Help build the Firefox of Media Players

Who we are:
Songbird, http://www.songbirdnest.com

Pioneers of the Inevitable, Inc. is a top-tier venture-funded San Francisco Internet/digital media start-up that develops and nurtures Songbird, a mash-up of a desktop media player and a Web browser. Digital media cool hunters, developers, service providers and device makers are adopting Songbird because it connects the music and video from any Internet service to a user's desktop library and devices. Songbird's final 1.0 release promises a burgeoning "Media Web" of accessible, interoperable media stores, subscription services and social networks.

Digital media pundits and developers are already chirping about Songbird's 500k+ installs, recognition in BoingBoing, TechCrunch, Slashdot, Digg and volunteer translations to 40+ languages. Like Firefox, Songbird is Mozilla-based desktop software, cross-platform, open source, supports extensions and even enables Internet services to invoke media player and media device features from a Web page.

Songbird's team is a successful clutch of developers, entrepreneurs and executives, most recently leading digital media strategy at Yahoo!, Nullsoft (Winamp), AOL, Netscape and Philips. The company is financed by Sequoia Capital, the original investors of Intel, Apple, Yahoo!, Google and YouTube.

"Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players."
- Aaron Boodman,
Greasemonkey author

Songbird 1.0 launches in late 2007.

The job:

This is an opportunity to create services that will define the Media Web. You will participate in all phases of development for our Web sites and services from architecture to coding. You will work closely with our Product Manager and User Experience team to define, implement and refine features. You will work as a member of our web development team which has complete ownership of our suite of Rails applications from conception to deployment.

The ideal profile:

You have been involved with web development for many years and adopted Rails as a lighter framework to get things done faster. You appreciate Rails opinionated approach to development and favor simple designs. You strive to achieve 100% code coverage with your unit tests.

Responsibilities:

• Work with product manager and user experience team to build Rails applications.
• Design, implement and maintain all our Rails based services. 
• Collaborate with NetOps to deploy application and deliver high service uptime.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of Web development experience in a Linux environment
• Minimum 1 year of Rails experience on a commercial application 
• Excellent OO and design pattern practices 
• Test first development approach 
• Strong working knowledge of SQL 
• Solid Web UI skills with a special focus on standards compliance and usability 
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and AJAX 
• Experience with subversion 
• Experience working with Drupal a plus

This position reports to the Vice President of Engineering.

Hi, I’m Brian

I work at mirRoR, where we connect agile Rails developers and employers.

We started as Rails programmers ourselves (and are currently working on a few social, facebook, and iPhone apps). This background and network help us identify quality opportunities in the industry.

That’s especially important today. While many venture-backed web 2.0 startups are cutting costs amidst this economic climate, we are working with a number of companies that are self-sufficient, cash-positive, and well capitalized for the long-term.

I’d be eager to briefly discuss where you are in the process and see if there is a potential fit, either for the opportunities listed here, or those posted elsewhere.

Let’s chat!

Brian Mariani
brian@mirrorplacement.com
888.313.2007 x702 AIM:  brianm1724 gTalk: Chat with Brian Mariani