Filed under: jobs — klep @ September 2, 2008

Take advantage of the speed and flexibility of Rails while building compelling apps for large brands on social network platforms like Facebook and MySpace. Leverage platform APIs and OpenSocial to build compelling branded experiences. Work directly with clients to rapidly iterate on designs and features. This position offers more than just software development — you will get exposure to Project Management, you’ll work with large companies, and you will potentially development on projects.
Context Optional is a rapidly-growing San Francisco-based provider of social marketing technologies and services to the world’s leading brands and advertising agencies. Context’s Social Application Server(tm), the leading platform for viral marketing campaigns on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, is used by Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Samsung, CBSSports, Ford, Paramount Pictures, and many more well-known brands. As a leading developer of compelling, fun, clever, snarky, unique, and engaging applications for social networks, Context is changing the way companies advertise.

When you join Context Optional, you will enjoy company benefits that include stock options, health/vision/dental insurance, Fidelity 401(k), pre-tax commuter deductions, casual office environment, office tiki happy hours, and Xbox with Rock Band in the office. This position is located in Context’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco, near Union Square at Market and 3rd Street and convenient to the Montgomery BART stop.

Requirements:

• Have used Rails in a production environment
• Have a background in CS, preferably BS or MS
• Understand why User.find(:all).each is bad
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have:

• CS degree from a top school
• Have scaled Rails apps to hundreds of thousands of users or more
• Have build applications on Facebook or other social networks
• Comfortable with CSS / JavaScript

Apply via email to jobs [at] contextoptional [dot] com

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Leverage your background in designing and maintaining scalable server infrastructures to host social applications for the world’s largest brands. Design and build monitoring and deployment tools, detect and address the need for additional capacity, and provide reliable web and database services for our applications.

Context Optional is a rapidly-growing San Francisco-based provider of social marketing technologies and services to the world’s leading brands and advertising agencies. Context’s Social Application Server(tm), the leading platform for viral marketing campaigns on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, is used by Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Samsung, CBSSports, Ford, Paramount Pictures, and many more well-known brands. As a leading developer of compelling, fun, clever, snarky, unique, and engaging applications for social networks, Context is changing the way companies advertise.

When you join Context Optional, you will enjoy company benefits that include stock options, health/vision/dental insurance, Fidelity 401(k), pre-tax commuter deductions, casual office environment, office tiki happy hours, and Xbox with Rock Band in the office. This position is located in Context’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco, near Union Square at Market and 3rd Street and convenient to the Montgomery BART stop.

Requirements:

• Experience with 3-tier web architecture
• Deployment/scalability responsibility on production environment with 100k+ users
• Knowledge of UNIX-based platforms (Linux, Solaris in particular)

Nice to have:

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, capistrano, and mongrel
• Responsibility for > 1,000,000 user architecture
• Experience with mysql in dual-master configuration

Apply via email to jobs [at] contextoptional [dot] com

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Use your ObjC skills to build compelling iPhone/Cocoa Touch apps for large brands. Help us turn our proven architecture for building viral applications on social networks into an iPhone platform. Work directly with clients to design features, build prototypes, and rapidly iterate on launch quality mobile applications.
Context Optional is a rapidly-growing San Francisco-based provider of social marketing technologies and services to the world’s leading brands and advertising agencies. Context’s Social Application Server(tm), the leading platform for viral marketing campaigns on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, is used by Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Samsung, CBSSports, Ford, Paramount Pictures, and many more well-known brands. As a leading developer of compelling, fun, clever, snarky, unique, and engaging applications for social networks, Context is changing the way companies advertise.

When you join Context Optional, you will enjoy company benefits that include stock options, health/vision/dental insurance, Fidelity 401(k), pre-tax commuter deductions, casual office environment, office tiki happy hours, and Xbox with Rock Band in the office. This position is located in Context’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco, near Union Square at Market and 3rd Street and convenient to the Montgomery BART stop.

Requirements:

• Experience with objc and Cocoa development
• Experience building and delivering production quality client applications
• Strong communication skills

Nice to have:

• Experience (even tinkering) with Cocoa Touch
• Experience interacting JSON-based web services

Apply via email to jobs [at] contextoptional [dot] com

Filed under: jobs — kevin @ June 28, 2008

Work with the world’s premier brands to build their presence on major social networks as head of Context’s sales organization. Marketing is changing, and Context needs people who understand how. We’re looking for proven ability to sell innovative, social-media focused marketing campaigns to pioneering agencies and brands.

Context Optional is the premier social marketing agency, providing social marketing technologies and services to the world’s leading brands and advertising agencies. Context’s Social Application Server™, the leading platform for viral marketing campaigns on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, is used by Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Samsung, CBSSports, Ford, Paramount Pictures, and many more well-known brands. As a leading developer of compelling, fun, clever, snarky, unique, and engaging campaigns for social networks, Context is changing the way companies advertise.

As our Director / VP Sales and Business Development, your job is to work with agencies and brands to formulate and sell an effective social media strategy. In this role, you’ll utilize your relationships with top marketing decision makers at Fortune 1000 companies and major agencies and your deep understanding of how brands are best positioned on sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn to pitch innovative, engaging campaigns. More than a “smile and dial” sales role, we’re looking for creativity and strategic thinking to ensure that our clients receive the best social marketing recommendations for their brands. If you are the savvy, polished interactive marketing and sales guru with a proven track record of success driving revenue through strategic relationships, structuring and managing complex negotiations to successful closure, and a passion and interest in the way social networks are changing the online landscape, then Context Optional has an amazing growth opportunity for you.

When you join Context Optional, you will enjoy company benefits that include stock options, health/vision/dental insurance, Fidelity 401(k), pre-tax commuter deductions, casual office environment, weekly office tiki happy hours, and Xbox with Rock Band in the office. This position is located either in Context’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco, near Union Square at Market and 3rd Street and convenient to the Montgomery BART stop, or in New York City.

Apply via email to jobs [at] contextoptional [dot] com