Job Description:
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Title: Sr. Ruby on Rails Developers @ red hot start-up
Location: Palo Alto, CA 94306
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: Open and flexible depending on experience
Benefits: World-Class benefits package
Contact: greg (at) hirefighters.com
Our Client is a rapidly-growing Silicon Valley start-up that is redefining the way people save and share their most valued possession . Our team is driven by a passion for product, people and the perfect customer experience. Over 5 million people have used their products, and 90% of our customers are actively recommending us to family and friends. The Company is not just another start-up: we are profitable, our revenues are growing 700% per year, and were just getting started.
Role:
The Company is building out our engineering team and we are looking for someone with a very high standard of code quality and code practices. In this position you will help build and lead a team that will own all major parts of the code base and architecture of the site, implement healthy code development processes, and also do hands on development. In this role you will work directly with our co-Founder and CTO is a 5 + year RoR veteran himself.
Qualifications:
Bachelors in Computer Science or technical/quantitative equivalent required. Masters degree a plus.
5 + years professional development experience, understanding of MVC.
Ruby web framework (Rails, Merb, Sinatra) experience*
Unit testing (TestUnit, RSpec) experience*
Automated integration testing (Cucumber, Webrat, Capybara, Selenium) experience*
Rich browser-based development (JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS) experience.
Obsessively strives to create the most modular, concise and maintainable code possible beautiful code to you doesnt mean pretty syntax highlighting.
Experience working on Agile teams (pair programming, refactoring, story writing and estimation).
Knowledge or interest in EC2, S3 and new server technologies.
Passionate. Driven. High achiever. You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence.
Extremely hard working. You should be ready to make the company a priority in your life.
Enjoy diversity and individualism; from flip-flops to foosball, suits to shorts it is about being yourself in our collaborative team oriented, work hard play hard, dog friendly environment.
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