I am so excited about expanding our footprint in the NYC tech scene. Please spread the word to the best engineers you know!
SocialFeet, a seed-funded startup in NYC, seeks to hire a brilliant, GTD engineer to be employee #4.
It is an amazing time to be innovating in social commerce. Social networking, flash sales, group buying are transforming how consumer discover products. With a single javascript tag, retailers prompt sharing at check out (play with a demo or watch a 1min video) and even offer discounts for visitors who check in. Every online retailer needs a product like SocialFeet, and we are making great progress signing them up!
To support our growth, we are hiring a lead engineer. This engineer will help us scale, add support for more social networks, and launch new products and features. If you are the ideal hire, you know how to employ agile development processes to build just-in-time scalable web applications. You can crank out usable code to contribute to minimizing the time through the build/measure/learn cycle.
The founding team consists of previously successful entrepreneurs and technologists. For our part, we will do great engineering, product and business development. To apply to join us, send us your resume, links to past work, and a cover note. Please tell us why you think that there is a good fit!
Requirements
- Experience in end-to-end web app development built on internal and external web services
- Strong core engineering skills: testing, deployment & source management
- Familiarity with our tech stack: java/postgres/glassfish and Open Graph API, OAuth, etc.
- Unix chops for hosting/scaling in the cloud
Benefits:
- Join as a key player on a small, ambitious team
- Set the standard pattern for sharing on engaging web sites
- Gain experience designing for the entire gamut of Social Media Applications (Facebook, Twitter, Open Social, OAuth, etc)
- Join a hungry & promising startup which offers enough cash to eat (and drink) and generous equity compensation
