Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.songbirdnest.com
Who we are:
Songbird, http://www.songbirdnest.com
Pioneers of the Inevitable, Inc. is a top-tier venture-funded San Francisco Internet/digital media start-up that develops and nurtures Songbird, a mash-up of a desktop media player and a Web browser. Digital media cool hunters, developers, service providers and device makers are adopting Songbird because it connects the music and video from any Internet service to a user’s desktop library and devices. Songbird’s final 1.0 release promises a burgeoning "Media Web" of accessible, interoperable media stores, subscription services and social networks.
Digital media pundits and developers are already chirping about Songbird’s 500k+ installs, recognition in BoingBoing, TechCrunch, Slashdot, Digg and volunteer translations to 40+ languages. Like Firefox, Songbird is Mozilla-based desktop software, cross-platform, open source, supports extensions and even enables Internet services to invoke media player and media device features from a Web page.
Songbird’s team is a successful clutch of developers, entrepreneurs and executives, most recently leading digital media strategy at Yahoo!, Nullsoft (Winamp), AOL, Netscape and Philips. The company is financed by Sequoia Capital, the original investors of Intel, Apple, Yahoo!, Google and YouTube.
"Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players."
– Aaron Boodman,
Greasemonkey author
Songbird Developer Preview is available for download now. Songbird User Release will fly in early 2008.
The job:
This is an opportunity to create services that will define the Media Web. You will participate in all phases of development for our Web sites and services, from architecture to coding. As a member of our web application team, you will work closely with our product, user experience, desktop application and network operations team to define, implement and refine features.
You ideally:
- have been involved with web development for many years
- appreciate Rails’ opinionated approach to development and favor simple designs
- can fly with semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX
- can sculpt clean database schemas and can peck away at SQL queries when a performance boost is needed
- are active in the Ruby community
- are an advocate of test-driven-development and strive to achieve 100% code coverage with your tests
and you get extra worms if:
- you get Git
- you are experienced with dimensional data modeling and statistics
- you have used Bugzilla
- you’re a music snob
This position reports to the Vice President of Engineering.
Availability: Full-time.
Compensation and Relocation: Pioneers of the Inevitable, Inc. has created a competitive compensation and equity package. Relocation assistance is designed on a per case basis. In short, we’ll be creative to get you here.
To apply: If you have the eggs to join us, please send your email cover letter and resume with the subject “Your name – Rails Engineer – via 37signals” to jobs@songbirdnest.com. In your cover letter, please include the URLs of three sites you directly worke