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activeweave
is a recently funded start-up building a social overlay for the web,
a new publication and communications platform, empowering novel socially-mediated browsing experience.
we've been written up by Techcrunch, Business 2.0, Venture Wire.
we're in the heart of SOMA in San Francisco, around the corner from South Park,
a vibrant and dynamic neighborhood filled with young companies creating and designing the next wave of
web-based services and applications. we're in the heart of the new Web 2.0 movement.
the many adjacent cafes and restaurants buzz with the creation of the internet's future, and Caltrain is only a few blocks away.
we are looking for top-notch individuals to join the team at
activeweave.
are you passionate about improving the web as a platform?
do you have a burning need to contribute key bits to a pioneering service?
have something to show us? send your résumé!
here are the positions we currently have open:
Senior Software Engineer, Browser Technologies
| your mission: |
as the lead engineer responsible for our site and browser-based client, you are shaping the face of activeweave.
you work closely with our product management, user experience, and core server development teams,
to determine what is built into our service, when, and how.
you architect, design, and develop our web application, its user interface, the underlying client-side data model;
you devise and optimize communication protocols to our servers. |
| your experience: |
browser extension development (Firefox and Internet Explorer), data modeling,
distributed computing, web application development, AJAX development. |
| your background: |
preferably BS/MS in Computer Science. |
| your skills: |
extensive cross-browser Javascript, CSS, DOM, XML, and XHTML expertise, Java programming, HTTP, REST. |
| your hobbies: |
social computing, blogging, tinkering with web browsers, making great looking web sites, keeping up with cool open-source toolkits. |
Software Engineer, Server Technologies
| your mission: |
you'll be a key contributor to our activeweave back-end server architecture. you are concerned with robustness, scale, and throughput. you'll design and develop our middle-tier and back end server infrastructure, including object and persistence models, processing flows and algorithms. you'll work with our user-interface developers to tailor API's and communications protocols to provide a reactive, dynamic and rich experience for users of our Ajax-enhanced web application front ends.
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| your experience: |
creating and optimizing high-traffic web applications, with an emphasis on rich media, social interaction, and dynamic user experience.
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| your background: |
preferably BS/MS in Computer Science. |
| your skills: |
Object-oriented design and programming, data modeling, distributed computing, high-traffic web application development. You have extensive back-end Java/J2EE programming, concurrent programming, data structures, RDBMS: JDBC, MySql, Postgressql; Object-Relational mapping/Hibernate, XML, DOM, HTTP, REST, exposure to everything LAMP, familiarity with open development platform components and projects. and expertise with tools including Apache Tomcat, Jboss, Eclipse, Intellij, Jmeter, Jprofiler.
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| your hobbies: |
social computing, blogging, new paradigms for empowering user-contributed content, and implementing the efficient and robust caches, protocols and search algorithms to realize these. you're enthusiastic about the potential of RSS and technologies empowering users to "mash-up" their sources of data. you read Techcrunch avidly!
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Senior Software Engineer, Core Server Technologies
| your mission: |
as the lead engineer in charge of our activeweave back-end server,
you are living and breathing robustness, scale, throughput and APIs.
you architect, design, and develop our core infrastructure, including its object and persistence models, its processing flows.
you work with the developer community, the client development team to determine what APIs are exposed,
what open standards we follow or contribute to.
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| your experience: |
data modeling, distributed computing, object-oriented design and programming, high-traffic application development |
| your background: |
preferably BS/MS in Computer Science. |
| your skills: |
extensive back-end Java programming, concurrent programming, data structures, RDBMS, Object-Relational mapping, XML, DOM, HTTP, REST.
exposure to everything LAMP, familiarity with open development platform components and projects. |
| your hobbies: |
social computing, blogging, implementing efficient and robust caches, devising better search algorithms. |
User Experience Design Architect
| your mission: |
you're a champion for simplicity in the user experience, translating complex concepts and user behaviors into simple, elegant design solutions within technical constraints.
you work closely with the product marketing and the browser technologies teams, providing natural visual metaphors
and interactions for the facilities they define and implement. you help refine the user behavior model,
with input and feedback from the user community.
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| your experience: |
creating user-interfaces and looks for web services, desktop applications, or games. |
your background: |
industrial design, communications design, human computer interfaces, or fine arts with specialization in the web. |
| your skills: |
creating visual vocabularies, design, and interaction behaviors. |
| your hobbies: |
pushing the limits of CSS and DHTML, testing every Ajax or Flash based app that comes out, designing skins for your favorite tools. |
Director of Product Marketing and Management
| your mission: |
you are responsible for planning and executing on products that will help
activeweave achieve value and volume, and help us meet our business objectives and financial targets.
you work closely with the executive management team to define, schedule, coordinate, communicate,
and deliver the activeweave platform, applications,
and product roadmap; analyze the marketplace, customers and competitors; define and champion product requirements
and pricing and business models;
and help clearly deliver activeweave's marketing message.
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| your experience: |
product management experience delivering internet-based services and applications and marketing experience generating demand for them. |
| your background: |
MBA with strong technical background, or MS in Engineering with strong business background. |
| your skills: |
sharp analytical, problem-solving, and verbal and written communication skills. ability to work well with both business and technical collaborators. |
| your hobbies: |
you read both the HBR and the MIT Tech Review, preferably online, and ponder how to build business models based on RSS. |
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