I can't help you with the programming advice, but I would start looking in these three places: 1) Startuply.com - There are a decent number of jobs that teeter

I can't help you with the programming advice, but I would start looking in these three places: 1) Startuply.com - There are a decent number of jobs that teeter on the edge of corporate/startup here and you can probably find a few decent companies. 2) http://jobs.github.com/ http://jobs.github.com/ - There is a small but nice selection of startup dev jobs here. Most of them seem to be ruby-ish but you should be alright. 3) http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ - You should find alot more Java jobs here. There are less startups but still a bunch of cool roles. As for how to deal with companies asking you with other technologies, you have a chance RIGHT NOW to apply the whole iterative process to your interviews. Each time a company asks you about a tech in an interview, go google the crap out of it, play around with it, and learn a bit! Even if you spend 48 hours REALLY learning one tool, by the time you do 10 interviews you should be relatively prepared for the future interviews. As someone who hires alot of engineers, I would love to hear someone take this approach as it shows they really do care about the language, the community, and will learn all the new stuff we throw at them on the job.