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Delivers on-the-spot micro-volunteer opportunites to mobile phones.
Year Established: | 7/09 |
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Address: | San Francisco, CA 94108 |
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Company URL: | http://www.theextraordinaries.org |
Join us -- or refer someone for a bounty :) -- in building a crowdsourcing platform that is already changing the way people approach participation and engagement among passionate communities -- beyond Facebook and Twitter. We are a funded, early stage for-profit company (awesome, well known Investors) with a social mission based in San Francisco; click this anchor link for bit more on us.
Inspired, Hands-on Lead Engineer / Director of Engineering (PHP/MySQL)
Inspired PHP Guru
Inspired, Hands-on Lead Engineer / Director of Engineering (PHP/MySQL)
Opportunity: As the Lead Engineer or Director of Engineering (depending upon experience) you will be the fifth member of our small team (solid equity!) and be responsible for developing, deploying, testing, monitoring, and designing a cost-effective and sustainable crowdsourcing platform poised to truly change the world.
Strong organizational skills, deep technical expertise, and sound attention to detail are key in this mission critical role -- which is no problem for you, right? :) You will work closely with Ben, our CTO, and have the counsel of industry-leading Advisors (some of the best in the Valley).
Areas of focus include:
* Design/develop scalable system architecture & APIs using PHP (Zend), MySQL & AWS
* Put Agile best-practices in place, especially testing & deployment framework
* We anticipate time splits to be 70% development (coding), 10% team management and code review, 5% architecture design, and 15% other -- including having fun with the team at company outings, team lunches, in-office foosball tourneys, and more.
Skills we're looking for:
* Experience building scalable solutions and platform architectures
* Deep expertise in PHP
* Awesomeness
* Ability to work collaboratively
* Ability to scope requirements, timeline and deliverables using an Agile-based approach
* Fun-ness
* Solid grounding in the following areas:
* Systems monitoring and testing tools
* Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
* Participation in open source projects a plus
* Experience developing/supporting APIs
* A Test Driven Development philosophy
Compensation & more info:
* Compensation for the full-time position will be a market-level salary with benefits, an upside plan worthy of the critical role, and that indescribable feeling of working on something big that is really making a difference.
* We're located near Sutter/Kearny in downtown SF, and for this position we need you to be on-site (we're just a few blocks from BART!).
>>> Please click here to apply.
Opportunity: As an Inspired PHP Guru you join a small team developing a crowdsourcing platform. Deep technical expertise, sound attention to detail, and a team-player approach are key for this role. We're a small team that enjoys balancing hard work with a fun atmosphere in really cool office space.
Skills we're looking for:
* Extraordinary PHP skills. Zend expertise a bonus
* Awesomeness
* Client side development skills (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
* Solid understand of technologies in the following areas:
* OOP and Design Patterns
* Open source stacks
* Excellent scripting & shell skills
* Amazon Web Services is a plus
* Participation in open source projects a plus
* Experience developing/supporting APIs a plus
Compensation & more info:
* Compensation for the full-time position will be a market-level salary with benefits, an upside plan with solid equity, and that indescribable feeling of working on something big that is really making a difference.
* We're located near Sutter/Kearny in downtown SF, and for this position we need you to be on-site (we're just a few blocks from BART!).
>>> Please click here to apply.
About The Extraordinaries:
The Extraordinaries is an award winning micro-task platform; think crowdsourcing (eg Wikipedia) meets Twitter, allowing organizations to tap their own communities for work. We've received solid press (TIME, NPR.org, many others), won several competitions (Knight Foundation Grant, Echoing Green, others), and have the support of some of the most respected entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
We're a for-profit company with a social mission -- fusing impact AND upside -- with a real revenue model, brand-name customers, and runway to execute. The Extraordinaries was founded by folks with relevant experience from Kiva.org, MySpace, eBay, richrelevance, 1Sky and MobileVoter. For more on us, check out our about page.
Jacob Colker
Jacob [at] BeExtra [dot] org
(773) 742-5515
The Extraordinaries allows people to complete micro-tasks for organizations, causes or people they're passionate about, using a iPhone or web browser, in a few minutes of spare time. For organizations, The Extraordinaries is a powerful way to strengthen relationships while leveraging their "crowds" to complete real work such as photo collection, translation and research. The Extraordinaries has been highlighted in TIME, CNN.com, NPR and other publications, and has won several awards including Echoing Green fellowship and a grant from the Knight Foundation. Led by a team with deep experience in activism and technology from organizations including 1Sky, Kiva.org and MySpace, The Extraordinaries is a funded for-profit company with a social mission based in San Francisco, CA
The Extraordinaries was featured on NPR's Future Tense with Jon Gordon, on June 1, 2009. Listen to the Mp3 here!
"The Extraordinaries, is a platform that enables citizens to perform "micro-volunteer" tasks on their phones when they find themselves with small amounts of time, such as waiting at a bus stop or in line at the bank."
   -Huffington Post, June 4, 2009
"For folks like The Extraordinaries...there's no IPO at the end of the rainbow, no late-night fantasizing that Google might buy them out. In some ways, their ability to innovate is even more impressive, and more useful, because it's fueled by passion that can't help but inspire in this cynical age. And perhaps that's the best lesson of all for would-be innovators everywhere."
   -San Jose Mercury News, May 30, 2009
"The Crowdsourcing-for-good revolution is on, with new applications rising out of San Francisco's petri dish of open-source activism. Waiting for the bus or the doctor? Bored in a staff meeting? [Use] an app created by The Extraordinaries."
   -San Francisco Magazine, June, 2009
"The Extraordinaries will let multilingual users watch short clips of a documentary and translate subtitles while riding a bus."
   -Washington Post, April 22, 2009
"The Extraordinaries...will be able to help immigrants improve their English, translate subtitles for human rights videos and help Cornell University collect data on urban birds."
   -The Jakarta Globe (Jakarta, Indonesia) - May 3, 2009
"The first mobile program that lets you help society while you wait for your coffee."
   -The Brisbane Courier Post (Brisbane, Australia) - May 14, 2009
"The micro-volunteering movement is being led by an organization called The Extraordinaries."
   -About.com, April 15, 2009
"The charities know that it is increasingly difficult to ask (and get) a long time volunteer. This system could solve the problem."
   -Youphil.com - a leading French blog - May 5, 2009
" I could imagine (on demand volunteerism by mobile phone) having terrific potential in Africa"
   -Kabissa.org - a leading African blog - Jan 5, 2009
The Extraordinaries...offers volunteer opportunities for people with busy work schedules to work with those who need it most."
   -Voice of America, Spanish language coverage, February 27, 2009
"So you are too busy and stressed to find time to volunteer? No worries. The folks at The Extraordinaries have got your back."
   -BeTheChangeInc.org, November 18, 2008
"What if you could empower the millions of Americans who want to volunteer but don't have the time? ...The Extraordinaries seek to do just that - turn ordinary free time into extraordinary social impact."
   -Mobilefuture.org, May 15, 2009
"As issues of work life balance mount, and the constraints on our precious little free time become even greater, it's efforts like the Extraordinaries that may just transform the way we find time to give back and volunteer."
   -SocialCitizen.org, November 18, 2008
"I really see the potential of crowdsourcing for community organizations and think it's a big idea. Much of Kiva's success can be attributed to the support and generosity of its fan base, as we've leaned on them for everything from translations to marketing. Having a tool to effectively and efficiently engage them via microtasks would be a win-win, allowing Kiva to continue to scale while allowing Kiva's fans to feel a deeper sense of ownership through participation."
   -Premal Shah, President, Kiva.org
"Using mobile phones for volunteering in small chunks of time is a great idea. I believe that this application may well lower barriers to entry for volunteerism, and encourage organizations to engage volunteers and supporters in new ways."
   -Ami Dar, Executive Director, Idealist.org (Ashoka Fellow, 2004)
"The Extraordinaries have a very interesting concept for using mobile tech for volunteering and social involvement. The team has built a viable platform on a shoestring with nothing but vision, technical chops, and incredible outreach and community involvement. As a result, they have begun to garner considerable attention and are poised to take the application and it's use to the next level -- given adequate funding."
   -Katrin Verclas, Co-Founder, MobileActive.org (MIT Fellow, 2009)(TED Fellow, 2009)
"Micro-volunteerism is going to be the next major stage of social activism, and The Extraordinaries are leading the effort to transform traditional volunteering for the good of all."
-Ben Rattray, Founder and CEO, Change.org
"The Extraordinaries are not a band, though if they were I
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The Extraordinaries is a collaborative effort of friends, advisors, pioneering non-profits and most importantly, the community of Extraordinaries - YOU - turning your spare time into social good. See the list below for info on the folks behind the scenes.
Jacob Colker Co-Founder and CEO Jacob [at] BeExtra [dot] org 773-742-5515 (press and business development only please) Jacob Colker is a recognized leader in political activism and issue advocacy, and a leading voice in the use of technology for community engagement. Jacob has managed political campaigns in California, Illinois, and Maryland, and he was one of the first field directors in the country to leverage Facebook