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.

One thing we learned from launching FaceStat is that if you let users upload images, they will upload something inappropriate.

It’s not a trivial problem to solve. Machine learning algorithms aren’t good enough to be trustworthy, but users expect their images to be available immediately. FaceStat doesn’t have enough volume to justify hiring a person to sit around the clock checking every uploaded image. But even if it did, there has got to be a better way right?

With a little help from CrowdSifter, Amazon Mechanical Turk is a perfect solution. Through its simple REST and JavaScript API’s, CrowdSifter makes it incredibly easy to moderate user generated content.

We’re really excited about this product, and hope others will find it as useful as we have. In fact, we will moderate 1000 images from your site for free.

Watch a one minute video of CrowdSifter in action after the fold.

CAUTION: this video contains brief and pixelated nudity…

If you could ask dozens of random people on the internet questions like “Do I look smart?” or “Does this dress make me look fat?”, why wouldn’t you? Today there are no excuses! With the launch of FaceStat you have the power to decide exactly what profile picture is right for the 10 different social networks you’re a part of. You have the power to make sure the photo you’re about to upload to Match.com makes you look attractive and funny. You have the power to make sure you look trustworthy and never divorced before your girlfriend sends that picture to her parents.

A couple weeks ago we took some pictures and asked Turkers a bunch of questions. We thought this was really cool so we built a tool to let anybody see what people had to say about their picture.

You just upload a picture from your hard drive or Facebook, and we send the faces out to Mechanical Turk to be judged. Currently you can get statistics on one photo per day. Browse the latest faces, or even see who looks the most trustworthy.

Add some faces, and see how you stack up!

-Chris