Retail Benefits: Lead Rails Developer/Program Manager

Location: Long Island, New York or Telecommute
URL: http://retailbenefits.com

About Us:

Retail Benefits is innovating at the intersection of employee benefits and affiliate marketing. Our mission is to build a state of the art shopping platform that can be used by businesses and non-profit organizations to pay cash back to their employees, customers, or donors. We have been in business for two years, are driven by long-range vision instead of short-term VC thinking, and are growing rapidly.

What We Offer:

- Competitive salary and benefits

- Flexible hours and location. Work remotely or from our office on Long Island. (Monthly travel to main office required)

- Challenging problems that demand your best thinking

- An opportunity to work on software that will be used by tens of millions of people

- Ability to build out your own development team

- Chance to play a key part in our next major release

About You:

- Solid experience with both Ruby on Rails centered software development and managing a development team

- Excellent problem solving and communication skills

- Familiarity with most of our technology stack and willingness to learn the rest

- Track record of success in reacting to changing requirements and multiple stakeholders

Responsibilities:

- Lead a team of 2-5 software and devops engineers

- Manage project plan, including juggling priorities and schedule and estimating stories

- Work with customer service to solve problems

- Monitor server activity and errors and take corrective action

- Incrementally improve existing code while designing and then implementing the next version

Technologies in Use:

- Ruby on Rails (2.3.x, upgrade to 3.2.x or 4.0 planned)

- PostgreSQL

- HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery

- Many external APIs (Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Networks, Guidestar, ShareASale, PepperJam...)

- Mechanize/Hashie for working with partners without APIs

- Rackspace (hosted and cloud)

- nginx

- Amazon Cloudfront

- Braintree

- Geolocation

- SendGrid

- Chef

- Pivotal Tracker

- Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer browser extensions

- Redis & Resque

To apply: Submit your resume to recruiting@retailbenefits.com together with contact information. Include URLs to your GitHub account, blog, or any projects you're particularly proud of. No recruiters, please.