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Get to Know a Murfie Staffer!

Our operations team is the best! Ops staffers are here seven days a week, ripping discs, checking metadata, processing downloads, sending kits, and more. This week you can get to know an operations pro:

                ALEX SCHACHERL

c8babb38-df3d-11e2-8ec3-3520997e13f8Where are you from? > I’m originally from Galesville WI, about 20 minutes north of La Crosse, and I moved to Madison in 2010.

How long have you been working at Murfie? What is your role? > I’ve been here since February 2012, and by now I am a 9th level Audio extractor with cross class capabilities in Download Protection (Operations Staff).

What do you like about working at Murfie? > I love the fact that anyone I talk to about my job is instantly jealous of the amazing work environment and job description.

What kind of music can be found in your collection? > Mainly folk, pop/rock, and stand up comedy. Lately I have been acquiring lots of film soundtracks and scores.

Who are your favorite artists/bands of all time? > Mumford & Sons, Tenacious D, Flight of the Concords, The Beatles, and Daft Punk.

29214-largeIf you could have coffee with any musician, from any time, who would it be and why? > Harry Connick Jr., because according to several of the Murfie staff I am his Doppelganger.

Are you a Beyoncé fan? > Who doesn’t love Foxxy Cleopatra?

What album are you really digging right now? > The Greatest Video Game Music, performed by the London Philharmonic. I’m an aspiring game developer, and there’s just something about an orchestrated Tetris theme that I just can’t get over.

photoDo you have any pets? > Currently, my two gerbils, Korra and Katara.

What is your favorite food? > I could probably eat boneless wings for dinner every night.

What can people find you doing when you’re not at Murfie? > When I’m not at work or school, I spend a good chunk of my time rehearsing and performing with Fundamentally Sound, an all male acappella group from the UW Madison campus. Other than that I enjoy gaming, frolfing, and all sorts of other merriment with friends and family!

Now you know more about Alex, a Murfie ops staffer extraordinaire! We love showing off all the cool cats who work here. Stay tuned and meet someone new next week!

Intern as a developer for Murfie

(if you are awesome :)

We’re looking for a highly talented software development intern to fill an immediate opening for a half-time paid position with our development team. We’re a locally owned and operated startup in Madison, WI launching an online venture: Murfie.com. It’s built around a novel way to buy, sell, and trade music and used CDs. We’re approaching launch of our beta and would like to add an up and coming developer of entrepreneurial bent who’s looking for a great experience: contributing to a small technology startup through its launch and initial growth.

You would work directly with our lead developer as part of the team operating out of our offices on the Capitol square in Madison, as well as performing coordinated work with our local development company Bendyworks and designers Swink as well as other partners as required.

Murfie is a results oriented environment with high expectations; this will be a very challenging position in the kind of job where failure is a very real possibility and where success offers excellent opportunities for professional growth and portfolio building work. There is tangible upside as well, we’ll pay you a good bit more over time if you’re blowing our minds. Your commitment is simple: contribute materially to making our product more awesome. Our commitment will be to offer awesome professional opportunities and a great local work environment.

You are: Smarter than the other kids or willing to work twice as hard. Either early in your professional arc as a software developer or still a student. Totally fearless about programming, new technology, and new frameworks. Happy arguing about user experience and happy to win the argument by building an example of your side of it overnight. Planning to be in Madison for a year if you take the position. Not more than 1-2 years from expected graduation if still a student. Available for most of 20 hours a week for the next year, where you will be developing solo and pairing with others at our office. Not planning to go find yourself on a mountaintop any time soon. Strong programming and web development skills are a must.

We are: Matt Younkle and Preston Austin are the founders – local entrepreneurs with a lot of history behind us and a diverse set of connections to fund and execute this project. We’re moving fast because that’s what startups do. Development is currently managed by Philip Crawford as tech lead, also a local and experienced entrepreneur.

Details: Working in Rails, so you have to be interested in doing that, but we don’t care if you’ve ever even seen it so long as you have the chops. Development is currently coordinated using Pivotal Tracker and Basecamp. Code management is Github. We’re deploying initially on Heroku using S3 storage and Postgres DB. Our site will do extensive ecommerce with internal accounting and microtransactions via our merchant services provider Braintree. On the back-end, Murfie will operate via a novel proprietary inventory management system that you don’t get to know about until after you learn the secret handshake. You’ll work on your own laptop, or one we provide for your use.

Interested? Contact Preston Austin at preston.h.austin@gmail.com with something showing how you develop, write, and why you really want the job along with any questions about stuff I missed here.