Jobs
Plum helps make the web more social by enabling any web property to integrate social media sharing applications. The company has significant partnership in place that already guarantees it exposure to over twenty million unique users per month. We are venture funded and based in Cambridge and San Francisco and are looking for a few exceptional developers to join our team. If are passionate about technology and want to revolutionize the way people save, share and discuss the things they care about on the web, we are looking for you!
We offer an exciting, fast-paced startup environment with a competitive salary and stock options, as well as a great working environment where creativity and new ideas are valued and encouraged. We are flexible about work-from-home arrangements realizing that the best and brightest don't necessarily live where we do.
Check us out at http://www.plum.com, or try out our Facebook applications Shoebox and DropBox. If you like what you see come talk to us about how your skills will help take Plum to the next level.
Operations Engineer
Plum is seeking a systems administrator to help scale our service and keep it running super smoothly.
Responsibilities:- Design and implementation of our server architecture for our high-traffic web sites and associated systems.
- Build and deploy applications to our production environment.
- Manage our source code repository.
- Perform systems installations, systems upgrades.
- Network, firewall, and security management.
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software related problems on web, database and file servers.
- Monitor system stability and performance.
- Ensure 24x7 operation.
- Rapidly scale systems to meet demand.
- Help develop tools to streamline and eliminate friction from our operations processes.
- Experience with Linux (Fedora) and MacOS system administration.
- Proven ability to manage production systems for large-scale consumer web applications.
- Experience running applications in colocated, hosting provider and cloud computing environments
- Experience with: shell scripting; Ant; system monitoring applications; MySQL; Apache http; tomcat; jetty; NFS; Subversion; sendmail (and other mail systems); software and hardware load balancers; firewall configuration; DNS.
- Extra points for working knowledge of Amazon S3, EC2, CDNs, and Akamai Site Accelerator.
- Must be detail oriented, an organized thinker, and able to act decisively under stressful conditions.
Quality Assurance Lead
Plum is looking to hire a lead quality assurance engineer with strong experience in software testing. This engineer will be part of a the product development team reporting directly to the director of engineering.
The team is responsible for design, development, testing and release of all Plum customer-facing applications, including plum.com, beta.plum.com, browser plug-ins, Plum desktop tools, Plum APIs and multiple partner integrations. Team members closely interface with others in the company, including product management, marketing, account management and business development.
Director Of Product Management
Plum is looking for a talented director of product management to work with its agile engineering team to define industry-leading social-computing applications.
In this role you will evaluate, analyze, plan and manage the development of our products from conceptual stages through product life cycles. You'll play a critical role in establishing and expanding our footprint on the web.
Software Engineer
Plum is seeking a self motivated, highly qualified and experienced UI developer to participate in the design and implementation of our next generation social save and share platform for massive and global scale.
You will be working closely with all members of the engineering and product management teams. The ideal candidate will be a creative problem solver and strategic thinker who loves to write code. This is a hands-on position.
