Backplane - Palo Alto, CA
== About Us ==
We are building a platform for interest-based online communities. We strive to create a platform filled with dynamic discussions. On one end, we are enabling the community leaders to start, grow, and manage their communities without any hassle; One the other end, we are providing the community participants the best experience to express themselves and connect with others.
Right now, we have 15 people in our engineering team. We encourage our engineers to explore and evaluate new technologies. We work together to create learning opportunities for everyone through code reviews, bi-weekly tech talks, algorithm lunches, and internal hackathons.
- Our site: <a href="http://thebackplane.com" >
- Our largest community - Lady Gaga's LittleMonsters: <a href="https://littlemonsters.com" >
== Technology ==
- AWS for hosting
- MongoDB for main data storage
- PHP-backed RESTful API (ZF2)
- Single page JavaScript Web client built with Backbone.js
- Native Android and iPhone apps
- Fluentd, Hadoop, MySQL, and Django are used for our data analytics portal
== Open Positions ==
- Senior Frontend Engineer
- Senior Backend Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
Check out <a href="http://jobs.thebackplane.com" > for more info. Please feel free to email me directly at chengyin [at] thebackplane.com.
We do take INTERNs and we do sponsor VISA.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)