Careers Overview

Life at Rapleaf































Hadoop Tech Presentations
by Rapleaf, 101tec, & Yahoo!

Part 1 - The Collector: Multi-Writer Appends into HDFS
Part 1 Slides

Part 2 - Katta: Distributed Lucene Index in Production
Part 2 Slides

Part 3 - Debugging and Tuning Map-Reduce Applications
Part 3 Slides
HBase Tech Presentations
by Rapleaf & Powerset

Part 1 - Intro

Part 2 - Structured Storage of Sparse Data for Hadoop
Part 2 Slides

Part 3 - Integrating HBase via REST
Part 3 Slides
Rapleaf Engineering Blog
 
 

Available Positions

Amazing Software Engineer
Amazing Software Engineering Intern (Summer or Fall)
Master of Product Management
Phenomenal Business Developer
Operations Specialist (Recruiting)


About Rapleaf

Rapleaf is a well-funded San Francisco startup (we currently have 17 people on the team). We index publicly available information from the social web on hundreds of millions of people and build products and analytics on top of this data. We built the largest portable social graph in the world and we're building the platform to develop a myriad of applications.

Rapleaf's B2B arm provides deep insight about consumers for businesses. Business customers include retailers, airlines, hotel chains, social networks, lead generation firms, telcos, political campaigns, and more; these clients learn about their existing consumer base in order to provide them a better consumer experience.

We're looking for people who want to work on incredibly complex problems, coming up with the solutions that will change the world. If you're one of these people, we want to meet you. Please apply below.

If you refer someone who may be interested, we also offer a $10,007 referral award.


 
 

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

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.

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)

Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

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.

Apply for this Position



Amazing Software Engineering Intern (Summer or Fall)

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

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.

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

Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

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.

Apply for this Position



Master of Product Management

Role:
- First product manager in the company and holistic owner of all the Rapleaf products
- Take charge with respect to product definitions, market requirements, product designs, and product strategy/roadmap
- Pro-actively work with management and partners to establish development priorities and essentially influence the direction and prioritization of engineering efforts
- Work closely with Rapleaf's customers and potential customers to get feedback for new features and products
- Work closely with engineers to produce quick and powerful product iterations
- Quickly integrate feedback and research from existing and potential customers to define and evolve the business products
- Create the API docs (and other technical documentation), the API look and feel, and how developers would consume the API
- File an abundance of patents
- Statistically analyze Rapleaf's database of hundreds of millions of people with trillions of datapoints
- Help sell to existing business customers.
- Report directly to the CEO
- Change the world

Qualifications
- Proven track record of defining product requirements and producing successful products
- Comfortable working with terabytes of data
- Strong understanding of APIs and API documentation
- Solid experience building wireframes and mock-ups
- Outstanding coordination skills with the ability to effectively work across functional teams including sales, engineering, operations, and marketing
- Extremely hard working; this is a start-up - team members work long hours
- Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy
- Thrive on working with A-players; too good to spend long hours with B-players
- One of the smartest people you know; ambitious to change the world
- Software engineer or technical leader of sorts in a past life (this is a technical role that will require you to be respected by some of the best engineers in the world)
- Best communicator alive
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Entrepreneurial, high energy and committed to excellence
- Leader who is respected on and off the job
- Thrive on chaos, risk, uncertainty and decisively takes action
- Should be personable, ethical, and low-maintenance
- Strong desire to build a more ethical society
- Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation package available)

Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

Perks:
- High 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 in the world

At Rapleaf, we're only looking for people that really want to change the world.

Apply for this Position



Phenomenal Business Developer

Role:
- Work alongside company co-founders
- Specifically work on business development and sales
- Drive and close new business deals
- Work alongside the BD team and the CEO and VP Business Development to build a worldclass ecosystem of customers and partners
- Research, understand, and crystallize knowledge about market spaces that can be fed back to product and marketing functions to optimize service and market messaging
- Develop deep understanding of Rapleaf services and future services capability and sell both current products and upcoming services
- Change the world

Qualifications:
- Incredibly smart and very entrepreneurial
- An "out of the box" thinker
- 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

Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

Perks:
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Work with some of the smartest tech entrepreneurs
- Work with some of the smartest engineers
- This has potential to develop into a full-time, official role (as an early employee in the company)

Apply for this Position

Operations Specialist (Recruiting)

Responsibilities:
- Specifically work on recruitment research and candidate scheduling
- Assist in driving recruitment process by ensuring reports are up to date, emails are being sent and all scheduling is up to date
- Research, research and research engineers on linkedin and other job boards for recruitment email campaigns
- Take on any other task that will drive the success of the company
- This is an entry-level role

Qualifications:
- You are the most organized person you know. You are great with follow-up and never let things fall through the cracks
- You like to work with intensely driven, hard-working, and insanely smart people
- An "out of the box" thinker -- you should speak up and suggest ideas you have for improving recruitment process
- Learn new things extremely fast...We wear many hats -- so will you
- A real doer. Errs on execution over strategy
- 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

Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (Mission and 3rd)

Perks:
- COMP: Entry-level salary. Stock options. Health benefits.
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Work with some of the smartest tech entrepreneurs

Apply for this Position