Confidential/New York, NY (New York City)
We are seeking a CTO/Senior Technical Advisor to architect and guide the execution of a consumer-facing web-based application. The project has the potential to transform the way people interact with content on the web. We believe that simple ideas and elegant, empathetic design can empower and delight people. Success for us is not just a highly useful and emotionally compelling application—it is a sustainable and lucrative business. No Web 2.0 fantasies here.
The current team consists of a non-technical founder and lead designer. Both have substantial product development experience across a range of categories and businesses. We have funding.
What we're looking for is someone with considerable technical expertise who can make high-level strategic decisions about use of platforms, languages, technologies, and ultimately help to hire and oversee the developer who executes on the development plan. Someone who has 5-10 years broad-based product development experience and has the judgment to make thoughtful decisions that balance user experience, cost, and implementation challenges. An interest or knowledge of semantic web and interpretative databases will be especially helpful. In terms of specific technical skills, knowledge of Java, MySQL, AJAX, Rails, Python, PHP, and DHTML are crucial. As are a superb understanding of current and forthcoming technologies (popular APIs, widget creation, etc). Prior experience in startups is extremely desirable. We believe that this role may be undertaken, at least in the beginning, on a part-time basis. We are located in New York City.
If this describes you, we'd love to hear from you. Please send a CV, cover letter telling us a little bit about yourself, and if possible, some links to your work.
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We are seeking a CTO/Senior Technical Advisor to architect and guide the execution of a consumer-facing web-based application. The project has the potential to transform the way people interact with content on the web. We believe that simple ideas and elegant, empathetic design can empower and delight people. Success for us is not just a highly useful and emotionally compelling application—it is a sustainable and lucrative business. No Web 2.0 fantasies here.
The current team consists of a non-technical founder and lead designer. Both have substantial product development experience across a range of categories and businesses. We have funding.
What we're looking for is someone with considerable technical expertise who can make high-level strategic decisions about use of platforms, languages, technologies, and ultimately help to hire and oversee the developer who executes on the development plan. Someone who has 5-10 years broad-based product development experience and has the judgment to make thoughtful decisions that balance user experience, cost, and implementation challenges. An interest or knowledge of semantic web and interpretative databases will be especially helpful. In terms of specific technical skills, knowledge of Java, MySQL, AJAX, Rails, Python, PHP, and DHTML are crucial. As are a superb understanding of current and forthcoming technologies (popular APIs, widget creation, etc). Prior experience in startups is extremely desirable. We believe that this role may be undertaken, at least in the beginning, on a part-time basis. We are located in New York City.
If this describes you, we'd love to hear from you. Please send a CV, cover letter telling us a little bit about yourself, and if possible, some links to your work.
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