Company: MochiMedia (<a href="http://www.mochimedia.com" target="_blank">www.mochimedia.com</a>)<br>Location: S.F. (Mission St. between 1st and 2nd St.)<br><br>MochiMedia is a 20++ person startup, well funded (angel and VC), with a solid business plan and multiple revenue streams. The founders Jameson Hsu and Bob Ippolito have been successful entrepreneurs, however, they have recently hired some seasoned executive and technical management to help the company accelerate to the next level. <font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span> (In brief about the company) Mochi Media develops an advertising platform and network for <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);">casual
games</span> and they also develop tools for <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);">games developers</span> to profit from and
monetize their games. The company has been generating revenue, and they had previously been through an acquisition process, which they turned down, recognizing
instead a good opportunity to build something new and exciting and to go for it
big! An excellent place to work for the right person. And, from personal experience, I have only good things to say about this company and the people currently there.</span></span></font><br><br>(More about the company from their website) Mochi Media is a platform dedicated to fueling the creativity of the gaming community through its products and services. The core product, MochiAds, is the largest online games network for developers, advertisers and publishers reaching over 100 million unique users. The network provides game developers with monetization, distribution
and analytics while providing advertisers with turnkey opportunities to
reach the one in three Internet users playing games online. The
thousands of online games available in the game catalog provide
publishers with engaging content to attract, entertain and retain their
users. There is much more publicly available about Mochi Media, however, if anyone would like more insight (non-confidential obviously) I'm happy to answer any questions.<br><br>On the technology side, Python is the key language being used to
develop their various web apps, The technology stack is
LAP(ostgreSQL)P(ython). Bonus points for candidates who have
experience with Erlang! Bob Ippolito, had released an open source
erlang web server and is well known in the erlang world (there's a
longer story there about erlang and its stability as a web server for
anyone interested). Anyhow, experience or love of other functional
languages is a plus, and high marks for candidates who are active
contributors to open source communities. <br>
<br>The company is comprised of a really solid bunch of young, smart, even-keeled, and entrepreneurial people with healthy egos. In the past, they may have been a bit hasty in their hiring practices, but this was just due to an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm by the hiring teams, a lack of hiring procedure and experience and the desire to get the "best" people on board with as little hassle as possible and as quickly as possible. This has since changed. There is better process and procedure in place and the interviewing teams have had great coaching and as a result are now more methodical, less hasty, and stricter with their evaluations.<br>
<br>Compensation and equity are competitive and commensurate with experience. If you're clear about your expectations from the beginning and how you value salary vs. equity there won't be any surprises when it comes to offers. <br>
<br>I'm not 100% on how up-to-date the careers page is, but they do still
have a listing posted for a "Web Developer", with the keys being web app
dev experience using Python/XHTML/Javascript/SQL/Flash.<br>
<br>Apply for work by sending an email with the job title in your subject heading and emailing <a href="mailto:work@mochimedia.com" target="_blank">work@mochimedia.com</a>. For those who are more proactive, you can do some research on Linkedin and make direct contact with the appropriate person/manager through that network. <br>
<br>I'm happy to share more about what I know of this company, and if appropriate I'm happy to make direct introductions to the Director of Engineering, CTO or a co-founder.<br><br>Best,<br>Elan<br><br><br>