Shareaholic

Why You’ll Love Working at Shareaholic

1. Challenging problems.

We’re not building another photo sharing app or hyper-local-mobile-social daily deals company — we’re solving real pains for hundreds of thousands of content creators wanting to have their voice heard.

2. Make a real difference.

You will make an impact on products used by over 200,000 website owners and reach over 270 million people each and every month. We deploy several times a day, so from your first day, you’ll be touching a good percentage of the world.

3. Learn. (A lot.)

We're smart and scrappy — every single person on our team, even our marketing team, pushes code. You'll interact with the best advisors in the world. We're growing insanely fast and you'll end up with a lot of responsibility quickly.

Shareaholic has been featured in premier national & international press like —

Shareaholic is recruiting for full time positions in Boston and New Delhi. We also have short term positions & internships available.

Current full time openings:

If you're interested in hearing more, shoot Jay an email. (You'll make his day -- he gets stupidly excited telling people what we're working on.)


Current Opportunities:

Lead Product Designer (Location: Cambridge, MA)

As Lead Product Designer at Shareaholic, you will join a VC backed, high growth company, with enormous opportunity for you to have an impact and to grow as our service and company grows.

This position is equal parts development, design/UX/UI and product management. At Shareaholic we believe in the art of high quality software craftsmanship and design. While we stress the importance of functionality and usability, we still expect a high level of visual refinement to our products. This is a chance to work with the best developers, impart your vision, and create awesome new products and refine existing award winning software used by hundreds of millions of users.

This position is full-time and based in our offices in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA.

What we offer:

  • Ownership of a product that touches over 270,000,000 unique visitors each month.
  • Being a member on a team that genuinely enjoys working together (so much so that we hang out when we're off the clock).
  • All the tools you need to get your get your job done (yes, that includes any tech, even a funky keyboard)

What you need:

  • Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision.
  • Desire to get it done and have a lot of fun doing it.
  • A passion for hacking (experience with PHP/MVC frameworks and JavaScript/JQuery is a plus).
  • Some experience with front-end programming (you should be able to code a simple web site or application).
  • Proven ability to execute on visual and interaction details.

Benefits:

Everyone gets a meaningful stake in the company's long-term success, competitive salaries, medical & dental benefits, plenty of freedom, and more.

Does this sound like something you want to be a part of? Please send your resume to jobs@shareaholic.com.

Front End Developer (Location: Cambridge, MA)

As a Front End Developer at Shareaholic, you will join a VC backed, high growth company, with enormous opportunity for you to have an impact and to grow as our service and company grows.

The ideal candidate loves to build, ship and iterate. You’ll be able to go from idea to mockup to prototype in a day and you’ll work closely with our product team to breathe life into products that will touch millions of users. At Shareaholic, we believe in the art of high quality software craftsmanship and design. While we stress the importance of functionality and usability, we still expect a high level of visual refinement to our products. This is a chance to work with the best product team, impart your vision, and create awesome new products and refine existing award winning software used by hundreds of millions of users.

This position is full-time and based in our offices in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA.

What we offer:

  • Ownership of a product that touches over 270,000,000 unique visitors each month.
  • Being a member on a team that genuinely enjoys working together (so much so that we hang out when we're off the clock).
  • All the tools you need to get your get your job done (yes, that includes any tech, even a funky keyboard)

What you need:

  • A strong focus on quickly building working prototypes, shipping and iterating on them until they shine.
  • Desire to get it done and have a lot of fun doing it.
  • A passion for hacking (experience with PHP/MVC frameworks is a plus).
  • Strong Javascript and jQuery skills.
  • Front-end programming (you should be able to code a web site or application).
  • Proven ability to execute on visual and interaction details.

Benefits:

Everyone gets a meaningful stake in the company's long-term success, competitive salaries, medical & dental benefits, plenty of freedom, and more.

Does this sound like something you want to be a part of? Please send your resume to jobs@shareaholic.com.

Senior Software Engineer (Location: Cambridge, MA)

As a Senior Developer at Shareaholic, you will join a VC-funded, high growth company, with enormous opportunity for you to have an impact and to grow as our service and company grows. This position is full-time and based in our offices in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA.

Some of the things you can expect to do:

  • Write code to build amazing products for the Shareaholic community in various languages that is beautiful, functional and easy to maintain and extend.
  • Contributing your ideas and help shape the direction of our products.
  • Being agile, iterating fast, and having fun!

Desired skills:

  • Full-stack product development experience (front-end/back-end/infrastructure).
  • Ability and desire to own big pieces of a complex, big data infrastructure.
  • Fluency with PHP MVC Frameworks like CodeIgniter, Ruby, JavaScript (JQuery), MySQL administration. Experience with MongoDB is a huge plus.
  • Demonstrable experience building web services at scale. Ability to learn and adopt new languages, libraries and technologies as needed. Strong command of web standards.
  • A passion for coding (show us your side projects!)
  • Great communication, organization, project management skills.
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent)

Benefits:

Everyone gets a meaningful stake in the company's long-term success, competitive salaries, benefits (medical & dental), plenty of freedom, and more.

Does this sound like something you want to be a part of? Please send your resume to jobs@shareaholic.com.

Software Architect (Location: New Delhi)

We have setup a world class product development team in India to accelerate the development of our products. We are looking for rock star open source developers who want to work with a distributed team of developers based in the US and around the world.

As Software Architect, you should have a strong object-oriented design background, be familiar with the agile development methodology, and have experience working in Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP MVC Frameworks like CodeIgniter (or equivalent).

You must have a passion for shipping elegant, efficient products that will be used by many hundreds of thousands of people around the world. You’ll be given more responsibilities than elsewhere and if you’re good at what you do you will move up quickly. This is a chance to work with the best developers, impart your vision, and create awesome new products and refine existing award winning software used by hundreds of millions of users.

This position is full-time and based in our offices in New Delhi.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for developing large scale web applications (hands on coding.)
  • Responsible for requirements gathering, analysis and documentation.
  • Responsible for risk assessment analysis, project scheduling and resource allocation planning.
  • Establish and maintain coding standards, perform design and code reviews to ensure compliance, and do research and train the team on new and improved development practices.
  • Responsible for design & develop software architecture and data models.
  • Responsible for quality assurance, including performance.

Desired Profile:

  • A Bachelor’s degree, or higher, in Computer Science, or related discipline with at least 80% marks in class XII.
  • Should have managed teams of a minimum of 1-2 people.
  • Must have a minimum 5+ years of project experience developing web applications using the Linux / Apache / PHP 5 / MySQL i.e. the LAMP stack. Should have worked with a MVC framework.
  • Experience with browser add-ons, WordPress plugins, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Facebook APIs or Twitter APIs is a huge plus.
  • You must be either a Facebook or Twitter user.
  • Ideally would have expertise in tuning and administering high traffic / high availability websites & web based applications.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.

Benefits:

Best in industry salary packages. Comparable to the best MNCs / tech companies in India. We're a small company with the security of a big company -- you'll get the best of both worlds.

Does this sound like something you want to be a part of? Please send your resume to jobs@shareaholic.com.

Software Engineer (Location: New Delhi)

We have set up a world class product development team in India to accelerate the development of our products. We are looking for rock star open source developers who want to work with a distributed team of developers based in the US and around the world.

As a Software Engineer, you should have a strong object-oriented design background, be familiar with the agile development methodology, and have reasonable experience working in Linux, MySQL, JavaScript, PHP MVC Frameworks like CodeIgniter (or equivalent).

You must have a passion for shipping elegant, efficient products that will be used by many hundreds of thousands of people around the world. You’ll be given more responsibilities than elsewhere and if you’re good at what you do you will move up quickly. This is a chance to work with the best developers, impart your vision, and create awesome new products and refine existing award winning software used by hundreds of millions of users.

This position is full-time and based in our offices in New Delhi.

Some of the things you can expect to do:

  • Writing code to build amazing products for the Shareaholic community in various languages that is beautiful, functional, and easy to maintain and extend.
  • Defining engineering standards and processes for the rest of the team to follow.
  • Making sure that Shareaholic continues to be fast as we grow and release more features.
  • Contributing your ideas and help shape the direction of our products.
  • Being agile, iterating fast, and having fun!

Desired skills:

  • Fluency with PHP MVC Frameworks like CodeIgniter, JavaScript (JQuery), MySQL administration.
  • Ability to learn and adopt new languages, libraries, and technologies as needed.
  • Strong command of web standards.
  • A passion for coding (show us your side projects!)
  • Great communication, organization, project management skills.
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent)

Benefits

Best in industry salary packages. Comparable to the best MNCs / tech companies in India. We're a small company with the security of a big company -- you'll get the best of both worlds.

Does this sound like something you want to be a part of? Please send your resume to jobs@shareaholic.com.

Meet the team:

Our culture:

We're so impressed by and believe in Zappos.com's company core values, that we based ours on theirs:

  1. Deliver WOW Through Service
  2. Embrace and Drive Change
  3. Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
  4. Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
  5. Pursue Growth and Learning
  6. Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
  7. Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
  8. Do More With Less
  9. Be Passionate and Determined
  10. Be Humble

Technologies we're built on:

We are language/tech agnostic, and believe in picking the best tool for the job at hand.
  • Hosted on raw AWS/EC2 instances
  • Web interfaces/APIs built on CodeIgniter, a PHP MVC framework, with MySQL and Mongo data stores
  • Highly modular backend stack, built mostly on Ruby, but with some Java where speed is critical
  • Cassandra used as a distributed, Map/Reduce-supporting backend data store
  • Browser plugins using HTML5/CSS3/jQuery