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
- Help build out Rapleaf's next set of groundbreaking features
- Build algorithms to normalize data on over a hundred million people
- Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on
- 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
- Currently an undergrad or grad student
- Looking for a fulltime internship
- One of the best computer science/engineering students within your peer group
- 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, MySQL, and Java (you can pick these up quickly)
- Intensely driven and proactive person
- Quick learner and real doer; err on execution over strategy
- Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
- Should be easy to get along with, likeable, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance
- Strong desire to build a more ethical society
Location
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)
Perks
- This is a paid internship
- School credit available
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Flexible hours around your class schedule (if during the school year; fulltime during the summer)
- Collegiate atmosphere and environment
- This has potential to develop into a fulltime, official role as an early employee in the company
At Rapleaf, we're only looking for people that really want to change the world.

