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Programmer at 99tests

Located in Bangalore, India. Posted May 17, 2011

Yes, we are hiring talented developers! But before that, it would be great if you know a little background about 99tests, the growth and what you can expect working with us.

Who are we?

We are Praveen & 800+ talented software testers. We are very passionate folks. if you want more details, here’s a professional profile. We are backed by some of the most awesome folks in Indian Startup Community.

Our Story ..

We started off 99tests as a platform for crowdsourced testing of software applications by passionate testers. we launched 99tests on 14th Nov 2010, for our first customer Practo.com, and the response from the community was unbelievable, Practo was extremely happy to have a community of testers find bugs and help them improve their product by a large order of magnitude. Testers were delighted to have platform where they could compete, learn and build their reputation in the community as top testers. The last five months has led us to an impressive set of customer base featuring some very interesting companies like FlipKart, Practo.com, Jumadi.in, BugDeBug, NetConference etc.

We want to work with passionate & talented web developers! Who can think beyond just features and look at the impact of each change to our large community.We have found a niche in the market. We have fun & work hard.

Type of work

We’re looking for you if

* You’re an exceptional PHP/C++/Ruby/Rails/JS/CSS/ hacker

* You can understand what we’re trying to do with our product, and translate that into clean, modular code

* Once you know what needs to be accomplished, you can work completely independently

* Have a “sense of design” – can tell good design from bad

* Know your way around building systems around social networks

What you’ll be working on

* Building Complex Systems

* Taking a 800+ member community to 100,000 members

* Building a reputation management system

* Building a crowdsourcing system

* Building a gamification system

* Scaling from 100,000 to 1 million page views

* Building a social web application

* Building Project Management + Bug Tracker

* Building TRAC + Bugzilla + Yammer

* Learning about Lean Startups

* Can take full responsibility in just one or two weeks

* Can start suggesting new features

* Can start improving the code base

* Create new products for the platform

* Create API’s for the core platform

* Create an auctions Market place

Required Reading

* Building Social Web Applications

* Building Web Reputation Systems

* Gamification

* The Art of Agile development

We are looking for highly talented web developers who are passionate, willing to learn and be know as the expert, who has built a large collaborative platform. We are growing very fast and we are building a passionate community. If you want to be part of this journey where your work will touch the lives of thousands of people and have a positive impact to the world, join us.

If you are inspired to join us , drop an email saying “hi” to praveenAT99tests.com and we would love to talk to you!

Applications are now closed.