Help Our Users Win Olympic Medals at Sprongo.com (Mountain View, CA) (allows remote)

Job Description

About Sprongo

We provide visual feedback tools (slow motion, comparisons, overlays…etc) to athletes.  Using these tools athletes and coaches can minimize the learning curve by analyze their technique and interactions with teammates.  

In 20 months 5500+ teams and 40,000+ users(including Olympic medallists) started using us. More than 750,000 videos have been uploaded.  Check out our demo videos: http://sprongo.com/playlist/55575.

Sprongo 2.0

Sprongo 1.0 was for serious teams and their members.  It was a successful niche product.  With Sprongo 2.0 we want to target a much wider audience and go after all levels of participants.  

With 1.0 we tried a subscription business model.  With 2.0 we are  evolving into a marketplace that will allow experts (coaches, personal trainers …etc) to sell content and equipment (eg. “How to improve your golfswing with 10 easy drills - $25”).        

Technical Overview

Sprongo is built on a LAMP stack.  In the back-end we use the Yii framework and the front-end uses a generous amount of Coffeescript.  We use the HTML5 video tag with custom controls for our video analysis features.

We use Rackspace for hosting, Zencoder for encoding videos, Github for version control.  

Our Team How You’ll Fit In

We are a distributed team of four. Your ideas and opinions wil be heard; your schedule and independence will be respected.

Unfortunately, Matt, our back-end guru, needs to dial down his workload for health reasons.  Going forward he will be taking a part time role.  We are looking for you to take over lead back-end position from Matt.  We expect you to:  

In his part-time role Matt will not only be there to answer your questions but will also contribute to the coding effort.

Skills Requirements

About Sprongo.com

We are the best of both worlds: We are a distributed company and we respect people's schedules and independence, but treat as a full member of our team.  Your opinions and ideas will be heard and respected and your status as a full-member will be reflected in the compensation package. 

How to apply

Please apply using the following form: https://docs.google.com/a/sprongo.com/forms/d/1y_TvEP0Jb9HNs-8_SAvc-JPvwWd9DiNFsOQr_XwyCVw/viewform

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May 24, 2013 • Posted in: Technology

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