Startup secures significant investment, seeks significant talent

By Stealth Startup on September 19, 2008 - Comments (View)
Last week we closed a significant seed round financing with key players involved with Facebook, Workbrain, PayPal, Taleo, LinkedIn, Research In Motion, Slide, Thompson-Reuters, and Gini.
Six months ago we blogged about our new company on Red Canary

We had a great new idea. We had experience as co-founders of one of the biggest software companies in Canada.

We were for looking for talented and motivated developers with a passion for innovation and a will to succeed.

Thanks to Red Canary, we found them.

Now we have taken our vision and built a great core team, solution, and engaged user community.

We have built a small and closely-knit team of star developers focused on pragmatic problem solving. The team finds joy in tough challenges and tackles them together.

We are very hard working and like to have fun together. The agile mindset permeates our team; everyone is considered an equal.

We want smart, confident peers who will be essential in future feature development and who can contribute to our common vision.

Our customers tell us: “This is exactly what my people want”
The last half-year has been a blur of user-driven iteration and innovation.

Our solution (a web-service) solves a core social and productivity problem.

Recently, we attracted world-class capital as a result of our pace of our growth, the quality of our team, and large market opportunity ahead of us.

We continue to build a highly skilled team that can launch superb services with high impact. We move fast and expect to learn faster. We experiment and get users using our tools as quickly as we can.

Our approach:

  • Iterative
  • Agile
  • Data-driven
  • User-centered

You may be interested in joining us if you:

  • Consider yourself the best of the best
  • Want to be part of a world-beating team
  • Take pride in solving complex problems
  • Want your code to delight millions of people.
  • Are curious, learn continuously, and like to be challenged by smart people
  • Get things done quickly and elegantly
  • Enjoy a fast pace and constant change
  • Enjoy life outside the office

The people we are looking for:

  • Have experience building complex software
  • Are active online community participants
  • Adapt quickly, adopt early, and are web savvy
  • Love user interaction design
  • Dig rapid prototyping
  • Are excited by large datasets, statistics, and algorithms
  • Are familiar with Java, MySQL, GWT, Hibernate, SVN, Ehcache, and Glassfish

Specifically we need:

Front-End Ninja

A web development ninja who has experience on the server-side as well. Experience with large websites and web-based solutions where you implemented novel front-end designs, usability improvements, GUI metaphor inventions, etc. is required.

The ability to quickly prototype solutions using 80/20 rules while developing production solutions in parallel is core.

Star Developer

A highly flexible and experienced developer with a well-rounded background that includes some enterprise and lots of web experience. Innovation and technical know-how are expected. You should assume that quick change of pace and assignments will be common.

A strong sense of ownership and alignment with solution vision are key.

If you think that you might be the right person, please contact us to learn more about the opportunity.

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