The nice thing about ROIKOI (disclaimer: I also work there) is that we don't need all signals to be from your current company. We get signals from previous companies, people you've gone to school with, and people you may know in your city.
All of the leaderboards for the companies that I worked for are all top notch folks I would hire in a heartbeat, so so far our output has been fantastic.
I was recently in your shoes and took the CTO position, leaving behind a very cushy, well-paying job at an established software company. It's more work than I was doing at my previous company, and I'm working a lot more hours than before (much to my wife's chagrin). I spend most of my time writing code (75%), but I do participate a lot in product discussions, strategy, and general managing (1-1s, code reviews, architecture discussions, etc). It's more of a VP Eng position than a CTO since I'm so hands-on, but, for me, the title itself is not relevant.
The startup raised a big seed round, and will go through a Series A fund-raising round within the next 6-12 months. My reasons for leaving the established company were to challenge myself and learn. I'm hoping to start my own company one day, so for me I'm trading financial well-being and stability at the established company for a crash-course start-up MBA experience. And in the event that we take have a favorable exit, than that's all the better (as much as I believe in the company, I do realize that statistics say otherwise).
https://roikoi.com is a well-funded, 7-person startup in Austin, TX. Our team is top-notch, coming from previous Austin successes like Bazaarvoice, HomeAway, RetailMeNot, & Mutual Mobile. We've raised $1.5M of seed funding earlier this year on our prototype and are heads down building out features and our mobile applications.
We use Python (flask), DynamoDB, and Cloudsearch on top of AWS for our API, and backbone.js powers our front-end application. A Cordova mobile app is coming soon for Android and iOS. Our ideal candidate is experienced with building Python APIs but is capable and interested in writing JS. While strongly preferred, Python experience isn't strictly required if you can show proficiency in other languages.
You'll receive generous equity, a competitive salary, whatever tech you need, and fully covered health insurance.
https://roikoi.com is a well-funded, 7-person startup in Austin, TX. Our team is top-notch, coming from previous Austin successes like Bazaarvoice, HomeAway, RetailMeNot, & Mutual Mobile. We've raised $1.5M of seed funding earlier this year on our prototype and are heads down building out features and our mobile applications.
We are looking to add a 5th developer (mostly backend) to the engineering team. Our back-end stack is Python (flask), DynamoDB, & Cloudsearch on top of AWS with a backbone.js front-end and Cordova mobile apps on the way. Our ideal candidate is experienced with building APIs but is capable & interested in writing JS. Python experience isn't strictly required if you can show proficiency in other languages.
You'll receive generous equity, a competitive salary, and fully covered health insurance.
ROIKOI soft launched at SWXWi and quickly got thousands of users who've made a few hundred thousand ratings. We have a ton of ideas that we need help implementing on.
We are looking for an top-notch backend engineer, preferably with python & AWS (ec2+dynamodb) experience. Our team is 6 right now, and we are well-funded. This is a great opportunity to join a pre-Series A startup.
Google Code Jam has just started and so Google has the infrastructure and experience to handle large online coding contests. They should have just made Google I/O registration a simple programming exercise. Even a 10-minute in-browser exercise would have self-selected the right audience for I/O.
Most are (easily > 90%), so why aren't a majority of the seats determined this way? With a quick glance of last year's sessions, I don't see anything that's design focused. Maybe technical designers who also do a bit of prototyping and developing would benefit, but that's a developer-centric role, it's a lot more than design anyway, and I'd expect such a person to be able to complete a simple programming challenge.
With the holidays, I had some free time for a weekend project. Let me know if you think this is useful or if you have any ideas for improvement. Thanks for looking!
Austin, TX | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY -- Full Time
Bazaarvoice is something you interact with daily if you ever shop online. Come help us build services that are used by over 450m unique people per month. We're 100% cloud, operating in three AWS regions, and our internal cloud tools gives Netflix a run for their money (and are itching for you to help open source).
We're hiring for just about every engineering position: developers, devops, dev managers, QA, etc.
Contact me if you have questions about BV, questions about positions, or just want to chat tech: victor@bazaarvoice.com | @victortrac
Austin, TX | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY -- Full Time
Bazaarvoice is something you interact with daily if you ever shop online. Come help us build services that are used by over 450m unique people per month. We're 100% cloud, operating in three AWS regions, and our internal cloud tools gives Netflix a run for their money (and are itching for you to help open source).
We're hiring for just about every engineering position: developers, devops, dev managers, QA, etc.
Contact me if you have questions about BV, questions about positions, or just want to chat tech: victor@bazaarvoice.com | @victortrac
All of the leaderboards for the companies that I worked for are all top notch folks I would hire in a heartbeat, so so far our output has been fantastic.