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SOFTWARE ENGINEER/DEVELOPER (Technology Co-founder)
Last update: 11/10/2009

Keen Guides is looking for a developer to join our team as technology co-founder and further develop the Keen Guides video tour guides platform.  Keen Guides is an Arlington, VA, based startup company taking advantage of new enhancements in mobile technology and the web and therein aiming to change the landscape of how people experience new places and how they learn about their surroundings.  The product will encompass combinations of multimedia (audio, video, streaming), geo-location (gps, mapping), social interaction (recommendations, discussions, reviews), crowd sourcing (authoring tools, etc.), and much more.

Qualifications:

  • Solid experience developing web applications
  • Solid experience with Ruby on Rails and SQL
  • CSS, HTML proficiency
  • Understanding of scalability, database design, and algorithms
  • Experience with usability and interface design
  • Experience developing for mobile platform (desirable)

Furthermore, the ideal candidate will have experience (or strong desire for):

  • Working together with other founders on a startup company and taking a product to market
  • Designing and writing high performance, elegant, and reliable code for both the frontend/UI and back-end of our web platform
  • Problem solving and having the intellectual curiosity to find technical solutions that are the quickest and easiest to build, yet also the most robust
  • Keeping up-to-date on the latest web tools and apps, and integrating with their APIs
  • Taking the initiative to improve development, testing, measurement and deployment processes
  • Possessing the drive to consistently deliver results, being disciplined to work on your own with light supervision

Worth noting is that Keen Guides is in the very early stage and we’d like to reiterate that the opportunity is there for the candidate to spearhead the technology product development as technology co-founder. Compensation will be primarily equity based – thus with a HUGE upside seeing where we plan on taking this company.

To summarize, we are looking for an energetic technology geek (guru, nerd, mastermind, hacker) who would love to build a new product from the ground up and guide the architecture of our technology platform going forward. We need someone big-picture enough to see the features, platforms, and ideas for the future, but nimble enough to get stuff coded and into testing immediately.

We are excited about this available position and finding a candidate to join our team.  Please contact us at careers@keenguides.com if you, or someone you know, is interested in learning more about Keen Guides and the position available.