Your responsibilities:

You will be heading our IT/Development and Product Teams.
Coming from a technical/web product background, with a solid management experience, a strong business sense, you will ensure that product and applications are shipped and delivered in time, to fulfill business needs.

You will be working closely with the CEO.

This position requires heavy interaction with / close management of software engineers, product managers, web designers, customer care agents.

In this role, you'll ensure the rapid development and world-class quality of a product that will be seen and experienced by millions of users every day.

Your profile:

• Engineering degree preferred, combined with a Business Degree / MBA, excellent student profile
• 10+ years of experience in web project management
• World-class web 2.0 and mobile culture (Facebook, Twitter, iPhone apps…)
• Independent, entrepreneurial work style and “driver” mentality
• Ability to strongly drive teams to exceed deadlines and increase productivity
• Perfect English, other European language a plus
• Previous start-up experience a plus

Your responsibilities:

You will be involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from ideation to implementation. Specifically you will be responsible for all our CRM / Email Marketing effort. This position requires heavy interaction with marketing people, web designers and our engineering team. In this role, you'll help define the design and interaction of a product that will be seen and experienced by millions of users every day. You will be able to deliver simple, clean and efficient user experiences (including for future mobile apps) You will process the results of user research to improve their experience. You will demonstrate a strong rigor in execution and exceed deadlines.

Your profile:

• 3-5 years of experience managing products in a global, consumer web space :
  • Experience with CRM
  • Experience with A/B testing, web analytics, and product performance evaluation
  • Experience with 3rd party API integration
• World-class web 2.0 and mobile culture (Facebook, Twitter, iPhone apps…)
• Independent, entrepreneurial work style and “driver” mentality
• Able to work in HTML/CSS
• Perfect English, other European language a plus
• Previous start-up experience a strong plus

So if you are:

• a great developer, collaborator, and inventor all rolled into one
• looking for the next problem to solve, in a fast-paced and engineering-driven environment
• interested in working with a hard-core, talented development team
• someone who understands that Programming is an art form that sometimes fights back
• someone who sees the big picture
• someone who thinks that Linux is so easy to use that Grandma can use it
• entertained in your off hours by taking things apart just to see how they work? And more importantly, are successful putting them back together when you're done
• excited by the idea of working for a new Internet start-up in the heart of central Paris and making some serious money

Job requirements:

• Must have über knowledge of Object Oriented Programming
• Previous startup experience and development in an Agile development life cycle
• Strong Understanding of Design Patterns and software architecture
• Experience with large scale deployments a plus
• Insightful Database knowledge
• Familiarity with Database alternatives
• Interest in Collaborative Filtering
• Understands what is funny about Chuck Norris
• A hungry mind that wants to push concepts to the limit
• The maturity to know when to work like crazy, and when to kick back
• World-class knowledge of any or all: Ruby (Rails), Python, Java, C++, C, Assembly (byte-code)

Are you:

• a great developer, collaborator, and inventor all rolled into one?
• interested in working with a talented development team in a fast-paced environment?
• someone who sees the big picture?
• entertained in your off hours by taking things apart just to see how they work—and more importantly, successful putting them back together when you're done?
• excited by the idea of working for a new Internet start-up in the heart of central Paris?

Smartdate is a venture-funded startup focused on disrupting the online dating market. We launched the first version of our product in Spring 2010, featuring innovative search technology, virtual gifts and Facebook integration. We're adding features like recommendations, chat and more.

The initial application has been built with Ruby on Rails, but we are beginning the process of moving to a service-oriented architecture. To date, we've migrated the search functionality to a RESTful Web service, written in Python with Pylons, which uses the Sphinx search engine. We're planning on moving other key functional areas in the same way. We're not set on one techology; rather, we want to use the most appropriate tools for the job in each case.

You should have:

• a solid understanding of the HTTP protocol
• a firm grasp of REST principles
• expertise with at least one of Java, Python or Ruby (the more, the better)
• experience with multi-threaded server programming in Mina, Twisted, Tornado or EventMachine
• network programming experience

Bonus points for:

• knowledge of MapReduce and Hadoop
• familiarity with Rails
• previous startup experience
• previous experience with high-traffic Web sites
• exposure to Agile software development methods
• European working papers