Job Description:
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Title: Ruby on Rails Developers – Well financed, rapidly growing start-up
Location: Palo Alto, CA 94306
Salary: Open and flexible depending on experience
Benefits: World-Class benefits
Experience: 5+ years
Join this rapidly growing start-up in this critical role. They were the third fastest growing company in the USA last year and they are poised for additional growth in the future. This is not a corporate environment and they are even dog friendly.
We are an innovative team building great software for a quickly growing business. You'll join a highly collaborative, fun-loving group of people who regularly tackle complex and challenging development tasks that will play a huge part in helping Our Company realize its mission of shaking up the online retail industry!
Join the Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer at Our Company, and you will have a hand in building our unique platform, and will concurrently have the opportunity to embrace your love of social commerce. So what are you waiting for? Read on, and apply!
What You'll Be Doing:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll brandish your top-notch Engineering skills to help design optimal system architectures. Throughout your work, you'll share your excitement about agile development philosophy, test-driven development, and short iterations as you pair with your teammates and work alongside business analysts, systems analysts, and user-experience designers. Plus, you'll be able to unleash your intelligence as you do high-level thinking about object-oriented design for a site that's growing at light speed and used by a loyal customer base of more than 500,000. We receive 100,000's of site visits daily and are experiencing phenomenal growth by the day!
Responsibilities:
-Use your great talent to develop our company infrastructure using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and a slew of common open source supplemental technologies like Rack, RSPec, Jasmine, Cucumber, Solr, etc.
-Learn and break up a large monolithic legacy Rails application into small, testable, and well-designed functional units
-Embrace your love of collaboration by pair programming full-time
-Employ test-driven and behavior-driven development
-Lend the QA team a hand with testing and delivering quick feedback on bug reports
-Support continuous integration by ensuring that working branches pass all tests
-Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planners, reviews, retrospectives, and the occasional ping-pong game
Requirements:
-5+ years of Software Engineering experience
-Solid understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, and how they apply to Ruby, Java, Python etc.
-Impressive understanding of SQL and data modeling for scalability and performance
-Formidable XHTML/CSS/JavaScript and MVC framework experience
-A fan of using and contributing to open source
-Able to compare various languages and frameworks objectively
-Has an eye for good design and ability to implement 'pixel perfect' UI designs
-Knows agile development practices, thinks they're awesome, and is excited to use them
-Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
-Ability to clearly articulate design ideas while being receptive to constructive criticism
Nice to Haves:
-Know how to show Ruby language and Rails framework who's boss
-You are a 'Ruby meta-programming whisperer.' a.k.a. knows it like the back of their hand and can articulate where it's appropriate
-Familiarity with Git version control system
-Knowledge of Solr, Redis, MySQL
-Experience with high-performance Rails applications
-Experience with Sinatra, Rack, and services layer in Ruby
-Previous TDD and pairing experience
-Experience with building mobile applications (iPhone, Droid, Blackberry)
Senior Engineers with strong test driven development experience and demonstrated expertise in Ruby/RoR, Java and/or Python will be considered. This could be a dream opportunity for you to get involved with Ruby/RoR!
The Benefits You'll Get:
As part of the Our family, you'll be entitled to a great list of benefits including (but not limited to!) medical, dental, vision, 401k, life insurance, emergency travel assistance, flex time, and continuing education stipends. Oh, and let's not forget the snack wall and the staggering employee discount!
About Us:
If you've made it this far, you probably want some more background on Our Company. Not a prob! We are an innovative e-retailer that has grown over 10,000% over the last 3 years by selling affordable independent designer fashion and decor. Through innovative technology, social media, and customer involvement, we have not only built an ever-growing base of over 3 million unique monthly users, but are creating a brand that's disrupting the world of social commerce. You've already seen how this is happening with our consumer-empowering Be the Buyer program, and that's just the first iteration of what's up our sleeve. By combining this eye for innovation with a fun-loving group of employees whose culture centers on passion, entrepreneurship, and monthly lunch cook-offs, Our Company is furthering its current success!
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