DESCRIPTION

As a User Experience Designer, you marry data with creative insight to deliver successful user experiences. You believe in form and function equally and through a process of iteration and prototyping, you design experiences that offer intuitive utility and human connectivity. You place a strong emphasis on craft and take pride in seeking out simple solutions to complex problems.

On the product team at Waldo photos, you will work closely with the entire team to establish goals and collaborate in an iterative process of design, development and continuous optimization. Combining user experience strategy, information architecture and interaction design, you’ll define the critical user paths and holistic user experience across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Mobile Web, Desktop). Your success is gauged by the effectiveness of the final product to meet the combined user needs and business goals.

What we do:

Waldo Photos is a photo finding platform empowering consumers to toss their selfie sticks, put their phones back in their pockets and live in the moment. Waldo is the only platform that removes all of the friction in getting photos of you taken by others and creates new opportunities for photographers to market and sell their photos. Users can enjoy life’s most precious events and automatically receive images taken of them right on their phones or share images of others they’ve taken without having to lift a finger – whether between friends and family or a professional photographer.

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While we're based in Austin, Texas we have team members across the globe. We are open to remote candidates. But we do need full-time commitment.

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REQUIREMENTS

Your previous experience shows us that you ….

• Champion design. As you look out into the world, you see opportunity at every glance for how smarter design could make for a more useful and joyful human experience. And, that’s exactly how you approach designing a users’ experience. Although your focus is not visual design, you have taste and talent for making your work look as good as it communicates.
  
• Have technical command with a deep understanding of the importance of technical specifications and requirements which you apply to solving user problems across each layer of the user experience— from the business strategy through a product’s launch.
  
• Are a born collaborator and thrive on cross-disciplinary work flows and feedback; you drive excellent results through consistent and proactive innovation and results-driven ideas; you love prototyping and iteratively ideating until the best solution arises.
  
  Your primary responsibilities would be to...
  
  
• Define and concept UX strategy— setting the foundation for successful, and enduring digital products; completing business analysis and business requirements by auditing existing products and performing competitive research.
  
• Participate in all phases, from strategy to launch to optimization (this job is not just about making wireframes or participating in one phase); Work iteratively on initial concepts, informed by user research, marketplace and behavior trends.
  
• Create data and user workflows that illustrate critical paths, site-maps and schematics that illustrate the information architecture, and page-level wireframes of varying resolution; functional prototypes for pages and unique user interface elements and interactions.
  
  On paper, we’re looking for candidates with…
  
  
• An up-to-date online portfolio showcasing examples of your UX work (prototypes, wireframes, sitemaps, user journeys, scribbles and the like).
  
• Experience with wireframing and prototyping tools, e.g. Sketch, Principle, InVision, etc.
  
• 2-4 years’ experience (start-up experience preferred) as a UX, web, digital or interaction designer.
  
• BA, BS or MS in Interaction Design, HCI, or equivalent experience.
  
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  BENEFITS
  
  
• East Austin office (dog-friendly).
  
• Flexible vacation.
  
• Topo Chico and/or La Croix for days.
  
• Competitive benefits package.
  
• Unlimited high fives.
  
  Details
  
  
• Type: Full time or contract
  
• Location: Austin, TX or Remote
  
• Annual salary: $70,000 - $90,000
  
• Equity: 0.0% - 0.20%

DESCRIPTION

Waldo Photos is a photo finding platform empowering consumers to toss their selfie sticks, put their phones back in their pockets and live in the moment. Waldo is the only platform that removes all of the friction in getting photos of you taken by others and creates new opportunities for photographers to market and sell their photos. Users can enjoy life’s most precious events and automatically receive images taken of them right on their phones or share images of others they’ve taken without having to lift a finger – whether between friends and family or a professional photographer.

We're looking for an independent problem-solver who values learning, keeps current on technology trends, and enjoys the ownership and accountability that is expected from early-stage team members. Your mission will be to drive the quality of our mobile and web apps and services to the next level, while improving our process.

While we're based in Austin, Texas we have team members across the globe. We are open to remote, international, contract. But we do need full-time commitment.

Responsibilities:

• Institute, lead and scale the Waldo’s QA department.
  
• Formulate test requirements, define and implement test process, create test plans.
  
• Create and execute test plans and scenarios, define regression checklists, report bugs, track, and verify their resolution.
  
• Help the dev team reproducing and isolating complex issues.
  
• Setup, configure, and maintain all test environments and tools, needed to successfully accomplish your mission.
  
• Leverage production data to test how our systems perform in the real world
  
• Promote best practices for creating and maintaining high-quality software
  
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  REQUIREMENTS
  
  Qualifications:
  
  
• 4+ years of experience in software QA with at least 2 years using automated testing for both web and mobile platforms
  
• Strong engineering background, have written apps and scripts, which were deployed to the actual users or integrated into production systems.
  
• Reliable, detail and results oriented.
  
• You communicate well. Your writing is clear and concise, you listen, and you speak up when you sense that there might be a problem or you need help.
  
• Expert user of Linux, OSX, Android, and iOS.
  
• Prepared and excited to work on your own with minimal supervision.
  
• Up to date understanding of the JavaScript ecosystem (ES6/7, babel, webpack, etc)
  
• Experience with GraphQL a plus
  
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  BENEFITS
  
  
• East Austin office (dog-friendly).
  
• Flexible vacation.
  
• Competitive benefits
  
• Topo Chico and/or La Croix for days.
  
• Unlimited high fives.
  
  Details
  
  
• Type: Full time
  
• Location: Austin or remote
  
• Annual salary: $40,000 - $60,000
  
• Equity: 0.0% - 0.20%

DESCRIPTION

Waldo Photos is a photo finding platform empowering consumers to toss their selfie sticks, put their phones back in their pockets and live in the moment. Waldo is the only platform that removes all of the friction in getting photos of you taken by others and creates new opportunities for photographers to market and sell their photos. Users can enjoy life’s most precious events and automatically receive images taken of them right on their phones or share images of others they’ve taken without having to lift a finger – whether between friends and family or a professional photographer.

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REQUIREMENTS

We're looking for an independent problem-solver who values learning, keeps current on technology trends, and enjoys the ownership and accountability that is expected from early-stage team members. The ideal candidate has:

• app(s) live in the Play store.
  
• experience architecting an entire app from the ground up.
  
• a sensibility for great UX and how that affects user retention.
  
• a willingness to learn whatever is necessary to get the job done.
  
• clean, elegant, simple, testable code.
  
• experience testing on multiple devices.
  
• experience with git, pull requests, and code reviews.
  
• pride in their work and wants to work with others who do the same.
  
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  BENEFITS
  
  
• East Austin office (dog-friendly).
  
• Flexible vacation.
  
• Topo Chico and/or La Croix for days.
  
• Unlimited high fives.

DESCRIPTION

Waldo Photos is a photo finding platform empowering consumers to toss their selfie sticks, put their phones back in their pockets and live in the moment. Waldo is the only platform that removes all of the friction in getting photos of you taken by others and creates new opportunities for photographers to market and sell their photos. Users can enjoy life’s most precious events and automatically receive images taken of them right on their phones or share images of others they’ve taken without having to lift a finger – whether between friends and family or a professional photographer.

We're looking for an independent problem-solver who values learning, keeps current on technology trends, and enjoys the ownership and accountability that is expected from early-stage team members. The ideal candidate:

• Cares a great deal about up-time.
  
• Is not afraid to architect and write software geared towards improving automation or integrating existing tools.
  
• Knows how to build and maintain maximum transparency through logging, alerting and monitoring across a distributed system operating at a large scale.
  
• Has a strong understanding of Apache Mesos, Marathon, Terraform, Ansible, AWS.
  
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  REQUIREMENTS
  
  Waldo approaches developer operations from the standpoint of rigorous automation and reliability.
  
  The ideal candidate not only knows how to effectively deploy and manage existing solutions, but has the ability to architect and write new ones when necessary for integration or custom requirements.
  
  All of our developer operations engineers are software engineers and participate in feature development as well as infrastructure engineering.
  
  If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you.
  
  Base Qualifications:
  
  
• Production experience with AWS
  
• Production experience with distributed services architecture
  
• Production experience with DNS, internal networking, load balancing, failover strategies, canary rollouts
  
• Production experience with log aggregation and analysis, monitoring and alerting setups.
  
• Production experience building Business Intelligence pipelines and tooling around data warehousing concerns.
  
• Production experience with Docker
  
  Bonus:
  
  
• Production experience with Apache Mesos and Marathon
  
• Production experience with Apache Kafka and/or Confluent Platform
  
• Production experience with Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Consul
  
• Most importantly, you cannot be afraid to learn new things, write code and manage a large system with lots of moving parts.
  
  If you have what it takes, this will be a very rewarding opportunity to manage a state of the art microservices system operating with real-time requirements and high uptime guarantees.
  
  We look forward to meeting you.
  
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  BENEFITS
  
  
• East Austin office (dog-friendly).
  
• Flexible vacation.
  
• Topo Chico and/or La Croix for days.
  
• Unlimited high fives.