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Product Engineer
Overview
Kickball is a well-funded Silicon Valley startup building creative tools and a marketplace for digital goods, initially focused on artwork and graphic design - check out Sketchfu.com for an early example of our work. Since starting up last year, our network of sites has quickly grown to over 600,000 registered users creating 100,000 items a week - all of this created by an elite team of 5 engineers. Kickball is backed by top-tier investors who have built successes like Twitter, Netscape, MySQL, Skype, and many others.
The engineering team is lean and quick - we use paper prototyping, agile development, test driven development, and A/B testing to deploy daily releases to the world. Engineers are directly involved in business decisions like user acquisition and monetization, and receive constant feedback from customers via analytics and e-mail contact. Our development stack is 100% open source and is built on Ruby on Rails.
Benefits and compensation
- Competitive salaries and employee benefits
- Work directly with startup co-founders and technical leaders
- Free fruit, snacks, and drinks
Contact information
If interested, please introduce yourself and send a resume to jobs@kickballin.com.
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Product Engineer role
Your responsibilities at Kickball will be to:
- Build a fun, creative consumer experience for millions of people worldwide
- Own new feature releases end-to-end
- Deploy code daily and use A/B testing to measure impact on usage
- Work directly with backend and systems engineers for creating, integrating, and launching new products
- Collaborate as a team on business decisions around traffic acquisition, metrics, and monetization
- Design and prototype customer-facing interactions and features
- Assist on qualitative and quantitative user research, ethnographic studies, and usability testing
- Reports directly to CTO/co-founder
Technologies we use
You should want to learn or have prior experience with the following:
- Ruby, C++, and EventMachine for core architecture
- Rails, jQuery, Haml, and Sass for frontend development
- Cucumber, Bacon, Watir, and Git for testing and source control
- Munin, God, and Vlad for monitoring and deployment
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Development experience in Ruby and front-end frameworks/technologies
- Previous work in Flash and Flex is desired
- Familiar with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent creative tools
- Passion for crafting an amazing consumer experience
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