Jobs

We're currently hiring engineers.

Gickup is building a real-time, social gaming site designed to connect millions of people simultaneously. We believe it has the potential to become one of the largest social gaming sites.

We're looking for engineers to help. Some of the challenges are highly algorithmic, such as ensuring high availability and fidelity of video and audio feeds; others are very technical, such as working to make a web application that is complex while still being very fast. Gickup is based in Burbank, CA.

We are committed to building a cutting-edge technology company that develops software the right way and is a place where engineers love to work. Some of the tools we are using include PHP, Javascript, Actionscript, Flex, Apache, memcached, and SVN. We want to build a fantastically strong engineering team and the first engineers that join us should set the tone for that.

ENGINEERING

Requirements:


  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Extraordinary software engineering talent
  • Substantial experience developing web applications
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP and network programming
  • Experience with a non-interpreted language, such as C, C++, or Java
  • Experience with distributed systems a plus
  • Proficiency programming in PHP and / or Flex a plus
  • The number of years of professional experience you have isn't important to us
  • You should be ready to make this startup the primary focus of your life (we'll provide people to date and beer)

In the short run, the most important thing is to scale and improve our first product, and so it is critical that you can immediately make big contributions to our complex web-based application. In addition to working with us in writing the software, the ideal candidate should be proficient outside the technical realm--making good product decisions, designing user interfaces that are both pretty and functional, being an effective marketer and recruiter, and being capable of handling anything else that comes up. You should also be fearless and broad inside the technical realm, happy to tackle CSS and JavaScript as readily as you are to take on optimizing the performance of a backend service in C, Java, or Flex. You should be ready to jump down into C and write an interpreter for a simple language if necessary, or hook up a cluster of machines to run a distributed machine learning job you wrote. In general, you should be very good at getting things done outside your comfort zone.

You will be required to make good decisions about important things without much oversight. You should be comfortable with autonomy and ownership of large areas of product and infrastructure. It's a plus if you have worked on projects in your spare time, such as programming games in middle school or high school. An ideal candidate will have the potential to grow into a strong leadership role over time--in either a technical or management capacity.

We think we are working on something that is very important and that lots of people will use every day. If you're interested, e-mail us at contact@gickup.com.