Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.wikispaces.com/
Wikispaces.com is looking for a software engineer to help build and scale our quickly-growing web application.
This position is full time.
This position is in San Francisco.
We’re a small team working on a big site, and we’re looking for a passionate engineer to dive in with us. Wikispaces is a wiki host, providing easy to use wikis for a wide audience. There’s lots to do: designing and building new parts of the application, working on our front-end javascript and AJAX, squeezing a few more requests/second out of our web heads, working on our replicated databases and file storage. We don’t like big specifications or heavy planning processes; instead, we work on small projects, ship code frequently, and write lots of tests. We’re built on lighttpd, PHP, MySQL, python, javascript.
You are fluent in PHP, python, Java, or Ruby and can pick up a language from this list you don’t yet know. You have personally built large, interesting, or complex web applications before, and can show us what you’ve done. You’re perfectly comfortable with relational databases like MySQL and know the ins-and-outs of writing and optimizing queries against large datasets. You can talk about a wide array of trade-offs facing web developers: use of frameworks vs. in-house code, what caching strategy to choose, how to select 3rd party libraries, what to do when table X gets to 100 million rows. You’re not a platform zealot, but you think Linux is a fine choice as a server OS.
Above all, you love to build and ship products that real people will use every day.
Why you should apply
We’re a small, smart, fast-moving company where you’ll play a huge part in the success of our business. We love to build real applications that serve real people. We’re also private and closely-held, growing fast, and profitable. If you are passionate about building web applications, want a big say in the future of the company you work for, and want to be free of meetings, office politics, and big-company-boredom, drop us a line.
About us
Wikispaces is the world’s easiest to use wiki hosting service. We offer free, subscription, and private label services. We’re a 2 year old company based in San Francisco’s South of Market district. You’ll be working with Adam, Bisma, Dom, James, and Sarah. We are creative and driven, we love bringing Wikispaces to new people every day, and we build great web applications.
Please, no recruiters. Principals only.
To apply: Send a brief introduction and current resume to jobs@wikispaces.com