Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails at BookRenter.com in San Mateo, CA

What You'll Be Doing...

• Collaborate in a team oriented, exciting, challenging, and rewarding environment
• Design and develop applications with consumer and business targeted audiences
• Cultivate and champion the product, user experience, and elegant architecture
• Experiment with technologies including: clojure, node, and whatever else strikes your fancy!
• Build fun (required) and useful (optional) plugins for our campfire bot

• 2+ years of experience developing in Ruby
• Experience in designing and building web applications
• Enjoy whiteboarding data models, user interfaces, and workflows with others
• A good eye for intuitive UI and UX
• Comfortable working in Git and Unix / Mac OS X

• TDD and writing automated tests (test::unit, shoulda, rspec, or similar)
• Data modeling and performance optimization
• API and SaaS development

• We love Ruby (some of us are drawn to Clojure too)
• Whiteboard on all the walls
• Pair program on the hard stuff, but not on everything (phew, that'd be exhausting!)
• Set aside time to try new technologies and build fun (or funny) things
• Are pragmatic, curious, collaborative, iterative, and fun
• Work with many technologies including: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, iOS, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Backbone, HAML, SASS