TeamPatent, an innovative National Science Foundation-funded startup, is looking for an expert Python software engineer to help build our document management engine. This may sound straightforward, but it turns out that what we're doing is ground-breaking research--the National Science Foundation describes our technology as "game changing". We've recently launched a beta and have about 18 months of funding--enough to take us through this dismal economy.<br>
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We're building a high-performance, browser-based word processor with an integrated drawing editor. It provides responsive collaboration for large, multimedia documents... imagine a mixture of Mozilla Bespin and Google Docs. We're first applying our
editor to drafting patent applications--a highly-constrained,
high-value niche in which we have both technical and market expertise. Longer-term, we're designing a new type of general word processor that could be an important part of the future of Office 2.0.<br>
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Strong candidates will have previously led architectural design and implementation of a data-driven web application, preferably in a smaller company or team where you had to wear many hats. You'll be working in Python and other open-source tools including
SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL as you refine our document versioning engine
and build a deployment system on Linux-based Amazon EC2 instances. Upcoming
backend design/implementation challenges include real-time
federated search across dynamically-instantiated servers.<br>
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As a member of TeamPatent, you'll help contribute to open source--we already maintain two of the largest widgets in Dojo--dijit.Editor
& dojox.Sketch--and, with your involvement, we hope to contribute facets of our backend infrastructure.
TeamPatent holds the potential to be a career-making project with enormous intellectual scope and market potential. We're smart, creative, and open to new ideas...join us!<div>
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This position is full-time (with a startup ethos) and on-site in Alameda (10min bike from Fruitvale BART). You can see an application screenshot on our homepage but the beta is still private so if you'd like to try the editor and/or watch demonstration videos, please ask for an account. <span>Write to me, the founder, at <a href="mailto:rocky@teampatent.com">rocky@teampatent.com</a></span>