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Academia.edu looking to hire rockstar Flash developer

18 pointsRichardPrice16 comments

Academia.edu, currently in beta, is a San Francisco-based social networking site for academics. The founders are from Oxford and Stanford. Academia.edu has raised venture funding from some of the leading investors in Europe:

 - Saul Klein (the 'Ron Conway' of Europe) 
 - Brent Hoberman (founder of Lastminute.com which was acquired for $1bn) 
 - Oxford University
 - NewMedia Spark (UK VC firm) 
 - Hugo Burge and David Soskin (founders of Cheapflights.com)

We're planning a really cool Flash application for Academia.edu. Version 1 of the app should take approximately a month. We're looking to hire a Flash developer to code the app. Initially we are looking to hire on a contract basis, but if things go well (we hope they will), we'd want to make an offer for a permanent position.

Candidates must:

 - Have CS background or equivalent experience
 - Have 1 year+ Flash experience 
 - Be passionate about developing great products

Academia.edu is in Rails - you'll need to be able to handle the interactions between Rails and Flash. We'd prefer it if you were in San Francisco, as we can then discuss the app in person, but we'll definitely consider candidates outside of San Francisco. We want to work with the best people, wherever they are.

If you could be interested in building a cool Flash application, send Richard an email at richard -at- academia.edu

how did you manage to bend the .edu registration rules?

per http://www.educause.edu/edudomain/eligibility.asp : "Only postsecondary institutions that are institutionally accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies (see recognized accrediting bodies) may obtain an Internet name in the .edu domain."

I am aware that "[a]ll institutions holding names as of October 29, 2001 in the .edu domain will be allowed to keep them without regard to institutional eligibility requirements at this time." but am sure that this would not cover the sale of an .edu domain to a startup company not engaged in education per se.

Care to clarify?

Sure - our company registered the domain before 2001 (in 1999).

This cannot be true since your company Academia Inc. was not incorporated until 11/14/2006.

Our organization registered the domain in '99 and incorporated in '06.

cough

The history of whois and nameserver records indicates otherwise...

Anyway, good luck basing your business on what seems like an illegally acquired domain name.

The only comments being made by curmudgeon appear to be today and about this post. This seems like a troll account.

Exposing an obvious lie is now considered trolling?

Yeah, he just slipped through the cracks!

This comment is bizarre. Whois says:

-Domain record activated: 10-May-1999

-Domain record last updated: 03-Sep-2007

-Domain expires: 31-Jul-2008

So it was activated in 1999 after all...

For those interested, compensation seems rather generous:

"We are offering a salary of $80,000, and options of between 4-5%." (cf. http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/2007-09-11_academia_7_senior.h... )

Re: generous....

It depends on what the options are priced at and what the vesting period is.

I knew I shouldn't have given up the Guitar :(

What is a "Rockstar Developer"?

I dunno, but half the Flash/Flex/Actionscript ads I see say that.

"We need an Actionscript Rockstar! You must be comfortable with AS2, AS3, scissor-kicks, and fending off web standards groupies."

Among the titles I've seen;

Ruby on Rails Ninja.... Actionscript Rockstar... Java Guru... C++ Genius... C# Jedi... PHP junkie...

and finally

HTML Whiz

I like the term uber-hacker myself.

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