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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Apple | Mobile |
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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Year Established: | 12/06 |
Funding: | 2.75 |
Address: | Santa Monica, CA 90401 |
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Company URL: | http://www.goodreads.com |
The following positions are open as of Apr 13, 2010, and will be removed once filled:
Our development philosophy is to work individually or in pairs, building everything from front-end to back-end. We divide up work on a project to project basis, and you'd be responsible for making sure your features have a clear user-interface, scale for millions of users, and have legible and easy to maintain code. You should be comfortable with those skills or dying to learn them!
Interested candidates should submit their resume, a code sample, a paragraph or two about why they want to work for Goodreads, and their solution to our design challenge to contact@goodreads.com. This position is for our office in downtown San Francisco, CA.
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Otis Chandler
currently reading:
Pleased, but not Satisfied
Otis is the Founder & CEO of Goodreads. He is a software engineer at heart and loves tinkering on the site to make it the best product possible. Before founding Goodreads, Otis was a Software Engineer and Product Manager at Tickle.com. Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. Otis graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Along with a passion for building websites, he’s also a voracious reader.
Elizabeth Khuri Chandler
currently reading:
Beatrice and Virgil
Elizabeth is the co-founder of Goodreads and the Editor-in-chief of the monthly newsletter, which has an online circulation of 2.805 million. Previously, she worked at the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and was the managing editor of Soma Magazine. Elizabeth graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in English (with a focus in creative writing) and a Masters from USC Annenberg in journalism. She's a big fan of old, musty fiction and anything with a bit of whimsy such as Calvino, Dahl, Kafka and Wilde.
Michael Economy
currently reading:
Robinson Crusoe
Before joining Goodreads, senior software engineer Michael Economy also worked at Tickle as the lead engineer of various products. He graduated from Appalachian State University with a BS in computer science. His favorite kind of books are hard sci-fi and his hobbies include surfing and mountain biking.
Jessica Donaghy
currently reading:
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Nor...
As Features Editor Jessica is responsible for the Goodreads newsletter, where you can find new books to read, author interviews, and more! She double majored in Human Biology and Drama at Stanford University. Since then she has pursued her interests by working in breast cancer research, theater, opera, and film, and as an editor and teacher. Jessica has a weakness for modern playwrights, science nonfiction, and classically romantic literature, and will read absolutely anything by Margaret Atwood or Tom Stoppard.
Patrick Brown
currently reading:
Cocktails: Poems
Patrick is the Community Manager at Goodreads. He's responsible for all sorts of things, including being a head librarian, working with authors to grow the Author Program, answering member questions, and growing the Goodreads community. Before coming to Goodreads, Patrick was an independent bookseller, working at Book Soup and Vroman's Bookstore. He has a B.A. in Cinema & Media Studies from the University of Chicago and an MFA in film production from USC. Go figure. He likes books that challenge his own world view, as well as books that make him laugh.
Ken-ichi Ueda
currently reading:
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob...
Once upon a time, Software Engineer Ken-ichi thought he would be a paleontologist. Then he thought he'd be a computer scientist. Then a biologist. Then a cartographer. Then an informaticist. Then a biodiversity informaticist! Now he is a web developer. But while his goals grew and shifted, he always knew he was a reader: from Dune to Pride & Prejudice, from field guides to programming manuals, Ken-ichi loves a good book. When he's not breathlessly awaiting the next David Mitchell novel, you can find him exploring the land and sea of California in search of spineless wonders!
Louise Yang
currently reading:
The Windup Girl
Louise went to Berkeley to study Linguistics.She also studied CS and picked up some tricks.When she's not coding, she cooks.Her shelves are overflowing with books.If you find a bug, it might be something she'll fix.
Kale McNaney
currently reading:
The God Delusion
Kale is a software engineer who loves to ride his bike and hang out in the LA sun. He graduated from MIT where he learned to assemble bits into interesting and useful tools. Kale likes to read nonfiction books about science, logic and philosophy by authors like Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett. His favorite book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. When he's not writing a test case or implementing a new Goodreads feature, you can find Kale on his porch reading or riding down the Santa Monica bike path.