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Senior .NET Software Engineers
Would you like to join a startup with a great team that creates exciting communications software? Xobni is looking for a Senior Windows Software Engineer to help us build and improve our products.
Responsibilities
Senior Server Engineers
Xobni is quickly expanding and we're looking for a Server Engineer / Web Architect who can help lay the foundation for our growing server team. Ideally you've worked with LAMP, live and breathe a flavor of Linux, and know how to structure code in a team setting.
This is a high growth opportunity position and it will be challenging.
Qualifications
Metrics Engineer
Do you enjoy both the technical challenges of engineering and the business challenges of building a successful company? Do you enjoy building systems that are used and appreciated by every member of your team?
Xobni is hiring a web developer for the role of metrics engineer.
This engineer will work closely with the product engineering team, the web engineering team, and members of the marketing and business teams to build Xobni’s core business dashboards.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
QA Engineer
Are you constantly finding bugs on web sites and in software and can't help but send email to the developers? Do you get a kick out of creating test matrices? Is it your goal to find every damn bug in the product so the users don't have to deal with them? Then you may be the QA Engineer we're looking for to join the team!
Responsibilities
Requirements
Bonus
Software Engineers
Do you thrive as part of a talented and highly agile engineering team? We're looking for software engineers to help envision, design, and build the core Xobni applications.
Responsibilities
Xobni seeks to hire the best. We conduct business following the spirit and the intent of the equal opportunity laws and we strive towards maintaining a diverse community. We encourage excellence at all levels in our organization. Xobni is an equal opportunity employer.
- Senior Server Engineers
- QA Engineers
- Senior .NET Software Engineers
- Metrics Engineer
- Software Engineers
Working at Xobni
Xobni is changing the way people use their email. Our first product Xobni has been released and has received great reviews. Xobni aims to become a new platform for organizing messaging and relationship information, centered around email.
Xobni is located near Union Square in San Francisco, CA and is backed by substantial venture funding from Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Ron Conway and Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments, Y Combinator and several angel investors.
Our team is growing rapidly. We are looking for the kind of people who thrive as part of a dedicated and innovative team, love tough challenges, and are passionate about building something people want.
Xobni offers competitive base salary, stock options, health benefits, flexible hours, and a great group of people to work with.
You'll like it here
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| Startup environment: It's easy to make a difference | Plenty of pixels at your workstation |
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| Fascinating technical challenges | Nightly dinners with the team |
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| Smart, high-energy, and fun people to work with | Stock options, Competitive salary, and Health benefits |
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| Unlimited refills | Located near Union Square in beautiful San Francisco. Our office occupies a full floor with a ton of windows at the corner of Kearny and Sutter St |
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Positions
Senior .NET Software Engineers
Would you like to join a startup with a great team that creates exciting communications software? Xobni is looking for a Senior Windows Software Engineer to help us build and improve our products.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of large parts of Xobni's core code
- Write code that is both functional and elegant
- Diagnose performance and functional problems
- Participate in design discussions, perform analyses, and plan software and feature improvements
- BS, MS, or Ph.D. in computer science or a closely related field
- 5+ years experience in designing / developing Windows desktop application
- Proficiency in C#
- Experience using Mono is a plus.
- Significant experience with Windows technologies (Win32, COM, etc.) is a plus.
- Experience with developing for Outlook (OOM, VSTO, COM Addins, etc.) is a plus.
Senior Server Engineers
Xobni is quickly expanding and we're looking for a Server Engineer / Web Architect who can help lay the foundation for our growing server team. Ideally you've worked with LAMP, live and breathe a flavor of Linux, and know how to structure code in a team setting.
This is a high growth opportunity position and it will be challenging.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience as a software developer (internships count)
- 2+ years with PHP/MySQL/Apache
- 2+ years experience working on a server side team of 3 or more.
- You must believe that test driven development is good.
- Project Management Skills demonstrated by the ability to break down larger tasks (2 man months) into smaller ones and then deliver.
- Knowledge of APT, Python, Javascript, Memcached, JSON, ORMs, WSGI and ROR is a plus
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred
- Willingness to run Outlook (inside of a VM ok)
Metrics Engineer
Do you enjoy both the technical challenges of engineering and the business challenges of building a successful company? Do you enjoy building systems that are used and appreciated by every member of your team?
Xobni is hiring a web developer for the role of metrics engineer.
This engineer will work closely with the product engineering team, the web engineering team, and members of the marketing and business teams to build Xobni’s core business dashboards.
Responsibilities
- Own the fidelity, accuracy, display and availability of Xobni’s core business metrics: user engagement, virality and revenue
- Develop internal dashboards
- Bridge the gap between engineering and business teams
- Set individual goals and take responsibility for executing
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years of software development experience
- Master of php and mysql
- Healthy skills in html and css
- Excellent technical communication, both written and verbal
- MS/BS in Computer Science or related background preferred
QA Engineer
Are you constantly finding bugs on web sites and in software and can't help but send email to the developers? Do you get a kick out of creating test matrices? Is it your goal to find every damn bug in the product so the users don't have to deal with them? Then you may be the QA Engineer we're looking for to join the team!
Responsibilities
- Testing the web, client, server, and mobile components of the product
- Working closely with software engineers, product management, designers, and other QA on a daily basis
- Using JIRA for bug reporting, ad hoc testing, test case creation, and the usual QA tasks
- Taking ownership of the quality of the product and working to improve it every day
Requirements
- 4-6 years of manual blackbox and greybox testing of web and/or client applications, having seen multiple projects through their lifecycle
- Solid experience with various flavors of Windows. You can install the OS and know your way around the registry, often find yourself fixing the computers of friends and family
- You are equally comfortable performing ad hoc testing on a feature you've never seen before as you are creating or following a comprehensive test plan
- You can work independently and juggle priorities in a fast-paced workplace, can figure out what needs to be done with little instruction and can stay focused on the task at hand. When something needs to be done you take the initiative and do it
- Excellent communication skills are a must, both written and verbal, for filing and discussing bugs
Bonus
- Experience testing server products, experience testing mobile products
- Whitebox testing, automated testing
- Experience with Agile development process
Software Engineers
Do you thrive as part of a talented and highly agile engineering team? We're looking for software engineers to help envision, design, and build the core Xobni applications.
Responsibilities
- Participate actively in software design discussions
- Develop ideas from a high-level description to a shippable product
- Perform analyses, software design, code, troubleshooting, and unit testing
- Write code that is both functional and elegant
- Set individual goals and take responsibility for executing
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years of software development experience
- Experience with N-tier application development
- Successful multi-tasker, as well as a self starter who is able to work well with others and can adapt to changes quickly in a high pressure startup environment
- Very familiar with general application development
- C#/Java knowledge a plus
- Excellent technical communication, both written and verbal
- MS/BS in Computer Science or related background preferred
Xobni seeks to hire the best. We conduct business following the spirit and the intent of the equal opportunity laws and we strive towards maintaining a diverse community. We encourage excellence at all levels in our organization. Xobni is an equal opportunity employer.