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Senior Software Engineer

Chat Sports is a sports media startup based in San Francisco. At Chat Sports, our mission is to enhance the lives of sports fans by providing the web’s first curated sports interface personalized to each fan’s specific interests, using next generation technology and an intuitive, beautiful design. We are redefining the sports news experience by delivering a customized sports page that becomes smarter each time you use it.

We offer strong salary and sizeable equity, plus health and dental benefits, daily lunch, stocked fridge and fun company adventures.

You are:

  • A web developer with 3+ years software development experience building a consumer web property
  • Well-rounded. A broad set of backend skills, including an expert understanding and experience with MySQL database design (we develop on a LAMP stack)
  • Well versed in these languages: PHP, Ruby, ObjectiveC and these technologies: Kohana, Sinatra, MySQL, Apache, Redis, Memcache and whatever else needed to get the job done
  • Experience working with MVC Frameworks
  • A problem solver. Our product brings together the best sports content on the web and must do so flawlessly
  • Blessed with crazy coding skills and can build high quality web applications
  • Able to meet deliverables and drive your work to completion within specified timelines
  • Looking to build a startup company into a social media powerhouse
  • Experience with integration of social and mobile APIs
  • Passionate about users. We aim to develop a world-class user experience for sports fans
  • Excited to grow. Our product needs the right engineering talent to grow to new heights
  • (Extra Bonus front-end skills: Javascript (jQuery), HTML, CSS)

We are:

  • A small, venture-funded team that works hard and squeezes in a game or two of darts each day
  • Building a revolutionary product that is redefining how people consume sports news and video
  • A visible consumer facing web property with some amazing traction
  • Innovating a massive market that has been complacent since the dawn of the internet
  • Quick thinking and quick acting: We push code live every day
  • Motivated by beautiful design and amazing user experience


Located in the heart of SOMA in San Francisco, our company is ready to blow the lid off the sports media establishment. With our strong traction to date, this position will be tasked with scaling and growing our product. We are growing at a crazy fast pace, and the world is taking notice: Learn more about us in features in Mashable, TechCrunch, Yahoo News and Ohio.com

Join Us: Email your LinkedIn profile (preferred) or resume’ to our CEO James Yoder – james@chatsports.com if you are the ideal candidate, or call him directly on is cell phone (702) 419-1684

Get to know our management team here: http://www.chatsports.com/about

2013 Summer Computer Science Internships

Chat Sports is a sports media startup based in San Francisco. At Chat Sports, our mission is to enhance the lives of sports fans by providing the web’s first curated sports interface personalized to each fan’s specific interests, using next generation technology and an intuitive, beautiful design. We are redefining the sports news experience by delivering a customized sports page that becomes smarter each time you use it.

We are searching for the perfect candidate to fill our Summer Computer Science Internship positions. Are you the ideal candidate?

You are if you:

  • Live in the San Francisco Bay Area (for the summer, at least)
  • Are interested in gaining startup experience
  • Are a self-starter who can get through roadblocks on their own
  • Have a sense of humor and enjoyable to work with
  • An undergraduate student at a top university majoring in computer science

We are:

  • A small, funded startup located in Soma area of San Francisco (right near CalTrain & BART)
  • A visible consumer facing web property with some amazing traction
  • Trying to redefine how people consume sports news and video
  • A fun, fast paced company
  • Backed by top tier investors, including Rothenberg Ventures

The Job:

Curation – We have built a platform that curates the entire web for sports news and video and delivers it to one centralized platform. We are constantly testing and refining our algorithm, looking to improve our results and delight our users.

Back-End - Chat Sports is big data. The back-end is where the quantitative and algorithmic magic happens. We offer you an opportunity to solve very large, complex, and unique problems. We develop on LAMP stack

Front-End - User Experience is vital to the success of Chat Sports. Join a team looking to revolutionize the sports user experience on the web.

Mobile - We will launch our iOS app in Q1 2013. There is a huge opportunity to shape the mobile experience for Chat Sports.

Highlights
Influence on our product from day one
Push code live to our user base by your second week
Working on an iOS app will be a major part of your experience
Lunch provided daily
Paid for travel time to work each day
Monthly transportation reimbursement
Fun, fast pace environment with a small team

Join Us: Email us your LinkedIn profile (preferred) or resume to ryan@chatsports.com along with a quick intro why you are the ideal candidate!

This is a paid position that will require you to work out of our headquarters in San Francisco

2013 Summer Sports Journalism Internships

Chat Sports is a sports media startup based in San Francisco. At Chat Sports, our mission is to enhance the lives of sports fans by providing the web’s first curated sports interface personalized to each fan’s specific interests using next generation technology and an intuitive, beautiful design. We are redefining the sports news experience by delivering a customized sports page that becomes smarter each time you use it.

We are searching the Bay Area for the perfect candidate to fill our newest open position, Summer Sports Journalism Internship. Are you the ideal candidate?

You are if you:

  • Live in the Bay Area (for the summer, at least)
  • Are interested in journalism and online media
  • Are a gifted writer and can produce quality content ready for an audience
  • You’re a published author, preferably with a focus on sports
  • LOVE Sports
  • Watch SportsCenter religiously
  • Have a sense of humor
  • Are enjoyable to work with
  • Enrolled in an accredited university this fall

We are:

  • A small, funded startup located in Soma area of San Francisco (right near CalTrain & BART)
  • A visible web property that can provide you a LOT of exposure
  • Trying to redefine how people consume sports news and video
  • A fast paced company that stays ahead of the news cycle
  • Fun to work with
  • Backed by top tier investors, including Rothenberg Ventures

The Job:

Never a dull moment. Each day you would join us in office (lunch is provided daily) and find fun, creative ways to produce original, engaging web content that our audience will be compelled to like & tweet. Basically, you get to write about something that you LOVE, sports. You’ll be working in a team setting and may be responsible for covering evening games from time to time as well.

Join us:

Shoot us an email to ryan@chatsports.com with your resume and a quick intro as to why you are the ideal candidate!

This is a paid position that will require you to work out of our headquarters in San Francisco.

2013 Summer MBA Internships

Chat Sports is a sports media startup based in San Francisco. At Chat Sports, our mission is to enhance the lives of sports fans by providing the web’s first curated sports interface personalized to each fan’s specific interests, using next generation technology and an intuitive, beautiful design. We are redefining the sports news experience by delivering a customized sports page that becomes smarter each time you use it.

Chat Sports invites you to join us for a unique 12-14 week paid summer internship from the end of May to the end of August.

Candidates must:

  • Live in the San Francisco Bay Area (for the summer, at least)
  • Be interested in gaining startup experience
  • Be a self-starter who can get through roadblocks on their own
  • Be detail oriented
  • LOVE Sports. Watch SportsCenter religiously
  • Have a sense of humor
  • Be enjoyable to work with
  • Be enrolled in a top-tier MBA program and are completing their first year this spring

The Job:

The Summer MBA Interns will have an impact working on projects core to Chat Sports’ business. You will help with A/B testing, analytics, business development, conversion funnels, partnerships, strategy, and user acquisition. Being that we’re a small startup, all members of the team need to be comfortable having multiple responsibilities and handling the grunt work necessary to complete their projects. By doing so, you will gain exposure to all the areas involved with launching and running a startup.

More on Chat Sports, we are:

  • A small, funded startup located in Soma area of San Francisco (right near CalTrain & BART)
  • A visible web property that can provide you a LOT of exposure
  • Trying to redefine how people consume sports news and video
  • A fun fast paced company
  • Able to provide lunch daily and a monthly transportation reimbursement
  • Backed by top tier investors, including Rothenberg Ventures


Join Us:

Shoot us an email to ryan@chatsports.com with your resume’ and a quick intro why you are the ideal candidate!

This is a paid position that will require you to work out of our headquarters in San Francisco

2013 Sports Entertainment Content Specialist Internship

Chat Sports is a sports media startup based in San Francisco. At Chat Sports, our mission is to enhance the lives of sports fans by providing the web’s first curated sports interface personalized to each fan’s specific interests using next generation technology and an intuitive, beautiful design. We are redefining the sports news experience by delivering a customized sports page that becomes smarter each time you use it.

We are searching for the perfect candidate to fill our newest open position, Sports Entertainment Media Specialist beginning in summer 2013. This is a paid summer internship (lunch provided daily and monthly travel reimbursement) that we’d like to turn into a full-time position at the end of the summer.

Candidates must:

  • Live in the Bay Area (for the summer, at least)
  • Be interested in journalism and online media
  • Be a gifted writer and can produce quality content ready for an audience
  • Be a published author, preferably with a focus on sports and entertainment
  • LOVE Sports
  • Watch SportsCenter religiously and stay ahead of the entire entertainment news cycle
  • Have a sense of humor
  • Be enjoyable to work with

We are:

  • A small, funded startup located in Soma area of San Francisco (right near CalTrain & BART)
  • A visible web property that can provide you a LOT of exposure
  • Trying to redefine how people consume sports news and video
  • A fast paced company that stays ahead of the news cycle
  • Fun to work with
  • Backed by top tier investors, including Rothenberg Ventures


The Job:

Never a dull moment. Each day you would join us in office (lunch is provided daily) and find fun, creative ways to produce original, engaging web content that our audience will be compelled to like & tweet. Basically, you get to create content on something that you LOVE, sports and entertainment.


Join Us:

Shoot us an email to ryan@chatsports.com with your resume and a quick intro as to why you are the ideal candidate!

This is a paid position that will require you to work out of our headquarters in San Francisco

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