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Jobs at Foxmarks
Great people. Hard problems. Free food!
If you enjoy tough technical challenges, have a passion for creating products that users love, and are keen on working with talented and fun-loving people, then send us your resume! We're looking for bright and motivated people to come join the Foxmarks team. We are located in a beautiful, eco- and dog-friendly office in the heart of San Francisco.
Engineering Positions
- They love to code, and prefer to code in a team of people they enjoy and respect.
- They are passionate about creating high quality software that even they would use.
- They live to conceive and deliver products that solve problems for real people.
- They are interested in the world around them and want to help make it a better place.
- They are smarter than their boss (and yet there is still mutual respect).
We are currently looking for engineers with the traits mentioned above to fill the following specific roles:
- Applications Engineer
- You love to build web apps.
- You may prefer client side or server side, but you are comfortable with both.
- You care about usability, and you've probably even read a book on the subject.
- You may have experience working with some of these:
- JavaScript
- XUL
- Python and Pylons, or another WSGI web framework like Django or TurboGears
- Generalist
- Server, client, it's all good -- you see all the pieces as a giant buffet and you want to sample it all.
- Being helpful makes you happy -- you gravitate towards the areas of greatest pain in your group and you make things right.
- You get satisfaction from working on a variety of projects (and none for long) -- you see a problem and you can't help yourself from learning enough on the spot until you can fix it and move on to the next thing that piques your interest.
- You notice that many computing problems, despite their diversity of context, derive from a fairly similar set of underlying principles -- the flavors are different, but the reasons are the same, and digging for underlying principles is how you work.
Management Positions
- They genuinely like and respect every member of their team.
- They believe that a manager's job is to give everyone on the team the opportunity to do their best work every day.
- They foster an atmosphere of respect, cooperation, and playfulness.
- They enjoy good food and conversation with their team as often as possible.
- They may know how to code, but they prefer managing people and projects.
We are currently looking for managers with the traits mentioned above to fill the following specific roles:
- Engineering Manager
- You share the traits of the Foxmarks engineers (see above).
- You like to be close to the code, even if you're not the one checking it in.
- You believe that process is important, but prefer it in small doses, judiciously applied.
- You are happy if a large part of your job is project management, because it's not just the "how", it's also the "what" that interests you.
- You think having a QA team is a good thing, but you know how to make quality software without one if you have to.
- You may have had experience managing people or projects involving:.
- consumer websites
- distributed systems
- large data sets
- Operations Manager
- You share the traits of the Foxmarks engineers (see above).
- You may have a preference for managing people or systems, but you're comfortable and competent at both.
- You feel compelled to have solid knowledge of all parts of your system.
- You don't feel right if you aren't sure that everything that can be usefully monitored is in fact being monitored.
- You don't rest until everything that can be usefully automated is.
- Out of date libraries are like sand in your underwear.
- You may have experience with, and even a preference for, the following tools and technologies:
- Nagios and Munin
- Linux, particularly Debian/Ubuntu
- perl and Python
- MySQL (perhaps grudgingly)
- Network technologies (DNS, TCP, IP, HTTP, etc.)
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