Flex Application Engineer

Description:

This is a senior development role at Mixbook, a profitable, rapidly-growing startup that is changing the game in the personalized photo books / photo products market. In the past, the standard applications for creating photo book products limited users to strict templates and few options. Mixbook has created a powerful and intuitive Flex application that allows users to fully express their creativity with stickers and backgrounds, fully-editable layouts and photo editing features. Despite the breakthroughs that Mixbook has made, the team that works on it is still tiny, and you will have a huge impact on the product.

The Ideal Profile:

This is not your typical Flex programming role – Mixbook is a complex Flex application with many highly technical components. We are looking for someone who is a well-rounded computer scientist in addition to an expert Flex developer. This would be demonstrated by a CS degree, knowledge of more traditional programming environments, or projects which show deep engineering ability. We love to see candidates who have worked on impressive Flash applications that they can demonstrate for us. We favor candidates who can show us they have a keen product sense and will contribute good ideas for improving the product.

Your Role:

• Launch new features and improvements to Mixbook’s core flex platform application, the Mixbook Creator.
• Develop and improve Mixbook’s flash widgets for viewing and sharing photo products.
• Balance innovative new features with performance and speed for optimal user experience.
• Think creatively about the future of Mixbook, generate feature ideas, and implement them.

Qualifications:

• Passion for building a great product that everyone will love – your friends and family will be in awe.
• Experience with Flex Builder and Actionscript 3.
• Very strong object-oriented development skills (Java, C++, etc).
• 5+ years development experience.
• Strong communication skills - if you have a problem with something, you speak up.
• Extremely hard working. This is a start-up – long hours should be afraid of you because you own them.
• Thrive on working with A-players. You’re too good to spend long hours with B-players.
• Familiar with unit testing, design patterns and component lifecycle development.
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.

Location: San Jose, CA

About Mixbook

Mixbook (www.mixbook.com) is a profitable, rapidly-growing San Jose, CA, startup that allows people to collaboratively create photo books through a powerful online flex application. Users can share their creations online for free online – like a YouTube for photo books - or purchase bookstore-quality copies of their work to share in real life (see http://www.mixbook.com/printed-photo-books). Over 2 million people have created over 5 million photo books on Mixbook’s platform – your work will impact a community of millions.

We offer competitive salary and generous equity stakes, along with benefits, a new Mac or PC, dual monitors, and a chance to impact a community of millions. We’re looking for talented and passionate people who take pride in giving customers a phenomenal and enriching online experience.

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Referral Bonus:

If you refer us the person we hire, we’ll give you your choice of:

• 42” Plasma/LCD TV AND a MacBook Air
• OR
• Fully paid trip for two to Hawaii

To qualify, either send us their resume or have them list you as a referral on their application. Note that some restrictions may apply.

Front End Web Developer

Description:

Mixbook (www.mixbook.com) is a well-funded San Jose, CA startup that has grown to over 1 million users (and 2 million Mixbooks created) with a team of less than 10 employees. The growth is accelerating, and we are hiring a front end web developer to own the entire front end for Mixbook.com and Mixbook’s applications on social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Hi5). This position will be tough, yet extremely rewarding. You will own the entire front-end development of a site used by millions of people.

Your Role:

• Work directly with the founders to manage the entire front-end of Mixbook.com.
• Build out new Mixbook page designs and features.
• Own all front-end development work for social platforms: Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, Bebo, etc
• Design and manage the user activation and conversion processes on Mixbook.com.

Criteria:

• Passion for building a great consumer product that everyone will love and use - your friends, family and relatives will be in awe.
• Amazing at Javascript, CSS, and HTML. If Chuck Norris was a front-end developer, he would tremble in your presence.
• Metrics focused – you check Google Analytics more then you read your email.
• Basic Knowledge of Ruby on Rails a big plus.
• Extremely hard working. This is a start-up. Long work weeks should be scared of you, because you own them!
• Thrive on working with A-players. You’re too good to spend long hours with B-players.
• Easy to get along with - people like you and like working with you.

Location: San Jose, CA

About Mixbook

Mixbook is a community where people can collaborate with family and friends to create photo products such as photo books and posters. Users can share their creations online for free as widgets or on Mixbook.com – like a YouTube for photo books. Unlike other web 2.0 startups, Mixbook actually makes money (what a novel idea!) by letting users buy high quality copies of their work to share in real life. We offer competitive salary and high equity compensation, along with good benefits (medical, dental, vision), a new MacBook Pro or PC, dual monitors, and a chance to impact a community of millions.

We’re looking for talented and passionate people who take pride in giving customers a phenomenal and enriching online experience. If you care about creating powerful tools that everyday people can use to express themselves, email us at jobs@mixbook.com.

P.S. Not for you? We will pay you a $5000 referral bonus if you refer us to the person we hire.

Ruby on Rails Ninja / Back-End Developer

Description:

Mixbook (www.mixbook.com) is a well-funded San Jose, CA startup that has grown to over 1 million users (and 2 million Mixbooks created) with a team of less than 10 employees. The growth is accelerating, and we are hiring a Ruby on Rails developer to own the entire back end for Mixbook.com and Mixbook’s upcoming developer platform APIs. This position will be tough, yet extremely rewarding. You will own the entire back-end development of a platform used by millions of people.

Your Role:

• Architect and build the Mixbook Platform – API Specification and Implementation
• Own Mixbook’s services architecture – work directly with the co-author of RubyAMF.
• Database architecture and scalability.
• Deployment for Mixbook.com and various social networking applications.

Criteria:

• Passion for building a great consumer product that everyone will love and use - your friends, family and relatives will be in awe.
• You go to sleep everyday waiting for an opportunity to be responsible for scaling the largest Ruby on Rails websites.
• VERY STRONG Experience with Ruby on Rails, Apache, and MySQL.
• Strong object-oriented development skills.
• Knowledge of EC2, S3, and new server technologies.
• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent required, masters is a plus.
• Extremely hard working. This is a start-up. Long work weeks should be scared of you, because you own them!
• Thrive on working with A-players. You’re too good to spend long hours with B-players.
• Easy to get along with - people like you and like working with you.

Location: San Jose, CA

About Mixbook

Mixbook is a community where people can collaborate with family and friends to create photo products such as photo books and posters. Users can share their creations online for free as widgets or on Mixbook.com – like a YouTube for photo books. Unlike other web 2.0 startups, Mixbook actually makes money (what a novel idea!) by letting users buy high quality copies of their work to share in real life. We offer competitive salary and high equity compensation, along with good benefits (medical, dental, vision), a new MacBook Pro or PC, dual monitors, and a chance to impact a community of millions.

We’re looking for talented and passionate people who take pride in giving customers a phenomenal and enriching online experience. If you care about creating powerful tools that everyday people can use to express themselves, email us at jobs@mixbook.com.

P.S. Not for you? We will pay you a $5000 referral bonus if you refer us to the person we hire.

User Interface Designer

Description:

Mixbook (www.mixbook.com) is a well-funded San Jose, CA startup that has grown to over 1 million users (and 2 million Mixbooks created) with a team of less than 10 employees. The growth is accelerating, and we are hiring a part-time User Interface Designer to design new features and initiatives for Mixbook.com and Mixbook’s applications on social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Hi5). This position will be tough, yet extremely rewarding.

Your Role:

• Work directly with the founding team to design the next version of Mixbook.com.
• Build out new Mixbook page designs and features.
• Design and manage the user activation and conversion processes on Mixbook.com.

Criteria:

• Passion for building a great consumer product that everyone will love and use - your friends, family and relatives will be in awe.
• 3+ years experience working on large consumer-facing web applications as a UI designer.
• VERY STRONG knowledge of Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• A strong, clean visual design sense.
• Experience designing for Adobe Flex applications is a big plus.
• Experience with end-user usability testing is a plus.
• Strong communication skills - if you have a problem with something, you speak up.
• Thrive on working with A-players. You’re too good to spend long hours with B-players.
• Easy to get along with - people like you and like working with you.

Location: San Jose, CA

About Mixbook

Mixbook is a community where people can collaborate with family and friends to create photo products such as photo books and posters. Users can share their creations online for free as widgets or on Mixbook.com – like a YouTube for photo books. Unlike other web 2.0 startups, Mixbook actually makes money (what a novel idea!) by letting users buy high quality copies of their work to share in real life. We offer competitive salary and high equity compensation, along with good benefits (medical, dental, vision), a new MacBook Pro or PC, dual monitors, and a chance to impact a community of millions.

We’re looking for talented and passionate people who take pride in giving customers a phenomenal and enriching online experience. If you care about creating powerful tools that everyday people can use to express themselves, email us at jobs@mixbook.com.

P.S. Not for you? We will pay you a $1000 referral bonus if you refer us to the person we hire.