Software Engineers

You:
You’re an awesome programmer & technologist. You know what ORM is, how to use it, and have strong opinions about it. If I told you that I just finished a cool mashup using the Facebook API, Twitter, and Google Gears, you’d be really interested to see it. You’ve made something scale. You’ve clustered something. You’ve consumed a web service. You have a favorite distro. And a favorite data structure.

You are excited about technology and love building cool stuff. You are just as happy slinging code as you would be designing database schemas, talking to clients, troubleshooting production problems, and writing job postings like this one. You’re “smart and get things done.” Hard work and late nights are actually pretty appealing to you because you want to win!

Us:
Our customers require high availability, as we run mobile messaging for live events like concerts, stadium & rallies with tens of thousands of people, and power their most actionable messaging. We process millions of text messages and thousands of simultaneous phone calls. Our backend powers Facebook applications, Flash widgets, and giant text-to-screen programs. We integrate with 3rd party web services ranging from Twitter to the largest online CRM companies. We provide graphs, analytics, and demographic information for all of our interactions. All interactions are geo-aware as we geocode the location of millions of mobile phones.

We’ve built out a distributed, message-driven architecture to power this amazing product offering as organizations integrate mobile into everything they do. This requires solid engineering, operations, and monitoring. We’re looking for more engineers to help continue building out our product and help scale our application as we continue to grow very quickly.

We’re Looking For:

• Talented, highly motivated web programmers comfortable with the full technology stack, from the database to the front-end
• An interest in test driven development and agile methodologies
• Experience supporting a production applications on a Linux/UNIX system and troubleshooting problems is a must
• Experience with Ruby and Rails strongly preferred
• Experience scaling a distributed, message driven architecture would be nice too

The Laundry List:
Ruby, Rails, REST, MySQL, Git, Javascript, ActionScript/Flash, Message-Driven Archictecture

Responsibilities:

• Build Ruby on Rails applications as we expand our product offering into new areas
• Help scale our application and infrastructure as we continue to grow
• Work closely with sales and product teams to understand, design, and rapidly release high quality software
• Support our production system and help with technical support and squashing bugs

Why Join Mobile Commons:

• We’re a product and engineering-centric company.
• We pair-program, practice test-driven development, scrum, and deploy often.
• We are passionate technologists and we get to use exciting new technologies.
• We believe in open source and release lots of Ruby code back to the community.
• Our programmers are encouraged to present at conferences, write papers, and come up with cool new ideas for Mobile Commons.
• If you want, your job title can be “Jedi Knight” and you can wear flip flops
• If you’re looking to be stimulated, solve hard problems, work with smart people, and not deal with bureaucracy, look no further.

To apply:
Send a resume and cover letter to jobs@mobilecommons.com. At this time, we’re only looking for people willing to work in NYC. No phone calls please.

Systems Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Systems Engineer to manage our production Linux cluster and constantly improve system reliability. Our applications depend on high availability (we run mobile messaging for concerts & rallies with 10,000s of people and process millions of messages) and experience large volumes spikes (say, 0-1,000 simultaneous phone calls in 60 seconds). This requires solid system engineering, operations, and monitoring. We also rely on a number of third party services, any of which could be down at any time. We maintain sensitive data for large, non-profit organizations, so security is of utmost importance. You will be responsible for all aspects of our platform that affect speed, reliability, security, and overall system performance. Experience managing a production Linux (CentOS) environment is a must. You should have experience troubleshooting, diagnosing, and improving network traffic, CPU utilization, databases (MySQL), and applications. You will also be responsible for system monitoring and alerting, backups, and machine clustering/replication. Familiarity with Rails (specifically nginx & Mongrel) is preferred. Finally, as we are a small company, you will also be expected to wear different hats, including taking initiative on automating much of our regression testing and reporting.

Apply:
Send your resume to jobs@mobilecommons.com. Got a blog or an embarrassingly inappropriate MySpace page? Send that too! We are currently looking for engineers to work full-time and on location in NYC. No phone calls please.

Web Design / UI Contractor

Mobile Commons’ customers are some of the leading cause-related organizations in the world. They use our web-based application to create mobile programs based around text messaging, voice calls, and web-based interactive components. Our customers are supportive and vocal in their needs and support millions of their constituents on our platform. To meet their needs and our growth, we need someone at the intersection of product and engineering to quickly iterate through wireframes, mock-ups, and CSS. This position is part of the engineering team, so candidates must have some familiarity with CSS/XHTML.

Responsibilities:

• Help lead the vision and execution of the look and feel of user-facing products.
• Stay ahead of engineering with a focus on rapid iterations and high quality interactions (Design Driven Development)
• Actively Participate in cross-functional product and business planning meetings.

Requirements:

• Rapid prototyping: wireframing and mock-ups (tools up to you)
• Strict CSS/XHTML
• Graphic Design skills a plus

Apply:
Send your resume and portfolio to jobs@mobilecommons.com. Have presence on the web or a portfolio of your work? — send it along. We have a preference for people based in or around New York City. No phone calls please.

Interns

Mobile Commons is changing the way that people use phones by bringing together the power of the mobile universe with the web. We work with many amazing customers and are looking for:

• Computer Science/Engineering Interns
• Data Crunching Interns
• Graphic Design Interns
• Marketing Interns

You:
We’re looking for exceptional interns that are interested in working in a fast moving environment, taking on real responsibility, and watching how a company is built. This is not a boring investment bank opportunity.

Computer Science Interns: Interested in working with web applications and mobile? Want to see what its like to use a dynamic language in a production environment? Want your code to have a real impact? Great. We’re looking for interns that want to get their hands dirty writing tests, doing some AI modeling, and writing great software.

Data Crunching Interns: Are you studying math, statistics, or economics? We’re looking for interns that love pulling interesting information out of data and like the prospect of doing regressions on causes that people care about. We’re particularly interested in people that have facility with data and visual displays of quantitative information (think Tufte).

Graphic Design Interns: Are you interested in helping build a brand that’s already appeared in Fast Company, the New Yorker, the WSJ, and the NY Times? Are you curious about the overlap between print, online media, and mobile media? We’re looking for graphic design interns that are multi-talented and looking to bring all of that to an internship. Special bonuses for illustrators and animators.

Marketing Interns: Interested in building a brand that connects people to things they actually care about? Mobile Commons can use your help. Our approach to marketing is highly analytic and deeply tied into product development. We’re mainly interested in MBA candidates, but won’t overlook talented undergraduates.

Us:
We’re an exciting company in NYC building an amazing communications platform that brings together the power of text messaging, phone calls, the web, and the mobile web. We’re about a year old, angel backed, profitable, and have a high-profile client list. Our office environment is fast-paced, open and unbureaucratic. Programmers work with sales & marketing, designers work with support, and everyone gets insight into all aspects of the company.

Apply:
Send your resume to jobs@mobilecommons.com. Have presence on the web or a portfolio of your work?—send it along. A funny blog or MySpace page? Send that too. We’re currently looking for interns that can join us on location in NYC. No phone calls please.