Senior engineer
Pop Up Archive
Oakland

Pop Up Archive ([popuparchive.com](https://popuparchive.com),
[audiosear.ch](https://audiosear.ch)) is an early-stage media startup that
specializes in making audio searchable. We're looking for a senior engineer;
**this is a great opportunity for someone who wants to build technology that
will play a critical role in the future of the audio industry**. Our customers
range from major podcast players like NPR to large institutional audio
collections like Stanford University, with lots of media companies, archives,
and journalists in between. We've worked with audio from NASA, Rosa Parks,
Oliver Sacks, Buster Keaton, Muhammad Ali, Gloria Steinem, Barnum and Bailey
Circus, Ray Bradbury, and other miscellaneous geniuses and eccentrics.

  
We are passionate about making media more accessible for journalists,
scholars, and everyone else, and we're changing the way companies think about
the legacy of their media. Our investors include Bloomberg, the Knight
Foundation, and 500 Startups, a Silicon Valley accelerator founded by PayPal
and Google alums ([read more](http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/30/500-startups-
accelerator-batch-9)), and we've been funded through federal grants with PRX
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. You'll also find us featured in
September at This American Life's [Audio
Hackathon](http://www.audiohackathon.com).

  
Our latest project, [Audiosear.ch](https://audiosear.ch), is a full-text
search and recommendation **API for podcasts**. It's the most comprehensive
source of data about podcasts and radio in the English language. Our goal is
to help audio distributors and podcast apps bring better **search, discovery,
and sharing** experiences to audiences. Our website,
[popuparchive.com](http://popuparchive.com), has videos and more information
about who we are and what we do.

  
**You** have at least seven years of experience and are skilled at **back-end development, Rails, and Javascript **(experience working with audio/media management is a bonus). You are passionate about technology, media, learning and data wrangling. Your car has an XKCD bumper sticker right next to "I heard it on NPR." Some examples of things you would get to build, and even help grow the technology team for:  
  
Searching audio

Sharing audio segments

Tagging and classification of audio

Analyzing audio to identify similarity

Analyzing the social web to aggregate data about audio

Spectral audio waveform analysis

Tools that make it easy to analyze and visualize data about audio

  
We offer competitive compensation and the possibility of equity. Contact Anne
Wootton ([log in to unmask]). Please include the following:

  
Your resume

Your Github handle

A cover letter (as the body of your email)

The name of your favorite podcast and/or the most interesting thing you've
heard on the radio lately

  
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do
not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin,
gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability
status.



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