Overview
Exiles, Inc. is an angel-funded start-up building passionate communities of fans who live away from their team’s home city – e.g. Yankees fans in San Francisco. We are in the early stages of product development and need a technical lead to take ownership, scale and grow these web and mobile-enabled communities.
Our vision is to create a community platform that enables a team’s fans to connect with each other online and locally through websites, mobile apps and physical events. A technical lead with experience in social, community and grassroots development would be ideal. A passionate sports fan would be a big plus.
We have built 7 team communities already with over 350,000 fans on Facebook, over 20,000 website registrations and over 530 local team chapters across the country. Here’s an example: Yanks in Exile on Facebook and the Website.
Our long-term goal is to expand these communities to 100 teams across professional, college and international sports and reach 5 million users.
Job Requirements
• Be an expert in one or more languages, ideally Ruby, PHP, Python and/or Java. When you interview, we’ll ask you to write code in the language of your choice.
• Have built non-trivial mobile apps, or incredibly compelling mobile sites.
• Experience building service based architectures with an eye toward public APIs.
• Experience scaling high traffic websites.
• Experience performance tuning MySQL.
• Uses and has a firm understanding of the social media space.
• Ability to recruit, hire, lead and manage people and projects.
• Excellent communication skills are a must.
• Being an avid sports fan won’t hurt.
Contact: Email [email protected] to apply.