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The Start-Up Career Fair is a yearly event held by MUSE (mcgillentrepreneurs.com) which allows start-ups to connect with McGill students who are looking for summer internships or even full-time opportunities.

The event is being broadcasted across all faculties but with the emphasis on Engineering/Computer Science and Business.

Join them Friday, February 10th on the 2nd floor of the Bronfman Building (1001 Sherbrooke West).

For more information or to register, visit their website.

FounderFuel is looking for someone who is passionate about startups to assist with the day-to-day tasks of running the program. You must be willing to commit to the equivalent of a full time position for 14 weeks from February 20th to May 25th 2012.  

Tasks include, but are not limited to:
– Organizing meetings for guest mentor visits;
– Helping the next cohort in areas they need;
– Preparing logistics for upcoming events;
– Being an active contributor on Twitter, Facebook and the FounderFuel blog;
– Etc.

You are:
– A “Jack/Jane of all trades” interested in Startups, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Technology, etc.
– Ready to take on any task.
– Self-driven and proactive.
– Eager to learn and meet new people.
– Someone who likes to work hard and play hard.
– Available days, evenings or whenever needed.

What’s in it for you?
– Get access to everything that happens during the program: Master Classes, Workshops, Mentor Day, Demo Day, etc.
– Grow your network faster than you can ever believe.
– Contribute to the success of the startups as they accelerate their business leading up to Demo Day.
– Develop an intimate connection to Montreal’s thriving startup ecosystem.
– Office space at Notman House, Montreal’s home of the web.

What to expect?
– Tons of unique learning experience via influential startup veterans.
– Hard work in return of huge networking benefits.

Interested? Please submit the following to info@founderfuel.com:
– A paragraph (or two tops) telling us why we’d be crazy not to hire you.
– Your resume
– Links: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, About.Me, Blog, Etc.

Two positions are open, one in Montreal and one in Vancouver:

Playerize is VC-funded startup living in the space where Social Games, Commerce, and Marketing meet.

Playerize (the social and mobile game growth company) is hunting for a full-time developer for a diverse set of web projects including websites, dashboards, API creation, and even game platforms! We’re tackling huge opportunities in a very fast-moving industry, and this is a great opportunity for you to dive in and influence everything we do.

Here’s what we need:

The functional:
- You have plenty of experience cranking out projects in PHP. You organize your projects so that they can be worked on by others, and you use templating and string tables where needed.
- You know SQL, and can create and query tables in MySQL. You’re not afraid of joins, and you wield indexes like they’re your useful little bitches.
- You use source control so smoothly and frequently that it’s like breathing.
- You love to fill a task manager with your todos and then spend the day demolishing them in order of priority.
- If you (in addition to PHP) can do these, then we will throw you parties: Javascript, JQuery, Drupal modules, Facebook API.
- You can optimize bubblesort for a double-linked list of pointers with paper and pen. (KIDDING. Please don’t send code samples of compiler optimization. We’d rather see your drupal module)

The person (that’s you!):
- You enjoy beer and laughing. (Exceptions made for other types of cocktails, but not for the laughter part)
- You are happy having ownership and control of a project. We are a small team, and while we work to a high standard we will not be over-managing with specs.
- You are not afraid of a chocolate lab.

What you can expect:
- Fast growth, we plan to hire 5-10 people in the next three months.
- Gastown office
- Flexible hours, with some opportunity to work from home

We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished to date, but there’s a lot more work to do and we’re dedicating to achieving the results we’re aiming for. We need help to do this!

Email us at jobs@playerize.com to fill us in on your experience and passions, and let us know how you will kick serious ass at this and how you will work with us to drive our success.

Wavo.me is seeking a hardworking CS / Software engineer for full-time/part-time and intern positions to help us develop https://wavo.me: The easiest way to save and build playlists out of the music and video shared on your Social networks.

Wavo.me demo from Wavome on Vimeo.

They’re looking to shake up the entire music and video industry and change the way media is shared and managed across the web.

Wavo.me is also a recent Founderfuel accelerator graduate and rapidly growing startup.  As a part of their small focused team you will have a huge impact on how they design, build and deliver their service to millions of people.  They have job opportunities for both permanent, part-time and internship positions with awesome perks and meaningful equity in the company.  Their offices are in the historic Notman building, startup hub of Montreal and blocks away from McGill campus.

Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and support great web software in an Agile development environment
- Lead by example, work hard and smart in a team environment
- Continually improve and evolve our innovations and engineering capability, technologies and tool
- Document and organize your code so that it can be worked on by others
- Tell them one joke a day : )

Requirements
- Knowledge of front end markup: HTML/CSS/jQuery
- Knowledge of MongoDB
- Knowledge of redis
- Knowledge of Node.js
- Knowledge of Backbone.js
- Extensive knowledge of the javascript programming language
- Experience in web development.
- You are happy having ownership and control of a project.  

They are a small team, and while they work to a high standard they will not be over-managing with specs.

If you are interested, write them an email to jump.in@wavo.me, with the following:
- resume
- portfolio
- Github account username — or — some code sample of  the past projects you worked on. 

They value high code quality and organization.

Playerize is looking for kickass people to join their growing team.

Fucking Kick-Ass Designer
Playerize is hunting for a full-time designer for a diverse set of web projects including websites, dashboards, marketing materials, and even game interfaces.
Learn more.

PHP Developer
Seeking a full-time developer with skills in PHP, Javascript, and Drupal to lead the creation of dashboards, API creation, and game platforms.
Learn more.

Technical Marketer
We’re hunting for a full-time technical marketer to set up and manage campaigns on search and social advertising platforms. We have Facebook Marketing API access, and we’re ramping up huge campaigns right now on Fb and Google.
Learn more.

Contact them directly at jobs@playerize.com if you’re interested.