Our client is a health start-up based in Boston’s South End seeking a ROCK-STAR Rails Engineer to help them increase bandwidth on the product team. They want to deliver more features, faster, and at a continued high rate of quality; as they add customers, they add demands and they need you to help them scale. In this position, you will be working on a behavior change platform that introduces people to small actions each day to improve their well-being. Their products are sold to large employers, health plans, and government plans to help improve the well-being of large numbers of people in a simple and effective way. If you want to use your talent to make people healthy, this job is for you. In addition, you will be responsible for working on a high performance team building out solutions for well-being improvement across potentially many products, modalities, and customers. Qualifications: • A passionate engineer, looking to work in mobile web technologies (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Mobile frameworks like jQuery Mobile). • Proven experience in software design and web application development, with a strong preference for experience with MVC frameworks and object-oriented scripting languages. • Experience with Ruby on Rails or the strong desire to immediately obtain significant experience. • Respect for user experience, design, and mobile browser compatibility and application performance. • Familiarity with BDD/TDD. • Familiarity with version control systems (we use and love it). • Experience interacting with relational databases, either through SQL or an ORM like ActiveRecord. • Experience working on a team where many individuals have contributed to a project and a demonstrated ability to understand and safely extend an existing codebase. • Ability to comprehend new concepts, technologies and topics and assess their value. • Willingness to ask for forgiveness, not permission. • A desire to make a difference by making people healthier through the use of new social technology. What you will do each day: • Participate in joint application design sessions to build anything and everything that we are going to build. • Build new features and functionality within a mobile web platform. • Implement JSON web services in Ruby on Rails. • Brainstorm with the team about new products and opportunities. • Tune performance. • Troubleshoot and fix bugs on multiple mobile browsers and handsets. Apply now at bdspartnerships for consideration! Relocation assistance provided if you are willing to relocate. Email: bree@bdspartnerships or call 888-407-0592 x127
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 05:22:37 +0000
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