So what's Taggers?
So what's Taggers?<p>It's an upcoming tagging platform for people and businesses. Our startup is currently in the beta stage and getting ready to launch soon. We are funded. We currently compensate contractors and employees fully in cash. Stock options and other benefits are coming in the near future. You will need to commute to our downtown Palo Alto, CA office. To see what users can do on Taggers, check out: http://taggers.com/10things<p>Now that's out of the way, let's get down to why we're here.<p>So far we've strung together a pretty fun combination of (buzzword alert...) CodeIgniter/PHP, jQuery/JavaScript, nginx and Amazon RDS/MySQL, all hosted on Amazon's EC2 platform. We've hit a stride where we can flexibly introduce new features and work on the user-interaction pieces of the puzzle.<p>Ideally, you feel comfortable jumping quickly into a codebase of several thousand lines of code with these technologies. The original developers are here to help guide you in the beginning as to the particulars of our environment. You should also feel comfortable taking charge to make decisions about selecting technologies and choosing implementation strategies. You will be your own technology director.<p>We are experimenting with different methods of using Comet to make the site more interactive. Right now we use an nginx module called HTTP_Push. We're not married to it, but it's working well so far. So, super plus bonus points if you have Comet experience with a PHP application!<p>Some of the fun challenges we're solving:
- Determining who gets to see what information on the site in a clear and consistent way
- Keeping active profile pages in sync in real time for everyone viewing them
- Staying flexible in our code and data structure so we can respond quickly as we learn about our users<p>We have no "minimum requirements." Art and philosophy majors can be awesome coders too.<p>If this all sounds up your alley, you'll have a huge impact on the direction of our product from both technical and design perspectives.<p>We really think we can make the world a more efficient and tight-knit place once Taggers takes off. So consider being part of it. If you're interested, send us an e-mail here:<p>jobs@taggers.com