IZEA: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Orlando, FL
URL: http://izea.com

Position Overview

IZEA is looking for highly motivated software engineers to join a fantastic team of wicked smart developers in downtown Orlando, FL.  If you love writing clean, tested code, and developing web apps that people want to use… If you love trying out new technology while staying true to solid software engineering principles, you’ll fit right in here.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain features using Ruby on Rails and HTML/CSS/JS
• Know your way around our databases, optimizing queries and diagnosing issues as they arise
• Write (good) unit, functional and integration tests
• Reproduce and fix application errors and unexpected behaviors reported by internal users and external customers
• Work with the product owner to nail down the best solutions to development problems and business requirements
• Set deadlines and communicate often about progress toward those goals

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years professional development experience in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, or C#.NET
• 3+ years web development experience
• Strong understanding of relational databases
• Linux ninja skills (you’ll spend a good part of your day SSH’d to our servers)
• Experience deploying enterprise-level applications
• Basic knowledge of DNS, CDN, load balancing, SMTP, SSL, etc
• Strong knowledge of Git
• Ability to multitask and prioritize multiple incoming requests without dropping the ball
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Problem solver at heart
• Lives in the Orlando area

Bonus Points if…

• You’re familiar with at least a handful of the following: Bundler, Delayed Job, Compass/SASS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Formtastic, Nokogiri, Authlogic, Mechanize
• You’ve worked with the Google Analytics
• You have a Github account (or at least didn’t have to Google that)
• You’ve written and deployed from a Capistrano recipe

To apply: Send your resume and cover letter to dean@izea.com