Startups are in a talent war.

Like star athletes being woo’d by recruiters, developers are highly-sought after team members. Attracting the right culture fit plus technical talent from college or corporate life is tough. It’s no wonder our fellow startups use a wide array of campaigns to draw in talent, from recruiters, $10,000 referral bonuses, $10,001 referral bonuses and even puppies.

We have a different philosophy. Rather than get you excited about a plethora of tangential perks, we want to you to be excited about what you’ll actually be doing every day as a member of our team. We have a big data content sharing system that reaches more than 250 million readers each month through our exploding publishers network of more than 200,000. The team is smart, scrappy and small – which means you’ll have a big voice in our direction and a huge opportunity for growth and leadership. Considering starting your own company one day? Come learn how to grow a business by joining our newly-funded rocketship.

We’re currently looking for:

Distribution Lead (Boston)

Senior Software Engineer (Boston)

Architect (New Delhi)

Want to learn more about what we’re up to and how you can be a part of it? Ping our CEO Jay Meattle at jaym@shareaholic.com with your favorite restaurant and he’ll buy you dinner and chat about the tough problems we’re tackling and opportunities ahead.

The entire team at Shareaholic’s has been busy making loads of progress. Today, I am pleased to share a few amazing milestones:

Support for Tumblr

We are thrilled to announce official support for Tumblr. Our WordPress plugin has been downloaded over 1.4 million times, and starting today Tumblr owners can also make their posts shareable with Shareaholic! If you already have a Tumblr, get started here.

250+ Million

Shareaholic is now reaching 250 million people each month through our publisher network, APIs and browser extensions. We continue to hit new records each and every day. We send huge thanks to our community members for sharing content with Shareaholic and installing the publisher tools on your blog. We would not be where we are without you – so thanks!

Addition to Team Shareaholic!

I’m glad to welcome Janet Aronica to team Shareaholic! Janet is going to be spearheading marketing and community for us. We’re extremely lucky to have her. Make sure to follow her here, here and here.

Seed Funding Round

And last but certainly not least, I’m also very pleased to announce that we’ve closed a large seed round of financing for Shareaholic that will help us take our explosive upward momentum to the next level!

Our dream team of investors include General Catalyst Partners, Nextview Ventures, Boston Seed/Nicole Stata, Dave McClure (500 Startups), Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot), Stephano Kim (X+1), David Cancel (Compete, Performable), Brian Shin (Visible Measures), Prof. Ed Roberts (MIT Sloan, Sohu), Roy Rodenstein (HackerAngels), Jonathan Kraft (The Kraft Group), and more.

We’ve grown the company so far on a boot-strapped budget and with limited resources. We’ve achieved unbelievable progress, earning 2 million browser plugin installs and reaching more than 250 million visitors through hundreds of thousands of websites. This round will enable us to lay a solid foundation of building a game changing company by scaling our team and resources to expand on our current traction and growth.

Lots more to come!

From one-man-shop to a scrappy team of seven, our team is tackling interesting, fun challenges to create a better content sharing experience on the web. The team is growing fast. So if you’re interested in building an elegant and useful product that will reach hundreds of millions of users, please reach out.

Shareaholic is two years young. For much of this time we have kept mostly under the radar and heads down building. Here is our product report card thus far:

For the first year it was just me and contractors cranking out product, marketing, and distribution. We were intentionally super scrappy. Then all our incredible hard work started to pay big dividends towards the end of last year. We started to hit our stride. Our operating metrics started accelerating and beating all forecasts. Day after day we started setting new records (and continue to do so)!

To keep up with all this, in January, I opened an office in India and recruited some of the best. By the summer it was clear that the trajectory that Shareaholic found itself on dictated that we also start building the very best team in Boston. The timing was perfect.

Today, I am pleased to formally announce that our small team at Shareaholic is growing quickly and I could not be more excited to welcome William Sulinski and Robby Grossman to Team Shareaholic!

There is no greater feeling than having others believe in something you created and want to make it their own. I am honored and extraordinarily proud to stand alongside the incredibly smart and talented team of peers that now make up Shareaholic.

I love this Steve quote:

“Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs

Lots more to come! And yes, if you are looking to join a fast growing company, you should ping any one of us!