WE'RE DIFFERENT

  • Virgance is building campaigns to make a positive impact in the real world. Our goal is to create direct, sustainable, and measurable change.
  • All questions are answered; transparency is more than a buzzword here. Open-book finances. Everyone votes on all benefits. Our CEO will even tell you his personal food budget. Just ask.
  • Active teaching happens 24x7. You'll learn how to launch a startup—and not just by being thrown in the river. From term sheet minutiae to long-term strategy, if you're curious, you'll learn it here.
  • We're sparking a new kind of activism and building a new kind of business.

Join us for the journey.

WITH BENEFITS

  • Competitive salaries
  • Healthy equity packages
  • 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision

All positions are based in San Francisco.

WE'RE HIRING

Omnipotent Software Engineer

OK, we're not requiring godlike powers. But Virgance is looking for the best software developers in the industry. You should have a passion for solving complex design and scalability problems in an efficient, maintainable and reusable way.

At Virgance, you can have your code in production, improving the world, within a week of your first day in the office.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain web application and infrastructure components
  • Code highly efficient and scalable software
  • Refactor and improve maintainability of the codebase
  • Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems
  • Solve complex scalability, platform and integration problems
  • Report to the VP Engineering; work directly with the founders and other engineers.

Requirements

  • B.S., M.S. or Ph.D., Computer Science or related field
  • Excellent knowledge and experience with both object-oriented and service-oriented programming paradigms (including C++ and/or JAVA)
  • Excellent knowledge of database theory; familiarity with MySQL
  • High levels of creativity and quick problem solving capabilities
  • Rapid learner who thrives in a fast-paced environment
  • Self-motivated engineer who can take the initiative and work effectively both independently and as part of a team
  • Experience working with a version control system
  • Experience with perl, PHP, python or Ruby

Pluses

  • Extremely proficient with perl, PHP, python or Ruby
  • Experience building large-scale web applications and infrastructure
  • Experience building applications on Facebook/OpenSocial platforms
  • Experience with Smarty
  • Experience with memcache
  • Contributor to open source software

Sound tempting?
Send us your resume: jobs@virgance.com

If you'd like us to be able to search for your qualifications in the future, paste the text of your resume into the body of the email.

Video resumes are also welcome.

Front-end Developer

You lead a conflicted life. On the one hand, you are constantly pained by the terrible web design, non-compliant CSS and slow javascript that plagues the web. On the other hand, you are the solution to all these problems.

Virgance is looking for a badass javascript, CSS, XHTML front-end ninja. You should have a passion for working on extensible platforms, leveraging the latest open source technologies. Cross-browser compatible W3C-compliant XHTML and CSS flows freely through your fingers, and then degrade gracefully under exceptions. This website pains you, and you want to fix it.

At Virgance, you can have your code in production, improving the world, within a week of your first day in the office.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain web application and infrastructure components
  • Code highly efficient and modular software
  • Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems
  • Report to the VP Engineering; work directly with the founders and other engineers.

Requirements:

  • Excellent knowledge of front-end web development, with experience hand-coding W3C compliant XHTML and CSS
  • High level of proficiency with JavaScript
  • Experience with third party JS libraries such as MooTools, YUI, Prototype, Scriptaculous, JQuery, etc. Comfortable working in a linux environment
  • Experience building scalable web applications
  • Experience working with a version control system
  • Self-motivated engineer who can take the initiative and work effectively both independently and as part of a team
Pluses:
  • Experience building applications on Facebook/OpenSocial platforms
  • Excellent proficiency with object-oriented javascript
  • Experience with Smarty

Sound tempting?
Send us your resume: jobs@virgance.com

If you'd like us to be able to search for your qualifications in the future, paste the text of your resume into the body of the email.

Video resumes are also welcome.

AND ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE BEST

All-around Ninja

PLEASE NOTE: We are not actively hiring ninjas at the moment. One possible exception would be for ninjas who also have some software engineering experience. We didn't totally delete this listing off this page because we may need more ninjas in a few months, and we are happy to collect resumes even if we're not actively hiring right now. So if you send in a ninja resume right now, we'll take a look, but we probably won't write back, since you already know that we're not hiring right now. Sound good? Thanks!

We are looking for someone who is willing to do all sorts of things in order to amplify the effectiveness of Virgance management. Candidates must have exceptional communications skills, be flexible yet thorough and possess the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently while working productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You are down for whatever, which is good, since we will always have new surprises for you.

Requirements:

  • BA/BS degree preferred with a strong academic record.
  • Strong organizational skills, detail-oriented, and the ability to handle multiple priorities.
  • You have a blackbelt in coordinating stuff, and you can perform administrative tasks including: calendar management, travel arrangements, preparing and tracking expense reports, helping out with payroll, administrating our employee benefits program, ordering pizza, etc.
  • You may not be as good at Excel as Steve, but you are definitely better than Brent.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Upbeat, friendly, energetic.
  • You have some sort of track record of trying to make the world a better place
  • You are excited to hit the ground running and take charge of the position
  • You use online social networks
  • You are OK with being the person who has to wait on hold with some customer service rep at some big company who sold us something that isn't working for whatever reason
  • If something needs to happen, and no one knows how to do it, you will somehow figure out how to do it

Pluses:

  • You have actual experience doing this sort of thing. Note that it's not a requirement.
  • Your real reason for being interested in this job is that you want to spend a few years learning all the tricks to creating a successful startup, meeting a lot of amazing people, and you plan to bail in a few years to go take over the world yourself.
  • Your real reason for being interested in this job is that you want to get involved with another position in Virgance at some point, but you just don't quite have the qualifications yet so you're going to get into the company first, and then go from there.
  • You have experience using Macs
  • You are excited about the prospect of being involved in the Virgance video blog, both behind the camera and in front of it.
  • You have never forgotten anything, ever.

Sound tempting? Send us your resume and, if it is applicable, some samples of your work: jobs@virgance.com
If you'd like us to be able to search for your qualifications in the future, paste the text of your resume into the body of the email.

Interns and Volunteers

Want to gain valuable experience during your time at school, or maybe you've already graduated and you want to be part of Virgance? Do you want to get involved by volunteering for one of our initiatives?

Requirements:
  • You think Virgance rocks
  • You think you can help
  • You can dedicate a specific amount of time to Virgance
  • You have a proposal of what you think you can do for Virgance
Pluses:
  • You have volunteer experience
  • You are a student at the Presidio School of Management
Please note that these positions are unpaid. Still sound tempting? Send us your resume and, if it is applicable, some samples of your work: jobs@virgance.com
If you'd like us to be able to search for your qualifications in the future, paste the text of your resume into the body of the email.

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