Wear jeans. Write code. Fight viruses. Get home in time for dinner.
Come join StopBadware in an epic battle against viruses, spyware, fake anti-virus apps, and other badware. There are no sword fights involved (sorry), but on the plus side, writing code is far less likely to result in a flesh wound. The code you write will take the data we collect about badware, remix it into useful knowledge, and put that knowledge into the hands of the people best able to decide how to use it. The pen is mightier than the sword, indeed!
Apps are implemented in Ruby on Rails, and run on Apache/Passenger servers with a MySQL back end. The front end is standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Development projects are tracked using Redmine and Subversion.
StopBadware is a pretty great place to work. Jeans are standard attire, and there are even opportunities to telecommute. We share a big, open office in Harvard Square with folks from Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society (from which we spun off) and the Public Radio Exchange team. You'll find lots of developers and other fun, geeky people around. Our partners include some companies you may have heard of—Google, PayPal, and Mozilla—which gives us street cred, as well as opportunities to interact with a bunch of cool people.
We are a small team, and until we grow a bit, you'll be the only full-time developer (except perhaps for a short overlap with our current lead developer). We will at times bring in contractors and interns to complement your skills and provide additional development bandwidth to complete projects. We don't want to put you out on the battlefield all alone, after all!
StopBadware is a non-profit organization, but don't let that dissuade you. We offer a fair salary and a solid benefits package (incl. health, dental, and 401k). Perhaps more importantly, we offer the opportunity to get paid to learn, have a good time, and make the Internet safer!
If all of the following apply to you, maybe you should apply for the job:
- I dream in open source code.
- I would enjoy watching an unmanned aerial drone attack the home of a prolific spammer.
- I am eligible to work in the United States.
- I know Ruby, Rails, SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, or I can do a decent job faking it while I learn the parts I don't know.
- I hear "security" and think "form validation," not "I'm getting kicked out... again"
- I may not be Linus Torvalds, but if you need me to do a little Linux, Apache, or MySQL administration, I'll figure it out.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to developer@stopbadware.org.
[Updated 5/10/10: Revised job description.]