Ruby/Rails Software Engineer; Boston, MA
Relocation within the U.S. available
This fully funded, privately owned e-commerce company is an online
fundraising platform. A fairly new offshoot of a very successful parent
company, they are fully funded and already profitable Top 200 e-tailer!
The
ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker and rational designer who
can
bring new ideas and fresh solutions to the table, while staying true to
the
customer, our brand and business goals.
This platform allows crowd funding-campaign organizers to design
products
online and sell them through the company website, with the profits going
toward their chosen social causes.
On average, there are more than 3,500 fundraising campaigns running at
any
time on the company website.
We are looking for Software Engineers & Sr. Software Engineers with
strong
Ruby/Rails chops to help build out the next version of our site. We’re
on
Rails, Jenkins, Capistrano, New Relic, CoffeeScript — and deploy
multiple
times a day in an Agile environment. Everyone pushes to production
supported by a clean stack and a solid process.
Day to Days:
- Identify and resolve challenges associated with a fast-growing,
high-volume, consumer-facing Web application - Take ownership of critical functionality related to our platform
- Collaboratively and continuously innovation to provide the optimal
user experience - Make appropriate architecture decisions for large section of the
web
application - Lead/mentor other engineers and provide code leadership
- Set and ensure code quality standards are maintained
- Break out of the framework and know when to do it
Must Have’s:
- 3-7+ years’ professional experience as a full stack engineer with
deep
knowledge of the the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) - 2-3 years’ hands-on Ruby/Rails experience; deep understanding of
the
intricacies of Rails - 2-5+ years’ hands-on experience with: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Apache,
Java, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, SQL, CoffeeScript, Jenkins,
Capistrano, New
Relic - Proven history of delivering operations-friendly solutions from
server
to browser - Experience with large-scale, consumer-focused web sites
- Knowledge of at least 2 programming languages in detail, multiple
frameworks, and have built substantial sections of a web/mobile
application - Deep commitment to test driven development, and demonstrated
examples
of how you’ve incorporated it into recent projects - Demonstrated and documented interest in dynamic Web languages,
evolving frameworks, and other progressive technologies
Interested?
Please send resume, online portfolio URL and salary requirements to
CarolTaylorRecruits(at)gmail(dot)com