craigfollett

This is awesome Chris! Exquisitely executed.

Nice! Great UX thus far.

Craigslist is just a listing site (create > discover). Uniiverse is an end-to-end marketplace, with integrated payments (create > discover > book > pay > review).

Hey Ben. Craig here, CEO of Uniiverse. Actually, Uniiverse is not a social network. We believe that the social layer has been built. The next decade is about the engagement layer, and we are building the platform that connects people for real life interactions. We are a marketplace (across the full value chain i.e. create > discover > book > pay > review), and we are aiming to get people offline.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

http://www.uniiverse.com/jobs

ABOUT UNIIVERSE Ever wonder what it was like to work at Facebook or Google when it was just five people? Imagine building a web platform that will change the way people think and improve live their lives.

Uniiverse is an exciting startup building a person-to-person marketplace for services and activities – the ‘eBay for Time’. Our primary dimensions are: temporal, local and social. We have developed a revolutionary concept that leverages the existing social graphs to allow people to save time, share and discover passions and build the world’s ‘trust graph’.

Uniiverse is seeking a talented Ruby Developer to lead the development of core elements of our platform.

TIMEFRAME • You will join us full time during Fall 2011 – we are quite flexible on timelines

RESPONSIBILITIES Own product sprints for front and back-end build-out of Uniiverse's technology platform, e.g.: • Thought partner and shape design and functionality of our product • Drive development of back-end technology (e.g. billing systems, proprietary recommendation algorithms) • Lead development of key front-end functionality (e.g. calendarization, jQuery widgets, etc.) • Implement analytics, tools, and admin panels • Build test cases in parallel to development, design and implement A/B testing environments

TECHNOLOGIES WE LOVE • Ruby on Rails + MongoDB • JavaScript / jQuery; AJAX / JSON • HTML5 / CSS3 + HAML / SASS

REQUIREMENTS • Proficient in Ruby on Rails 3 • Familiar with MongoDB, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OAuth, Facebook Graph API • Experienced in JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS (HAML and SASS) • Excited about BDD, automated deployment, fixing bugs, and shipping code • Keen eye for clean, simple design aesthetics, and usability • An independent, fast-learning, self starter who takes ownership over solving ambiguous problems • Energetic, passionate (does not matter about what!), and driven • Believes strongly in The Joel Test

BONUS IF YOU ARE… • Proficient in mobile development (iOS / Objective-C) • Savvy with machine learning / natural language processing / recommendation algorithms • Experienced in developing accounting and billing systems

APPLICATION Please email [email protected] with your CV, links to your GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter, and technical blog

BENEFITS Learn how to build a massively scalable social web application in a sexy technology stack. Get paid to work in a fast-paced, fun, start-up environment. Build valuable references.

ABOUT US Our team is comprised of experienced, talented and passionate people with deep expertise in strategy, technology and web and app development. We'd be excited to tell you more about us and our vision during an initial conversation.

REFERRAL BONUS $1,000* if the person you recommend is hired.

* Payable for full time employee hires (i.e. contractors and freelancers excluded), for this particular dev position, after the completion of any probationary period, if applicable. Does not apply to candidates with whom Uniiverse was already in contact.

Any other bootstrapping techniques that you would add?