Jobs

Widgetbox (www.widgetbox.com) is a fast growing, Sequoia-funded, 20 person Internet startup based in San Francisco helping people express, connect, create, and inform using web widgets. We are the world’s leading distributed marketplace for web widgets with close to 30 million monthly viewers and 30,000 developers creating hundreds of types of web widgets such as games, cyber pets, countdowns, and art. We are always looking for fun and hard-working people to join our team - if you feel you would be a good cultural fit at Widgetbox and have some great Web 2.0 skills, send us your resume!

Software Developers

Front and Back End Software Developers with strong JAVA and AJAX experience, should come check us out! A successful candidate should love working in a start-up environment and be driven to build new & exciting ways for people to use the web. Specifically, these positions will be working on the core components of widget syndication across the web and creating new ways for users to interact with widgets and apps. We’re seeking creative and motivated engineers who will take ownership of their projects. Both junior and senior candidates are welcome to apply if minimum requirements below are met.

FRONT END REQUIREMENTS:

    • Very comfortable building AJAX UIs
    • Strong Java
    • Object Oriented JavaScript
    • XML
    • Servlets/JSP
    • Flash Experience
    • CS or similar background/Education
    • Huge plus if written/contributed to a complex JavaScript library
    • Experience or interest in Web 2.0 technologies and/or social networks

BACK END REQUIREMENTS:

    • Fluent in Java
    • Strong OO Design
    • ORM (e.g., Hibernate) / MySQL / database technologies
    • experience with Servlets and JSP
    • XML
    • Development experience with Service Oriented Architecture
    • Solid track record of meeting deliverable targets, and taking part in successful releases
    • Strong understanding of web technologies used in social networking

Competitive compensation and equity
Full-time position
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QA Associate

The QA Associate reports to the Manager of QA and Support.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Fine tune quality assurance standards and processes
    • Understand QA test plan and test case design, development and implementation
    • Work closely with development team, product management and customer support
    • Assist with facilitating improvements in QA infrastructure and processes to maximize efficiency
    • Must be hands on and an excellent troubleshooter
    • Able to manage multiple projects
    • Ability to think strategically and act tactically and develop new testing approaches
    • Estimate and forecast resources based on past performance data
    • Perform the various types of testing: Integration testing, Functional testing (including Regression), Support User Acceptance testing
    • Identify, research, report, track and verify software defects proactively and comprehensively.
    • Work well in a team environment
    • Participate as part of a project in release management
    • Communicate effectively with developers and business stakeholders

REQUIREMENTS:

    • Startup experience
    • Experience writing and conducting functional test plans
    • Experience with QA automation for web applications/sites
    • Expected to integrate well with development team with agile software process
    • Experience with performance testing a plus
    • Experience testing JavaScript/AJAX/Flash a plus

Competitive compensation and equity
Full-time position
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ABOUT WIDGETBOX

Widgetbox helps people express, connect, create, and inform using widgets, made and shared on an open platform. We operate the largest distributed marketplace for widgets on the web, extending from our hub (www.widgetbox.com) to more than 125,000 domains. We serve two communities: developers and consumers. Our products and services enable thousands of widget developers to reach millions of consumers, who in turn spread widgets to their friends and colleagues. We believe that the widgetized web is transferring power – content, traffic, control, however you want to measure it – from the few to the many individuals and communities online.

Values. The company operates on a few basic principles that reflect our values.
Specifically, we will –
• Treat others as we want to be treated
• Open up new opportunities and frontiers on the web
• Help outsiders and underdogs win
• Succeed when our community succeeds
• Enable fun through discovery

Strategy and products. Widgetbox serves the developer and consumer communities three ways. First, we offer the best widget creation studio available. It’s an open platform that allows anyone to create great widgets that work anywhere. Our studio offers tools and features to help developers achieve and measure success on their own terms on practically any site online. For some, that means getting maximum reach. For others, it might mean making money. We offer tools to do both.

Second, we offer the definitive library of web widgets on our marketplace hub at www.widgetbox.com. Our marketplace allows widget end users to search, discover, and install great widgets all in one place.
Third, we support the best in-the-wild distribution on the web. This means that, in addition to using widgetbox.com, users can get widgets anywhere a Widgetbox widget is installed. That turns more than 125,000 domains into distribution points for Widgetbox and our developers – a powerful advantage in the widget web where great content is no longer tied to specific URLs.