The One Kings Lane Mission
One Kings Lane is the leading flash sales site for the home market, offering members access to spectacular designer home decor, furnishings, accessories, and gifts – at prices up to 70% off retail. One Kings Lane works directly with leading home brands to bring the very best products at exceptional prices to its members – every day of the week. One Kings Lane also partners with top designers, decorators and industry insiders to deliver content that inspires, enlightens and informs.
Our Products
Our platform is 7-months old, so there is little legacy code, giving you plenty of blank canvases to expand your imagination.
We love to code fast (and use best practices), iterate on feedback, and see our features on One Kings Lane within days. We're working on some exciting and innovative stuff - social e-commerce, live feeds, gamification, augmented reality on iPads, advanced predictive algorithms, complex and twisted supply chain, humongous data, and much more. The sky's the limit for your creativity and initiative.
Our traffic grows exponentially. Together with the Black Friday phenomenon every morning as we open our Flash Sales, we have tremendously interesting scalability challenges, pushing the new scalability ceiling every couple of months.
We use leading-edge technologies Ruby on Rails, LAMP (PHP), Zend, jQuery, Hadoop, NoSQL architecture, Redis, Node.js, continuous build, Amazon Cloud, iOS/Objective-C, and many more. If you don't already know it, you'll have the opportu
Life at One Kings Lane
We're a fairly young company that's growing by leaps and bounds. We move fast and agile, work and play hard, diligent in quality while thinking out-of-the-box.
We're a tightly knit team. Everyone's extremely nice and helpful. We all love good food (either eating out together or eating in with potlucks), going out for midweek happy hours, and game nights. But more importantly, you'll be joining a world-class team that comes from companies like Amazon, Yammer, Ning, Hotwire, eBay, Live Nation, StumbleUpon, Microsoft, and other prominent startups. If you're from Berkeley or Stanford, you can join in on our friendly office rivalry.