Working With Rails

BuyWithMe is one of the premier social buying destinations on the web, connecting top local brands with an engaged audience via our site and a network of media partnerships. As a member of the growing BuyWithMe team, you’ll be tasked with building valuable features for both merchants and consumers in the hottest and fastest-growing corner of e-commerce.

Engineers at BuyWithMe collaborate with other disciplines on product development from conception through implementation. Our platform is built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL, hosted in a cloud infrastructure. That said, we believe in using the right tool for the job.

Be a part of a fast-paced, talent-filled, exciting team and see your work produce results in the real world.

Responsibilities:

Build, deploy, and maintain scalable, re-usable, and valuable software for BuyWithMe’s social buying platform
Observe and contribute to departmental coding standards, performance benchmarks, and best practices
Produce and collaborate on well-thought-out and well-documented software designs
Measure and optimize the performance of new and existing software
Participate in departmental code reviews, discussions, and refactoring exercises
Ensure confidence in the software you build via unit-testing and collaboration with QA
Collaborate on a cross-discipline team to build thoughtful, usable, and valuable products
Build software you’re proud of and support it, even after it has been released
Maintain a current understanding of emerging and relevant technologies
Participate in departmental recruitment efforts
Effectively communicate with your colleagues, both technical and non-technical

Skills/Requirements:

2+ years recent experience as a professional ui engineer or front-end developer working on high-traffic, high-availability websites
Expertise writing purely semantic and valid XHTML
An understanding of the importance of separating content from presentation
Expertise providing style using CSS
Experience cutting and translating mocks into functional XHTML/CSS
Expertise enhancing user-interfaces using JavaScript, AJAX, and jQuery
Experience building cross-browser compatible user-interfaces
A strong design sense and understanding of usability concerns
Experience with at least one server-side technology such as Ruby, Python, PHP, or JSP
Experience with object-oriented programming or familiarity with object-oriented concepts
Experience building software collaboratively using a mainstream revision control system such as Git, SVN, or Mercurial
Experience integrating with third-parties/APIs

Desired:

B.Sc or M.Sc degree in Computer Science or related field
Ruby on Rails experience
Experience with developing mobile web applications or native applications
Experience working with Agile or a similar software development methodology
Experience with HTML5 and/or CSS3
Experience with front-end SEO best practices
Experience using a mainstream MVC web-application framework such as Rails or Django or a templating engine
A genuine enjoyment of usable user interfaces and building better software
We provide a competitive base salary and bonus, health, dental and vision benefits, 3 weeks PTO and opportunity for those who excel.

BuyWithMe is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).