Recently Opened Opportunities

Software Engineer

Tom Summit — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:29:12 +0000

Overview

The Pitch

- Kayak.com is a cool website, and we are extremely customer focused.
- Travel is a huge part of US economy and one of the top few ecommerce categories.
- Our team includes key cofounders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia
- We have a very, very strong team of programmers, and we use cool technology.
- You will get more stuff done and have more fun here than at any job you have had.
- We pay well, and we don’t kill you with a million hours a week.

Responsibilities

Develop java framework for analysis of availabilityand pricing data, incorporating results into real-time search architecture.

Creation of tools for testing and improving the customer experience of the kayak.com meta-search engine.

Embrace and extend existing search architecture, with focus on reliability etc.

WORKS WITH

>>>>Chief architect for overall platform standards and spider architect for search code.

>>>>QA manager to co-design autotest plans which you will develop as part of your code.

>>>>Product management and business development on feature requirements and priorities.

>>>>Business technology partners, including the folks whose sites we search.

>>>> This position reports to our Director of Technology in Concord, MA USA.

Experience

We don’t care where you went to school, or if you went to school.

We don’t care what languages you use to program.

We don’t care how many years of experience you have.

You must be the strongest programmer on a 5+ person team for a successful internet product.

It might help if you knew stuff like lex, yacc, regular expressions, etc.

It would be fun if you were a world class kayak athlete, or world class at something.

Skills

Quick out of the gate, fast learner, thrives with very strong colleagues.

Passionate about architecture, clean code, reliability and automated testing.

Fun, ethical, passionate.

Education

We don’t care where you went to school, or if you went to school.

Just Kidding

Tom Summit — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:37:11 +0000

You knew that already right? I couldn’t help myself. I have seen the trends of Greentech datacenters and cloud computing getting attention and funding lately, so I thought it would be fun to combine them and play off the recent controversy regarding boiling a kettle for a cup of tea and the amount of energy used in a Google search.

I was inspired by a post by Furgan Nazeeri Microsoft buys 37Signals.

Web Application Engineer – PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Postgresql, Drupal

Tom Summit — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:58:43 +0000

Web Application Engineer – Drupal, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Postgresql, Linux, HTML

Position Title: Web Application Developer – Drupal, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Postgresql, Linux, HTML, Apache

Location: Boston, MA (Back Bay – Prudential Building – Commuter Rail and T-accessible).

Status: Full Time, Regular

Responsibilities: Working with Drupal. The Sr. Web Application Developer will be responsible for developing and administering all Web marketing infrastructure for the WordStream.com Web site.. Typical day-to-day responsibilities include:

* Writing Drupal Modules
* Writing & Customizing Drupal Themes
* Writing custom PHP & JavaScript Web applications
* Managing Web Server and IT Infrastructure

In addition to building/maintaining the Web site, the Web application developer will develop various database-driven web applications to power important internal sales and marketing systems, for example:

* Internal sales and lead management tools
* Online billing and reporting applications
* Affiliate marketing programs
* Single Sign-On
* Social Media Marketing Integration

Qualifications: You must have knowledge of Drupal. Candidate must have top-notch Web application development skills in addition to robust PHP programming skills in order. Please note, only candidates with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering, or, a very substantial amount of related technical coursework and Work experience in a related field will be considered.

Required Skills: Drupal, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Postgresql, Linux, HTML, Apache

Bonus Skills: AJAX, Flex, SalesForce.com, Flash, Photoshop, Python

Required Experience: +3 Years

Required Education: Bachelors Degree Travel Required: No

Benefits: BCBS Health Care (75% Employer-Sponsored, 25% Employee Pays – Pre-tax money), 401(k), Stock Options.

LocaModa: Senior Software Developer

Tom Summit — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:26:02 +0000

Overview

LocaModa is seeking an exceptional software developer. We are looking for someone who is passionate about media and social networks to join our cross functional team of designers and developers. LocaModa is building out infrastructure to support hundreds of thousands of interactive screens deployed in public spaces around the world.

Candidates must be highly motivated, extremely organized, detail-oriented and able to juggle multiple tasks and projects in a web 2.0 startup environment. Responsibilities will include design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable, highly available and distributed applications and services.

Experience

5+ years development experience in a linux environment.

Experience with mysql cluster, java threads, NIO, security, and JMS.

Experience with ruby/RoR is highly desirable.

Experience with mobile and web 2.0, social networking and/or multimedia also desirable.

Ambient Devices: Sr. Software Engineer – Java Web Applications

Tom Summit — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:22:44 +0000

Overview

We are seeking to hire a Java web application developer to help design and build the infrastructure for our next generation of product offerings. This position is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated self-starter to make a significant contribution towards designing and authoring key technologies and web services that will enable our company
to grow.

Responsibilities

Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle for existing and new products.

Develop and maintain new and existing systems based on specifications.

Work with internal on-site customer support team to resolve trouble tickets.

Share secondary off-hours production support responsibilities with the rest of development team.

Experience

2 – 3+ years full software lifecycle development experience delivering products against real-world deadlines.

2+ years experience with Java web application development.

Good knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis, UML and design patterns.

Direct experience developing medium to large Java-based web applications.

Solid knowledge of Web technologies and methodologies, SQL and relational database structures.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Must be a self-starter, self-managed individual who can quickly adjust priorities and maintain productivity.

Skills

>>>>Preference will be given to candidates with the following experience:<<<<

Hibernate

Spring

Struts 2

Eclipse

MySQL

Freemarker or Velocity

JUnit

Application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat and Jetty

Maven 2

Version control software such as Subversion and CVS

Java 5: Generics and Annotations

XML and XSL

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX

Any scripting language, such as Ruby, Perl or Python

Product/information/UI design

Experience with developing consumer electronics

Proficiency in French Language (optional)

Education

BSEE, BSCS or equivalent experience.

Spring Partners

Tom Summit — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:36:14 +0000

ExperienceLocation: Boston, MA
Spring Partners is a VC-backed start-up dedicated to using the power of the Web to help make people’s lives easier. We’re developing a customizable productivity platform that helps individuals and their families get things done faster and more effectively.
We are seeking a senior designer and front-end web developer (CSS/XHTML/JS) to join our rapidly growing product development team. We’re looking for a team oriented individual with extensive front-end experience, strong opinions on design and usability and a DIY mindset to turn wireframe concepts into prototypes and production releases.
Requirements

Passionate and detail oriented about design and usability
Deep understanding of website layout and usability
Strong XHTML/CSS skills and extensive experience with cross browser compatibility and CSS optimization.
Advanced knowledge of Javascript, writing custom scripts and working with libraries (jQuery, YUI, Prototype)
Active engagement with the industry and your trade, including keeping current with evolving and emerging technologies and their application to our platform.

3+ yrs experience building successful web applications as a key contributor

Crimson Hexagon

Tom Summit — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:53:39 +0000

SUMMARY:

Our funded start-up (based in Cambridge, MA) is seeking outstanding engineers with a wide range of skills to help found our development team. This is your chance to join a small team on the ground floor and use your creativity and expertise to help build a great product (and have fun doing it!). Please contact jobs@crimsonhexagon.com.

ABOUT US:

Crimson Hexagon is a Cambridge, MA based start-up that is addressing the question every marketer and brand manager yearns to answer: how can I make social media work for me, rather than against me? Online consumer-generated content is a potential gold mine, but deriving insights from it is extremely time-consuming and yields variable results. We can synthesize and aggregate opinions and information from that mine with proven, patent-pending blog/text reading software, based on analysis techniques and software developed by Prof. Gary King at Harvard University.

Rather than counting words or mentions, our technology automatically monitors sentiment changes daily on any user-defined topic (think mood ring vs. snapshot). For example, it can tell you how opinions on Barack Obama change on a daily basis (or even during/immediately after a debate), what consumers think about the iPhone after release, after price drop, after new campaign launch, etc. It also can be used to compare and select products (what do people think about Treo vs. Blackberry) or even to monitor competing products.

ABOUT THE JOB:

We’re looking for talented engineers, architects, web designers, and scientists to become founding members of our development team. We’re a small company, and so you can expect to have a lot of responsibility and flexibility. Depending on your skills and interests, you’ll have the opportunity to:

- Help design the overall system architecture
- Solve challenging algorithmic and scalability problems
- Work with customers and marketing to determine product direction and features
- Apply your design and implementation creativity to the user interface
- Use the latest technologies and tools
- Create a product with huge commercial potential

ABOUT YOU:

If you’re reading this, you probably already know that there are two characteristics of great engineers:
1) You’re smart.
2) You’re able to get things done.

We’d like to add a third of our own:
3) You share our general values by recognizing the value of teamwork, life-work balance, intellectual curiosity, and a job that’s challenging, rewarding, and actually FUN.

While we’re happy to hear from anyone who’s smart, can gets things done, and shares our values, we’re of course particularly interested in people with experience and interest in certain areas:

- High-performance distributed Java server applications
- Text storage, indexing, and retrieval (Lucene etc.)
- Statistics, mathematics, and the R programming language
- Text and graph analysis and algorithms
- Scalable database architectures (MySQL, PostgreSQL, clustering, shards, etc.)
- Distributed application integration (XML, SOA, web services, etc.)
- Linux server architecture for compute and storage scalability
- Modern web applications (AJAX, CSS, Javascript, Flash, etc.)
- Data visualization (Edward Tufte etc.)
- Product and user interface design

Flex Developer For MPG

Tom Summit — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:18:19 +0000

Start up ready senior engineer wanted to join early stage top tier VC funded startup. Help us build the next generation online recruiting technology.

Flash and/or Flex Developer who’s conversant with UML and design patterns.

Go to the head of the line if you can write ActionScript code that integrates with server technology.

Viximo Developer Web database design

Tom Summit — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:08:38 +0000

Location: Cambridge, Davis Square area

Viximo is looking for an innovative & energetic developer to join us on the ground floor.

Are you passionate about working on something fun in the earliest stages of development? Are you into open, collaborative space? Have you ever “Super Poked” someone? We are looking for the right person to join our founding engineering team for our web-based product in a brand new market. We will be implementing a sophisticated product that goes beyond a simple web app…in a really fun space.

Requirements:

4-8 years of development in a web-based environment

Deep familiarity with database design and access (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, content or object dbs)

Experience in web technologies, e.g. Java, Ruby, PHP, web services

Experience in BtoC web applications that have scaled

Experience in early start-ups

BSCS and excellent communication skills

Viximo Developer Web UI

Tom Summit — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:07:38 +0000

Location: Cambridge, Davis Square area

Viximo is looking for an innovative & energetic developer to join us on the ground floor.

Are you passionate about working on something fun in the earliest stages of development? Are you into open, collaborative space? Have you ever “Super Poked” someone? We are looking for the right person to join our founding engineering team for our web-based product in a brand new market. We will be implementing a sophisticated platform strategy that goes beyond a simple web app…in a really fun space.

Requirements:

2-4 years of UI development in a web-based environment

Familiarity building interactive web elements in Ajax, Flash, or FLEX as well as general web technologies, e.g. HTML, JavaScript, XML

Experience in early start-ups

BSCS and excellent communication skills

Plusses:

Experience in B2C web applications that have scaled

Understanding of basic web server fundamentals and RDBMS access