jobs@rapgenius.com
Rap Genius is at an unusual point in our history: we're one of the fastest-growing sites on the internet, we get 25MM unique visitors per month, we've raised $15m from Andreesen Horowitz, and yet our tech team is still only six people.
What this means is that for anyone who joins us now it's a best-of-all-possible-worlds–type situation: you'll get to work on something that a ton of people are obsessed with, you'll eat a lot of sushi, and yet you'll still have the chance to experience the small-team vibe and pick everyone else who works here / "define the culture."
WHO WE ARE
We're a tiny, quick-shipping team. Each of us makes product decisions and owns whole features. We're close and we all enjoy spending time together.
Our house library includes Metaprogramming in Ruby; Godel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; POODR; and "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?".
Loving rap is not a prerequisite for working here, though an appreciation osmoses to everyone after a while.
WHAT WE'RE BUILDING
We started Rap Genius in 2009 to explain the meaning of rap lyrics, but the big vision goes beyond music and touches all of text – whether it's the Bill of Rights (http://news.rapgenius.com/United-states-congress-the-us-cons...), the Bible (http://news.rapgenius.com/God-10-commandments-lyrics), “The Waste Land” (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Ts-eliot-the-waste-land-lyrics), or the Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling (http://news.rapgenius.com/The-supreme-court-of-the-united-st...), it's all on Rap Genius (or Poetry Genius, or News Genius, or... you get the idea). One of our favorite recent examples is Junot Diaz's amazing annotations on an excerpt from his own The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Junot-diaz-the-brief-wondrous-li...).
BENEFITS
* Bomb salary and equity—you won't be taking a pay cut to work here
* We don't count vacation days
* Free meals in the office, free unlimited Seamless, free unlimited Fresh Direct
* Free gym in the building
* We pay your phone bill and when you join we'll upgrade you to the newest iPhone (or, if you insist, Droid (just kidding, you're getting an iPhone))
* Laundry and shower in the office
* Free indoor bike parking
* Free health, dental, and vision benefits
* The deluxe computer setup of your choice
* Experienced full-stack Rails engineers
* Front-end developers with an eye for design
* iOS devs to build our iPhone app from the ground up
* Your name and GitHub profile, your Twitter, blog, StackOverflow account, personal website, etc. The more, the better
* A cool side project you built, library you've released, or some code that's impressive
* Something brief about what you like and dislike about the technologies you've used
* Your résumé
* Location—you can't get the true RG cult effect working remotely, so only apply if you live in NYC or are willing to relocate. Our office is in Williamsburg.