Jobs
Funky office. Free food. Fun people. Xobni is Hiring!
Work hard, share the reward, and have fun doing it. We are hiring:
Working at Xobni
Xobni is changing the way people use their email. Our first product Xobni has been released in public beta and has received great reviews. Xobni aims to become a new platform for organizing messaging and relationship information, centered around email.
Xobni is located near Union Square in San Francisco, CA and is backed by substantial venture funding from Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Ron Conway and Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments, Y Combinator and several angel investors.
Our team is growing rapidly. We are looking for the kind of people who thrive as part of a dedicated and innovative team, love tough challenges, and are passionate about building something people want.Xobni offers competitive base salary, stock options, health benefits, flexible hours, and a great group of people to work with.
You'll like being here - in pictures
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| Startup environment: It's easy to make a difference | Plenty of pixels at your workstation |
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| Fascinating technical challenges | Nightly dinners with the team |
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| Smart, high-energy, and fun people to work with | Stock options, Competitive salary, and Health benefits |
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| Unlimited refills | Located near Union Square in beautiful San Francisco. Our office occupies a full floor with a ton of windows at the corner of Kearny and Sutter St |
Videos By and About Xobni
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Learn more about the company on our blog, or about the team on the internets
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In Pictures: A day at Xobni
Positions
Web Developer
Do you want to build the systems and contribute to the strategies that will help Xobni's marketing team engineer user acquisition? Do you want to learn the techniques and the strategies that take great products and turn them into successful businesses with millions of users? Do you have an analytical mind and a penchant for data visualization? If so, you may be right for the role of web developer at Xobni.
Responsibilities
- Developing and extending Xobni's web properties
- Contributing to Xobni's positioning, branding, and marketing strategy
- Acting as an overall technical generalist - able to work with multiple technologies and teams
- Building analytical and data visualization dashboards
- Minimum 3 years of experience in web development
- PHP + mySQL experience a must, python experience a plus
- Analytical and mathematically minded
- Interest in web marketing, SEM, and viral marketing
- Interested in data visualization
- Adobe Flex experience a plus
- BS in Computer Science or related background is preferred
Senior Windows Software Engineer
Would you like to join a startup with a great team that creates exciting communications software? Xobni is looking for a Senior Windows Software Engineer to help us build and improve our products.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of large parts of Xobni's core code
- Write code that is both functional and elegant
- Diagnose performance and functional problems
- Participate in design discussions, perform analyses, and plan software and feature improvements
- BS, MS, or Ph.D. in computer science or a closely related field
- 5+ years experience in designing / developing Windows desktop application
- Proficiency in C# and C++
- Significant experience with Windows technologies (Win32, COM, etc.). Experience with developing for Outlook (OOM, VSTO, COM Addins, etc.) is a plus.
Software Engineers
Do you thrive as part of a talented and highly agile engineering team? We're looking for software engineers to help envision, design, and build the core Xobni applications.
Responsibilities
- Participate actively in software design discussions
- Develop ideas from a high-level description to a shippable product
- Perform analyses, software design, code, troubleshooting, and unit testing
- Write code that is both functional and elegant
- Set individual goals and take responsibility for executing
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years of software development experience
- Experience with N-tier application development
- Successful multi-tasker, as well as a self starter who is able to work well with others and can adapt to changes quickly in a high pressure startup environment
- Very familiar with general application development
- C#/Java knowledge a plus
- Excellent technical communication, both written and verbal
- MS/BS in Computer Science or related background preferred
Xobni seeks to hire the best. We conduct business following the spirit and the intent of the equal opportunity laws and we strive towards maintaining a diverse community. We encourage excellence at all levels in our organization. Xobni is an equal opportunity employer.













