Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.scribd.com/
Scribd is a San Francisco startup backed by top investors including Redpoint Ventures, the Kinsey Hills Group, Y Combinator and a handful of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious angel investors. We are changing the way people share documents online. Since Scribd launched in March 2007, it has become one of the top 500 websites on the Internet, receiving over 20 million monthly visitors. According to the Rails 100 list of the the most trafficked rails websites, Scribd is the largest rails website in the world: http://rails100.pbwiki.com/Alexa+Rankings.
Scribd created iPaper, the first document format built for the web. Like YouTube’s player did for video formats, iPaper standardizes all document formats into one viewer that can be seamlessly integrated into webpages. Through Scribd.com, iPaper and the Scribd platform, Scribd is changing the say people view, publish and monetize documents. Through our vast library of content and our unique document display technology, we hope to unlock the information in the world’s documents and make it readily accessible to everyone!
We are located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, close to CalTrain, BART and MUNI. Our small team is passionate, talented, motivated and fun. You’ll often find us holding group brainstorming sessions, eating lunch and dinner as a team, playing winner-take-all ping-pong games and celebrating our successes along the way. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, generous equity stakes and free food from local restaurants.
The job:
Do you love data? Scribd needs a rock-star developer with strong quantitative skills to help us analyze the huge volume of data we