Location: San Jose, CA
URL: http://www.mixbook.com
Description:
Mixbook (www.mixbook.com) is a well-funded San Jose, CA startup that has grown to over 1 million users (and 1.5 million Mixbooks created) with a team of only 4 employees. The growth is accelerating, and we are hiring a Ruby on Rails developer to own the entire back end for Mixbook.com and Mixbook’s upcoming developer platform APIs. This position will be tough, yet extremely rewarding. You will own the entire back-end development of a platform used by millions of people.
Role:
- Architect and build the Mixbook Platform – API Specification and Implementation
- Own Mixbook’s services architecture – work directly with the co-author of RubyAMF.
- Database architecture and scalability.
- Deployment for Mixbook.com and various social networking applications.
Qualifications:
- Strong CS background required.
- VERY STRONG knowledge of Ruby on Rails and MySQL.
- Comfortable working with Linux/UNIX: writing shell scripts, using cron, etc.
- You’re addicted to problem solving, and settle for nothing less than the best solution.
- Experience building and scaling web sites with at least 100k users.
- Strong communication skills – if you have a problem with something, you speak up.
- Extremely hard working. This is a start-up – long hours should be afraid of you because you own them.
- Thrive on working with A-players. You’re too good to spend long hours with B-players.
- People like you and enjoy working with you.
- Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent required, Masters is a plus.
About Mixbook:
Mixbook is a community where people can collaborate with family and friends to create photo products such as photo books and posters. Users can share their creations online for free as widgets or on Mixbook.com – like a YouTube for photo books. Unlike other web 2.0 startups, Mixbook actually makes money (what a novel idea!) by letting users buy high quality copies of their work to share in real life. We offer competitive salary and high equity compensation, along with good benefits (medical, dental, vision), a new MacBook Pro or PC, dual monitors, and a chance to impact a community of millions.
We’re looking for talented and passionate people who take pride in giving customers a phenomenal and enriching online experience. If you care about creating powerful tools that everyday people can use to express themselves, email us at jobs@mixbook.com.
P.S. Not for you? We will pay you a 00 referral bonus if you refer us to the person we hire.
To apply: Send a resume to aryk@mixbook.com