I've been on YC HN for over 6 years now and feel free proud to be able to show what we've been working on for the last 5 months. We built a complete product from scratch and we visited over 250 startups in Europe with professional photograhers to profile them.
I would really love everyone's feedback, be as critical as you can be.
For those next Saturday at Startup School in London, come and find me (I'll wear a Tyba t-shirt)
Tyba (http://tyba.com) is giving junior talent a professional identity and changing the way companies recruit.
We have as a mission to advance the careers of young professionals.
If you’re looking for an international team that thrives in a startup culture, we’re the place to be!
We can only consider candidates who are allowed to work in the European Union.
We offer a challenging environment where you can develop your skills and build a product which people use and enjoy!
What technologies do we use?
PHP, Javascript, jQuery, MySQL, Nginx, Varnish, Amazon EC2, RDS, Cloudfront & S3, and some other cool technologies.
You need to have:
* Strong learning and problem solving skills
* Passion and enthusiasm about new technologies
* Creativity and initiative
* Empathy and ability to understand users’ needs
* Good English level
Things that are a plus:
* Developing projects on your own
* Contributing to open-source projects
* Integration with Facebook and Google APIs
* Experience with AWS
* Working with git(hub)
We offer:
* Work in a dynamic environment with young talented people
* Room to learn new technologies and skill sets
* Building a product that impacts the careers of our users
* A chance to live in one of Europe’s most vibrant cities
Who we are looking for?
We have several positions open so we are recruiting from experienced developers all the way to high-potential individuals with little experience. What all candidates will have in common is a passion for software development and a strong appreciation of the importance of the user experience. You have to be able to learn quickly, communicate well and co-operate effectively in a team.
Our team is international!
We are 8 nationalities but use English as our working language. You should be able to write and speak to a level where you can communicate clearly, but fluency is not a requirement. Knowledge of Spanish is not a requirement.
I can vouch for the persistence of Eiso (hi Eiso!), as I remember doing work for Tyba more than a number of years ago, when it was something he was coding on the side. Glad to see it has progressed to such a level.
Web developer for Tyba in Madrid, Spain (www.tyba.com)
(EU only)
Job description:
Do you think CVs are outdated and LinkedIn doesn't do a good job at presenting yourself professionally online? We do! At Tyba we have launched in March a website that let students and young professional easily create their page and show visually their curriculum, their personality and their portfolio with a creative but professional design. We want them to have a website they are proud of, they like to play with and that they can spread around , show to employers or that employers find when they google their name.
We want to give recruiters the possibility to browse through high-quality profiles and have a better overview of who they will hire or request for an interview.
We work with a freemium model and give the users the possibility to upgrade for TheirName.com and for additional features such as themes against a monthly or yearly fee.
We are lucky do all that from a bright and comfortable office located in the thriving and sunny city of Madrid, in the beautiful neighborhood of Salamanca.
We are now seeking an oustanding developer to join our international team of gifted talents. Our developers are responsible for exploring Tyba's potential and growing its user base, helping them to get hired and companies to find talents. This is an amazing opportunity to be part of an exciting project, to grow with the company and have an impact on numerous people's lives.
Responsibilities
At Tyba, you will work on a fast evolving product within our small team and together with our developer Tristan, our designer Zuri, our Manager Eiso and occasionally with our back-end developer Parminder located in the US.
Our work atmosphere is that of a startup, casual. Everybody is aware and sometimes involved in the startup different aspects : the sales to the public and to universities, our high-level customer service, the decision making and the product development.
As one of the two developers, you will have the chance to have a major impact on the product. We have a long list of small to large features and improvements we would like to implement and that you will work on. New ideas will be also coming on the way from the whole team. We will constantly test the product, try to get as much feedback as possible and think about ways to make it better.
On the technical aspect we use the best tools we find out there to date to develop the product. We work mainly with PHP on the server side, JavaScript using the jQuery library on the client side and MySQL for the database. We might have to use Python or Ruby on the server side in the future. On the back end we run our nginx server with Amazon Web Services (EC2) and we store our files using their Content Delivery Network S3.
We work with several APIs, especially Google Analytics and Google Charts APIs to display the users' website analytics. Facebook API to allow the user to connect to Tyba with Facebook and to share or post content on Facebook. Namecheap and DNS Made Easy APIs to buy and propagate domains chosen by the users. In the future we will certainly use others. Since all of them have good libraries, there is usually a fast learning curve.
We use Github for version controlling to have a nice and clear workflow.
To give you an idea of what we are doing on a daily basis, here is a list of recent projects our developer has been working on:
- Creating a referral system that allow the user to select their Facebook friends who they want to post on their walls. We use a unique link for each user and award points for new visitors or users brought.
- Building a search tool that allow users and potentially recruiters to browse through the users profile according to specific criteria.
- Creating an expanding work module that let the user upload presentations, videos, documents or create an image gallery to illustrate their work experience.
Requirements
- Engineering or scientific studies.
- Fluency in English.
- Rigorous programming skills, the knowledge of a strict object-oriented languages such as C++ is a big asset.
- Good knowledge of PHP, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX and MySQL. Having worked with Github and with Google or Facebook APIs is an asset.
- Fast learner, you should be willing to pick up a new programming language if we need it.
- Showing flexibility in the work development, you should not be scared to restart part of the project from scratch if we realize there are better ways to go do it.
- Being exited about the product, it can be in a critical way of course but you should believe in the potential of our startup.
- Dedicated to make the Product better and get users excited about it.
- Hard-working, good communicator and having excellent abstraction and critical skills.
To apply please create a profile on http://tyba.com and send us your Tyba site with a cover letter. You can either upload your CV on your Tyba site or send it to us separately.
We make sure we follow sound SEO techniques. Most Tyba sites rank on the first page of Google for the users name within days and often go up to the first result within weeks (since they have more unique content then for instance an About.me page)
We actively try to be more appealing than LinkedIn since our target user is overall younger. Students today are constantly saying "LinkedIn is borring"
We also see users currently including their Tyba site (especially premium members) in their CV, email signature, and on their online profiles.
I'm really liking this. I guess I'll make it my personal homepage.
A quick feedback: I'm reading your profile right now, and I wish there were more links: I'm clicking in your favorite books to read more about them, or on "Founder of Twollars" to know more about it.
I completely agree, we are constantly working on bringing new features out and one of the upcoming ones (end of next week) will be what we call the "expanded work module" where users upload more types of content for a work experience to go beyond text.
There is still a LOT of work to be done, but we're working hard at it on our end.
The users can choose to stick with: tyba.com/theirname or what we see with users whose name is not available they often use a variation e.g. jsmith.com john-smith.com johndsmith.com etc.
Also some users upgrade to a premium plan without a domain name to remove the ads and get access to the themes.
To also respond to: ohgodthecat (thank you too!), we've spent a lot of time putting the Tyba sites infront of people working in HR. So far we've mainly received positive feedback about the interface, since it gives them a very quick overview of a person (both the visual elements such as the images and the way we do the layout). However we will take this into account and keep on gathering more feedback. Thank you!
That ad is there to incentivize users to upgrade to our premium plan which is when it disappears, you unlock themes and get yourname.com.
It is not on our website yet, but we are currently looking to hire another web developer to come and join our team in Madrid. If you are interested and from the EU (sorry, visa sponsoring is very expensive) please contact me at: eiso@tyba.com
I consider Alex Barrera (one of the co-founders of Tetuan Valley) a friend and an incredible motivator who bleeds startups. If you're in Madrid/Barcelona and are completely new at 'startups' (this is not for experienced founders) these 6 weeks could change your life.
I've been on YC HN for over 6 years now and feel free proud to be able to show what we've been working on for the last 5 months. We built a complete product from scratch and we visited over 250 startups in Europe with professional photograhers to profile them.
I would really love everyone's feedback, be as critical as you can be.
For those next Saturday at Startup School in London, come and find me (I'll wear a Tyba t-shirt)
Thank you!
Eiso