We're a young and scrappy startup in the social application space.
Here are a few bullets on us, because
who doesn't love bullets?
- We're profitable, which makes us pretty much the opposite of your typical echo chamber Silicon Valley startups.
- We raised $4m in an A round with Polaris Ventures and value-add angels including Ron Conway and Ariel Poler.
- We're only 12 people. You can make a MASSIVE impact here.
- Our office is in San Francisco, in the old Yelp space, but we plan to upgrade our digs soon. We'll still be in SF.
- We have all the typical startup stuff (free food, Rock Band, exposed brick walls, etc).
- If you like beer, check out our kitchen.
We’re hiring for the positions listed below. If you’re interested just send your resume to hiring@lolapps.com .
Jr. Software Engineer
Responsibilities
- Design and implement small projects across different product groups under the guidance of senior engineers
- Interact with power users, triage their suggestions and bug reports, implement them where it makes sense
- Have a point of view on the product
and be willing to debate it
Requirements
- Intelligent but not arrogant
- Care more about the company and your group's goals rather than personal glory
- Desire and ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
- Computer science or equivalent degree from a top computer science program
- Interested in learning about the full spectrum of web development from backend (SQL, memcache, etc) to frontend (JavaScript, FBML, FBJS)
- Interested in using / learning Python
- Detail-oriented: When someone sends you an email about something it automagically gets handled with no need for a follow-up
- Interested in working in the social networking space
- Comfortable working in an environment
where ideas are thought of, described, and executed within a span of
hours to days
Desired Qualifications
- Strong product sense
- You write software for fun. You've worked on projects of your own outside of school or internships
- You read a lot of blogs and industry publications
- Entrepreneurial
Product Manager
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain product roadmap.
- Communicate ideas via mockups.
- Define and measure success metrics.
- Build consensus for your ideas.
- Double as a project manager to
make sure your ideas are being executed in a timely fashion.
Requirements
- Scrappy: You find a way to get things done no matter what. If your web designer is busy you'll create a pixel-perfect UI; if your engineers are busy you'll check in the change; if you don't have a QA team (heh, *ahem*) you'll test the deploy.
- Technical: You're not afraid to talk algorithms with engineers or check minor modifications into source control
- Results-driven: You care more about winning in the marketplace than what your friends think of your product. If an ugly UI performs better under your success metrics you go with what works, not what looks good.
- Organized: You create order from chaos. You can organize processes and webpage flows whenever necessary but you don't fix what's not broken.
- Comfortable working in an environment where ideas are thought of, described, and executed within a span of hours to days
- Deep understanding of web analytics
Desired Qualifications
- CS / symbolic systems / MS&E degree from a top CS school (Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, CMU, Waterloo, etc) or equivalent level of technical understanding.
- 1-5 years of product management experience with at least 1 year of experience in consumer web software. We will consider the rare fresh grad who has a hardcore get-it-done attitude (and proof of this on their resume).
Software Engineer
Responsibilities
- Work with product management to break down high level goals into tasks and timelines
- Design and implement large chunks of the product roadmap
- Mentor junior engineers
- Have a point of view on the product
and be willing to debate it
Requirements
- Care more about the company and your group's goals rather than personal glory
- Desire and ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Appreciate owning a full spectrum of responsibilities from backend (SQL, memcache, etc) to frontend (JavaScript, FBML, FBJS)
- Interested in using / learning Python
- Detail-oriented: When someone sends you an email about something it automagically gets handled with no need for a follow-up
- Interested in working in the social networking space
- Comfortable working in an environment
where ideas are thought of, described, and executed within a span of
hours to days
Desired Qualifications
- Computer science or equivalent degree from a top computer science program
- 1+ year working on a consumer facing web product with a high level of scale
- Strong product sense
- You write software for fun. You've worked on projects of your own outside of school or work
- Entrepreneurial