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At UpCompany, we’re looking for really smart people who can get things done. We’re looking for self-starters—the kind of people who can be given general directions and execute like mad to drive the business forward. We’re looking for insanely creative people who are bubbling with ideas, but who do not get distracted from the big picture. We’re looking for strong people who can put their personal ego aside to do what’s in the interest of the company. We’re looking for people who like to win and know what it takes to do so. If you’re the kind of person who is driven to complete things, and likes to work hard while having fun, please apply!

Below are descriptions of a few roles we need filled. Don’t worry if you’re not an exact match, we’re not trying to shoehorn people into fixed slots. UpCompany is a fluid organization, and we’re not too concerned with titles. Instead, we’re looking for people who can grow with the company. If you’re the right person, we’ll make it work.

Please submit your resume to:

jobs@upcompany.com

=== Data & Tools Developer: ===

Do you love building tools that allow people to interact with data in novel ways? Are you a relentless consumer of information, and think that browsing Wikipedia borders on the transcendental? Back in the day, did you regularly write website scraping code to extract data from your favorite sites? Do you wish the whole web would quickly move to XML and RSS so your life would be easier? Have you written scheduled code to periodically pull data from disparate sites, parse it into a useful format, and dumped it in to a database? Do you love the idea of being able to get an SMS alert when some key piece of data has changed in an interesting way? Moreover, do you understand the difference between data and information, and know how to categorize, classify, tag, and meta-enable data to transform it in to information? Have you constructed taxonomies based on semantic relationships, and utilized faceting to layer together complex data? Does the prospect of building a Content Management System for dynamic web publishing get your juices flowing?

At UpCompany, we are going to amass an amazing amount of data from a multitude of sources. We need someone to write code to retrieve the world’s data (or some significant subset), clean it up, label it, and archive it in a production environment. We also need someone to write tools to make this process easy for others to do, and easy for others to interact with the data in interesting ways that add clear value.

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