Hiring Developers in Minneapolis for January
I'm staffing up our company's first in-house development team, and would be pleased to interview anyone who is a regular here, even if you're a regular lurker.
I consider the team to be the 'transition-to-engineering' team, meaning we've built out and proved the product, and will be working to enhance and reconstruct it while we build new derivative products. I'll hope to promote our VP of Engineering out of these hires.
This isn't a 'make it scale to 100x with no new product design' situation, but it also isn't a 'We are locked in a room until we have a good idea for an app' situation: anyone who works on this is going to get to wear a lot of hats, some scaling and infrastructure related, some front-end design and UX related, etc. etc.
Our current website sort of sucks, but you can get a sense of what we do (visualization and planning of financials for small business owners) from it: google profitsee.
We're closing a second angel round in the next six weeks, and have a small team of five or so people right now, so we are actively looking to hire. We have some people in Seattle, some in Minneapolis, but the tech team will be staffed out of Minneapolis.
I will be managing the team, and you can find out a good amount about me and my perspectives and approach reading comments here on HN.
The current product infrastructure is MySQL->PHP/Zend->Flex. We are re-implementing to MySQL->PHP->HTML(5ish). We'll be deploying on the web and a bunch of devices this year.
Current customers LOVE our product, but there's a lot of improvement to be done.... : ) We're never short on good ideas, and will welcome yours!
Looking to hire this month. We're long on perks and good attitude, medium on salary and stock: Xbox/Kinect, unlimited Amazon tech book budget, choose your own dev environment and monitors, beers, coffee, etc.
If you think you could help move the chains significantly, please drop me a note: vessenes@gmail.com