We're looking for a few good (wo)men...

At Orchestra, we're always on the hunt for best-of-class developers and designers to join our team. We're looking for smart, hard-working people with design sensibilities -- folks who are happy to iterate, hunger for feedback, and are passionate about building great products.

Orchestra? What's that?

We're a small team (currently 8 people) with a variety of passions, from baseball to breakfast cereal, Twitter to Taylor Swift. We're a design-centric culture (founded by ex-Apple and ex-IDEOers) and we put a premium on working together, building to think, and iterating toward greatness.

We recently launched our first app, Orchestra To-do, on the App Store and at http://orchestra.com, to great reception. Reviews from users have been pretty spectacular, and the App Store has featured us multiple times ("App of the Week", "New and Noteworthy", "What's Hot", and we've even climbed to #2 in the Productivity section of the US store). Jack Dorsey even tweeted that he was "Really impressed with Orchestra... Beautiful in form and function". You can bet that made our day.

Orchestra is a deceptively simple product: from a UX perspective we've created something beautiful and intuitive, but behind the scenes we're pushing the envelopes of what's technically possible. Orchestra is built on a framework of NodeJS and CouchDB and is doing some things with iOS that, frankly, have never been done before.

A little about Orchestra in the news

http://lifehacker.com/5854301/orchestra-is-an-awesome-collaborative-to+do-manager-with-speech-recognition-web-sync-and-more
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/09/29/orchestra-is-the-to-do-app-that-connects-you-with-everyone/
http://allthingsd.com/20110920/apple-and-ideo-vets-create-social-to-do-app-orchestra/

Everyone Plays a Part...

Send your resume to jobs@orchestra.com and we will be in contact with you.

What we look for...

What we look for in engineers (front-end and back-end)

Eagerness to tackle challenging problems
Passion for iterating with designers and fellow engineers to create the best user experience possible
Ability to adapt to and thrive in new technologies and environments
Desire to push boundaries of technology (We're built using CouchDB, node.js, Cocoa, HTML5/CSS3, backbone.js, and lots of other proprietary and open source frameworks)
Hunger to understand and contribute to how front-end and back-end systems integrate to form a high-performance, distributed, real-time technology stack
Leadership in a constructive work environment where everyone contributes to engineering and product decisions

What we look for in designers

Experience in a human-centered design context
A strong portfolio and elevated sense of design, color and typography
Strong experience with visual design for web and/or mobile
A clear point-of-view relating to their design
Experience coding own interfaces and/or working closely with dev teams

What we look for in general

Works best in a collaborative, team-based work environments
Self-directed toward excellence
Highly organized; ability to thrive in ambiguity
Loves to iterate and iterate again
Has an appreciation for good design