Recently well funded ($10M series-A) by top tier investors and industry legends who pioneered new technologies and created new markets on the web, the founding team has an excellent track record founding and building companies such as: Tribe.net, SupportSoft, Freeloader, eUniverse, Houseglue, and Coremetrics!!

Zynga Game Network is based in San Francisco's Potrero Hill in a super dynamic environment and fun space. If you are a serious game or web developer/software engineer, this is one ground floor startup opportunity you don't want to miss.

The Job

The Web/Game Designer must have a great background in Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Experience in DHTML & AJAX is a BIG plus!

Requirements

• At least 2 years design experience with complex web applications and/or games
• Proven understanding of the tools necessary to complete the design of various creative projects. including Photoshop and Illustrator and HTML editing
• Advanced design/creative skills in website UI design and aesthetic layouts
• Ability to translate verbal or written concepts into visually stunning layouts
• Educational Requirements: B.S. in Fine Arts w/emphasis on Graphic Design (or equivalent work experience)

IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, YOU MUST INCLUDE A PORTFOLIO IN YOUR APPLICATION (online, or URL’s).

Interested? Send your resume to fadi@zynga.com with the job title in the subject line, please.

Recently well funded ($10M series-A) by top tier investors and industry legends who pioneered new technologies and created new markets on the web, the founding team has an excellent track record founding and building companies such as: Tribe.net, SupportSoft, Freeloader, eUniverse, Houseglue, and Coremetrics!!

Zynga Game Network is based in San Francisco's Potrero Hill in a super dynamic environment and fun space. If you are a serious game or web developer/software engineer, this is one ground floor startup opportunity you don't want to miss.

The Job

Flash developers at Zynga build viral, fun social games.

Responsibilities

• Build great Flash-based multi-player games.
• Be passionate about building viral consumer products.
• Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of solid software development experience
• Expertise in Flash Development: Actionscript, CPU/Memory optimization, JavaScript/Flash bridging, Cross-browser compatability
• Extensive design and game development experience
• Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Strong analytical skills and ability to assist other team members in problem solving
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Interested? Send your resume to fadi@zynga.com with the job title in the subject line, please.

Recently well funded ($10M series-A) by top tier investors and industry legends who pioneered new technologies and created new markets on the web, the founding team has an excellent track record founding and building companies such as: Tribe.net, SupportSoft, Freeloader, eUniverse, Houseglue, and Coremetrics!!

Zynga Game Network is based in San Francisco's Potrero Hill in a super dynamic environment and fun space. If you are a serious game or web developer/software engineer, this is one ground floor startup opportunity you don't want to miss.

The Job

Zynga Web Developers are passionate developers who believe in building viral, consumer games and applications faster, smarter, and better than everybody else.

Requirements

• 3+ years of solid software development experience
• Expertise in JavaScript / HTML / CSS / AJAX
• Expertise in PHP or equivalent server-scripting language
• Expertise in databases, SQL and MySQL
• Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Strong analytical skills and ability to assist other team members in problem solving
• Excellent knowledge of Internet/Web technologies, such as browsers, firewalls, and http
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Interested? Send your resume to fadi@zynga.com with the job title in the subject line, please.

Recently well funded ($10M series-A) by top tier investors and industry legends who pioneered new technologies and created new markets on the web, the founding team has an excellent track record founding and building companies such as: Tribe.net, SupportSoft, Freeloader, eUniverse, Houseglue, and Coremetrics!!

Zynga Game Network is based in San Francisco's Potrero Hill in a super dynamic environment and fun space. If you are a serious game or web developer/software engineer, this is one ground floor startup opportunity you don't want to miss.

The Job

The Senior Product manager provides experience, direction, and measurable performance to the game design process. This position will be responsible for mapping the product roadmap, specing games, and improving viral performance of the games.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of experiences in product management in consumer web or game development
• Must be able to graphically create wire-frames and give interface direction to UI team
• Passion for creating fun, compelling, and addictive user experiences
• Passion for writing product specifications, White papers
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Strong organizational and analytical skills, attention to details
• Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding strategy
• Strong aptitude for determining the optimal way to position products in the market
• We are looking for an enthusiastic, performance-driven self-starter and team player.
• Previous start-up experience is a strong plus.
• BA/BS degree - Technical Degree preferred.

Interested? Send your resume to fadi@zynga.com with the job title in the subject line, please.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”