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October 30, 2006
Engineering VP for Mountain View Golf Tech Start-up
Imagine that you are so into golfing that you want to relive the experience when you are back in the office. Yea there are probably more people like that than we would care to know. A stealth-mode Palo Alto start-up need someone to build this dream.
To apply, email job-226218283@craigslist.org
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Reply to: job-226218283@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-10-26, 4:28PM PDT
Early stage, start-up that allows golfers to re-live their experiences from the course.
Our goal is to revolutionize the entertainment value of a round of golf.
We are looking for a VP of Engineering that fits the following criteria:
- High-energy, determined leader able to simultaneously thrive in the roles of executive, strategist, architect, and project manager
- Willingness and ability to roll up sleeves and build sizable modules of the web application from scratch
- Strong passion for technology and strong interest in sports (especially golf) and the outdoors
- Proactive drive for learning about and expanding on exciting new technology, and for strategically steering a development team towards these uncharted domains.
Skills:
- 3+ years of experience as a web developer and 3+ years of experience as a web architect (or just ridiculously talented)
- Experience designing, architecting, and developing high-volume, scalable web applications (preferably for commercial/consumer sites)
- Experience with high-volume, transactional database applications
- Experience with Web 2.0 philosophies and technologies (with a broad knowledge of existing frameworks and tools).
- Experience with rapid development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming)
- Open Source interest/experience
- Experience with advertising and revenue generation online
- Must be able to point to a track record of successful, large-scale software projects.
Responsibilities:
- Lead our development and be a co-driving force behind a transformation in golf entertainment
- Recruit and build a fun, driven, and highly-skilled technical team
- Enjoy wearing many entrepreneurial hats
Thanks for your interest. Please send an email introduction along with your resume.
Posted by BT at October 30, 2006 05:13 AM
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