Please send resume to mowens@eqqus.com

Do you ...
* get excited about building products that will be used by millions of people?
* want to shape the direction of the next wave of online social media?
* love writing beautiful ruby, python or javascript code?

WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER
• Existential bliss: every week millions of people will use the code you wrote last week
• Birds-eye view of a thriving social media site
• Fun work environment. No bureaucracy, meetings, or politics
• Great commute/lifestyle (near BART and CalTrain)
• Competitive salary and stock options
• Bad-ass mac laptop (or PC if thats your thing!)
• Access to a recording/mixing studio (it came with the office, landlord is cool with us using it)

Our fast moving and growing client is looking for one great web app developer to take our site to the next level. Someone who loves the challenges, immediate feedback, and emotional rewards of working on a very large-scale consumer website. Someone who's a very technical but also has a creative side.



Here is what they are looking for:

* 5 plus years exp as an excellent programmer in some interpreted language (Ruby preferred, Python is the next best, then PHP). Whatever the language, you have to be good at software engineering in the context of web applications, and very comfortable with the tools that you currently use.

* excellent at writing standards compliant HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that is clean, small, easy to maintain, and works in all browsers (yes, even IE 6. Sigh).

* have the visual design skills and interaction design skills to make works of functional beauty.

* Comfortable with Linux, MySql, and tweaking open-source software



If you're an "all-rounder" who shines at back-end development as well (SQL query profiling, sharding databases, tweaking open source search engines like Sphinx and Lucene, writing cron jobs, etc). then that's great! Being flexible and having as many skills as possible is always an advantage in a fast-moving startup.



No ninjas allowed (we've had too many problems in the past with nun-chuck accidents and throwing star competitions going tragically wrong). Rock Stars and Pirates are OK.



Personality: We're looking for someone who's a good communicator and works well with other people, and is organized and can manage a number of things at once and be extremely self-driven: startups are no place for wimps! You can probably find a job that is easier than this one, so you must enjoy rapid iteration, doing work that affects millions of people, and working intensely with a small team to build something great.