Wanted: A Backend/Full-stack hacker to work on movie trailers

A cool 2 week gig for a Full-Stack. Immediate start, potentially leads to joining us full-time next year. Architect a new backend system for a Movie Trailer app which is already live in the app store, is rated 5* w/ thousands of users. We are a venture backed, based on University Ave, Palo Alto. A flexible position with distributed/remote working over the Holidays. Problem: The system we have now is slow with too many bottlenecks. You'll be walked through everything we are doing today and so will have a clear scope with defined goals. All of the current team are CS guys which helps us talk and work effectively together on this project. Objectives: - Take current backend, cms and bin it. Yeah! - Rebuild on something more agile, cutting-edge and flexible (Rails/Angular or similar). - Openly reason which architecture to go for on this project before building it. - Data scraping: We are going to use a ton of data from across the internet and want somebody with experience and capability to hack out clever scripts to automate populating date. - Hosting on AWS from Rackspace (crap, old, slow!). Are you a good fit? If you definitely want to build an awesome product for millions of users. You will be using cutting-edge stuff: Ruby, Python, Javascript, Rails, Angular and/or similar.Comfortable and experienced in web using HTML, CSS, SQL, HTTP, hosting, scripting.. We act fast: Send in examples of your most recent project, demonstrating skills, experience we seek. We’ll review your GIT, LinkedIn, AngelList and meet you this week to start in a matter of days! We love self-taught people with the mentality to just get it built fast. Welcome all coders incl. Stanford students, CS/Eng. grads or any who have previous startup experience nice but not essential. This is paid contract position. Becoming full-time comes with highly competitive compensation and stock options package.

Apply: kixar.com@gmail.com or 650.283.9957