UxSTATION

Client's company is building a unique platform for real-time optimization of affiliate marketing. We are seeking a browser / javascript wizard, i.e :

You know the browser inside and out - the intricacies of Javascript and CSS, performance implications, browser differences and the challenges of debugging in a real-world environment. You may not have gone to RISD but you know how to make things look good. You're comfortable with the idea of writing code that runs in other people's pages. You know your way around the key libraries (Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, etc) and you're proficient with modern browser app development tools like Ruby or GWT.

Learning new tools doesn't scare you. You know the difference between Open Source components that make your life easier and buzzword bingo. You drink the kool-aid on agile, pair / extreme programming but understand it's not a religion.

You know that what gets measured gets managed. You believe in instrumentation and data-centric decision-making. You don't just write the code, you build the systems to deploy it, to test it, to measure it.

You like to tackle big problems and blast through with hard work, open communication, and a sense of humor. You're fun to work with and have no problems playing with others.

We are a small but growing team looking for highly talented, motivated, and visionary people who want to build something great and change the industry. We're building a high-volume, low-margin system focused on revenue and performance and operating in real-time and at web-scale.

The company has been funded by some first tier backers that you've likely heard of, but the team is young and small enough that we are still giving out meaningful amounts of equity. You will have a substantial role in defining what the company is, does and feels like.

Rather than continuing to read about our company culture, come help us create it! Want to wear flip-flops to work? Want your job title to be Jedi Knight? Certain that Emacs with the vi key bindings is the only way to code? No problem!

Client's company is based in Palo Alto & includes founders comprised of Stanford grads, former Googlers and a formerly renowned VC who now also teaches Entrepreneurship at Stanford, as well as an all-star cast of funders.

This company is revolutionizing the investment business & disrupting the mutual fund industry through an open source financial trading platform that anyone can join. This is an opportunity to join a stellar engineering team whose team members worked on massive backend infrastructure, Gmail's high performance frontend, the Native Scala Compiler with Prof. Odersky and more.

Job description:

• In charge of the backend of a revolutionary web site doing large scale high availability deployments and configuration management using open source software.
• Keeping the system having a fully automated release cycle, continues testing and monitoring. 
• Build tools for monitoring, security, systems management and deployment if the available ones are not enough.
• Help engineers architect the next levels of the system and making sure it stays agile and easily absorb high capacity.
Qualifications
• Extremely smart and self motivated
• Passion for test-driven development and automated functional QA
• Live and breathe performance
• Thinks out of the conventional box of IT management
• Experience with databases, preferable MySQL
• Good knowledge about monitoring and deployment tools
• Good knowledge about network and distributed computing
• Expert in at least one scripting language and know at least one more

We are seeking an experienced iPhone and/or Objective-C developer to join our client's winning team (#1 MMO apps for iPhone with millions of users). You will be responsible for developing new features for existing and upcoming games for the iPhone, working with both internal and external team of designers, and artists.

Responsibilities
* Working on features in our iPhone games and applications, tying our client code to critical server-side functionality, and deploying features that use iPhone SDK API such as location, peer-to-peer, in-app purchases, video, etc.
* Proactively working to architect new, and refactor existing, code to allow for maintainability, extensibility and re-useability

Qualifications
* Object-oriented programming in a desktop environment and must have worked with Objective-C.
* Have worked with Cocoa and familiarity with Mac OS X and/or iPhone platforms
* Working knowledge of Apple Framework Strong time-management and independent-judgment skills required. Solid written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail. Creative problem solving skills.

Nice to have
* Game development experience
* OpenGL, and CoreGraphics
* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Highly desirable too is exposure to mobile devices and other development languages, including C++ and Java. You will be working on the design and implementation of mobile device software, extending their core architecture and code base. As a self-motivated team player you will undoubtedly enjoy considerable responsibility, a challenging technical environment and a real opportunity for innovation.

* This position is located in our corporate office in Redwood Shores
* Competitive salary & stock options
* We provide full benefits: dental, vision, healthcare & 401k

Client's company is a profitable SaaS start-up based in Palo Alto, CA building a state of the art sales & marketing campaign platform which allows end users to operate more efficiently and effectively across a broad range of media. Client base is diverse, plentiful & growing.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering who is very interested in building products that provide substantial value to end customers. You must be excited about working in a start-up atmosphere and be willing to get involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle, from requirements and design through QA and deployment.

Company team is process-oriented where it helps, big believers in automating everything possible, and pragmatic when necessary to get things into customer's hands. Engineers are responsible for delivering successful products to our customers while maintaining a high- quality codebase to support future development.

General Director of Engineering requirements (we do have some flexibility for the right candidate):

Engineering management - Manage the development team resources. This will include making effective use of developer time, prioritizing product development with escalated support requests, maintaining high morale (including planning team offsite events) and driving the peer review process.

Hiring - Responsible for driving the hiring process for engineers and related functions (QA, support engineer).

Training - Ensure quick training and ramp up of new developers

Operations - Responsible for the data center to ensure we meet our service level agreements. This includes managing the relationship with Rackspace and owning our release management process for deployments and upgrades.

Support - Establish support policies and procedures to reduce developer time spent on customer support while maintaining customer satisfaction. This may include building a support team.

Product Knowledge - Gain a comprehensive understanding of the product and our customer base in order to be able to make good trade- off decisions

Company culture: Create & maintain an atmosphere that facilitates team building & individual & peer-to-peer mentoring

General requirements for Junior & Senior Java Engineers:

* Be well versed in Java and related technologies
* Be experienced with MySQL, Javascript, JQuery, JSP, Hibernate, JUnit, Tomcat, Ant, Apache, Linux
* Enjoy working in a dynamic startup atmosphere where everyone is focused on the success of the company
* Have experience building scalable and highly-available web applications
* Be an accurate estimator of your work
* Understand performance testing and tuning web applications
* Be able to implement something from the ground up better than an existing framework but also smart enough to use the framework anyways so you can spend time programming something that hasn't been implemented before

UxStation is a next generation talent company striving to redefine tech recruiting. We specialize in placing founder-quality engineers & designers in early stage technology startups.

For more information contact info@uxstation.com.

UxStation is seeking a brilliant User Experience designer to join our client’s development team. Specialists need not apply: we're looking for someone who has mastered multiple design-related skillsets, from wireframes to visual design to usability tests and HTML and CSS coding. This is a diverse range of skills -- we're looking for someone truly talented who is passionate about great software with A-plus usability and polish. You will be working closely with the leaders of the company to build ambitious functionality that will define Social Search on the web. We have a killer technical team of about 20 people, and we're moving extremely quickly: in the past few months we've launched a new web interface with dozens of new features, an iPhone App, IM and Twitter interfaces, and lots more -- and we only plan on accelerating from here.

Client's company includes founders from more than a half-dozen successful startups, four AI Ph.D.s, and engineers from Silicon Valley's major technology companies. They build products that enable users to tap into the wisdom of their real-world social network. Their first offering takes on the problem of "subjective search" — finding information that is customized and relevant to your personal tastes, needs, and context. They are located in downtown San Francisco. 

Required skills:

- Visual design for the web (for applications, not just brochureware)

- Wireframing and user flow design for web interfaces

Highly preferred:

- Startup Experience

- Experience with usability testing and basic user research

- Front-end coding in HTML and CSS

Pluses:

- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails

- Academic training in design

- Experience designing a successful consumer-facing web product with millions of users

Client's company includes founders from more than a half-dozen successful startups, four AI Ph.D.s, and engineers from Silicon Valley's major technology companies. They build products that enable users to tap into the wisdom of their real-world social network. Their first offering takes on the problem of "subjective search" — finding information that is customized and relevant to your personal tastes, needs, and context. They are located in downtown San Francisco. 

Required Skills:

• Experience programming and building web software
• Experience with creating websites optimized for mobile devices
• Experience with iPhone development
• Experience with design, marketing, and product management
• Experience in an agile development environment

Pluses:

• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails
• Experience building applications that tie into SMS
• Experience with multiple mobile operating systems
• Interest in metrics driven development
• Previous startup experience

UxStation is recruiting Junior & Senior Java Engineers for a profitable SaaS start-up based in Menlo Park, CA building a state of the art SaaS marketing platform which allows marketing departments to operate more efficiently and effectively across a broad range of media. Client base is diverse, plentiful & growing.

We are looking for software engineers who are very interested in building products that provide substantial value to end customers. You must be excited about working in a start-up atmosphere and be willing to get involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle, from requirements and design through QA and deployment. Company team is process-oriented where it helps, big believers in automating everything possible, and pragmatic when necessary to get things into customer’s hands.

Engineers are responsible for delivering successful products to our customers while maintaining a high-quality codebase to support future development:

• Be well versed in Java and related technologies
• Be experienced with MySQL, Javascript, JQuery, JSP, Hibernate, JUnit,
Tomcat, Ant, Apache, Linux
• Enjoy working in a dynamic startup atmosphere where everyone is focused
on the success of the company
• Have experience building scalable and highly-available web applications
• Be an accurate estimator of your work
• Understand performance testing and tuning web applications
• Be able to implement something from the ground up better than an existing framework but also smart enough to use the framework anyways so you can spend time programming something that hasn’t been implemented before

UxStation is hiring engineers to help build a high-transaction ad server, large scale data processing/analytics pipeline and a ground control application. We need someone that has worked on the entire software stack – from back end to front end – and developed complex pieces of software.

Architect & develop extensible, scalable, reliable software for high volume, real-time data processing and ad serving
Understand and affect the product direction

Educational/Experience Requirements:

B.S./ M.S./PhD in computer science/ mathematics/ related fields
10+ years experience in server side development of complex systems
Structured thinker, Effective communicator, Excellent programming and analytics skills
Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming
Many years of Java, Linux, Database and SaaS experience
Experience with javascript/ php
Experience with hadoop/ hive, MySQL, highly desirable
Experience analyzing data
Data Mining Background (preferable)

UxStation is hiring senior scientists who can analyze terabytes of data and billions of rows to discover correlations and patterns that become a part of our ad-server. Typical candidates for this role have not only developed data mining algorithms but also built large scale systems incorporating them.

Job Functions
Research, investigate, pick industrial data mining/ machine learning algorithms
Implement these algorithms using grid computing & affect the product direction
Educational/
Experience Requirements

MS/ Ph.D. in computer science (with emphasis in data mining/ machine learning/ artificial intelligence/ mathematics/ OR)
6+ years industry experience in data mining and machine learning on large amounts of sparse data.
Structured thinker, Effective communicator, Excellent programming skills
Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming
Experience developing software using Java/ C/C++ on Linux
Experience with hadoop/ hive, MySQL