CrystalCommerce: Sr. Ruby on Rails Developer :)

Location: Seattle, WA
URL: www.CrystalCommerce.com

Greetings fellow Ruby Enthusiasts!

Here are some facts:

You are a talented Ruby on Rails Developer, and you have your choice of where you want to work. We have a hot product, significant (and growing) revenues and wait for it PROFITS. Among the diverse and numerous opportunities you have before you, ours is somewhat unique.

What you’ll need:

You need to have a strong & diverse technical background, a desire to hit the ground running, a passion for hacking, and a positive attitude. You might be a good fit for our team if you’re a passionate self-starter, and you love solving challenging problems with your mental super-powers.

What we do:

< sales > Turbo-charged Multi-Channel eCommerce. Our tools help retailers across the country sell smarter; in their stores, and simultaneously online. Our RoR platform powers our client’s direct retail websites, their in-store Point of Sale (an HTML5 modular service), all-the-while syndicating their real-time inventory into every major sales marketplace (eBay, Amazon, specialized marketplaces, et al). Awww yeah. All incoming orders are instantly routed back into the client’s Admin for high-speed processing/fulfillment. We create significant competitive advantages for our clients, the bigger the better. We’re focusing on a few niche market rights now (Retailers selling new and used collectibles). We are building out our platform, and we’re very excited about our future. < /sales >

If you enjoy using brains and tools to solve hard problems, then join us. If you love challenges, join us. If you want to finally work for a company you can be passionate about, join us!

Seriously, why work here:

• You want to lead a talented dev team, or you want to contribute in a meaningful, multi-faceted way.
• You realize that the larger the dev team, the more you’re likely to work on the same small/non-critical/non-interesting area of the code base FOREVER … and you’d prefer to have some interesting variety in your day-to-day dev work.
• You want to be treated well, and compensated well
• You’re looking for an exciting change of pace, with fun colleagues, solving important real-world problems facing retailers world-wide.
• You’re looking for a company with significant long-term growth potential.
• You aren’t looking to work at another crappy “built-to-flip"Get-Rich-Quick-Scheme of a startup that just wants to work you to death. Bleh. Yuck. NO WAY.
• Innumerable Benefits, Equity, Potential Relocation Cost Reimbursement.

We hope you’ll consider applying to join our talented development team!

Statement from our Engineers:

As engineers at CrystalCommerce, we solve diverse and challenging problems. Our rapid growth encourages us to experiment with new techniques and technologies. If you’d like to work in a fun engineering environment where every new project is a big opportunity, you’ve come to the right place. On a day to day basis you’ll be pair programming on our platform. Our entire team is hard-working, but we take time for fun. We are building the company we all wanted to work for.

Core Responsibilities:

Contribute to product design and implementation decisions. Implement projects from the idea phase to production. Test and iterate code before and after production release.

The technical expertise and general experience we’re looking for:

• 2+ years Ruby development experience.
• BS/BA/MS+ in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent problem solving, creative thinking and self-motivation skills.
• Analytical and detail oriented.
• Add knowledge and energy to already knowledgeable and energetic core team.
• Subscribe to the Terry Tate: ‘You kill the Joe, you make some Mo’!” workplace philosophy.

Bonus points for:

• Being a thoughtful person in general.
• Not being an egomaniac.
• Working in a team.
• Pair Programming.
• Continuous integration and deployment.
• Test Driven Development.
• Building fault-tolerant, high-throughput, 24/7 highly available applications.
• REST API creation and consumption at scale.
• Asynchronous applications.
• Working with and improving legacy codebases.
• Experience with upgrading from Rails 2.x to 3.x.

AS PART OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS PLEASE BE PREPARED TO SHOW US SOME GREAT CODE.

P.S. There are a LOT of perks to working here. Two we’ll mention are a fully stocked kitchen/pantry along with just about every gadget Costco sells, so say goodbye to paying for lunch. Also, we have a fully stocked open company bar … no one has been cut off yet, so you know you want to say “Challenge Accepted!” :-P

P.P.S We bootstrapped this B, so this isn’t investor money we’re burning here … did I mention we were profitable?!? We’re looking to grow our dev team, keep kicking butt, keep delighting clients, and buy that company boat we’ve had our eyes on.

To apply: Please send all pertinent data (resume + code) to careers@crystalcommerce.com