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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 Required: •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).

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