Interesting Things

• Congratulations to the latest Pivotal client to go live! KODA is a new breed of career-building site, using the power of rich media and social networking to make the job search less about checklists and resumes and more about personality, talents, and networking.

This is the second installment of our new weekly posting on Blabs for those of you looking for engineering jobs. We hope you find it useful, and if you're happily employed please ignore this.

At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide is bootstrapping startups, including helping them interview and hire. We currently have clients looking for skilled engineers to build their development teams. This is an excellent opportunity to learn Extreme Programming by working side-by-side with Pivotal's talented and experienced developers while at the same time getting in on the ground floor of a small and dynamic product team.

Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring. General technical requirements include serious web development experience, and a significant subset of Ruby, Rails, CSS, JavaScript, or MySQL.

Here's a short description of KODA, Honk, and Mavenlink, three Pivotal Labs clients currently looking for developers. Their full job postings follow at the end of this post.

KODA redefines the job recruiting process for the emerging workforce. Translated from a Native American word meaning friend or ally, KODA is a cooperative meeting place for talented individuals and organizations to come together and communicate in an authentic voice. This transparent platform allows both parties to share identities, discover more about each other and find the best professional opportunities. KODA is a funded start-up that has been developed exclusively by Pivotal Labs over the past year. Prior to our engagement with Pivotal, KODA collaborated with IDEO to develop a top brand and an innovative site infrastructure. KODA is releasing its Beta version this month!

Mavenlink is a funded startup that is changing the way people find experts who can help them and is providing the necessary tools to get their work done online. We are founded on the principle that virtually everybody needs qualified professional services that are readily accessible, affordable, and there when they need them. We’ve been working with Pivotal Labs to get our product launched, so we’re serious about being agile and we’ve got the right engineering process in place. This is a unique opportunity to join the Mavenlink team and contribute significantly to the direction of the company. We're looking for someone who is not only passionate about development, but also shares our vision for the tools and capabilities necessary for making remote work better than working in person for both the client and the maven.

Honk.com is a new online automotive website that will make car shopping fun and social. We will enable consumers to experience a new way to explore new cars. We have partnered with a top social website to deliver this new way of car shopping and are funded by one of the largest media companies in the world. Our small team is made up of an experienced group of humble, efficient, and hyper-passionate individuals who are veterans of the automotive industry and social media space. We are proud of our ego-less culture, one that promotes team thinking, not individual accolades. If you're interested in helping prove that social media and car buying go hand in hand, social networks serve a bigger purpose than keeping up with one's day, and a small team can outdo the work of an army - then we may have a seat waiting for you.

If you are interested or for more information please contact each company directly. This is an exclusive service provided to our clients, no external companies or recruiters please.

Full job postings follow.