Unnamed new venture | Los Angeles (Santa Monica) | Designer, Full Stack Developers
We're looking to form a new team inside of a medium sized business (180M revenue last year). I have a history of doing work with these guys and will be joining full time to do this.
We will be developing a new product for brand management and content quality across world markets. I'm convinced that there is a need for this service and that the existing client base of the business will put it to immediate use as it comes into existence.
The office will be somewhere on the west side of Los Angeles. We're looking for people who can work several
days a week in Santa Monica, Venice, or thereabouts. Some work from home would be fine, along with time flexibility.
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What do we offer?
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This will be greenfield development with control over technology choice and processes, while at the same time working reasonable hours in a stable and profitable company. Benefits will include good health insurance, 401k matching, and options in the parent company (held by private equity, liquidity event about 4 years down the road).
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Who would be a fit?
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We're planning to get to initial launch with 3-4 team members:
- A designer with UX chops ("Academic" UX is relevant to the application domain, and would be valued, and any interest in CSS or other frontend development skills is great too)
- 2-3 Full stack developers, where at least one person is very strong with Angular or Backbone and is in general a real Javascript engineer
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What technologies are relevant?
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Generalists who have experience in several technologies are ideal.
The plan is to collectively decide what technologies to use as the team comes together. My own recent projects have used:
Angular / Backbone
Python / Ruby
Rails / Django / Sails.js
rspec / unittest / mocha
Sidekiq / Celery
Postgres
Riak
Redis
SOLR
Ansible / Docker / Vagrant
I also have past professional experience in C++, PHP, Java + various frameworks, and C# with the MVC framework.
My opinion is that rails has a small productivity edge for this type of project but we may want to optimize for other goals.
informal inquiries are welcome, please put Hacker News in the subject line. I'll be at the AWS conference this week if anyone is there.
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