These are the sorts of job posts that just make me look forward to
switching to a different career... "kegerator" & "beer pong"?
I should want to hang out with you outside of work and watch you drink
until you puke while listening to loud rock & roll music? (From the
tone of the below it seems like you may be doing this during the workday!)
Clearly nobody in this awesome company has yet seen their 25th birthday...
On 4/11/2011 3:47 PM, Nik Bonaddio wrote:
I'm not a recruiter. Recruiters are lame and have no idea what they're
doing. I know exactly what I'm looking for, so I'm posting here.
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Let's start with the boring stuff up front: We're a small, agile,
well-trafficked startup in the sports analytics space. We've been
covered by TechCrunch, we've been written up in Sports Illustrated,
and now we're going to revolutionize the way users consume and engage
with sports content. Our founders are ballers, our advisors are even
more ballerous, and just wait until you see our product..
If you're someone who loves sports and also loves building products,
then we're your company. Even if you're not a huge sports fan, feel
free to reach out to us - we're more interested in someone who knows
how to get stuff done. If you're wondering what kind of people we're
like socially, we have a kegerator in our office and our most played
artist on iTunes is Animal Collective. You should be able to get our
jokes and we should be able to want to hang out with you outside of work.
Our stack is built on PHP and MySQL, but we're considering moving to
Couch or Mongo. What do you suggest? We'd love to know. We have a
world-class designer and front-end developer on board, we need to find
someone who is comfortable on the PHP backend, taking things from the
browser-level all the way down to the DB. We're not looking for
someone who is merely good; we're looking for /great/ - '85 Bears
great. Lemieux in the 91-92 playoffs great. Lemonade and BBQ on a
Summer afternoon great.
*
Skillsets:*
* Excellent PHP skills (should be comfortable building out an
application scalable to 100,000 daily uniques)
* Knowledgeable of system-wide architecture (setting up version
control, release engineering structs, etc.)
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup setting
* Familiarity with beer pong and general precepts of social skill
*Nice to have:*
* Familiarity with HTML/CSS/jQuery (not totally necessary as we
already have a world-class designer and front-end)
* Sports fan (big, big plus - let us know what your favorite team is)
*What we're not:
*
* Some huge, boring company where you'll have meetings about meetings
* A company that works in a space that you could care less about
* A startup that values founder's valuations over the future gains
of the employees
* A company founded by a bunch of suits who can't code Hello World
in BASIC
*Even though we're a startup, this is a salary position.* We'll shell
out for the right employee. There is also a _TON_ of equity involved;
you're the third employee and huge part of our future success - we'll
take care of you. You should ideally be in NYC, but that won't stop us
from moving forward with the right person.
To apply, just send us a resume (please send [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>) and we'll go from there.
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