Rapleaf (http://www.rapleaf.com/) is a well-funded San Francisco startup (we’re currently at 15 people). We gather publically available information from the social web on hundreds of millions of people. Rapleaf has built the largest portable social graph in the world. We provide rich insight on customers for clients such as retailers, airlines, hotel chains, social networks, lead gen firms, telcos, political campaigns, and more; these clients learn about their consumers in order to give them a better user experience.
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- Amazing Software Engineer
- Master of Product Management
- Incredible Systems/Network Administrator
We’re looking for people that have the talent and passion to fill the dream of a portable identity and reputation. We want people that are tired of all these little apps that are just features and want to work on something that is going to change the world. If you’re one of these people, we want to meet you. If you are interested in making it more profitable to be ethical, please contact us at: jobs@rapleaf.com
Role:
- Build out Rapleaf’s next set of ground-breaking features.
- Work on creating a portable identity, social graph, and reputation.
- Build algorithms to normalize data on over a hundred million people.
- Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on.
- Change the world and make it more profitable to be ethical.
Note: This job is really hard. You’ll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world and they are going to expect that you kick ass. We’re doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.
Qualifications:
- Amazing coder who takes no prisoners. Master of all things Internet. One of the best coders in existence.
- Learn new languages extremely fast. We use Ruby on Rails … you can pick this up quickly.
- Intensely driven and proactive person.
- Extremely hard working. This is a start-up - team members work long hours.
- Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy.
- Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players.
- Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job.
- Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty.
- Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance.
- Strong desire to build a more ethical society.
- Desire to be an early employee and want to be a real owner in Rapleaf’s future.
- Want to work with extremely large datasets and build portable APIs that thousands of other companies can build applications on top of.
- Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation available if necessary)
- All levels of experiences should apply (0-25+ years experience).
Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)
Perks:
- Good salary/stock compensation.
- Personal MacBook Pro or Windows based machine
- Medical insurance, 401k.
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Work with some of the smartest engineers
- Contribute to the Rapleaf Dev blog (http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/)
At Rapleaf, we’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.
If interested, please email jobs@rapleaf.com. If you know someone who may be interested, we also offer a $10,007 referral bonus.
Role:
- First product manager in the company and holistic owner of all the Rapleaf products
- Take charge with respect to product definitions, market requirements, product designs, and product strategy/roadmap
- Pro-actively work with management and partners to establish development priorities and essentially influence the direction and prioritization of engineering efforts
- Work closely with Rapleaf’s customers and potential customers to get feedback for new features and products
- Work closely with engineers to produce quick and powerful product iterations
- Quickly integrate feedback and research from existing and potential customers to define and evolve the business products
- Create the API docs (and other technical documentation), the API look and feel, and how developers would consume the API
- Help sell to existing business customers
- Report directly to the CEO
Qualifications:
- Proven track record of defining product requirements and producing successful products
- comfortable working with terabytes of data.
- Strong understanding of APIs and API documentation
- Solid experience building wireframes and mock-ups
- Outstanding coordination skills with the ability to effectively work across functional teams including sales, engineering, operations, and marketing
- Extremely hard working. This is a start-up - team members work long hours
- Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy
- Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players
- One of the smartest people you know. Ambitious to change the world
- A software engineer or technical leader of sorts in a past life (this is a technical role that will require coding from time to time)
- Best communicator alive
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Entrepreneurial, high energy and committed to excellence
- Leader who is respected on and off the job
- Thrive on chaos, risk, uncertainty and decisively takes action
- Should be personable, ethical, and low-maintenance
- Strong desire to build a more ethical society
- Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation package available)
Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA
Perks:
- High cash comp | high equity — Rapleaf is willing to pay for the best talent.
- Personal MacBook Pro or Windows based machine
- Medical insurance, 401k.
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Work with some of the smartest engineers in the world
Our philosophy: A-players dominate. Have fewer people who get more done.
We’re only looking for people that want to help change the world. Interested? Please email jobs@rapleaf.com
p.s. If you are not interested, we pay $10,007 referral bonus if you refer us to the person we hire.
Incredible Systems/Network Administrator
You will maintain Rapleaf’s entire infrastructure and enhance the system to do great things, as we’re on the trajectory to change the world.
Role:
- Manage all Rapleaf servers (Linux - CentOS, Redhat), backups, web servers (Apache clusters)
- Manage relationship with hosting provider and hardware vendors
- Systems administration (DNS,LDAP,NFS,TCP/IP,SELinux)
- Scalability and expansion (Hadoop)
- Some scripting (Shell, Ruby, Python, or Perl)
- Administer MySQL databases (multi-master replication, snapshot backups)
- Learn how to scale with Ruby on Rails
- Manage billions of data items/pages being served
- On-call duty
Note: this job is really hard. You’ll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world and they are going to expect that you kick ass. We’re doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.
Qualifications:
- Master of all things Internet and Linux.
- Incredibly smart, can learn fast, and takes no prisoners
- Learn new platforms fast. We use Ruby on Rails - you can pick this up quickly.
- Intensely driven and proactive person.
- Extremely hard working. This is a start-up - team members work long hours.
- Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy.
- Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players.
- Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job.
- Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty.
- Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance.
- Strong desire to build a more ethical society.
- Desire to be an early employee and want to be a real owner in Rapleaf’s future.
- Want to work with extremely large datasets and indirectly build portable APIs that thousands of other companies can build applications on top of.
- Ability to lift and install servers (50 lbs)
- Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation available if necessary)
Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)
Perks:
- Good salary/stock compensation.
- Personal MacBook Pro or Linux based machine
- Medical insurance, 401k.
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Work with some of the smartest engineers
- Contribute to the Rapleaf Dev blog (http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/)
At Rapleaf, we’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.
If interested, please email jobs@rapleaf.com. If you know someone who may be interested, we also offer a $10,007 referral bonus.
