I’m one of the authors of node-neo4j, the Neo4j client library for Node.js. I’ve been working with Neo4j (and Node.js) for a year and a half now and I’ve been loving it.
I’m at a young company called FiftyThree now, and I wanted to share that we’re hiring because I think some of you might find the opportunity really interesting. =)
FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app for freeform writing/sketching/drawing. Paper has done really well — among other things, it won this year’s Apple Design Award for iPad, it’s been App of the Month, it’s had over 2 million downloads, and it’s used and loved by designers at great companies everywhere, including Apple, Facebook, Nike, Pixar, Vimeo and more.
The company’s higher-level goal is to bring creation tools into the post-PC era. We think there’s a huge opportunity here, just like there was for Office when the PC started becoming popular. Mobile and tablets are changing everything.
Paper is just the beginning for FiftyThree, and we’re working hard on our next product. We like to say that Paper is “where ideas begin”; what we’re working on next is a service to “bring ideas together”. To use a rough analogy, something along the lines of GitHub for ideas and creations.
We believe in using the best tools for the job, and for us, that means Neo4j for the database layer. We already have an enterprise license, and we already have a great relationship with the Neo4j team.
What we don’t have is great back-end and dev-ops engineers who’d love to set up our Neo4j cluster and make it sing. We expect to have a million users right when we launch — so you’ll be making sure we’re ready to scale right from the start.
This also means there’s a lot of room for creativity on both the engineering and operations sides. We already know our activity feed algorithm can be improved, as can our categorization. Should we delegate some of these things to offline processes? Or can we find ways to make them realtime and efficient?
If this sounds interesting to you, reach out and let’s chat. I look forward to hearing from you!
Cheers,
Aseem
P.S. I should probably link to our formal jobs page. =)

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