Over the last few months we’ve been fortunate to be able to hire four amazing engineers, so we’re excited to announce the two latest additions to our team, Joel Longtine and Wade Simmons, do not upset the trend. They will be joining the SimpleGeo family on February 1st.

Joel and Wade join us from AOL where they worked on AIM Lifestream, which grew out of AOL’s acquisition of my last company, Socialthing. When Joe and I found out they were leaving AOL at the end of 2009 to pursue new opportunities we jumped at the chance to hire a proven team of engineers who enjoyed working together and who had proven themselves scaling one of AOL’s newest products.

They’ll be responsible for building out an exciting new product that we’re not quite ready to announce. It will give Wade and Joel plenty of opportunity to leverage their backgrounds in scaling real-time environments. We’re eagerly anticipating the day we can further describe this new product.

And then there were nine. We’re excited that we’ve managed to hire so many amazing engineers so quickly and expect to be announcing more exciting additions to our team over the next few months.