience using Cocoa or Qt or similar user interface toolkits
- Ability to design and build web user interfaces
Moka5 is a company that is well funded, has experienced leadership, and is in a very fast growing market (virtualization). We offer a significant technical and professional challenge to individuals wanting to truly make a difference.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Director of User Experience (Moka5)
Moka5 (www.moka5.com) provides innovative technology optimized to best deliver and manage virtual desktops as a service. With moka5 Virtual Desktop Technology, IT administrators can more easily create, deploy, and manage virtual desktops while improving security and giving users the freedom to work anywhere. Founded in 2005 by a team of Stanford University researchers in virtualization technology, moka5 is an innovator and thought leader in desktop virtualization and managed services. The company is based in Redwood City, Calif. and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
The Director of User Experience will be responsible for owning the usability, packaging, and to some extent the definition and design of desktop virtualization computing products. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of defining and designing the User Experience for a mass consumer oriented software or service offering. Preference will be given to candidates who, in a semi-product management capacity, played a critical role in the full definition of a product/solution. This is a one-person team initially, but as Director of User Experience, the possibility exists to expand the team as necessary.
Requirements
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- 7+ years of experience in UE design
- Ability to develop new designs and graphics, present those graphics, and describe the benefits of a given approach
- Ability to work with and guide engineers to build a fantastic product
- Proven track record in owning the UE for a large-scale product which was taken to market
- Experience in a startup, and the flexibility, energy, and productivity which that requires
- Understanding of and familiarity with consumer web interaction design
- Experience with user interaction design techniques which can be taught to and adopted by the engineering staff
Desirable
- Experience with a consumer-facing product design
- Experience with product/feature definition and full product/service life cycle management
- Experience leading teams of UI/UE designers to quickly define and describe a functional and attractive interface
Moka5 is a company that is well funded, has experienced leadership, and is in a very fast growing market (virtualization). We offer a significant technical and professional challenge to individuals wanting to truly make a difference.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Marketing Program Manager (Moka5)
Moka5 (www.moka5.com) provides innovative technology optimized to best deliver and manage virtual desktops as a service. With moka5 Virtual Desktop Technology, IT administrators can more easily create, deploy, and manage virtual desktops while improving security and giving users the freedom to work anywhere. Founded in 2005 by a team of Stanford University researchers in virtualization technology, moka5 is an innovator and thought leader in desktop virtualization and managed services. The company is based in Redwood City, Calif. and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
We're looking for a Marketing Programs Manager who has experience designing and executing both online and off-line demand generation programs. We want a creative professional to define innovative ways to educate IT decision makers and buyers about moka5's services. This is a great opportunity for anyone who aspires to be a leader in the execution B2C and B2B technology marketing.
This position reports to the VP of Marketing.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive marketing awareness, lead, and adoption generation programs targeted at small and medium enterprise businesses.
- Overall demand generation planning
- Promotion calendar and campaign mix planning
- Budget marketing programs and track campaign performance.
- Develop creative assets and tools.
- Manage and execute programs; plan and run awareness and lead generation initiatives.
- Proactively work with product management, sales, and business development to get alignment on targets and programs to best drive sales results.
Requirements
- 4+ years in the business technology market and broad knowledge of IT systems, including SaaS
- 4+ years planning and executing marketing programs with experience managing a marketing budget
- BS/BA in business, marketing, or social sciences
- Hands-on experience with website analytics, and with tracking and reporting tools to assess campaign effectiveness
- Strong project management skills and experience, including managing external creative agencies and events vendors -- International project experience is a plus.
- Exceptional communications skills, ability to work effectively across functions
- A high level of professionalism, passion, ethics, and commitment
- Strong organizational skills and customer focus
- Flexibility in regards to work schedule and travel
Moka5 is a company that is well funded, has experienced leadership, and is in a very fast growing market (virtualization). We offer a significant technical and professional challenge to individuals wanting to truly make a difference.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Senior Software Engineer - C++, Windows (RingCube)
RingCube (www.ringcube.com), founded in 2004, is the leading provider of the secure, managed digital workspace. Our award-winning software platform, MojoPac, enables consumers and enterprise users to securely access their complete personal computing experience from any Windows PC around the world. RingCube is venture-backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and is based in Santa Clara, California. We are under 50 employees and growing rapidly. Our partners include Juniper, SanDisk, Adobe, and Transcom. RingCube is the perfect marriage of virtualization and having your PC in your pocket.
We're looking for talented Software Engineers who have a strong background in C++ and Windows. Telecommute is possible for well qualified candidates.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software development with extensive background in windows development
- Successful candidates must have extensive background working with windows internals/kernel.
- Significant experience with distributed products, multithreading, and multi-tiered applications
- Strong C/C++ with strong Win 32 programming as well as knowledge of windows tools
- Experience with either filter drivers or NDIS drivers would be a plus.
- BSCS/BSEE; strong self starter with track record of success
We offer an outstanding compensation/benefits package with lucrative equity in our firm.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Senior UI Engineer (RingCube)
RingCube (www.ringcube.com), founded in 2004, is the leading provider of the secure, managed digital workspace. Our award-winning software platform, MojoPac, enables consumers and enterprise users to securely access their complete personal computing experience from any Windows PC around the world. RingCube is venture-backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and is based in Santa Clara, California. We are under 50 employees and growing rapidly. Our partners include Juniper, SanDisk, Adobe, and Transcom. RingCube is the perfect marriage of virtualization and having your PC in your pocket.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop user interface components for RingCube’s virtualization platform ‘MojoPac’
- Follow good software development practices: Functional specs, Design specs, Code reviews
- Work with other engineers and the QA team to address bugs
Requirements
- Excellent C/C++
- Visual Studio
- 5+ years work experience as a software engineer with at least 3 years working in graphical UI development for complex applications
- Experience working in MFC, Win 32 programming
- Strong knowledge of windows systems programming
- HTML / DHTML / Javascript / JSP knowledge a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- BS/MS in CS/EE or equivalent
We offer an outstanding compensation/benefits package with lucrative equity in our firm.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Senior QA Engineer (RingCube)
RingCube (www.ringcube.com), founded in 2004, is the leading provider of the secure, managed digital workspace. Our award-winning software platform, MojoPac, enables consumers and enterprise users to securely access their complete personal computing experience from any Windows PC around the world. RingCube is venture-backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and is based in Santa Clara, California. We are under 50 employees and growing rapidly. Our partners include Juniper, SanDisk, Adobe, and Transcom. RingCube is the perfect marriage of virtualization and having your PC in your pocket.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute towards implementing a complex test-automation framework for a PC lab.
- Create common tools and libraries for UI automation.
- Create test specifications, implement, and execute them.
- Help with manual testing.
- Ensure that new and existing product functionality and components being released are reliable, defect-free, and function as documented.
- Work closely with development engineers and other QA team members to identify, report, and trouble-shoot bugs, both during QA and post-production.
- Verify bug fixes in an efficient and timely manner.
Requirements
- Strong experience building a PC lab and automating test suites using both VMWare and different hardware with different flavors of OS
- Experience with tools such as SysMark or PCMark for benchmarking PC apps
- Strong experience writing test plans and specifications
- 5+ years experience in SQA with UI testing with automation, api testing, end-to-end system tests, and writing test harnesses
- Good intuition about user experience and usability, especially with desktop applications
- Familiarity with C++, experience with at least one scripting language, perl, shell, python, awk, ..., and unix
- Very recent experience with UI test-automation tools such as SilkTest, Winrunner, Autoit
- Experience creating libraries for data-driven tests
- Experience coding and implementing test harnesses for complex systems, including creation of UI test frameworks
- Strong knowledge about source code control systems, preferably CVS or Clearcase
- BS in CS/EE or equivalent experience
We offer an outstanding compensation/benefits package with lucrative equity in our firm.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
QA Engineer (RingCube)
RingCube (www.ringcube.com), founded in 2004, is the leading provider of the secure, managed digital workspace. Our award-winning software platform, MojoPac, enables consumers and enterprise users to securely access their complete personal computing experience from any Windows PC around the world. RingCube is venture-backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and is based in Santa Clara, California. We are under 50 employees and growing rapidly. Our partners include Juniper, SanDisk, Adobe, and Transcom. RingCube is the perfect marriage of virtualization and having your PC in your pocket.
Key Responsibilities
- Automate UI tests and fix test case errors.
- Help senior-level engineer automate complex test-automation framework.
- Create test specifications, implement, and execute them.
- Help with manual testing.
- Ensure that new and existing product functionality and components being released are reliable, defect-free, and function as documented.
- Work closely with development engineers and other QA team members to identify, report, and trouble-shoot bugs, both during QA and post-production.
- Verify bug fixes in an efficient and timely manner.
Requirements
- Strong experience building a PC lab farm (or working in a PC lab with lots of machines) and automating test suites using both VMWare and different hardware / OS combinations
- Strong experience performing quality assurance for desktop software running on the windows platform
- Strong experience writing test plans and specifications
- 3+ years experience in SQA with black-box and UI testing with automation
- Good intuition about user experience and usability, especially with desktop applications
- Familiarity with a programming language, preferably C++, and one scripting language, perl, shell, python, ...
- Very recent experience with UI test-automation tools such as SilkTest, Winrunner, Autoit
- Experience coding and implementing test harnesses
- Good knowledge about source code control systems
- BS in CS/EE or equivalent experience
We offer an outstanding compensation/benefits package with lucrative equity in our firm.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Senior Software Engineer (Database Internals/Distributed Systems/Transaction Processing) (Schooner)
Schooner Information Technologies (schoonerinfotech.com/) is a well funded, early-stage startup located in Menlo Park. Schooner has a revolutionary solution to data access that provides significant improvement in scalability, affordability, and increased performance on a substantial scale to the customer. IDC sees the market opportunity for this technology to be in excess of 5 billion dollars per annum. Our management team comes from such firms as Pathscale, Sun, HP, and Clarity Software. Our firm will have a substantial impact on the computer industry and we are looking for highly intelligent, common sense, senior development engineers who truly want to make a difference in the industry. Our breakthrough technology, as well as our highly experienced management group offers high caliber individuals the opportunity to move both their career and technical expertise forward.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software development
- Extensive experience in systems software development with emphasis on database internals
- Significant background working with one or more of the following mechanisms:
- Concurrency control (lock or multi-versioning, DLM)
- Transactions (ACID), atomicity
- Logging and recovery (crash consistent data structures and routines)
- Check-pointing (e.g. fuzzy, consistent snapshots)
- Replication (with 2-phased commit or preferably consensus)
- Strong multi-threading and working with distributed development
- Strong self starter with track record of accomplishment
Schooner Information Technology offers a highly competitive salary as well as top of the line benefits. We offer a lucrative "equity package" in our firm as well. We are seeking highly skilled individuals who truly want to be part of something special in the industry.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Director of Product Management (Schooner)
Schooner Information Technologies (schoonerinfotech.com/) is a well funded, early-stage startup located in Menlo Park. Schooner has a revolutionary solution to data access that provides significant improvement in scalability, affordability, and increased performance on a substantial scale to the customer. IDC sees the market opportunity for this technology to be in excess of 5 billion dollars per annum. Our management team comes from such firms as Pathscale, Sun, HP, and Clarity Software. Our firm will have a substantial impact on the computer industry, and we are looking for a highly intelligent, common sense Product Manager who truly wants to make a difference in the industry. Our breakthrough technology, as well as our highly experienced management group offers high caliber individuals the opportunity to move both their career and technical expertise forward.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a Product Manager
- Extensive experience marketing to data centers, including the Web 2.0 space
- Extensive experience with either appliances, systems Software, or OS products
- Solid track record getting products released successfully to market
- Superb Product Management experience and skills:
- Marketing and plan and strategy definition
- Gathering and prioritizing product requirements
- Competitive analysis
- Pricing / Licensing / Support Models
- Formal ROI modeling tools
- Adoption / Cost / Revenue projections
- Channel Identification
- The ideal candidate has a technical degree (BSCS, BSEE), strong marketing background, as well as a solid track record.
- Candidate should have experience with both "startup" and mid-large sized firms.
- Strong self starter with track record of accomplishment
Schooner Information Technology offers a highly competitive salary as well as top of the line benefits. We offer a lucrative "equity package" in our firm as well. We are seeking highly skilled individuals who truly want to be part of something special in the industry.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Program Manager (Sprout Systems)
Sprout Systems (www.sproutsys.com) is an early-stage startup based in San Francisco, Ca. The firm has USVP and Sequoia as its first round VC, and we have acquired enough funding for multiple years of operation. Our stellar team of founders include our CEO, who held a major role in bringing up to the speed the technology and leading Isilon to a very successful public offering. Another of our founders has been credited with building the 2nd fastest computer at Cray, while a third has a stellar background from the early days of AOL.
We are in the process of developing highly scalable, distributed infrastructure products for the industry. We are strategically based near public transit.
Sprout-Clustrix is seeking a Program Manager to help lead our development efforts. Our distributed, clustered infrastructure products require someone with strong technical background and skills to come up to speed quickly.
Responsibilities include:
- Bridging Engineering, QA, and Marketing;
- Working with Management and Engineers to create and track requirements and schedules;
- Technical Specification documentation;
- Participating in project definition, direction, and roadmaps;
- Customer communication, especially during Alpha and Beta release cycles;
- Help keep things upbeat during the crunch times.
Experience with the following preferred:
- Unix systems;
- Web-based user interfaces and design;
- Scalable infrastructure systems (store, OS, databases);
- Project and schedule tracking tools;
- Bug tracking systems .
We have built an outstanding leadership technical team, we are funded by top tier VC, and we intend to lead the product category of distributed infrastructure products. Our "secret sauce" will enable us to serve such industries as finance, Web 2.0, research, and the military to name just a few. We offer highly lucrative equity package plus competitive salary.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Quality Assurance Engineers (Sprout Systems)
Sprout systems (www.sproutsys.com) is an early-stage startup based in San Francisco, Ca. The firm has USVP and Sequoia as its first round VC, and we have acquired enough funding for multiple years of operation. Our stellar team of founders include our CEO, who held a major role in bringing up to the speed the technology and leading Isilon to a very successful public offering. Another of our founders has been credited with building the 2nd fastest computer at Cray, while a third has a stellar background from the early days of AOL.
We are in the process of developing highly scalable distributed infrastructure products for the industry. We are strategically based near public transit.
If you are a bright individual that stands out in your field, we'd love to hear from you. At Sprout, you would not just be testing a next generation of database engine; you'd be planning and developing tests for low-level systems software, compilers, network transports, hardware drivers, and eventually, award winning user interfaces.
In general, Sprout is interested in Junior and Senior QA professionals with various levels of experience in the following areas:
- SQA Methodology, SDLC, Test Planning, Test Case Design
- RDBMS, ANSI SQL and others (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSFT, Oracle)
- Unix/Linux systems administration
- Automation & Script Development (perl, python, bash, etc.)
- Performance Testing
- Enterprise Systems Products
- Distributed or clustered computing
- Network protocols, monitoring, troubleshooting
All applicants should be self-starters, team-players, motivated, and inquisitive. We promote from within. We're big on documentation, automation, and repeatability. If you want to help build a team doing QA the right way, this is the growth opportunity you've been waiting for.
We have built an outstanding leadership technical team, we are funded by top tier VC, and we intend to lead the product category of distributed infrastructure products. Our "secret sauce" will enable us to serve such industries as finance, Web 2.0, research, and the military to name just a few. We offer highly lucrative equity package plus competitive salary.
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Applications (Sharpcast)
Sharpcast’s (www.sharpcast.com) award-winning “push” technology is the only all-in-one platform that offers real-time sync, automatic backup, and mobile access for your files, photos, and media — anytime, even if your computer is offline. For example, the platform allows you to play your entire iTunes collection from your mobile phone or any Internet enabled device or computer. You could also take a picture or video from your phone and a copy is instantly saved to a hosted secure personal website, and is also synced with your PC, Mac, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and personal blog simultaneously. It’s the only service that allows you to sync all file types and across all platforms.
Sharpcast, located in Palo Alto, currently has 45 employees and is well funded by top-tier VCs. As we grow, we are looking for the best and the brightest to innovate with us in a creative and dynamic workplace. Sharpcast is in the unique position of providing technology to both the consumer as well as enterprise customers. Engineers who value versatility and working with technology involving SaaS, highly distributed, and multi-tiered challenges should consider Sharpcast.
Qualifications
- 5-10 years of experience in software development
- Solid background with C/C++
- Background with mobile platforms will be highly desired in this role
- Experience working with WinCE, J2ME, Symbian, or blackberry would be a plus
- Strong background in data structures and or algorithms is desired for this role
- Previous experience with a startup or small firm would be a plus
- Strong track record with record of accomplishment
- CS Degree
We offer competitive compensation, generous stock options, comprehensive benefits, a central Palo Alto location steps away from CalTrain, and, above all, a terrific team and great work environment!
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.Senior Software Engineer - Platform Group (Sharpcast)
Sharpcast’s (www.sharpcast.com) award-winning “push” technology is the only all-in-one platform that offers real-time sync, automatic backup, and mobile access for your files, photos, and media — anytime, even if your computer is offline. For example, the platform allows you to play your entire iTunes collection from your mobile phone or any Internet enabled device or computer. You could also take a picture or video from your phone and a copy is instantly saved to a hosted secure personal website, and is also synced with your PC, Mac, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and personal blog simultaneously. It’s the only service that allows you to sync all file types and across all platforms.
Sharpcast, located in Palo Alto, currently has 45 employees and is well funded by top-tier VCs. As we grow, we are looking for the best and the brightest to innovate with us in a creative and dynamic workplace. Sharpcast is in the unique position of providing technology to both the consumer as well as enterprise customers. Engineers who value versatility and working with technology involving SaaS, highly distributed, and multi-tiered challenges should consider Sharpcast.
Qualifications
- 5-10 years of experience in software
- Strong background working with client server/ multithreaded/ distributed products
- Solid background with C/C++and background working either in database, networking, or with large-scale Internet applications
- Experience working in systems software is highly desired for this role
- Previous experience with a startup or small firm would be a plus
- Strong track record with record of accomplishment
- CS Degree
We offer competitive compensation, generous stock options, comprehensive benefits, a central Palo Alto location steps away from CalTrain, and, above all, a terrific team and great work environment!
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.Senior Software Engineer - Web Applications (Sharpcast)
Sharpcast’s (www.sharpcast.com) award-winning “push” technology is the only all-in-one platform that offers real-time sync, automatic backup, and mobile access for your files, photos, and media — anytime, even if your computer is offline. For example, the platform allows you to play your entire iTunes collection from your mobile phone or any Internet enabled device or computer. You could also take a picture or video from your phone and a copy is instantly saved to a hosted secure personal website, and is also synced with your PC, Mac, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and personal blog simultaneously. It’s the only service that allows you to sync all file types and across all platforms.
Sharpcast, located in Palo Alto, currently has 45 employees and is well funded by top-tier VCs. As we grow, we are looking for the best and the brightest to innovate with us in a creative and dynamic workplace. Sharpcast is in the unique position of providing technology to both the consumer as well as enterprise customers. Engineers who value versatility and working with technology involving SaaS, highly distributed, and multi-tiered challenges should consider Sharpcast.
Qualifications
- 5-10 years of experience in software
- Strong Java experience, especially working on backend development
- Background working with JDBC, MySQL, or Javascript is desired
- Experience working with either Hibernate or Spring frameworks
- Previous experience with a startup or small firm would be a plus
- Strong track record with record of accomplishment
- CS Degree
We offer competitive compensation, generous stock options, comprehensive benefits, a central Palo Alto location steps away from CalTrain, and, above all, a terrific team and great work environment!
Interested? Send your resume to herb@techventure.com with the title in the subject line.
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