About Rapleaf

Rapleaf is a well-funded San Francisco startup (we currently have 26 people on the team). We index publicly available information from the social web on hundreds of millions of people and build products and analytics on top of this data. We built the largest portable social graph in the world and we're building the platform to develop a myriad of applications.

Rapleaf's B2B arm provides deep insight about consumers for businesses. Business customers include retailers, airlines, hotel chains, social networks, lead generation firms, telcos, political campaigns, and more; these clients learn about their existing consumer base in order to provide them a better consumer experience.

Role
- Build out Rapleaf's next set of groundbreaking features
- Build algorithms to normalize data on over half billion people
- Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on
- Report to the VP Engineering; work directly with the CEO, other engineers, and management
- Change the world

Note: This job is incredibly challenging. You'll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world that expect the best. We're doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.

Qualifications
- Amazing coder who takes no prisoners; master of all things Internet; one of the best coders in existence
- Someone who learns new languages and platforms extremely fast - we use Ruby on Rails, Hadoop (HDFS), and Java
- Intensely driven, proactive, and hard working
- Extremely hard working; this is a start-up - team members work long hours
- Quick learner and real doer; err on execution over strategy
- Looks forward to working with A-players; too good to spend long hours with B-players
- Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job.
- Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
- Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, ethical, and low-maintenance
- Strong desire to build a more ethical society
- Desire to be an early employee and want to be a real owner in Rapleaf's future
- Want to work with extremely large datasets and build portable APIs that thousands of other companies can build applications on top of
- Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation available if necessary)
- All levels of experiences should apply (0-25+ years experience)

Location
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

Perks
- Great cash comp & high equity - Rapleaf is willing to pay for the best talent
- Choice of any laptop - Mac, Windows, or Linux
- Medical insurance, 401k
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Work with some of the smartest engineers
- Contribute to many open source initiatives such as Hadoop
- Contribute to the Rapleaf Engineering Blog
- Live and work in San Francisco - the best city in the universe

At Rapleaf, we're only looking for people that really want to change the world.