YourVersion is Hiring Rockstar Developers!

Want to help build the world's best discovery engine? Want to become a key member of a small, high-caliber team?

Currently in private beta, YourVersion gives customers the best way to discover and share personalized, relevant web content related to their interests. YourVersion is located in downtown Palo Alto, California.

The CEO and founder of YourVersion, Dan Olsen, has over 16 years of high-tech experience and led product management for Quicken and Friendster. He has a technical background, a Stanford MBA, and has advised many early-stage web startups. He is passionate about building successful, large-scale consumer sites and recently gave a presentation at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo entitled Web 2.0 Product Management: Optimizing Metrics and Viral Growth. For more details, you can view Dan Olsen's LinkedIn profile.

If you're a rockstar who wants to help build the world's best discovery engine, send your resume.

Current Job Listings



PHP/MySQL Web Developer

Responsibilities

  • Create a great product that our customers love
  • Work directly with CEO to design features that help users discover great content
  • Work with a front-end developer (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) to deliver functionality that is compelling and easy to use
  • Own, extend, and improve the architecture and database schema as needed
  • Ensure good site uptime, performance, and scalability

Requirements

  • At least 5 years developing customer-facing features in PHP and MySQL
  • Experience developing for large-scale consumer websites
  • Proficiency with MVC and object-oriented programming
  • Expertise creating, configuring, and optimizing MySQL databases and queries
  • Thrive in fast-paced environments with quick iterations
  • Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Go-getter: you figure out what needs to be done vs. having to be told
  • Can see the big picture but also zoom down into details
  • Proficiency using Subversion (SVN)
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Bonus points for

  • Sysadmin/Ops skills
  • Proficiency in information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning/AI
  • Startup experience
  • Proficiency in JavaScript, AJAX, and/or XUL
  • Passion for the discovery/recommendation engine space
  • Expertise with CakePHP, Symfony, or Zend frameworks
  • Familiarity with parsing and publishing RSS and Atom feeds

Send your resume.


Front-end Web Developer (JavaScript/AJAX, XHMTL, & CSS)

Responsibilities

  • Create a great product that our customers love
  • Work directly with CEO to design features that help users discover great content
  • Work with PHP/MySQL developers to deliver functionality
  • Ensure features are compelling, easy to use, and follow good UI design principles
  • Ensure features work properly across A-grade browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari)

Requirements

  • At least 3 years coding customer-facing features
  • Experience developing for large-scale consumer websites
  • Proven experience writing cross-browser, standards-compliant XHTML and CSS
  • Proficient with JavaScript, AJAX, DOM, JSON, and XML
  • Experience with Prototype, Scriptaculous, YUI, or equivalent frameworks
  • Thrive in fast-paced environments with quick iterations
  • Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Go-getter: you figure out what needs to be done vs. having to be told
  • Can see the big picture but also zoom down into details
  • Proficiency using Subversion (SVN)
  • BS in Computer Science, Graphic Design or equivalent

Bonus points for

  • Startup experience
  • Passion for the discovery/recommendation engine space
  • Strong Fireworks, Photoshop, and/or Illustrator skills
  • Strong UI design skills
  • Experience developing Firefox extensions (XUL)

Send your resume.


Programming Interns

Responsibilities

  • Create a great product that our customers love
  • Work directly with CEO to design features
  • Work with other developers to deliver functionality that is compelling and easy to use
  • Identify new feature ideas and contribute to product roadmap

Requirements

  • Proficiency with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript/AJAX, XHTML, and/or CSS
  • Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Thrive in fast-paced environments with quick iterations
  • Self-starter: you don't need much supervision
  • Good team player: ability to work well with others to achieve a common goal
  • You can see the big picture but also zoom down into the details
  • You value easy-to-use products, customer feedback, and usability testing

Bonus points for

  • Proficiency in information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning/AI
  • Passion for the discovery/recommendation engine space
  • Aptitude for good UI design
  • Proficiency using Subversion (SVN)

Send your resume.