Jobs

We're looking for an awesome engineering lead to help us accelerate our product throughput, and supercharge our back-end platform.

You need to play well with others, embrace the startup environment, and have the kind of rockin' can-do attitude that no job is beneath you... and the mountain before you is journey to enjoy.

Required skills

  • Startup experience, ability to work at the early stage fast-pace environment
  • Experience with service oriented architectures (SOA) and distributed computing
  • Strong Java or C++ programming skills
  • Interest in algorithms, scalability, and beautiful code
  • Experience with high availability data access, caching
  • Desired skills

  • Networking tools
  • Release engineering
  • Mobile integration
  • Deep web scraping
  • Recommendation & Relevance algorithms
  • Weighting & Sorting algorithms
  • Cloud services
  • Facebook API
  • Compensation

    Compensation is competitive with that added benefit that Upgo is early stage. We're looking for someone with lean cash requirements who has an appetite for far more equity than typically expected for a non-founding engineering role. Everyone on this team has to be in this for the upside for the foreseeable future.

    How to Apply

    Please email jobs@whatsupgo.com with your LinkedIn profile URL and the answers to the following questions to get the ball rolling. It will help us know you better and show us you're serious about this opportunity. No need for a novel, but this is the chance to show off where you've been.

    • How does human distributed reputation resemble a web-scale graph? What are the implications of this?
    • What sort of algorithmic approaches can one take to sift review data to converge on
      • a. the value of feedback,
      • b. the value of a given friend or event result,
      • c. the overall value of a reviewer.

    • What are the best ways to spam the system?
    • What are ways to prevent spamming of the system?
    • Why do you love engineering? What's the coolest project that you built from the ground up?
    • Why do you want to join a startup that is shocking a lot people (and, making a lot of other really smart people really excited)?