Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.slideshare.net
Software Engineer @ SlideShare
Is SlideShare (www.slideshare.net) For You? Do you …
- get excited about building products that will be immediately used by millions of people?
- want to shape the direction of the next wave of online social media?
- love thinking about cool technical problems (examples: making tagging work over millions of items, designing REST APIs that don’t suck)?
If this sounds like your kind of gig, then check out this slideshow to understand a bit more about us.
http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/meet-dave-meet-slideshare/
Cool, you’re back. Isn’t Dave a hoot?
We’re looking for a passionate and talented software engineer to help us take slideshare to the next level.
SlideShare is THE best place on the web to share presentations … think "the youtube of powerpoint" and you won’t be too far off the mark. We launched in October 06, are growing fast (4.5 million monthly visitors last month), and we just got funded!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/07/slideshare-secures-3m-for-embeddable-presentations/
We have to offer:
- existential bliss: every week millions of people will use the code you wrote last week
- you get to work on one of the biggest Ruby on Rails sites on the web
- birds-eye view of a thriving social media site
- things get a bit exciting sometimes, especially when we stand up for free speach!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/slideshare-slammed-with-ddos-attacks-from-china/ - fun work environment. No bureaucracy, meetings, or politics
- great commute/lifestyle (office is in SOMA district of SF, near BART and CalTrain)
- competitive salary and benefits
- generous equity package
- bad-ass mac laptop and a big external monitor free with every purchase!
- access to a recording / mixing studio (it came with the office, and the landlord is cool with letting people use it)
You should be:
- independent-minded hacker/architects who gets off on scaling challenges and beautiful code
- you’re not a sysadmin, but you could play one on TV
- you’ve made good stuff before (personal projects, open source, or work projects that were all you) and can show us the code
- you have lots of ideas about how to make websites (especially slideshare!) better
Bonus points for:
- Already an expert in Ruby / Rails
- Previous experience building and nurturing big consumer internet sites
- Previous sysadmin experience or deep Linux/MySQL admin skills
We’re not super-obsessed by what language (ruby, python, php, java…) you happen to code best in now. What we’re looking for are people are eat, drink, and breath code, live on the web, and have sysadmin-level skills configuring Linux and MySQL.
Tags: ror ror mysql python php s3 ec2 linux social_media social_networking munin monit nagios cacti sphinx lucene facebook opensocial
Write jon AT slideshare DOT net for more details. Include a resume, and if possible some sample code.
To apply: Send resume and sample code to jon@slideshare.net