SocialFeet.com seeks to hire a lead developer for our early stage startup.

SocialFeet enables any website to implement “Activity Stream Publishing” easily. With the SocialFeet widget, a website can increase traffic dramatically by empowering its visitors to stream their activities to Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. SocialFeet was selected to be a fbFund finalist.

Activity Stream Publishing is a challenging problem to work on. From a database perspective, you have transient streams (not just persistent relationships), continuous (not one-time) queries, sequential (not random) access and unpredictable data arrival patterns. From a UI perspective, you have ajax-y goodness a la Google Wave to manage synchronous and asynchronous messages in a small, yet highly contextualized, footprint. We have to define new standards and APIs for activity stream capturing and publishing. And our service has to scale not just to the total number of page views on our network of sites but to the number of interactions on each of these sites.

But of course there is dirty work, too. Browser compatibility; compatibility with multiple social network endpoints; and ultimately, integrating into every imaginable publishing framework. We expect professional, QA’ed and maintainable code.

FYI, our interviews always have coding tests. Primarily we are looking for folks who love to write code and are good at it. :)

Check out more about us on our site:
http://www.SocialFeet.com

Responsibilities
Co-lead the development of flagship application
Design and develop critical components of the core platform
UI design and development “that just works”

Required Skills & Experience

5 years commercial Java development experience
Thorough knowledge and current hands-on experience with JEE architecture and design patterns
HTML, CSS, Javascript, and AJAX experience

Desired Skills & Experience
Familiarity with Facebook Connect, Open Social, OAuth, and OpenID
Active user of social networking services (Facebook, Twitter)
Familiarity and comfort with agile development process

Perks

Join a visionary team early
Build a big system from the ground up.
Participate in the real-time streaming revolution, with the intellectual and financial potential that comes with it.
Poker / Tech & Beverage nights

To apply, please upload a resume and a cover letter at:

http://www.SocialFeet.com/about/developer