Oxford Technology Ventures, LLC is accepting resumes from cutting-edge software developers and senior user experience professionals.
TO APPLY FOR ANY ROLE:
Email your resume and an email serving as your cover letter. In your cover letter email, please state:
A. which position you are seeking;
B. why you want to work for us;
C. why you’d be a good fit for the role, and
D. please also send a UX document like sample wireframes or coding samples, as relevant to Jobs@OxfordTechnologyVentures.com
TECH LEAD / CTO, MOBILE AND WEB APPLICATIONS
New York City – Contract or Contract-to-Hire
We’re building a people-matching platform that will power a dating website, a social networking site, and iPhone and Android apps. We have some unique ideas, and we’re using the latest open-source technologies: Backbone.js, Coffeescript, PhoneGap, Python, Tornado, and MongoDB.
We’ve got a slick technology stack that makes development fast and immensely enjoyable. We’re a small team with a hunger to get our product in front of users and investors ASAP. We have a mostly-complete alpha-stage product that needs to be brought to market and vastly extended and matured.
You’ll have maximum independence, the chance to apply your creative ideas to the product, you can work where you want and when you want, and you’ll have total technical ownership. We also offer equity compensation in this new product for the right applicant. Ideally, we’re looking for someone who is interested in “living the startup dream” of launching disruptive digital products and being a part of successful new product launches and venture-capital investment raising at the partner level.
Responsibilities include:
- developing a very complex application in Javascript, Coffeescript, MongoDB and Python
- ability to work from partial specs and to create specs when necessary
- creative brainstorming and collaboration with the team
Requirements:
- 5+ years of extensive professional experience in JavaScript
- 5+ years of extensive professional experience in Python and Python web frameworks
- Experience configuring Linux hosted web servers on Rackspace, AWS, or similar
- Ability to work quickly and with minimal errors and supervision
- Experience doing self-QA and in leading technical QA
- Be a quick study!
Preferred:
- Experience with MongoDB, Tornado, and/or PhoneGap
- Mobile (iOS and/or Android) experience
- Project management experience, particularly in Agile/Scrum methodologies
- 3rd party platform integration experience, including Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook
- E-commerce and payment system integration experience
Please show us some code samples for Python, and for Javascript or Coffeescript.
We’re always looking for top-tier User Experience professionals with great chops in product management, product strategy, product planning, team management, client relationships management and presenting, requirements gathering and analysis, metrics analysis, user experience concepting, user personas, information architecture on a variety of software platforms, usability testing and research, wireframes, functional specifications, sitemaps and flowcharts, etc. If you’ve got at least 5 years as an IA/ UX/ ID and consider yourself a polished, professional pro who’s fast and agile, we want to hear from you! We’ve got great client projects and can give you maximum flexibility and freedom to do what you do best in a small-team environment with minimal overhead.