CarWoo!, San Francisco Bay Area (YC S09)
We are looking for an awesome full stack Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers.
Responsibilities
Work with David, Tommy, Erik, Scott, Rimas, Tim, Derek, Jeremy, Peter, Adam, Jon, Todd, Matt, and Patrick to create a world class set of products. We're a small team, but we work smart and get a lot done. Here's some of the cool stuff we're working on right now: a queuing system to optimize our operations across the country, mobile apps, application of game theory, and a lot of other great things we can talk about when we chat.
You'll get the chance to work on any or all of this stuff if you so choose.
Qualifications
- Deep knowledge of Rails and everything that goes along with it (MVC, REST, relational database design/SQL)
- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (Backbone, node.js)
- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)
- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release
You get extra bonus points for:
- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (e.g. Backbone)
- Ability to write complex SQL
- Understanding of good RDBMS design. Experience optimizing queries.
- Experience with memcached, sphinx, and nginx
- Story-driven development
- Web service/API development (REST)
- Ability to play ping-pong skillfully and/or drive a go-kart furiously
Perks
- Full Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)
- Unlimited PTO
- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)
- Competitive salary and equity in the company
If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to REDACTED_EMAIL
We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).