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Associate Product Manager in San Francisco

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:52:56 GMT

Be part of a fast-growing, award-winning company out to connect students with opportunities. At Zinch, each student creates a professional profile to be discovered by colleges, graduate schools, scholarships and internships. Zinch matches its 2 million students to over 750 institutions and $1.9 billion in scholarships. Schools trust Zinch to help them recruit students who are a great fit.

Compensation ranges from $55k - $65 depending on experience. We’re looking for people recently out of school who are hungry and motivated to do great things. This person will work in the San Francisco office (SoMa). This position reports directly to the company founder and offers the right, high-initiative person tremendous opportunities for impact, professional development and upside. Work with innovative professionals who believe life’s too short not to enjoy what you do.

Oh…and we like to rap: http://www.zinch.com/html/xango2.html

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Lead PHP Developer in San Francisco

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:51:03 GMT

About Zinch
Be part of a fast-growing, award-winning, entrepreneurial company out to connect students with opportunities. At Zinch, each student creates a professional profile to be discovered by colleges, graduate schools, scholarships and internships. Zinch matches its 2.5 million students to over 800 institutions and $1.9 billion in scholarships. We’re based in San Francisco (SoMa) and funded by successful entrepreneurs, ex-googlers and a leading venture capital firm. And there’s a BBQ grill on the roofdeck. Really.

The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced PHP web ninja with l33t skills who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, with or without the aid of JavaScript. You’ll grow (yes, that means hire) and lead a team of rock star developers to build the next generation of Zinch consumer products. We are a small, nimble team that is passionate about learning and dedicated to continuous improvement. Joining now means that you'll have tremendous influence over the technology, features, the direction of the product, and the culture of the company.

Process-wise, we use a test-driven approach to engineering including some elements of Extreme Programming. We're focused on rapid product iterations, frequent prototyping, and a fanatical belief in user feedback. We test early and often. We're very interested in how we can improve how we do what we do.

Required Skills
* Strong experience writing in PHP
* Deep experience in JavaScript (actual programming, not mere use of frameworks)
* Ability to produce highly polished web pages in semantic HTML and non-invasive CSS and JS
* Battle-worn MySQL knowledge
* Experience with test-driven development
* Knowledge of application server and database clustering
* Excellent typing ability in the presence of flying nerf darts

Ideal Candidate
* You live in the San Francisco/Bay Area.
* You gag when you see ugly/unreadable code.
* You’ve built small websites on your own (yes, we’d love to see them)
* You are a motivated thinker who is not afraid to ask: WTF? Why is this so? How does this really work?
* You have a curious mind and are always hungry to learn more about design, culture, music, life, etc.
* You have the self-confidence to know and admit that your idea may not always be the right one.
* You are constantly coming up with new ideas… and the first thing you do is check to see if the domain name you want is available.
* Your RSS reader is better than ours.

Pluses
* Firebug is your best friend
* Active contributor to open source software
* Mobile web development experience (iPhone, Android)
* Proficiency with Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.
* Integration experience w/ Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn APIs

So now what?
• Step one… put down the Facebook.
• Step two… email us and tell us why you want to work with us - *required
• Step three… include a link to your online portfolio and/or resume - *required
• Step four… hit "send" - *required
• Step five… change your twitter status to "nom nom kitteh is dezining webz"

Still bored?
We like to rap and people like to rap about us.
http://www.zinch.com/html/xango2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k01YFeqAWBQ

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Lead Ruby on Rails Developer in San Francisco

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:18:52 GMT

About Zinch
Be part of a fast-growing, award-winning, entrepreneurial company out to connect students with opportunities. At Zinch, each student creates a professional profile to be discovered by colleges, graduate schools, scholarships and internships. Zinch matches its 2.5 million students to over 800 institutions and $1.9 billion in scholarships. We’re based in San Francisco (SoMa) and funded by successful entrepreneurs, ex-googlers and a leading venture capital firm. And there’s a BBQ grill on the roofdeck. Really.

The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails web ninja with l33t skills who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, with or without the aid of JavaScript. You’ll grow (yes, that means hire) and lead a team of rock star developers to build the next generation of Zinch consumer products. We are a small, nimble team that is passionate about learning and dedicated to continuous improvement. Joining now means that you'll have tremendous influence over the technology, features, the direction of the product, and the culture of the company.

Process-wise, we use a test-driven approach to engineering including some elements of Extreme Programming. We're focused on rapid product iterations, frequent prototyping, and a fanatical belief in user feedback. We test early and often. We're very interested in how we can improve how we do what we do.

Required Skills
* Strong experience writing in Ruby (Rails)
* Deep experience in JavaScript (actual programming, not mere use of frameworks)
* Ability to produce highly polished web pages in semantic HTML and non-invasive CSS and JS
* Battle-worn MySQL knowledge
* Experience with test-driven development
* Knowledge of application server and database clustering
* Excellent typing ability in the presence of flying nerf darts

Ideal Candidate
* You live in the San Francisco/Bay Area.
* You gag when you see ugly/unreadable code.
* You’ve built small websites on your own (yes, we’d love to see them)
* You are a motivated thinker who is not afraid to ask: WTF? Why is this so? How does this really work?
* You have a curious mind and are always hungry to learn more about design, culture, music, life, etc.
* You have the self-confidence to know and admit that your idea may not always be the right one.
* You are constantly coming up with new ideas… and the first thing you do is check to see if the domain name you want is available.
* Your RSS reader is better than ours.

Pluses
* Firebug is your best friend
* Active contributor to open source software
* Mobile web development experience (iPhone, Android)
* Proficiency with Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.
* Integration experience w/ Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn APIs

So now what?
• Step one… put down the Facebook.
• Step two… email us and tell us why you want to work with us - *required
• Step three… include a link to your online portfolio and/or resume - *required
• Step four… hit "send" - *required
• Step five… change your twitter status to "nom nom kitteh is dezining webz"

Email mick@zinch.com if you're interested.

Still bored?
We like to rap and people like to rap about us.
http://www.zinch.com/html/xango2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k01YFeqAWBQ

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Front-End Web Ninja (HTML/CSS) in San Francisco

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:34:26 GMT

We are looking for a front-end web ninja with l33t skills to join our team. The successful candidate will be passionate about turning designs into pixel perfect XHTML/CSS markup, relying on JavaScript libraries like jQuery to enhance the user experience. We offer challenging work, a fun team, competitive pay and an opportunity for enormous growth.

Must have 3+ years solid experience coding standards-compliant, semantic XHTML and CSS experience or display an inordinate amount of HTML and CSS mastery. Must know CSS1-CSS3 selectors and be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, with or without the aid of JavaScript.

About You:
• You live in the San Francisco/Bay Area.
• You can easily work with or without instructions and to-do lists... basically, we won't need to babysit you.
• You have built small websites on your own.
• You are a motivated thinker who is not afraid to ask: WTF? Why is this so? How does this really work?
• You have a curious mind and are always hungry to learn more about design, culture, music, life, etc.
• You have the self-confidence to know and admit that your idea may not always be the right one.
• You are constantly coming up with new ideas… and the first thing you do is check to see if the domain name you want is available.
• Your RSS reader is better than ours.

About You (bonus edition)
• You have experience w/ ASP/.NET
• You’ve done some mobile application development (iPhone, Android)
• You have some integration experience w/ Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn APIs

We love what we do:
• We're in your interwebz - improving your conversionz and helping students find schools and scholarships.
• We help match more than 2 million students to over 750 institutions and $1.9 billion in scholarships.
• We are always improving what we do through detail-oriented analytics, a/b testing and user feedback.

So now what?
• Step one… put down the Facebook.
• Step two… email us and tell us why you want to work with us - *required
• Step three… include a link to your online portfolio and/or resume - *required
• Step four… hit "send" - *required
• Step five… change your twitter status to "nom nom kitteh is dezining webz"

Oh…and if you’re bored, you can listen to our rap: http://www.zinch.com/html/xango2.html

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