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Description
Us: We are a fast-growing company, run by smart, practical people. We believe that helping people live healthier and greener is a worthwhile cause, and an attractive business opportunity. We have a great sales team, and happy customers. We believe the best way to grow is to hire really good people and give them what they need to execute.
Position Overview:
The Pitch: Practically Green is growing rapidly, and we're looking for experienced software engineers to help us deliver on our mission to help people live healthier and greener lives.
You: You love building things, especially when you can use Ruby and Rails. You believe in green, and in helping people improve their lives. You believe in profit, knowing that a sustainable business is one that's has top-notch people, products and markets. You believe in getting stuff done, quickly and smartly. You believe in automating anything you do more than twice. You are interesting, and good to spend time with.
Responsibilities:
What you'll do: You will come in and take over ownership of our Rails application, becoming the benevolent dictator for the core Practically Green application. In addition, you'll design the data structures and application flows for our next generation of products. You will be joining a team of 6.
Qualifications:
What you should already be really good at: You should know Rails and Ruby inside and out, having built at least a couple of non-trivial Rails production applications. You should have good working knowledge of what makes a fast interface (at the html/css/js level) and underlying application (at the rails/mysql/nginx/linux level).
Our Environment and Tools: Ubuntu, nginx, Passenger, MySQL, Rails 3, Haml, Sass, jQuery, RabbitMQ, RSpec, Cucumber, Git, Basecamp.
Compensation: What you'll get paid: This is a critical hire for us, so this position comes with market salary and significant equity.
To Apply:
Please send a note to Jason Butler, VP Product & Technology, with your resume, links to your Github repository, sites you've done, and how you're going green in your own life.