Grow our client/server system around our expert video network (think real-time chat rooms around experts talking over their videos) for web and iOS & Android native users. As users interact with videos around their passions the number of fun projects we need to build is insane! That's why we want you to join us. You may also enjoy foosball multiple times daily, wine & snacks on friday afternoons, and "getting on the wall" (we'll tell you what that is when you come in here). Read about our company & CEO http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24841304/grokker-ceo-lorna-borenstein-mercury-news-interview and you can read about me, the VP Engineering http://tipovers.org
Grokker is building a client/server application using JavaScript, MongoDB, and various other technologies to enable people to dive into hobbies that they are passionate about through video. We develop using an iterative approach, though we are not dogmatic about methodology. Everyone in the company is responsible for coming up with the great ideas that will become part of our product. Don't expect to be handed a spec and go off and build it for months; instead, we will establish our goals together and support each other to reach them.
We believe in good code quality and building for the long term. We enforce coding standards and have regular code review sessions in order to maintain code quality, share knowledge, and reduce duplication of effort. Our system is in built in JavaScript on the client (for web browsers, tablets, and phones; native code is coming) and on the server (using Node.js).
Interesting systems that you may work on include:
- search and recommendations
- server-side video transcoding
- tools and analytics for internal and external use
- infrastructure--scaling, monitoring, and automating tasks