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Jobs: Founder/CTO, CEO, and Engineers Wanted!

Reader Meter seeks Founder/CTO in San Francisco, CA or Silicon Valley. (more)
Personal News Network seeks Chief Executive Officer in San Francisco, CA. (more)
TaskRabbit seeks Engineer in San Francisco, CA. (more)
Big Tent seeks Developer in San Francisco, CA. (more)
Big Tent seeks QA Specialist in San Francisco, CA. (more)
Catchafire seeks Front End Developer in New York, NY. (more)
Catchafire seeks Back End Developer in New York, NY. (more)
Etsy seeks Sr. Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA. (more)
Grows Up seeks Lead E-Commerce Engineer in San Francisco, CA. (more)
Slide Inc seeks Junior Web Developer in San Francisco, CA. (more)
Efficiency Match seeks Sr. Software Engineer / Developer in Santa Clara, CA. (more)
Etsy seeks Chief Architect and Team Lead: Core Platform in Brooklyn, NY. (more)
Etsy seeks Sr. Operations Engineer in Brooklyn, NY. (more)

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Founder and Chief Technology Officer
(San Francisco, CA or Silicon Valley)

Reader Meter is an exciting and innovative social media play seeking a visionary Founder and CTO. If you are a seasoned technologist and entrepreneur with expertise in predictive technologies, natural language search and Internet technologies we want to talk to you about joining our founding team. We are a small but passionate and highly experienced group looking to add a visionary with deep engineering expertise who is committed to building teams and delivering outstanding products to market.

Reader Meter is a social media environment that offers a vibrant community for everyone and all things book related. Tracking book critics and opinions down to the last Tweet and offering a social network of book lovers where all stakeholders — authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers — interact; Reader Meter is all that with much, much more under the hood.

If you have the moxy, passion, drive, vision, and requisite expertise, send a note and a link to your background to Kim Frank at kfrank@readermeter.com and we will let you in on our secret to revolutionize reading for adults, young adults and children.


Chief Executive Officer (San Francisco, CA)

This is a great opportunity for an aspiring entrepreneur. The Personal News Network (PNN), a women’s social community, and its sister company, saysher.com, is looking for someone to take over as CEO. It’s a unique opportunity for someone with energy and enthusiasm to jump in, and build on something that has already been developed.

PNN was started a couple of years ago and built from the ground up. It took a decent amount of funding to do it, but the result is that it’s a unique, stand-alone platform - which means not only that it can scale and be modified easily, but that its ‘exit’ strategies are wide open. Saysher.com is one of a very few search engines built for women. It currently indexes and searches over 50,000 women’s blogs and search engines, making it a perfect partner to PNN. We’ve also developed an iPhone app for saysher.com - iPad version will be out soon.

The company is virtual, meaning that you can work from wherever you want - we use spaces like ‘The Hub’ in San Francisco for meetings.

The job is to work with the existing CEO to plan the future, then take over. You’ll be responsible for blogging frequently, meeting with potential partners, raising funds if you need to, and in general doing everything that entrepreneurs need to do - i.e. almost everything. The existing CEO has good connections with the venture and angel community if that’s needed.

The candidates we’re looking for need to be well versed in social media, active in women’s networking, and willing to trade their time and commitment for 50% ownership. For the successful candidate this means that their sweat equity would be worth over $200k. Women drive social media, but are under represented both as leaders of social media companies, and in services dedicated to their interests (women’s search engines) - so the upside is tremendous.

If you’re interested, please send a resume and cover letter directly to lauren at pnn dot com. Please, no recruiters.


Engineer (San Francisco, CA)

Are you looking for an experience beyond the normal 9 to 5? Do you want to collaborate with a fun team working on the latest technology? Or maybe you just have too much dry cleaning. Come and join TaskRabbit, where the driving vision is to change the way people get every day tasks done.

<techstuff>We are built with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and HTML with a sprinkle of jQuery (for added hotness). We’re deploying to EC2 using Capistrano and Bundler and run delayed_job to get stuff done. Our controllers lean on inherited_resources, authlogic, and declarative_authorization. Most of the code is in the models. We have great test coverage in Cucumber and RSpec.</techstuff>

Not used that stuff before, but ready to dive in? Perfect, too. You would be the second full-time engineer on the team and would be working with some passionate, smart, and savvy entrepreneurs who like to work hard, play hard, get home for dinner, and then maybe code a little bit more.

At TaskRabbit, we are creating innovative and impactful web and mobile features through the melding of social graph analysis, high-quality user experience, and analytics-driven optimization. We err on the side of execution over strategy, following the numbers and our guts to get stuff in front of our
customers to see what they think. If you can do that in a solid way, you will be a real owner in TaskRabbit’s future and contribute at a highly impactful level.

We are currently working out of Dogpatch Labs at Pier 38, an awesome environment with a lot of other cool startups and entrepreneurs. We are also kicking off an exciting summer project with Pivotal Labs. This is an amazing opportunity to work with the experts in the Ruby on Rails development space.

Did we mention the PERKS?

  • Cash comp will be balanced with high equity – we’re willing to reward and invest in the best talent
  • MacBook Pro and any/all resources you need to produce great work
  • FREE Tasks done by TaskRabbit Runners – seriously, we have a built-in personal concierge force 24×7 you can make use of.
  • Work directly alongside the smartest team of entrepreneurs, advisers, and investors you have ever met.

About TaskRabbit: TaskRabbit is a social networking inspired web and mobile platform, creating a marketplace where a community can connect to get everyday tasks done. Our driving vision is to create a community of solutions, leveraging a people cloud, and providing a standard for a new industry we are calling Service Networking.

We won placement in the Facebook Fund incubator program, called fbFund REV, which brought us to the Bay Area for 12 weeks over the summer of 2009. We are backed by savvy and experienced investors including, FLOODGATE FUND (Maples Investments) and Baseline Ventures. We are
supported by amazing advisers such as Tim Ferriss (4 Hour Work Week), Shervin Pishevar (SGN), and Scott Griffith (Zipcar).

You will work with a dynamic, fast-moving team who are creative, entrepreneurial, hard-working and focused on excelling in everything we do.

Interested in joining us? Send resume and cover letter to careers@taskrabbit.com.


Developer (San Francisco, CA)

BigTent is where trusted communities connect online. We’re a small team supporting real community groups everyday and we’re looking for passionate, smart developers to join us. If you’re looking for a meaningful opportunity in a tight-knit, growing company and have immediate impact on how people connnect with their communities every day, this is a great job for you.

Key activities of this position:

  • Working within an agile team, design and implement back-end and front-end software
  • Ensure successful scaling of the BigTent platform to meet our rapidly growing user-base
  • Write unitests for new code and refactor existing code to make it more testable
  • Address performance issues and trouble shoot other problems as appropriate
  • Some DBA-type work, e.g., responsible for query and schema optimizations

What we’re looking for:

  • Familiarity with LAMP stack and strong proficiency in PHP, JavaScript and MySQL
  • Strong command of web standards, CSS based-design and browser compatibility
  • Experience writing and optimizing queries against large datasets
  • Experience supporting large, interesting, or complex web applications
  • Experience with high-volume email delivery
  • UNIX SysAdmin experience and hardware knowledge
  • Excited about the groups we serve and committed to making their lives better with each line of code you ship
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field preferred
  • Extra points if you have experience in Ruby, Python, Facebook apps, mobile development, iPhone apps and/or are a contributor to an open source project
  • Experience level – we are looking for good, smart, energetic engineers. If this is you, no matter what your experience level, we encourage you to apply.

More about Big Tent: We’re four years old, funded by top venture capitalists, women-led, and quickly moving towards profitability. Our team is made up of 20 smart, fun, and creative people from all backgrounds and interests who share a singular vision of making it easier for groups to stay connected and organized. We’re located in lovely South Park in San Francisco with no plans to move. We look forward to meeting you!

To apply: Send us a quick introduction and current resume to jobs@bigtent.com. Candidates only. If you’re a recruiter, please don’t be offended when we don’t take calls or return email.


QA Specialist (San Francisco, CA)

BigTent is where trusted communities connect online. We’re a small team supporting real community groups everyday and we’re looking for a QA specialist to join us. If you’re looking for a meaningful opportunity in a tight-knit, growing company, you want to have immediate impact on how people connnect with their communities every day, and you’re looking to play a big role as a QA specialist, we want to talk to you.

Key activities of this position:

  • Work closely with developers, designers, and customer support in a tight-knit and agile environment
  • Manual and automated testing with a focus on cross-browser dependencies
  • Generate and document test plans on-the-fly for daily, incremental feature releases
  • Report and track bugs using standard bug-tracking software
  • Increase front-end automation coverage in Selenium (IDE and RC)
  • Manage staging environments and daily release tags
  • Try to break our app and poke security holes by testing all crazy corner cases you can imagine

What we’re looking for:

  • 2+ years QA experience with proven ability to deliver a polished Web-based product
  • Experience testing AJAX-rich web applications with complex user scenarios
  • Experience developing and executing test plans in a highly iterative development process.
  • Experience with a range of testing tactics: functional, unit, regression, etc.
  • Experience or familiarity with a source control system like SVN, GIT, etc.

Nice to haves:

    BS/MS Computer Science degree
  • Energized by the opportunities and challenges of a start-up
  • Experience / familiarity with continuous deployment and build automation
  • Scripting abilities a plus
  • Basic MySQL knowledge

More about Big Tent: We’re four years old, funded by top venture capitalists, women-led, and quickly moving towards profitability. Our team is made up of 20 smart, fun, and creative people from all backgrounds and interests who share a singular vision of making it easier for groups to stay connected and organized. We’re located in lovely South Park in San Francisco with no plans to move. We look forward to meeting you!

To apply: Send us a quick introduction and current resume to jobs@bigtent.com. Candidates only. If you’re a recruiter, please don’t be offended when we don’t take calls or return email.


Front End Developer (New York, NY)

Catchafire is one of the hottest new funded technology companies in New York City with a social mission. We are looking to hire top engineers who want to join a fast-paced, nimble and hard-working team and who are hungry to change the world.

Catchafire is a web-based solution that connects nonprofits with skilled volunteers. We are changing the way people volunteer and the way that nonprofits both find and utilize skilled volunteers. Our platform allows nonprofits to identify their needs as short-term, discrete, individual projects, which Catchafire then matches to volunteer profiles in our system. Catchafire’s mission is to make it easy for every professional to volunteer their skills and for every nonprofit to access and effectively use skilled volunteers.

Catchafire is located in New York, NY. Position open immediately. Please don’t apply unless you meet all of the following criteria:

You are motivated by the opportunity to:

  1. Put your mark on an early-stage start-up
  2. Lead a team
  3. Make the world a better place

You are:

  1. An independent worker and thinker
  2. Team-oriented
  3. Dog-gone hardworking
  4. Honest and funny (or, at least, have some sense of humor, we don’t care if it’s warped).

If you possess all of the above, read below for more information and how to apply.

Responsibilities:
You will be the primary front end developer and responsible for everything that goes with it, including a vision for success, a plan to execute on this vision, spec development, usability testing, and analytics.

Qualifications:

  • Highly experienced in front end technologies. You have at least 3 years of experience in javascript development as well as the ability to read, write and build using HTML, CSS and JS by hand.
  • You have your own philosophy on how front end code should be organized and structured.
  • Experienced in the use of one or more common javascript frameworks. (e.g. Prototype or JQuery)
  • You are comfortable working in a Linux environment.
  • Strong working knowledge of web architecture, object-oriented software, and design patterns
  • You have a very strong understanding of UI design. You have your own philosophy on how to build and design pages that are extremely user friendly.
  • You have experience managing website designers and enjoy it.
  • You enjoy and are proficient in user testing.
  • You have, or will quickly develop, an in-depth understanding of scalability and the challenges that fast-growing web applications experience
  • You believe in rapid prototyping and fast-paced development.
  • You have the experience, knowledge and confidence to be a leader and own your own work.
  • You have a passion for excellence and getting things right.
  • You are customer oriented and have a passion to build things that are easy and enjoyable to use. You enjoy a UI challenge.
  • You are an independent worker and creative thinker. You will not be handed specs. You will be expected to help develop these specs.
  • When you are engaged in a project, you have a vision for success and a plan to execute on it.
  • You are hungry to learn new things and develop new skills.
  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science or equivalent preferred.

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Highly competitive salary for a early-stage, angel-funded start-up
  • Opportunity for stock options
  • Generous healthcare benefits
  • Unlimited vacation days
  • Casual and fun work environment (bring your dog to work!)
  • Flexible hours

How to apply: Email Rachael Chong at rachael@catchafire.org with your resume. It would also be nice if you could send a brief note along with your resume to let us know why you’re interested in working with us and why you think you’d be a great fit.


Back End Developer (New York, NY)

Catchafire is one of the hottest new funded technology companies in New York City with a social mission. We are looking to hire top engineers who want to join a fast-paced, nimble and hard-working team and who are hungry to change the world.

Catchafire is a web-based solution that connects nonprofits with skilled volunteers. We are changing the way people volunteer and the way that nonprofits both find and utilize skilled volunteers. Our platform allows nonprofits to identify their needs as short-term, discrete, individual projects, which Catchafire then matches to volunteer profiles in our system. Catchafire’s mission is to make it easy for every professional to volunteer their skills and for every nonprofit to access and effectively use skilled volunteers.

Catchafire is located in New York, NY. Position open immediately. Please don’t apply unless you meet all of the following criteria:

You are motivated by the opportunity to:

  1. Put your mark on an early-stage start-up
  2. Lead a team
  3. Make the world a better place

You are:

  1. An independent worker and thinker
  2. Team-oriented
  3. Dog-gone hardworking
  4. Honest and funny (or, at least, have some sense of humor, we don’t care if it’s warped).

If you possess all of the above, read below for more information and how to apply.

Responsibilities:
You will be the primary back end developer and responsible for everything that goes with it, including our matching algorithm, community tools, and corporate solution API.

Qualifications:

  • Highly experienced in back end technologies. You must know your basic LAMP stack technologies down cold and others are a plus. You have your own philosophy on how back end environments should be organized, structured, and accessed.
  • Expert in creating, optimizing, and maintaining a scalable, data-heavy back end.
  • Strong working knowledge in web architecture, object-oriented software, and design patterns.
  • Strong working knowledge of html, css and javascript.
  • Mastery of the Linux environment.
  • You have, or will quickly develop, an in-depth understanding of scalability and the challenges that fast-growing web applications experience.
  • You believe in rapid prototyping and fast-paced development.
  • You have the experience, knowledge and confidence to be a leader and own your own work. You have a passion for excellence and getting things right.
  • You are customer oriented and have a passion to build things that are easy and enjoyable to use. You enjoy a UI challenge.
  • You are an independent worker and creative thinker. You will not be handed specs. You will be expected to help develop these specs.
  • When you are engaged in a project, you have a vision for success and a plan to execute on it.
  • You are hungry to learn new things and develop new skills.
  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science or equivalent preferred.

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Highly competitive salary for a early-stage, angel-funded start-up
  • Opportunity for stock options
  • Generous healthcare benefits
  • Unlimited vacation days
  • Casual and fun work environment (bring your dog to work!)
  • Flexible hours

How to apply: Email Rachael Chong at rachael@catchafire.org with your resume. It would also be nice if you could send a brief note along with your resume to let us know why you’re interested in working with us and why you think you’d be a great fit.


Senior Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)

Etsy seeks versatile and experienced senior software engineers to build awesome products for our community with code that is beautiful, functional, and easy to maintain. You’ll be extending Etsy in new directions as well as streamlining and re-factoring our existing systems. Our site is growing by leaps and bounds, so candidates should thrive in dynamic environments where development is fast and the only constant is change. Etsy is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, but this position is based in San Francisco, California. This position requires occasional travel to our office in Brooklyn.
 
You should have in-depth knowledge of:

  • basic data structures and algorithms
  • C/C++ and Java
  • at least one of PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, or Scala
  • object-oriented design patterns
  • low-level operating system and network concepts including file systems, sockets, and IPC
  • relational databases and application-level scaling
  • fault-tolerant and robust systems, including availability and performance monitoring
  • caching approaches in both an application and network context (including CDNs)
  • RESTful web services APIs for developers, both building and using them
  • performance tuning web applications from the frontend to the backend
  • experience with lighttpd, Apache, memcached, and Squid environments
  • mentoring and developing others
  • scale and what it takes to be successful at a community-driven web site where the word “millions” is used frequently and in many contexts

Bonus experience:

  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript and associated frameworks (jQuery, prototype, YUI)
  • Lucene/Solr and other enterprise search technologies
  • practical experience with database sharding
  • social networking applications and associated design patterns
  • credit card gateways, PayPal, and PCI compliance issues
  • abuse and anti-spam approaches and technologies

Ideally, you will hold a B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, or have equivalent self-directed study and experience. Also important:

  • Shipping – You can point to products on the web today that you built and shipped
    love of the web and a sense of fascination with the endless possibilities it creates
  • Comfort with the occasional high jinks
  • a sense of fun and playfulness
  • Excellent communication skills

If you’re interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter along with your resume telling us what inspires you about Etsy and why you think you are perfect for the team. If you contribute to an open source project, write a blog, or practice another craft besides software, that means something to us, and we would love to hear about it when you write!
 
Etsy is the world’s most vibrant handmade marketplace. Our mission is to enable people all over the world to make a living making things. Etsy is growing rapidly and needs awesome, motivated people to join that mission. The growing Etsy community brings over 700 million page views per month, and Etsy counts over 4.4 million registered members in over 150 countries. Our sellers collectively list 2 million new items and sell more than $20 million of goods each month. Etsy operates transparently and you can check in to see how the Etsy community is doing in our monthly weather reports.


Lead E-Commerce Engineer (San Francisco, CA)

Grows Up seeks E-Commerce Developer and technical visionary to lead the development of core platform from day 1 1/2. You’ll be involved in everything from helping us develop the base platform and processes. It’s a big responsibility, so we’re looking for the best.

Ideally you’ll have:

  • 5 years or expert knowledge of PHP with an emphasis on using PHP in an object orientated framework, specifically the Zend framework
  • Experience with Magento e-commerce platform, community or enterprise edition, a big plus
  • Experience developing architecture of high quality social web applications and scaling them
  • Familiarity in utilising and building API’s and data feed
  • Experience integrating and tweaking online payment systems
  • A solid understanding of Javascript, HTML/XLST, Postgre SQL/MySQL and AJAX
  • Experience building and managing a small, but focused technical team
  • A good sense of humor and the ability to roll with the punches

You’ll also have an undying passion for the web, technology and coding, perhaps demonstrated by an active participation in open source software and a blog/Twitter sharing your insights; experience in (and/or passion for) working in a start-up environment where there’s no limit on ambition or creativity and where energy and enthusiasm are a must; the ability to work in a small, focused team to achieve big, ambitious goals.

Grows Up is creating a family-friendly marketplace for Moms to buy and sell their new and used children’s clothing and goods. We are located near the Financial District in San Francisco, CA and have seed funding from Atomico Ventures (aka the Skype guys). Our team is expanding and, like our name, we want people to grow with us. We are looking for passionate, talented and dedicated people that thrive on complex technical challenges, innovate in their sleep and eat good user experience for breakfast. We are excited by ecommerce. We are excited by community building. We are excited by technology, but we are equally excited by creating a platform for the good of mankind! Not a small feat, but that is how we roll.

Do you have what it takes? If so, please send a brief email presenting yourself with your resume attached to: jobs@growsup.com Grows Up offers competitive base salary, stock options, health benefits, flexible hours, and a great group of people to work with.


Junior Web Developer (San Francisco, CA)

The SuperPoke! Pets team are looking for a Junior Web Developer to help build features that delight the growing and passionate SPP community.

Requirements:

  • B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • 0-3 years of industry experience, (We will consider fresh graduates with strong internships, co-op or open source contributions)
  • Strong object oriented skills to design and implement complex object-oriented abstractions
  • Healthy analytical and problem solving skills, with attention to detail
  • A desire to learn, excel, and contribute as part of a team building a product that reaches hundreds of thousands of users daily

Candidates should have experience with at least one of these technologies, and be excited about potentially learning the others:

  • Experience with Python (or other object-oriented scripting languages) to develop backend and business logic
  • Demonstrated skills in dynamic front-end web development, expertise in JavaScript/HTML/CSS, including familiarity with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, YUI, Dojo, etc.)
  • Expertise in Actionscript, preferably AS 3

Slide builds engaging communities driven by user-created content. We aim to empower virtual entrepreneurship by enabling thousands, if not millions, of our users to build wealth through our products. We offer users virtual “building blocks” with which to create their own amazing content to show off to friends, or trade and sell with others in the community. We define true success as our users becoming profitable.Our portfolio of products include fun applications and virtual communities such as Slideshow, SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets, SPP! Ranch, Top Friends, and FunSpace. Slide was founded in 2005 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and is backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.

Apply here and mention you heard about us on Women 2.0. Bonus points for creating a pet first here and including your pet’s URL in your cover letter!


Sr. Software Engineer/Developer (Santa Clara, CA)

We are recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer/Developer. Authorization to work in the United States is preferred. Full-time employment, not contract position. We are not interested in outsourcing. Relocation possible, local candidates preferred.

Senior Software Engineer/Developer:
IVR, Verification, Ruby, Rails, Perl, MySQL, Ruby-on-rails, IVR, Agile, Scrum, Extreme programming, SQL, LINUX, Javascript, J2EE, Java development, C++ or a mixture of C++, hand coding flash, Rich Internet Applications, Macromedia Flash, Object Oriented Action Script 2/3, Flash Remoting, Data Binding, Components, Flex or Lazlo, Action Script 2.0/3.0, Script Based Animation, Object-Oriented Programming, Flash Video (Progressive or Streaming), Event Driven Programming and XML, Design Patterns, Advanced Object-Oriented Programming,

Benefits:

  • STABLE - Stable and profitable with work schedule and location flexibility - allowing work from home periods during the week.
  • ANTI-TOIL - Move or stay in the SF Bay area while working REGULAR work hours instead of exerting all you have on someone else’s vision TOILING AWAY crazy startup hours or working for a company whose reputation is to work you to the bone for little reward.
  • SALARY - Get paid a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits rather than a bootstrapped startup salary with basic health care. Use that competitive salary and PEACE OF MIND to allow you to start thinking of bootstrapping your own startup.
  • LOCATION - Surround yourself with fellow San Francisco Bay area developers and find your next startup co-founder all while getting valuable programming experience from the original founders and engineers from Netscape/Mosaic, AOL, Tellme, eBay and Microsoft.
  • LEAN - Learn valuable lean startup techniques by working at a nimble company and attending local bay area events that have the original lean startup speakers like Eric Ries and Sean Ellis available for you to meet and talk to - RIGHT HERE by being a part of the Silicon Valley developer community.
  • LEARNING - Continue to learn and apply scrum, agile and lean methodologies while working with your team.

Our client is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and backed by Menlo Ventures and Benchmark Capital. They have been profitable since 2006 with a solid financial track record.

If interested, please send your resume in Word format to ryan.navratil@efficiencymatch.com Other positions are at Gaming and Mobile application development companies.


Chief Architect and Team Lead: Core Platform (Brooklyn, NY)

Etsy is seeking a Chief Architect who will own the overall architectural vision for everything Etsy, including web, mobile, and platforms of the future. This position is based in Brooklyn.

Some of the responsibilities for this position include:

  • Writing code in PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Objective C, and other languages to build amazing products for the Etsy community
  • Building awesome products with code that is beautiful, functional, and easy to maintain and extend
  • Leading teams of software developers on key projects and mentoring individual team members
  • Defining standards for the Etsy engineering team to follow
    leading code reviews
  • Making sure that Etsy continues to be fast as we grow and release more features
  • Designing and building tools that make it a joy for developers to write and ship code

This is a leadership position on the team, so you should have done these things before:

  • Led teams of software developers building awesome products
  • Implemented high-performance, high-availability, and highly-scalable systems at a consumer-facing web site with hundreds of millions of page views and tens of millions of passionate users
  • In-depth knowledge of
    HTML, CSS, JavaScript and associated frameworks (jQuery, prototype, YUI)
  • Relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL
  • Database scaling at the application level and practical experience with database sharding
  • Caching approaches, from object caching to CDNs
  • Lucene/Solr and other enterprise search technologies
  • Social networking applications and associated design patterns
    abuse and anti-spam approaches and technologies
  • RESTful web services APIs for developers, both building and using them
  • Credit card gateways, PayPal, and PCI compliance issues
  • Performance tuning web applications from the frontend to the backend
  • Squid proxy, lightttpd/Apache, and F5 BIG/IP load balancers
  • Project management tools and/or bug tracking systems like Trac, Bugzilla, and Jira
  • Source control systems like Subversion and git

Ideally, you will hold a B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, or have equivalent self-directed study and experience. Also important:

  • Shipping - You can point to products on the web today that you built and shipped
    love of the web and a sense of fascination with the endless possibilities it creates
  • Comfort with the occasional high jinks
  • A sense of fun and playfulness
  • Excellent communication skills

We’re growing rapidly and are well-funded with a proven business model and established revenue to help us continue growing and serving our community.

If you’re interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter along with your resume telling us what inspires you about Etsy and why you think you are perfect for the team. If you contribute to an open source project, write a blog, or practice another craft besides software, that means something to us, and we would love to hear about it when you write!

Etsy is the world’s most vibrant handmade marketplace. Our mission is to enable people all over the world to make a living making things. Etsy is growing rapidly and needs awesome, motivated people to join that mission. The growing Etsy community brings over 700 million page views per month, and Etsy counts over 4.4 million registered members in over 150 countries. Etsy was founded by Robert Kalin, Chris Maguire, and Haim Schoppik. Union Square Ventures is an original investor, as are the founders of Flickr and Delicious. In early 2008, Etsy received $27 million in funding from Silicon Valley’s Accel Partners.

The technical staff at Etsy believes that code is craft, good software and systems designs are works of art, and that the work we do is part of larger creative culture represented by the hundreds of thousands of inspired makers who make Etsy such a wondrous marketplace. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can do big things. We also believe in the right tool for the job, not language-as-religion. Our current systems run PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, Solr/Lucene, Postgres, MySQL, and more. Check out our Engineering blog!


Sr. Operations Engineer (Brooklyn, NY)

Etsy is seeking a seasoned Web Operations Engineer to join our ops team, to help build and maintain Etsy’s fast-growing infrastructure. You’d be on a team of infrastructure supernerds, working extremely closely with Etsy Engineering to come up with solutions to complex problems.

Responsibilities:

  • Building and maintaining Etsy’s infrastructure, from installed iron to production
  • Taking part in a 24×7 on-call rotation
  • Tightly cooperating and collaborating with development, product, community and customer care

Requirements:

  • Experience with configuration management systems and concepts (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, etc.)
  • Experience in systems programming and general scripting tasks (perl, bash, php, python, etc.)
  • Experience with high-volume web applications with social components
  • Experience with multi-datacenter architectures, global fault tolerance, and CDNs
  • Experience with fault-tolerant replication strategies
  • Experience with mission-critical search and realtime database architectures (Solr, Lucene, MySQL, Mongodb, Postgres, etc.)
  • Experience working with customizing network management systems and monitoring tools (Nagios, Ganglia, Graphite, Cacti, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of web application architecture, including TCP/IP and HTTP, and caching strategies at all layers
  • Support of software engineers and their development environment and code repository (Subversion), including code deployment to production
  • Enterprise experience with internal core systems, such as but not limited to DNS, LDAP, NTP
  • Experience with data center management, including strong knowledge of power, space, and cooling issues
  • Experience with credit card gateways and PCI compliance issues
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Bonuses:

  • Experience in a “continuous deployment” environment
  • Experience in social networking or community-generated content
  • Experience with managing the infrastructure for a growing open API
  • Database query optimization
  • Hands-on network security tasks, including VPNs/firewalls configuration
  • Network experience with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VLAN, PVLAN,Spanning-Tree, MSTI
  • Knowledge of programming languages such as Python, PHP, JAVA, Ruby

If you’re interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter along with your resume telling us what inspires you about Etsy and why you think you are perfect for the team. If you contribute to an open source project, write a blog, or practice another craft besides software, that means something to us, and we would love to hear about it when you write!

Etsy is the world’s most vibrant handmade marketplace. Our mission is to enable people all over the world to make a living making things. Etsy is growing rapidly and needs awesome, motivated people to join that mission. The growing Etsy community brings over 700 million page views per month, and Etsy counts over 4.4 million registered members in over 150 countries. Etsy was founded by Robert Kalin, Chris Maguire, and Haim Schoppik. Union Square Ventures is an original investor, as are the founders of Flickr and Delicious. In early 2008, Etsy received $27 million in funding from Silicon Valley’s Accel Partners.

The technical staff at Etsy believes that code is craft, good software and systems designs are works of art, and that the work we do is part of larger creative culture represented by the hundreds of thousands of inspired makers who make Etsy such a wondrous marketplace. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can do big things. We also believe in the right tool for the job, not language-as-religion. Our current systems run PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, Solr/Lucene, Postgres, MySQL, and more. Check out our Engineering blog!