About Job:

We’re looking for a talented individual to join our Product team as a Rails developer where you’ll be helping ship features and squash bugs. You'll be collaborating with our Head of Product (who is also our front-end developer), our Rails Developer, and our Head of Data to round out this small and nimble team. We build and maintain an internal Rails app called Handshake that is both a CRM and a suite of workflow tools which we use to deliver the services of our consumer-facing Rails app, A. We also have an agent-facing Rails app called, creatively.



We’ll be launching additional services over the next few years, along with the internal tooling needed to support them. In order to continue building, we’re looking to expand our team.



Who You Are:

You’re a Rails developer with 3 or more years of professional experience who thrives in a flexible, self-directed environment. You love helping people, fixing bugs, and solving problems. You transcend the left-brained developer stereotype, have an eye for design, and incorporate UX understanding into the things you build. 

 

Additionally:

• You’re self-motivated to learn and incorporate new technologies and keep up with best practices.


• You’re as comfortable writing code for the browser as you are code for the server.


• You believe in the value of testing and rarely ship code without automated tests in place.


• You love building big features, but you’re just as happy working on maintenance tasks to keep things running smoothly.


• You have strong communication skills and are receptive to constructive feedback.


• You have the ability to thoroughly, yet simply, explain features to everyday users.


• You can clearly articulate your thoughts and feelings through writing.


• You’re not afraid to ask for help.

• Skills:


• You’re experienced and proficient with most of the following: Ruby on Rails, Testing tools (RSpec, Capybara), Data stores (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached), JavaScript frameworks and libraries (Vue, React, Lodash, etc), Webpacker, HTML/CSS, Git, Continuous Integration and deployment systems, Amazon Web Services, Integrating with a variety of APIs