Company Description

Based in Washington, DC, they have more than 70 million members around the world.

Our Client is the local marketplace to buy and share the best things to do in your city. They help local businesses grow by introducing them to high-quality new customers and give merchants the tools to make their members become their regulars. Our client is in a position to change the face of the $100B+ local marketing industry.

Our client expects their engineers to be a vital part of the product development process. They build, measure, and learn, deploying to production multiple times per day and using data to drive decisions. As a member of the team, you will have the opportunity to make a difference and deliver value on a regular basis.

Job Description

Ruby Developer - REMOTE (Full Time / Direct Placement)

As a Senior Engineer on the Consumer Engineering team, you will:

Build intuitive, responsive experiences our millions of customers will enjoy engaging with every day.
Help customers find what they’re looking for, and discover new things across our varied suite of offers.
Find new ways for our customers to engage with us through sharing, personalization, etc.
Personalize our content to provide the most value to our customers
Optimize placement of promotions to deliver measurable ROI to merchants
Work with our shared services teams to implement and integrate with our backend platform.

Qualifications

Qualifications/Requirements:

We are looking for dedicated and pragmatic engineers that enjoy building reliable and performant solutions. Well-qualified candidates will have:

5+ years of web development experience; preference given to candidates who have experience with large applications of some scale
Extensive experience developing in Ruby on Rails
Willingness to take smart risks and champion new ideas
Comfort-level with working on a distributed/dispersed team
Exceptional competencies in object oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms

You will be a great fit for the team if you enjoy:

Working across the software stack (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/CoffeeScript, MySQL, Redis)
Deploying to production multiple times a day
Collaborating daily with your team and other groups
Working on a distributed team
Iterative and incremental development
Fixing existing production issues as much as building new solutions
Taking smart risks and championing new ideas

Perks:

Opportunity to work with some giants from the Ruby community
Opportunity to write code that millions will interact with
All the usual stuff (health/dental/401k/etc) so you don't have to worry about self or family