Building out the core of our product, where search technology meets great UI and structured data. We believe in and practice scrum methodology, the scrum master, product owners, engineers and QA all worked together to create our awesome product. This position is hands-on with some management and leadership functions. We are a well-funded and established startup which promotes local events to 10 million monthly users and 270 partners.
Summary of essential job functions: Combine Rails expertise with database design and Javascript skills to work on all layers of the front-end application stack. Lead a group of web developers.
Minimum requirements:
- BS, Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years of professional experience in software development
- Extensive experience developing web applications using Ruby on Rails ( or PHP), XTHML, CSS, RESTful API, Javascript/Ajax and other web standards
- Proven experience working on a 24/7 high-traffic web site or highly scalable ad network
- Knowledge of Object Oriented Design and programming using C++ or Java
- Has led a small team of web developers
Bonus:
- Familiarity with Json, Merb, Nginx, Thin, MySQL, Bigtable, Lucene/Solr and Hadoop
- Been a practitioner of SCRUM process
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