Help us build a complex auction-based music algorithm (Ruby/Mongo)

Ruby/Mongo developer - Remote OK (no Dev shops)

Are you tired of a broken music industry where major labels play gatekeeper and cut artists out of the deal? Sick of streaming services inundated with commercials?

Earbits is turning the model on its head. On Earbits Radio, artists and labels bid for airtime on a per-stream basis and use the exposure to acquire fans and market products and live events. It is Google Adwords for music, where data, customer experience and economics surface the best material to each listener - all without commercials.

We’re looking for a back end engineer to help build the algorithm that will maximize artists’ results, listeners’ experience, and the company’s bottom line. Come help us do for music what Adwords did for every other small business industry.

Requirements (3 years commercial experience)

Ruby on Rails

Mongo DB

Heroku/Amazon EC2 experience

Niceties

Javascript / Backbone.js

Mobile dev

Facebook API

Reply to Thomas Davis at hn@earbits.com (For more about Thomas: http://github.com/thomasdavis)

About Earbits

Earbits is the first commercial-free, streaming music service designed exclusively for marketing music products and live events. Earbits allows labels, bands and concert promoters to buy increased exposure in targeted channels under its Priority Airtime program. The company already has 600 labels, 11,000 artists and over 350 channels on its fast-growing, online music service. Founded in January 2010 with headquarters in Venice, CA, Earbits is funded by renowned Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures, former Lala CEO Geoff Ralston, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, and SproutBox. For more information, visit www.earbits.com or check out our app for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earbits.earbitsradio