Fractured Atlas: Rails Developer

Location: New York, NY
URL: http://www.fracturedatlas.org

Overview

Fractured Atlas, a leading national non-profit organization that provides infrastructure for the arts, is seeking a Ruby on Rails developer to work on Artful.ly and the ATHENA project.

Artful.ly provides arts administrators with tools to help run their organizations.  We help theaters fill the house.  We help organizations sell out their fundraising gala and make sure everyone is at the right seat with the right table.  We make it easy to see when a donor last donated to your organization. 

ATHENA is an open source component of Artful.ly allowing for larger organizations to download and install the software for their own use.

We build these tools using a blend of Haml, Javascript, Sass, Solr, MySQL, MongoDB, and Twitter Bootstrap.  We're always diving in to new technology to see how it can help make our applications better.  If you have some tech that you're really excited about then we'll find a way to use it to make the project better.  Some things we would love to see make an appearance in our applications are CoffeeScript, KnockoutJS, and data storage alternatives like Redis.

Your job will be to develop new features for Artful.ly and re-engineer parts of ATHENA into Ruby to make it easier for organizations to implement.  We use agile development and the team is very small. You'll have the freedom to take a user story and make it amazing.

More information about Artful.ly and ATHENA can be found at http://artful.ly and http://athena.fracturedatlas.org.  More about Fractured Atlas can be found at http://www.fracturedatlas.org.

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

• Strong command of Ruby
• Experience with Ruby on Rails
• Ability to read a support ticket that makes no sense at all and translate that into a deployed bug fix and a satisfied user.
• Strong command of Relational Database concepts including SQL queries, optimization, indexing, and views

 

Plusses

• Experience with Rails Engines
• Ability to describe and justify (or argue against) RESTful web services
• Experience with maintaining open source projects
• Familiarity with Amazon EC2, Heroku, and New Relic

SALARY AND BENEFITS

Competitive salary with health insurance, employer-matched 401K plan, TransitChek, tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick and personal days, and a fast-paced, fun, dynamic work environment (complete with Wii Lounge!). Fractured Atlas is an equal opportunity employer.

ABOUT FRACTURED ATLAS

FRACTURED ATLAS is the nation’s largest non-profit arts service organization with a multi-disciplinary membership of over 22,000 independent artists and arts organizations.  Its core service areas include fiscal sponsorship, the nation’s only arts liability insurance program, health insurance navigation, professional development, and advocacy. Fractured Atlas’s Open Arts Network brings its programs and services to an audience of over 100,000 artists and arts groups nationwide. Its technology-based programs include Performing Arts Spaces and professional development through Fractured U. Fractured Atlas is developing ATHENA, an open-source software platform for the cultural sector, and Archipelago, a suite of online cultural asset mapping tools.

To apply: TO APPLY To be considered for the position, please email the items below in one PDF-formatted file with your name as the filename to Tim Cynova, Deputy Director at jobs@fracturedatlas.org. Include “Rails Developer” as the email’s subject line.