UxSTATION

My client is a SF based startup that crawls the social web for publicly-available people information, and then builds products and analytics on top of this data. They have one of the largest social graphs & social databases in the world. We’re looking for people who want to work on incredibly complex engineering issues and come up with solutions that will change the world and the web as we know it.

Responsibilities:

Build out our next set of groundbreaking features
Build algorithms to connect data on over half billion people
Solve extremely complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on
Report to the VP of Engineering & CEO

Qualifications:

Amazing coder who takes no prisoners; master of all things Internet; one of the best coders in existence
Someone who learns new languages and platforms extremely fast - we use Ruby on Rails, Hadoop (HDFS), and Java
Intensely driven, proactive, and hard working
Extremely hard working; this is a start-up - team members work long hours
Quick learner and real doer; err on execution over strategy
Looks forward to working with A-players; too good to spend long hours with B-players
Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job.
Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, ethical, and low-maintenance
Strong desire to build a more ethical society
Desire to be an early employee and want to be a real owner our company’s future
Want to work with extremely large datasets and build portable APIs that thousands of other companies can build applications on top of
Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation available if necessary)
All levels of experiences should apply (0-25+ years experience)

A few of our Perks (too many to list here (-; ):

Great cash compensation & strong equity packages
Choice of any laptop - Mac, Windows, or Linux
Contribute to many open source initiatives such as Hadoop