Meetup is hiring

Software Engineers

Meetup.com is hiring exceptional Software Engineers to work on a product that's already helped millions of people find and build local community worldwide. You'll work with a smart, dedicated engineering team to build the next generation of the site. While Meetup is established and successful, things are still growing quickly -- enjoy the challenges and opportunity of working with a startup with the benefits of a mature company.

Requirements

• A love of what you do
• The idea of helping grow local community worldwide thrills you
• Extensive experience programming in Java
• Experience developing for the web
• Strong DB/SQL skills
• Python/Perl/Ruby experience a plus
• Javascript experience a plus
• Formal CS Degree a plus

This position is based in New York, NY. to apply contact techhire@meetup.com and include a cover letter and plain-text resume.

Lead Systems Administrator

Meetup.com is seeking a smart, creative, and entrepreneurial leader to lead our technical operations team. Our technical team is collaborative, supportive, relaxed, and motivated. We believe in clean, elegant, innovative technical architecture, and we are looking for a technologist who shares our ideals and our passion for technology, open source, and knowledge. We value strong leaders who will foster an innovative, creative, and collaborative team while at the same time will help steer the technical future of Meetup.com.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage a team to plan, design and build a highly scalable and robust technical web infrastructure
• Manage the production environment; ensuring it is online and running quickly and smoothly
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to a team of engineers
• Manage the growth of the department, including hiring and organizing for maximum effectiveness of your team
• Own the software and hardware infrastructure; be prepared to suggest and sell improvements and own getting them done
• Work with and assist our email marketing manager to ensure maximum email "deliverability"
• Help create and stick to the annual hardware budget

Technical skills and experience:

• 6+ years experience as a Linux systems administrator
• Strong understanding of how internet technology "works"
• Experience building a highly scalable, multi-tiered production web environment (Apache/Tomcat)
• Experience designing and owning a high traffic email environment (preferably Postfix)
• Experience designing and scaling high traffic DB environments (strong preference for MySQL)
• Understanding of Load Balancing, DB Replication, system redundancies, system tuning, etc.
• Experience writing code using Perl/Python/Ruby/Java (one or more)
• Ability to manage large and complex technical projects with attention to quality and deadlines
• Must have a passion for technology and for open source software
• Must have good communication skills and work well in a team environment

Meetup.com is a results-oriented company with an excellent financial footing, a viable and proven business model, and more importantly, a mission to change the world. In order to do this, we need your help. Our team is smart, ambitious, and passionate; the environment is relaxed and a lot of fun despite regular, tight deadlines. We are focused on quick, quality completion of projects and excited by what we do.

If you fit the profile above, please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@meetup.com. Your cover letter MUST include salary requirements and what inspired you to apply for a position at Meetup. Resumes without cover letters will NOT be considered. Please reference the job title and your name in your subject line.

Community Blogger/Editor

The Meetup Blog is a community center, town hall, meeting place and community newspaper for Meetup's members and staff. It's primarily a place where our members can tell their stories about how their meetup groups are making a difference to themselves, their community and the world. It's also a place where they can be inspired by, learn from and celebrate each other and their achievements. It's also a place for non-members to 'get' what Meetup and meetups are all about. By reading, watching and listening to members' stories and staffs' and guests' posts, they can experience vicariously what it would be like to be part of a meetup group. And it's a place for the outside world to look in. The media, bloggers and the curious can take a look at a lively place full of compelling stories changing lives in every city around the world.

The Job

• You will initially be working with the product and development team to design the blog and then 'fill the pipe' with stories.
• You will be searching our community for stories that bring alive how 'real groups make a real difference.'
• You'll solicit stories from our members and coach them to make them compelling.
• You'll be soliciting stories from our staff and guests to post about new product features, about the power of self-organized groups in the world at large, and about meetup groups they love.
• You'll be able to stand back and let our membership, staff and guests express themselves, and of course, you'll be able to write compelling stories and commentary yourself, expressing the personality of Meetup and its mission.

The Candidate

• Must be excellent editor
• Must have experience with a community blog
• Must be completely comfortable in the blogosphere
• Must have significant familiarity with the web; a 'net native' is preferred
• Must have extensive knowledge of blogging platforms
• Ideally you'll be a Meetup member or organizer...someone who knows what it's like to be part of the movement of self-organized groups improving lives and changing the world!

This position is located in our New York City headquarters.

If the above describes you and your passions, email us at jobs@meetup.com. with links to your blogs and a letter telling us why you want to blog for Meetup!