Looking for a passionate developer/sysadmin

Qworky is an early-stage startup currently developing our first web application, codenamed “Qworky Meetings”. We have a great community team, and a distributed engineering team with an agile development methodology and a strong focus on design and user experience. Now we’re looking for somebody with development and system administration skills to join us as we engineer, deliver, and support this and future products. You’re able to work at home and commit at least 20 hours/week as part of our distributed engineering team.

In this role, you’ll

• Help define and implement our first product
• Lead deployment, including selecting and managing an XMPP server, defining an operations strategy, and adminstering the hosted Linux environment
• Work with a technically reknowned CTO and a great design and engineering team using technologies like Ruby, Cucumber, Javascript, XMPP, Capistrano
• Participate in the building of a startup and architecture through rapid growth

Skills and experience

• XMPP (openfire, ejabberd, tigase, etc.) or IRC development or administration experience highly preferred
• Self-managing, responsive, and quick at discovering information online, and good at learning by doing
• Open-source or commercial programming experience. Ruby or PHP preferred
• Experience working as part of a distributed development team
• One to three years years experience administering a user-focused web application on a Linux environment

More details

Compensation: Negotiable; possibilities include “contract-to-hire” and/or equity. We see this as a great opportunity to get to know each other, and envision this role transitioning into an employee joining our startup team.

Location: Qworky is based in Seattle, and most of us live in the Pacific Northwest or the San Francisco Bay Area. While welcome applications from anywhere, we have a slight preference for those within driving distance of either of those hubs.

About Us: Our name is Qworky and we’re out to create a better world through better software.

Diversity: We view diversity as a vital ingredient to our strategy for sustained business success as well as being important for social justice. We value unique perspectives and traditionally under represented view points in the software design process. We welcome collaborators from every walk of life. We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, experience level, education background, culture, or political opinion.

To apply: Please contact us on Twitter at @qworky or via email at recruiting@qworky.net