crowdbooster job post

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Hi, my name is Ricky Yean and I am Co-Founder and CEO of Crowdbooster. 
After two years of building out the service for tens of thousands of 
businesses around the world in just about every industry with just the 
three co-founders, we are eager to hire our first employee. We hope 
you will consider joining us at the most exciting stage of our startup. 

Our mission is to help businesses use social media to build real 
relationships with their customers. Imagine a world in which every 
business is like the neighborhood coffee shop, run by real people. 
They want to get to know you so they can better service you. You 
trust them with your needs, you identify with their mission, and 
you want them to succeed if they do a good job. That's the future 
we're constructing. Check out our job description below.


HN Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3983413


Crowdbooster is looking for a full-stack engineer

Crowdbooster is looking for its first employee.

We've built the best way for businesses to get fast, actionable 
data about their social media accounts. Tens of thousands of 
businesses use us every day, including Fortune 500 companies, 
advertising agencies, coffee shops, sports teams, rappers, 
politicians, and more.

Some more things about us:

-We have a legit technical team including two Stanford engineers 
with backgrounds in machine learning, human-computer interaction, 
and databases.

-We believe in simplicity, minimalism, and creating things that 
are a joy to use.-We're here to help businesses use social media 
to build real relationships, not spam, and we’ll never compromise 
on that.

-We're funded by some of the best early-stage investors in the 
valley, including SV Angel, Charles River Ventures, Y Combinator, 
and several early investors and employees of Facebook, Twitter, 
and Slide.

What we'd like to see from you:

-While your peers might describe you as a rockstar, the term 
embarrasses you. We love rockstars (many of them are Crowdbooster 
users!), but we've made a conscious decision to have a culture 
that revolves entirely around our product, not our egos.

-You've wrestled with big data before. Crowdbooster requires 
storing terabytes of data, extracting insights using statistical 
learning techniques, and making it available to our users in 
real-time.

-That said, you like working at every level of the stack, not 
being pigeonholed as a backend developer.

-You care a lot about the products you ship, and don't need a 
manager or "product guy" to motivate you to get every detail right.

-You're familiar with several parts of our stack, and willing to 
learn the rest. We use Python, Django, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, 
jQuery, Protovis, RabbitMQ, Celery, HAProxy, EC2, git, and more.

-You have projects of your own to show us. It doesn't matter whether 
it's an open source project, a startup idea, or just a really fun 
toy project. Just as long as you shipped it.

If this fits you, email [email protected]