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

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for a passionate Front End Designer with strong (X)HTML, CSS Development Experience to partner directly with startup co-founders to define/develop a User Interface that expresses our brand style and user experience. Must be able to commit 20 hours per week working directly with our engineering team as a freelance professional, with a mutual interest in developing into a permanent role.

The role will:

• Envision, develop, and define an inviting and differentiated, and intuitive user experience
• Propose ideas and new approaches for implementing pre-defined user requirements
• Work with Engineering to integrate frontend design with backend systems
• Have an opportunity to influence feature sets, and learn the funding/startup process
• Work alongside industry leading strategists, computer security/engineering experts
• Work offsite, via digital (Blog, Twitter, Google Wave) and coffee shop collaboration

Candidates should be self-directed with an entrepreneurial drive and a keen attention to detail, and a passion for usable and seamless user experiences.

Compensation: Open/Negotiable – Likely beginning as a $5K contract role (negotiable) with goal of evolving into an equity role based on success working together and experience.

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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 sustained business success. 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.

Perks: This is a great opportunity for you to get to know us, and Qworky to get to know you. We envision this role transitioning into our next equity employee joining our startup team.

We’re an experienced startup team (with successful VC funded exit experience) tackling our next opportunity.

To Apply:

Please email hr@qworky.net your resume and or cover letter, including your geographic location. And please either describe your most challenging project or direct us to your online presence/portfolio.

hr@qworky.net

Our team has decades of experience in creating venture backed technology startups, and proven marketing, branding, and social media experience. This represents a great opportunity to build your resume, and learn how to intersect community and marketing plans, alongside some of the industry’s best. We’re an open collaboration team so you’ll be involved in brainstorm, and have an opportunity to give your feedback on strategic planning- and even be involved in product reviews.

We believe: Better Software / Better World. We fundamentally believe and are passionate about improving the world through better software experiences- and we’re looking for like minded individuals ready to join our journey.

Internship Requirements: Able to commit 20 hours per week (official start date: January [negotiable] concluding in March/April), strong initiative, writing skills, strong ability to collaborate, implement individual feedback, willing to apply deep and creative thinking, rigorous problem solving skills, ability to drive toward deadlines, self directed, ability to work hard, dedication to high quality work.

We welcome individuals from a range of backgrounds including: Marketing, Social Media, Journalism, Visual Communication, and more to apply- provided you meet the above requirements and this internship aligns with your interests.

Work Environment: As a startup we do a lot of coffee shop collaboration, in Seattle/Capitol hill as well as Bellevue/Redmond. So we’ll need to team members who are very self directed and capable of producing results independently, and via electronic communication.

About Us: As a company we view diversity as a vital ingredient to sustained business success. 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, educational background, culture, or political opinion.

If interested in an UNPAID internship, please e-mail us your resume/curriculum vitae at HR@Qworky.net
Please include: Community + Social Media Internship as the title.

http://qworky.com http://twitter.com/qworky

Craigslist Posting: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mar/1504493268.html