On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Aseem Kishore <aseem.kish
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I'm one of the authors of node-neo4j, the Neo4j client library for Node.js.
> I've been working with Neo4j (and Node.js) for a year and a half now and
> I've been loving it.
> I'm at a young company called FiftyThree now, and I wanted to share that
> we're hiring because I think some of you might find the opportunity really
> interesting. =)
> FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app for freeform
> writing/sketching/drawing. Paper has done really well -- among other things,
> it won this year's Apple Design Award for iPad, it's been App of the Month,
> it's had over 2 million downloads, and it's used and loved by designers at
> great companies everywhere, including Apple, Facebook, Nike, Pixar, Vimeo
> and more.
> The company's higher-level goal is to bring creation tools into the post-PC
> era. We think there's a huge opportunity here, just like there was for
> Office when the PC started becoming popular. Mobile and tablets are changing
> everything.
> Paper is just the beginning for FiftyThree, and we're working hard on our
> next product. We like to say that Paper is "where ideas begin"; what we're
> working on next is a service to "bring ideas together". To use a rough
> analogy, something along the lines of GitHub for ideas and creations.
> We believe in using the best tools for the job, and for us, that means Neo4j
> for the database layer. We already have an enterprise license, and we
> already have a great relationship with the Neo4j team.
> What we don't have is great back-end and dev-ops engineers who'd love to set
> up our Neo4j cluster and make it sing. We expect to have a million users
> right when we launch -- so you'll be making sure we're ready to scale right
> from the start.
> This also means there's a lot of room for creativity on both the engineering
> and operations sides. We already know our activity feed algorithm can be
> improved, as can our categorization. Should we delegate some of these things
> to offline processes? Or can we find ways to make them realtime and
> efficient?
> If this sounds interesting to you, reach out and let's chat. I look forward
> to hearing from you!
> Cheers,
> Aseem
> P.S. I should probably link to our formal jobs page. =)
> --
