Why work at fancy VC-backed startups with on-site chefs, when you could work at Dolores Labs with our unlimited Otter Pop policy? Despite what this blog might lead you to believe, we have a business model, our revenues are growing and we have some money in the bank. We were recently featured in Forbes and CACM.
We’re looking for a developer, a sales/BD person and an intern or two. You can see that Chris wrote the Developer description and Lukas wrote the Sales/BD description — we won’t even try to merge the two into the same style :).
Developer
We’re looking for a versatile backend developer that loves Ruby, Postgres, and scaling. Here are the details:
Skills that are a must
Ruby: we’re a Ruby shop, you’d best know Ruby.
Unix: our servers are Ubuntu, our workstations are f-ing unibody MacBook Pros.
MVC Web frameworks: we use both Merb and Rails.
Deployment: dealing with Nginx, God or Monit, and Thin or Mongrel using Capistrano or telnet…
API’s: experience with all that RESTful hotness and ways to authenticate it.
Scaling: distributed queues, load balancing, redundancy, memcached, etc.
Relational DB: we love Postgres, we don’t hate MySQL, we always need to optimize.
Testing: you understand its importance but aren’t all military about it.
GIT: that’s right, none of that non-distributed version control nonsense.
FTW
Statistics: you either know it or you love it, cuz we do :).
Editor: you can do some crazy unbelievable stuff in either VI or Emacs. I use TextMate :()
Front-end knowledge: you know where that front-end person is coming from.
Crowdsourcing: you’ve played with Mechanical Turk.
Taste: you like The Wire, you’re into Lost, you love Shawshank Redemption and Edward Norton.
Location: If you don’t live in SF, having lived on a street called Dolores at some point in your life helps. ;)
Humor: you have a sense of it.
Sales/Business Development
We’re also looking for someone to help with/lead our sales and business development. We have a solid product and pipeline full of deals that need to be closed. This is a chance to come in as the first non-engineer and take our business to the next level.
Responsibilities
- Close deals with large companies
- Own and manage the deal pipeline
- Develop initiatives designed to grow the business in new areas, and identify areas to drive future improvement
- Work with internal teams to ensure organizational understanding of partner product strategy, marketing initiatives and other partner needs
- Research prospective business partners and assess competitive landscape of potential business development partnerships
Requirements
- Proven ability to navigate and close deals with large companies
- Background and success in building and tracking a robust sales pipeline
- Proven track record in architecting complex deals
- Exemplary analysis and problem solving skills from both a strategic and tactical level
- Proven experience negotiating contracts and managing outside council
Experience with crowdsourcing or traditional outsourcing a plus.
Finally, we’re also looking for both engineering and non-engineering interns.
If this sounds like you, please send us a brief description of yourself along with a resume to jobs@doloreslabs.com.