We're hiring!

• We connect language learners with native speakers around the world for face to face practice through live video.
• GigaOM named us a top 5 company out of the 63 in our Y Combinator S11 batch.
• We just raised capital from prestigious, helpful investors in an oversubscribed round.
• Your contribution will have global reach and will bring together and meaningfully touch the lives of people from around the world.
• Our office is in downtown Palo Alto, the center of startup universe. One block to University Ave!

Software Engineer

Job Activities

• Design and develop a dynamic UI on verbling.com. Very little of our site is static.
• Develop scalable solutions for a real time back-end to support live video.
• Hack on top of a fun, development optimized technology stack: Node, Rails, MongoDB, GitHub, etc.
• Use Verbling to converse with users from around the world. This is one of our few rules.

Requirements

• A strong academic background, CS degree preferred. You're a smart, well-rounded engineer who understands systems as well as coding.
• Previous projects (personal, academic, or corporate) that show a zest for engineering.
• Ability to learn and acquire new skills quickly in a self-starting, highly productive environment.
• You live and breathe web code and languages. Experience with Ruby/Rails, Javascript, MongoDB, or Node desirable.
• You have a passion for human languages.

jobs@verbling.com