Hollrr

We need your help...

What is Hollrr?

Hollrr is the fun and easy way to share recommendations for great new products. We take that compulsion people have to recommend a new product they’ve discovered, and turn it into a game.

We built Hollrr because we think review sites are boring. They help us decide between products we’re not that interested in: “should I buy this 3-star washing machine or this one with 4 stars?” What we really want to hear about are products so awesome, we have to rush out and buy them!

We’ve built a beta and have started building a community…but there are still a lot of big decisions to be made on the future of the product. However, by building quickly on user feedback we’ve seen our ‘Engaged Base’ jump considerably since the start of the New Year.

Hollrr has been profiled in both TechCrunch and Mashable.

 

We have a lot of work to do, and we need your help!

 

Ruby on Rails Engineer

Hollrr is looking for outstanding Ruby on Rails engineer with strong front-end development skills to join our team. Your goal will be to make Hollrr a joy to use. Not only should you have a passion for shipping elegant, responsive web interfaces, but you should be committed to iterating quickly to turn user insight into features/improvements so we can build a community of fanatics.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Implement new features and optimize existing ones from controller-level to UI
  • Write front-end code in Ruby, HTML/CSS, and Javascript
  • Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems
  • Pro-actively look for ways to make Hollrr better

Requirements:

  • Demonstrable experience building top-class, consumer web application interfaces
  • Excellent programming skills in Ruby
  • Expert Javascript/HTML/CSS/Ajax coding skills
  • Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
  • Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility
  • Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
  • Experience optimizing viral loops thru Facebook and Twitter

Personal traits:

  • Metrics-driven + humility. We don’t want to hear opinions… we want to hear your assessment and interpretation of user behavior and what the user is telling us.
  • Sense of humor
  • Open-minded and curious
  • Passionate about building Hollrr

 

Working at Hollrr

Compensation will be a mixture of both salary and equity. The right mix will be determined with your input. For an exceptional person, and with the right equity mix, a co-founder title is still available. The Hollrr team is based in Dogpatch Labs, a Polaris backed incubator in Pier 38, San Francisco. Check out the photos of our office space.

 

If you like what you read and you think you fit the bill? Email us at jobs@hollrr.com, we'd love to meet for coffee.