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StyleOwner

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011) on Thursday December 01, 2011 @12:34PM (#3300553)
StyleOwner (San Francisco).

We're trying to become the iTunes of fashion. www.styleowner.com

We have a great engineering team in SF and are looking to add one or two amazing engineers (we were too small this year to compete in the Github dodgeball tournament). email [email protected] for details.

Our stack is ruby/sinatra/datamapper and we also heavily use redis. Lots of cool scaling related development, as well as backend and frontend stuff. Developers do not need to know anything about fashion, but any design strengths are certainly a plus.

We're funded by Accel and have fantastic investors. I mention this b/c it matters a lot.

Email me and we can chat about the position, look at some of your code, etc. You can also meet our team, check out our office, etc. [email protected]

Re:Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter) on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @12:11PM (#3103419)
Have you considered doing a similar one to help companies find good candidates to hire?

(forgive the mention of this fact but:)

StyleOwner (SF) is hiring (today we're at the UC Berkeley Startup Fair) and we'll be at the Github party on Monday. email [email protected] for more details. Hiring for both frontend and backend positions. Ideal candidate will want to do 20% time toward open source work.

Join us for dinner, spend 20% time on backbone.js related open source work.

We're looking to make a key hire for lead frontend engineer. We love backbone.js and are excited to move more and more of our site to it.Job description: The ideal candidate wants to use backbone.js, jquery, web standards, etc., to make our site amazing (signup flow, dynamic pages, chat, etc.). Please be good at js, css, html, web standards, and not averse to making things work on recent...

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The posting generally complies with the OP's request for a lack of hyperbole.

The OP indicated that if the hyperbole were removed, he/she would potentially be interested in finding a new job!

In this hiring environment I'm not above the occasional shameless plug. Your point about vagueness is well taken, but I'd have to write 3 pages to really give you a detailed understanding and I'd rather just show it all to you over a beer.

My company is hiring:

We do e-commerce where people can set up their own fashion boutique -- we have a massive catalog full of top-tier designer products. We have made incredible partnerships with brands, the fashion industry, etc. People who set up stores facilitate social shopping via their store and make a small commission per sale. If you don't get why this is cool b/c you wear sweatpants or the same pair of jeans, that's OK, I have data to show you.

Our site, www.styleowner.com is solid on the backend but needs a lot of frontend love. If you like backbone.js, web standards, etc., come join us and help make it one of the best sites on the web. Backend developers wanted too however. We use Ruby, Sinatra, DataMapper, Node, Redis and more. Interest in IOS is also a plus.

We're hiring for 2-3 positions. We are looking to make some key hires right now and the goal is a superb team.

If you're in San Fran let me meet with you over coffee or beers and show you our codebase, tell you in incredible detail what we're working on, etc. I'd also like to see some of your code. The goal is to give you an idea if you want to work on our app and what that would entail over at least the next few months.

We're funded by Accel, have great investors, etc. The only challenge has been in tech hiring b/c if you're good you probably already have a job you enjoy. So give it a shot and meet us and see what you think.

Putting together an awesome engineering team is our #1 priority. We're in the stage where we're making key hires and ramping up.

email [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011) on Monday August 01, 2011 @12:06PM (#2832863)
StyleOwner is hiring. email [email protected]

Where: San Francisco, CA and Ann Arbor, MI

Remote / Telecommuters also considered.

StyleOwner is looking for highly skilled, top 1% developers (frontend and backend positions available). Salary: highly competitive. www.styleowner.com. A lot of people think we’re going to be the next big thing.

Accel Partners has funded us and Bob Pittman (the founder of MTV Networks) recently became an investor. Social media is huge, and the best marketer is a recommendation from a friend or family. So why not combine the two? StyleOwner is empowering the Facebook generation to become entrepreneurs and start their own online store. We’ve partnered with amazing brands to create “the itunes of fashions” and allow our StylEpreneurs to curate their own store, share it with their sphere of influence, and earn 10% commission on everything they sell. We’re reinventing retail — true social selling for the first time.

We’ll show you our concept deck and give you a demo of our site and business plan. You show us your Github profile.

Our technology stack is primarily ruby on the backend and html/css/js on the frontend. We use backbone.js, sinatra, datamapper, jquery, etc. Experience with git or a willingness to learn is a must.

We’re looking for someone who we can pay a top salary plus very nice perks, equity, etc. We want you to join our awesome team and make bring this disruptive form of online shopping to reality. As an added bonus, Sunday is funday at StyleOwner. StyleOwner will pay for your fun on Sundays. Do whatever you love to do: fancy meal, rock climbing, baseball game, day trip etc (as long as it’s legal of course) submit receipts and we will pay up to $250 per Sunday.

Our development team is in San Francisco and our main headquarters is in NYC.

Please send us a link to your github profile, resume, and some references. We’d love to meet with you, buy you a coffee or a beer, and show you some of our code and figure out if it’s a good fit.

We’ll start out with a chat over the phone so that you can ask any questions you may have after reading this posting.

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011) on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @11:04AM (#2607569)
San Francisco

StyleOwner is hiring. We're looking for a strong Ruby engineer for mostly backend engineering stuff but maybe a bit of web / frontend stuff.

For the right candidate we will pay very well.

Please email [email protected] if you want more details about our team and our app. I'd love to have a quick chat with you to fill you in and answer any questions.

We're ready to hire asap, so please let me know how quickly you would want to join us :)

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011) on Sunday May 01, 2011 @02:21PM (#2503628)
StyleOwner is hiring. Looking for a strong Ruby engineer.

This is a really great gig and HN is our preferred way to find great people (several are HN regulars).

Great project, great team, great compensation. And you get a Macbook Air. We're in San Francisco.

Email [email protected] for more info.

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011) on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:06PM (#2396771)
San Francisco -- Frontend Engineer (* see info about Macbook Air below)

Looking for someone with strong frontend skills (javascript, css, html).

You'll be our fourth technical hire. We have a great blend of highly motivated, smart people and a low stress, positive environment. And fashion is a very hot area right now.

If you are interested, email me at [email protected] with some info about yourself. I'll give you an overview of our business plan and next six months trajectory. Please mention HN for extra points.

Caveat: We are only looking for someone who either lives in the Bay Area or who is willing to move here.

* Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and Macbook Air included in compensation package.

We're looking to fill this position in the next few days and will take a thoughtful look at all applicants.

Tell HN: Looking to hire second technical employee -- today.

We're a fashion / e-commerce startup and we're well funded and ready to hire a second technical employee.Your job will be to do backend ruby coding (DataMapper, Nokogiri, etc.) to tie our site to all sorts of fashion brands.We're building a killer team and have a great frontend engineer lined up. We have made three offers for this position but each time the candidates have opted for boring,...

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Re:Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition) on Monday January 31, 2011 @01:31PM (#2162587)
StyleOwner (San Francisco) is hiring for two positions. If interested please get in touch today if possible.

We're a small, venture funded startup in the fashion space (very hot right now). Looking for one frontend and one backend engineer.

Benefits: Competitive pay, small team atmosphere, you get to have a big impact on our success. Dev team located in SF. Currently we work from home / coffee shops & meet in person one day a week for a hack session / coffee.

Two postings:

http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/8105

and

https://jobs.github.com/positions/a06703dc-1e86-11e0-8f66-20...

The ideal candidates are comfortable on a small team, write solid, clean code, and are able to handle a loosely structured environment. Please send a link to your portfolio or github profile, etc. For a shortcut to apply, just email [email protected].