About the company:
Rapleaf (www.rapleaf.com) is a portable ratings system for commerce. We allow buyers and sellers on sites like craigslist to rate each other. In San Francisco, CA.
Rapleaf recently raised a $1 MM angel round from the top angels in Silicon Valley led by Peter Thiel (Fmr founder and CEO of PayPal) and Eric Di Benedetto, Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, and Ron Conway. We are hiring 3 more people right now. So this is an opportunity for you to join the founding team. Ruby on Rails.
We’re a super small, nimble, and intense start-up. One of our founders has started and sold three Internet companies.
Our goal: to make it more profitable to be ethical
The role:
- building out Rapleaf’s next set of features
- building algorithms to detect and attack fraud
- building out marketing programs
- changing the world
Criteria:
- you’re a kick-butt coder. You take no prisoners. You’re a master of all things Internet. You’re one of the best coders you know.
- you can learn new languages fast (we use Ruby on Rails but if you don’t know this, you can learn it fast)
- you should have a strong desire to build a more ethical society
- intensely driven and proactive person
- extremely hard working. This is a start-up. We work 70-80 hour weeks – you should too.
- quick learner and real doer (and you err on execution over strategy)
- people like you and like working with you
- you thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
- should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance
- all levels of experiences should apply
Location:
- you should want to live and work in San Francisco (we’ll move you if you’re not already here)
Compensation:
- high cash comp | high equity — we are willing to pay for the best talent
Our philosophy: A players rock. So have fewer people and pay them more.
We’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.
interested? Please email jobs@rapleaf.com
(and be sure to sign up for Rapleaf if you are not already a member)
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February 9th, 2008 at 9:05 am
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