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  • 2010 Q1 Jobs


    Overall:

    drop.io is a passionate set of people taking a very different approach to media and file-sharing.  We strongly believe that the world generally, and the internet specifically, is changing at an accelerated rate.  We believe that solving the communication and content problems of the future require looking at the world in a new way, and solving a new set of problems.  

    Thus, as a team we strive to serve our millions of users a month with a set of tangible services that delight and actively make them more productive - while factoring the service and the company to play an ever greater role at the core of how people share rich media.

    As we move beyond early experimentation in the space, and early proof of monetization, we are looking for the right foundational team members to factor the company going forward.  So, while we are very proud of what we have accomplished and built, we are even more excited about the horizon, and we are thrilled to be actively looking for the right team members to catalyze our efforts.  


    we are looking for designer(s), developer(s), hacker(s), and Business-people/Evangelists

    General Requirements for All Applicants:

    • Passion
    • Creativity
    • Intellectual and Personal Honesty
    • Love of rapidly learning and integrate new tool-kits to meet new challenges
    • Fearlessness working outside your comfort zone
    • Passion for experimentation and 'hacking'
    • Impatience with technology
    • Manic orientation towards execution and iteration
    • A fundamental belief in 80/20 balanced with a passion for craftsmanship

    Generally Desirable:
    • Renaissance person who actively enjoys wear many hats
    • Curiosity, beyond software and the web
    • Eloquence
    • Entrepreneurial spirit/interest in what is new
    • Many people would describe you as the best they know at what you do
    • Sense of humor

    Designer(s):

    drop.io is not a traditional web-site/web-service and our visual design presents a set of unique and very interesting design problems, largely but not exclusively around facilitating rich media.  We are searching for designers who are actively enticed by a theoretical challenge, but also are excited to turn theory into very practical reality.  This is about skill and passion for a large portion of the design spectrum (information architecture, interaction design, graphic design), ability to hand-code HTML/CSS with ease, and at least enough JavaScript to simulate the experience of your design.  

    desirable:  Solid foundation in computer science, Interest in Visual Arts beyond UI design.  Experience conducting usability studies.  We generally believe that the closer you are to being able to execute your vision in production, the better.

    Developer(s):

    high octane problem solvers who are interested in the metaphor of the 'cloud' and media .  Derive joy from abstracting and re-factoring.  Eagerness to tackle dirty problems, and a very good sense of when hacking is the right answer, and when it isn't.

    desirable:  experience with ruby, knowledge of front-end technologies.  Interest in both the nitty gritty and the big picture.  Interest in coding and leadership.  Have built and launched web services.

    Hacker(s):

    RFC 1392 defines a hacker as a "person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular." Drop.io is looking for a professional Hacker. 

    Responsibilities include:
    • Active involvement in a free software or open source community
    • Knowledge and practice with the Debian GNU/Linux operating system
    • Automated systems administration skills
    • Practice with the Ruby programming language
    • Practice with Bash in both interactive and scripted environments
    • Practice with the PostgreSQL relational database
    • Theory or practice with automated monitoring and statistics gathering applications (Nagios and Munin a plus)
    • Practice with an automated production deployment environment (Capistrano a plus)
    • Intimate knowledge of the HTTP protocol

    Other cool stuff that will be good to know:
    • Ruby on Rails
    • GCC
    • Make
    • Debian packaging
    • Rubygem packaging
    • TCP/IP networking
    • iptables
    • Linux kernel details
    • Set theory
    • Concurrency theory
    • The Erlang programming language
    • Amazon EC2 and S3
    • resource benchmarking


    Business & Evangelists:

    business people at drop.io solve problems up and down the chain.  Evangelists help explain how other companies, and especially developers, can leverage drop.io to their advantage.  For these roles communication skills in multiple formats is paramount.  Extreme passion for and record of successfully attacking multi-faceted problems by leveraging a full toolkit of relationships, sales, marketing, and more.  Flexible resilient executors. 

    desirable: very solid theoretical understanding of web-technologies, extreme comfort and fluency in the web.  analytical background.  


    for all jobs, email jobs@dropio.com - or connect through to a team member and reach out personally to anyone that works here
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