Careers Overview

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Perks
  • Great cash & equity compensation
  • Mac, Windows, or Linux laptop of your choice
  • Medical insurance and 401k plan
  • Kitchen stocked with food
  • Work with some of the smartest engineers and tech entrepeneurs
  • Live and work in San Francisco - the best city in the universe

About Rapleaf

Rapleaf is a San Francisco startup that crawls for publicly-available people information across the social web, and builds products and analytics on top of this data. With data on hundreds of millions of people, we have one of the largest social graphs and social databases in the world.

We're looking for people who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. If you are one of these people or know one of these people, we'd love to hear from you. Please see our open positions below.

Position Details

Amazing Software Engineer

  • Role:
  • Build out Rapleaf's next set of groundbreaking features
  • Build algorithms to normalize data on over half billion people
  • Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on
  • Report to the VP Engineering; work directly with the CEO, other engineers, and management
  • Change the world
  • Qualifications:
  • Amazing coder who takes no prisoners; master of all things Internet; one of the best coders in existence
  • Someone who learns new languages and platforms extremely fast - we use Ruby on Rails, Hadoop (HDFS), and Java
  • Intensely driven, proactive, and hard working
  • Extremely hard working; this is a start-up - team members work long hours
  • Quick learner and real doer; err on execution over strategy
  • Looks forward to working with A-players; too good to spend long hours with B-players
  • Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job.
  • Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
  • Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, ethical, and low-maintenance
  • Strong desire to build a more ethical society
  • Desire to be an early employee and want to be a real owner in Rapleaf's future
  • Want to work with extremely large datasets and build portable APIs that thousands of other companies can build applications on top of
  • Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation available if necessary)
  • All levels of experiences should apply (0-25+ years experience)
  • Note: This job is incredibly challenging. You'll be working with some of the top search engineers in the world that expect the best. We're doing things that no one has ever done before and solving problems that have been open for years.
  • Perks:
  • Great cash comp & high equity - Rapleaf is willing to pay for the best talent
  • Choice of any laptop - Mac, Windows, or Linux
  • Medical insurance, 401k
  • Kitchen stocked with food
  • Work with some of the smartest engineers
  • Contribute to many open source initiatives such as Hadoop
  • Contribute to the Rapleaf Engineering Blog
  • Live and work in San Francisco - the best city in the universe
  • At Rapleaf, we're only looking for people that really want to change the world.
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Amazing Software Engineering Intern (Summer/Fall/Spring)

  • Role:
  • Help build out Rapleaf's next set of groundbreaking features
  • Build algorithms to normalize data on hundreds of millions of people
  • Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on
  • Change the world
  • Qualifications:
  • Currently an undergrad or grad student
  • Looking for a fulltime internship
  • One of the best computer science/engineering students within your peer group
  • Amazing coder who takes no prisoners; master of all things Internet; one of the best coders in existence
  • Someone who learns new languages and platforms extremely fast - we use Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Java (you can pick these up quickly)
  • Intensely driven and proactive person
  • Quick learner and real doer; err on execution over strategy
  • Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
  • Should be easy to get along with, likeable, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance
  • Strong desire to build a more ethical society
  • Perks:
  • This is a paid internship
  • School credit available
  • Kitchen stocked with food
  • Flexible hours around your class schedule (if during the school year; fulltime during the summer)
  • Collegiate atmosphere and environment
  • This has potential to develop into a fulltime, official role as an early employee in the company
  • At Rapleaf, we're only looking for people that really want to change the world.
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Unstoppable Inside Sales Specialist

  • Role:
  • Work alongside the company revenue team and report to VP
  • Take a machine-like approach to prospecting and developing relationships with new customers across several verticals
  • Achieve and exceed sales quotas and targets, and report metrics daily
  • Engage with clients at high frequency (6-8 hours/day) via phone, email, and web presentations on a regular basis
  • Develop deep understanding of Rapleaf services capability to effectively sell current products
  • Follow up on fulfilling product and service orders and provide excellent customer service
  • Change the world
  • Qualifications:
  • 1-4 years experience in inside sales in the tech industry
  • Incredibly smart and very entrepreneurial
  • You see a revenue target and instantly start thinking how to go above it.
  • Is constantly thinking of creative ways to network or build contacts list
  • Learn new things extremely fast...We wear many hats - so will you
  • Intensely driven and proactive person
  • Extremely hard working. This is a start-up - team members work long hours
  • A real doer. Errs on execution over strategy
  • Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players
  • Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job
  • Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
  • Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance
  • Perks:
  • Great cash comp & equity
  • Choice of any laptop - Mac, Windows, or Linux
  • Medical insurance, 401k
  • Kitchen stocked with food
  • Work with some of the smartest engineers in the world
  • At Rapleaf, we're only looking for people that really want to change the world.
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Phenomenal Sales Account Executive

  • Role:
  • Work alongside the company revenue team and report to VP
  • Prospect and develop high-value relationships with new customers across market verticals
  • Achieve and exceed sales quotas and targets
  • Engage at high frequency and bandwidth with clients via phone, email, and presentations, both remotely and in-person
  • Develop deep understanding of Rapleaf services capability to effectively sell current and future products, and feed back key information to Rapleaf product team
  • Provide excellent customer service and maintain great relationships
  • Change the world
  • Qualifications:
  • 2-6 years experience in sales in the tech industry, information/data experience preferred
  • Incredibly smart and very entrepreneurial
  • You see a revenue target and instantly start thinking how to go above it.
  • Constantly thinking of creative ways to network or build contacts list
  • Learn new things extremely fast
  • Intensely driven and proactive person
  • Extremely hard working. This is a start-up - team members work long hours
  • A real doer. Errs on execution over strategy
  • Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players
  • Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job
  • Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
  • Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance
  • Perks:
  • Great cash comp & equity
  • Choice of any laptop - Mac, Windows, or Linux
  • Medical insurance, 401k
  • Kitchen stocked with food
  • Work with some of the smartest engineers in the world
  • At Rapleaf, we're only looking for people that really want to change the world.
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Innovative Business Development Summer Intern

  • Role:
  • Work alongside company co-founders to grow the company’s product through strategy
  • Specifically work on business development, product management, privacy, analytics, and anything else necessary to grow the company.
  • Negotiate deep data deals and strategic purchases
  • Take the initiative to solve challenging business and start up issues
  • Research, understand, and crystallize knowledge about market spaces that can be fed back to product and marketing functions to optimize service capability
  • Develop a deep understanding of Rapleaf services capability to effectively sell current products and upcoming services
  • Build sales channels
  • Change the world
  • Qualifications:
  • Will be an undergrad or a recent grad this summer-2010
  • Remarkably strategic and very entrepreneurial
  • Super independent and self-sufficient
  • Extremely flexible: ability to tackle anything that comes your way
  • A real doer. Errs on execution over strategy-sees an idea and immediately goes after it
  • An out of the box thinker
  • You’re good at research and have no problems reading a 15 page legal doc.
  • Learn new things extremely fast...We wear many hats - so will you
  • Intensely driven and proactive person
  • Extremely hard working. This is a start-up - team members work long hours
  • Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players
  • Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job
  • Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
  • Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance
  • Perks:
  • Early employee at hot start-up
  • Work in San Francisco – the best city in the world
  • Kitchen stocked with food
  • Work with some of the best tech entrepreneurs in the world
  • At Rapleaf, we're only looking for people that really want to change the world.
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