Onswipe’s mission is to power the way the world experiences the web on touch devices. We do this by making it insanely easy for a publisher of any size to make their existing content provide a beautiful app-like expearience in the browser. What Google did for search and Facebook did for share, Onswipe is doing for experience.

Have you found all other backend languages to be boring and asynchronous javascript on the back end to be a way of life? If so, you should join Onswipe to work on one of the largest (if not the largest) production node applications in the world.

A little background information about Onswipe

• Onswipe is born and bred in New York City. We started out as a part of the inaugural Techstars NYC class in 2011.
• We’ve raised over $6,000,000 from investors like Spark Capital, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Betaworks, and more. They’re early investors in companies like Google, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, and Admeld.
• We have one of the largest audiences on the tablet web, meaning you get to work on
• Our team is 25+ people strong.
• Our executive team has built large teams at companies like Aol, Jumptap, Grooveshark, and more
• We’ve been named Forbes 30 Under 30, INC 30 Under 30, Businesweek Top 25 under 25, and Time Inc. Top 10 Startups.
• Some of our partners include Ziff Davis, Answers.com, Bonnier, Blackbook, and more.
• Benefits, benefits, benefits… Dental, vision, health, gym memberships, and mac equipment galore.

More about our technology stack

• On the backend, we are using Node.js for most of our backend operations.
• On the frontend, we use HTML5/CSS3 with JavaScript, with SwipeCore, our in-house JavaScript framework for touch interaction.
• Database-wise, we store most of our data into MongoDB with some data in MySQL.
• Other stuff we use includes Redis and Solr.
• Our code is committed to GitHub.
• We track issues with Jira
• We’re working on developing a testing culture using Vows tests and Jenkins for continuous integration.
• We’re developing a system that serves content to millions of readers a month. We need you to help us grow it.

Four things that would make us love you

1. Able to write applications that are well spec’d and logically thought out to scale at a fast pace in realtime.
2. You have worked on a Node application at a scale that reaches millions of users.
3. You are a full stack engineer that not only loves writing javascript on the back-end, but also have a desire to dig in to front end from time to time.
4. You’re obsessed with making your NPM top ranking go higher.

Responsibilities

• Work with a group of Node.js and full stack engineers at Onswipe building our systems such as Fetch, which collects and analyzes tens of millions of pieces of content.
• Obsessively work to improve performance on all parts of the Onswipe stack that uses Node.
• Work to scale existing systems and create new systems that interface between advertising and publishing.

Abilities

• College education, or something awesome you did instead of one.
• Experience working with at a startup in the past.
• Extensive Node.js experience.
• Experience working with MongoDB
• Showing open-source contributions is highly advantageous.
• Test-driven development knowledge highly advantageous.
• Frontend development knowledge (HTML/CSS/Javascript) advantageous.