Working With Rails

Help us revolutionise the travel industry!

HouseTrip (www.housetrip.com) is the safe and easy peer2peer website to list, search and book short stay holiday apartments and villas in top European destinations. Our unique Secure Payment System and easy cancellations policy makes the listing and booking process secure and efficient for guests and hosts alike. With local city apartments available in over 250 European destinations, in more than 40 countries, HouseTrip attracts guests who want to feel more at home on holiday.

HouseTrip was established in 2009 and has offices in Switzerland (Lausanne), Portugal (Lisbon) and the UK (London). Our ambition is to accelerate expansion of the service to more countries and cities around the world, while continuing to provide users with the simplest booking and listing experience possible. We are now in a growth phase, adding new members to our dynamic and international team – it’s an exciting time to join the HouseTrip adventure!

Job Overview

You will be part of one of our agile product teams where PMs, designers and developers are working closely together in a SCRUM process. We strongly believe in Test-Driven Development, have reached a mature level here and achieved a good coverage.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Work with product managers on architecting new features
• Support in building prototypes
• Implement user stories
• Write test code
• Work on scalability and operations chores
• Bugfixing (of course ;-))
• Evaluate technologies and 3rd party components
• Keep up to date with new developments and proactively suggest improvements regarding 
technology, standards, best practices

Required Skill Experiences

The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

• Ruby on Rails (Or experience in a similar framework, e.g. Grails)
• MySql (Or comparable)
• AJAX/JavaScript
• XHTML, CSS
• Agile methodologies (E.g. SCRUM)
• Test-Driven Development (RSpec, Cucumber, Selenium)

Note, that Test-Driven Developmen is really important to us.