Expanding our team: Recommender technology, development, accounting
We wanted to let you all know about a few opportunities we will soon be adding to our get involved page. In case you hadn’t noticed, now would be a pretty exciting time to join the Squarepeg team; you’d be able to say “I was with Squarepeg before Squarepeg was big.” Unfortunately, you would not be able to say “I was with Squarepeg before Squarepeg was cool (the geek kind).” We all win some and loose some.
Don’t match the descriptions below? Well, if you are a talented techie, organizer, or consultant of any type, with an enthusiasm for our cause, we’d love to hear from you. Or perhaps you know someone who matches this description; we’d really like to know more about them. Email is a great way to introduce yourself or your friend and let us know why and how you might like to get involved.
As usual, freely tweet or copy and paste all or part of this anywhere you think it might be useful. Thank you.
Recommender technology (role may be filled by one or more persons).
Squarepeg looking to expand our team.
contact Isaac Holeman, isaac [at] squarepegged [dot] org
www.squarepegged.org
Qualifications:
Interest in and familiarity with recommender technology; experience implementing recommender systems strongly preferred.
Willing to work without pay at least temporarily.
Must know or be interested in learning Ruby.
Excited and motivated by Squarepeg’s social mission.
Bonus Criteria:
Likes to have fun while collaborating with cool people (you thought fun was a no brainer? Well, let’s just say we take our fun pretty seriously).
Work experience in the social sector or with feisty, entrepreneurial web startups.
Interest in open source communities.
Interest in being a medium to long term part of the Sqaurepeg team.
We believe in strength through diversity. Whatever variety you bring, we’d love to have it.
Responsibilities:
Regular communication with the rest of the Squarepeg team, online or in person.
Explore verious open source and home brew recommender technologies, help the Squarepeg team decide on most viable options.
Help implement a scalable recommender system that effectively suggests actions of interest to users.
Benefits:
Really great karma for becoming part of an important cause.
Grow as a developer and build your portfolio by working with a talented team.
Become part of Portland’s creative startup scene.
Visit John at his other job and receive a prize (free micro at the brew pub!)
More about the Recommender:
Tag based or Collaborative Filtering. (Tag based may be a lot easier for the initial launch)
Recommender system runs as a separate class of functions that the web app can make calls on.
example, The front end web app makes a call on the recommender by delivering two hashes of tags, one for a user and one for an event. The system responds with a 5-point rating saying how closely these two hashes match based upon similarity of tags.
Time Committment:
Minimum 5-10 hours per week. May vary based on skill and previous experience with recommender systems.
Developers (looking for 2-3)
Squarepeg looking to expand our team.
contact Isaac Holeman, isaac@squarepegged.org
www.squarepegged.org
Qualifications:
Interest in and familiarity with software development; especially back end developers.
Willing to work without pay at least temporarily.
Must know or be interested in learning Ruby on Rails.
Excited and motivated by Squarepeg’s social mission.
Bonus Criteria:
Likes to have fun while collaborating with cool people (you thought fun was a no brainer? Well, let’s just say we take our fun pretty seriously).
Work experience in the social sector or with feisty, entrepreneurial web startups.
Interest in open source communities.
Interest in being a medium to long term part of the Sqaurepeg team.
We believe in strength through diversity. Whatever variety you bring, we’d love to have it.
Responsibilities:
Regular communication with the rest of the Squarepeg team, online or in person.
Collaborate with project lead to build Facebook and open social apps for the Squarepeg service.
Benefits:
Really great karma for becoming part of an important cause.
Grow as a developer and build your portfolio by working with a talented team.
Become part of Portland’s creative startup scene.
Visit John at his other job and receive a prize (free micro at the brew pub!)
Time Committment:
Minimum 5-10 hours per week. May vary based on skill and previous experience with Ruby on Rails development.
Tax accounting
Squarepeg looking to expand our team.
contact Isaac Holeman, isaac@squarepegged.org
www.squarepegged.org
Qualifications:
Interest in and familiarity with small business accounting; experience with technology startups preferred.
Willing to take Squarepeg’s social mission into account when determining fees.
Bonus Criteria:
Excited and motivated by Squarepeg’s social mission.
Likes to have fun while collaborating with cool people (you thought fun was a no brainer? Well, let’s just say we take our fun pretty seriously).
Work experience in the social sector or with feisty, entrepreneurial web startups.
Interest in being a medium to long term part of the Sqaurepeg team.
We believe in strength through diversity. Whatever variety you bring, we’d love to have it.
Responsibilities:
Help Squarepeg organize and manage it’s books and prepare taxes.
Benefits:
Really great karma for becoming part of an important cause.
Grow and build your portfolio by working with a talented team in a quickly growing organization.
Become part of Portland’s creative startup scene.
Visit John at his other job and receive a prize (free micro at the brew pub!)
Time Committment:
May vary based on skill and previous experience with small business accounting.
