Small Business Insight on Rails

We are one of the fastest growing startups on the Internet dedicated to revolutionizing business finances for the self-employed. We are automating and providing business insight into the finances of small business around the world.

We're looking for someone great to join our small, hardcore team that manages over 1 billion dollars of transaction on behalf of our users; someone who would take pride in the very high standards we set for production quality and reliability.

We are an agile development shop who has a healthy practice of pair programming, test driven development, and collaboration. We truly believe that greatness can only be achieved by working closely as a team to push ourselves and to deliver the impossible.

This is a salaried full-time position with benefits. There is a two-week paid trial period. Salary will be based on experience.

Role & Responsibilities

• Developing new web-based features and interfaces.
• Working with a team of developers to maintain and update the homepage.
• Enhancing our web-based administration and customer support interfaces.
• Working with the team to continuously improve the presentation and mining of important company, product and user metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
• Excellent work ethic and attention to detail. Very organized.
• Fast learner.
• Passionate and obsessive about quality and correctness.
• Significant experience developing database-backed websites and web services using modern web standards.
• Experience with a web MVC framework (Rails, Pylons, Django).
• A strong portfolio of past work.
• XHTML, CSS, and Javascript expert. Expert with AJAX.
• Experience with one page application and Gears.
• Proficient in Ruby, Rails or equivalent.
• Proficient in Dojo, SproutCore, JavascriptMVC, Mootools, JQuery, or equivalent.
• Proficient in MySQL.
• Good design sense, experience working with a graphic designer and realizing complex mockups.
• Knowledgeable about browser-specific issues and incompatibilities.
• Experience testing for the web (unit tests, Selenium, webrat etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Understands web security issues.

Nice to Have

• Startup experience.
• Experience with Photoshop.
• Experience with Fireworks.
• Familiarity with the engineering world class web applications.
• Experience with distributed version control systems (Git, Mercurial)