Bonobos is creating a transformative
men’s brand in two ways: awesome products and awesome technology.
Up until recently, we’ve been outsourcing our technology and development
work. We are now ready to hire a second in-house technologist onto our
Manhattan team to develop at Bonobos.

Why technology at Bonobos?

We don’t think that men like
shopping. So we’re building a technology-enabled men’s brand that
keeps our customers out of retail stores. Our company makes revolutionary
trousers we call Bonobos. You browse and buy online, take advantage
of our flexible return and exchange policies, and enjoy the best-fitting
pair of men’s pants imaginable.

We hope you get excited when
you think about using technology to innovate in a stagnant category.
 The bricks and mortar retail shopping experience is designed for women.
Men suffer through it because they don’t have a choice. Bonobos is
ready to provide an alternative.

What do we mean by a technology-enabled,
premium men’s brand? Right now we are building a platform with highly
personalized service, individualized direct marketing, a web-enabled
sales force, automated exchanges/returns, best-in-class product search
and checkout, community/brand engagement, and a visually appealing e-commerce
experience. Down the road we envision personalized web stores, ripping
the retail mark-up out of dozens of premium categories, 100% homemade
user-generated advertising, and the end of men’s retail as we know
it. Are you ready?

What you will do at Bonobos

We anticipate that you will
spend about 90% of your time writing code yourself, and 10% of your
time serving as a product manager where you will hire and manage outside
developers to do the coding and programming. Of course, as a base line,
you will run computing, web-hosting, and IT at Bonobos – a non-trivial
set of tasks as we scale our team, our web traffic, and our sales volume.

Web development - basics.
You will need a core set of skills: HTML, CSS, LAMP stack and module
installation. With this basic backbone of capabilities you can update
our website and install new applications. You will be fluent across
a range of technology platforms, and responsible for some of the basic
front-end and back-end requirements of www.bonobos.com.

Systems Administrator.
We are a startup and your role will be very dynamic. While you will
mostly be a web developer, you will also be in charge of monitoring
our systems to help maintain uptime and prevent future problems by collecting
and analyzing data.

Web development
– advanced. You should bring domain expertise in e-commerce or
CRM technologies. For E-commerce you should be fluent in X-cart, a PHP5
based shopping cart using the Smarty templating engine. You should bring
opinions about the future of Bonobos shopping cart technology and should
be knowledgeable about unique options like Magento, or going the custom
route.  

We currently run CRM out of
Salesforce.com. If you’ve developed in Salesforce in the past, that’s
a big plus.

The ideal candidate is…

wicked smart - when
people see Good Will Hunting, they think of you  
fearless - where other see ‘impossible,’ you say, ‘that’s
hard, might take me a while, but there’s a way’  
humble - you know Terrell Owens’s talent is worthless without
Ryne Sandberg’s respect for the game  
compassionate - you can get inside people’s hearts and minds
– you are a pleasure to work with  
talented - you’ll be responsible for the back-end AND the UI…
sound hard? it will be  
a terrific listener - it’s a requirement for being successful
at Bonobos, no exceptions  
aesthetically gifted – you are going to help own the website
for a lifestyle company… you’ll need a good eye  
perfectionist - steel trap memory, detail orientation, no brainers

Who you are

We don’t create specific
requirements, because we might miss a gem. We hire great talent, not
rote experience. You came from somewhere, though. Here are some ideas
on where you came from:

• You graduated 1-4
  years ago with a CS degree from a top university. You’re young, hungry,
  have relevant experience and are ready for a position with a ton of
  responsibility.
• You are a total
  rock star at one of our core tools (x-cart or CRM). Plain and simple.
  You are so good at one of these platforms that we know you will learn
  to excel at everything else you’ll do here.
• You work on the
  e-commerce side of a company like Polo, Zappos, Netflix or Brooks Brothers.
  You’re tired of working for one of the big guys and want to get in
  at the ground level of the first innovative premium men’s brand.

How to apply:

Email us with two things. In the subject line
write ‘Bonobos Developer – Your Name.’ In the body of the email,
do two things:

1. Attach your resume
   in PDF format.
2. Send us an annotated,
   clickable set of links to your best online work. You must have samples
   of awesome work to be granted a phone interview. We are looking to hire
   someone with experience building stuff or someone who tinkers a lot.
   Either way, you need sample links.