Social Expeditions Looking for CTO

October 22, 2009 – 8:28 pm by coachwei | Category startup |

My friends at Social Expeditions are looking for a CTO. Below is what they are looking for:

Social Expeditions is a company behind blockbusters on Facebook and MySpace. Millions use our products. We are profitable.

This is no coincidence because we are obsessed with our customers. While many features start with intuitions and mechanics we have seen work, everything is put to customer development testing. We rely on our own multivariate experimentation system and carry out extremely rapid testing and iteration (sometimes on the order of 30-60 minutes). Our goal is to continue producing great social games and applications that excite, entertain and inspire millions.

We’re an engineering-led organization You will be joining a still-very-lean global crew (with foci in San Francisco and Tel Aviv) that convenes for 2-3 week hackathons every several months at awesome locations (recent stop: Croatia, next stop: Tokyo).

On our team everybody is part of the product development process and you will be too. It is critical that we all understand the product thoroughly and help inspire each other to innovate it. You will be expected to care about the product.

Tools we use: Python, Google AppEngine, Javascript, JQuery, Git, Fogbugz, Yammer, Skype/Tokbox, Usertesting.com, some LAMP, some Subversion

Your Role:

• You will architect, oversee, and manage our technological architecture and strategy, working with our engineering team and the two (technical) founders to make sure we are on the cutting edge of customer development systems - a mix of analytics/tracking, statistics and a development process that creates maximum iterative speed. Your technical leadership will underpin our company’s success.
  


• You will come up with new and better ways of scaling, modularizing, and using different technologies for our games, social applications and customer development systems. Quite often, you will be the first to release a rough prototype of a new system you envisioned.
  

We expect you to demonstrate a strong track record with web and serverside technologies, including some sys admin experience, at least some Javascript and preferably a lot of Python. You will have had a 3-5 years experience in managing developers.

Everybody prefers particular tools and types of problems. However, with that in mind you’re the type of engineer who has dabbled in enough things to be able to build a complete system from scratch (systems, backend and frontend), relishing bits and pieces that are new or challenging to you.

You appreciate that a minimal viable product can have bugs and that, as an agile company, all our products are a work in progress.

You must be available for a full time commitment.

You are the type of person who:

• writes clean, understandable, quality code


• has strong communication and interpersonal skills


• loves a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high


• finds and helps implementing a solution, no matter what


• has strong opinions on whatever matters to you, but knows to listen and like being challenged


• is excited about social applications and games

We offer a competitive compensation package including equity and performance bonuses.

If you are interested, email socialxhiring at gmail.com.