GiveForward: Senior Full Stack Rails Developer

LOCATION: Chicago, IL

URL: SENIOR FULL STACK RAILS DEVELOPERQuirky, Joy-making Start-Up Desperately Seeking Meticulous, Do-Gooder with a Small Ego and Huge Heart....oh and a kick-ass commitment to building great software!

Hey there! We () want to meet you--you who loves, building awesome software, RSpec and Capybara, and loves getting s#!* done.We are putting together a team of inspiringly smart and creative individuals hell-bent on changing the world.As part of this team, we're looking for a world-class, entrepreneurial Senior Full Stack Rails Developer to help overhaul our site and revolutionize how Americans afford their healthcare.


GiveForward will be launching significant changes to our Product in the coming year and this opportunity allows you to help lead, shape, manage, and grow our products as well as our technology architecture. You will be part of the team responsible for rebuilding our entire architecture in Rails for web, mobile to solidify GiveForward's position as the leading crowdfunding platform for healthcare.

REQUIREMENTS:



* Has knowledge of Ruby on Rails(3+ years experience)

* Thorough knowledge of front-end HTML, CSS, JavaScript

* Proven track record with high-traffic sites

* Familiarity with agile software development methodologies

* Thorough understanding of software testing

* Rspec

* Capabara



Strong commitment to quality and a high degree of self motivation

Great communication skills

BONUS SKILLS:



* Additional MVC framework knowledge



* RESTFul API development and maintenance

* Third Party API integration

* Facebook

* Twitter



Performance tuning

Experience with anyone of the following mobile platforms



* HTML5

* Android

* iPhone



EXTRA CREDIT:



* Participates in open source/outside projects

* Participates in technology communities and/or user groups



HOW TO APPLY:

Resumes are important to us, but cover letters matter more.What we would love to learn about you:



* 1-2 paragraphs about why you're the best person for the job.

* What gets you most excited about Product?

* When was the last time you created joy for someone?



Please send to techcareers [at] giveforward [dot] com

MORE ABOUT GIVEFORWARD

We're a vc-backed, social venture that gives people an answer to the question "What can I do to help?" when a loved one is sick.Since 2008, we've helped put nearly $40M into American homes to help with costs like co-pays on expensive medicine, travel to and from treatment, and even the mortgage and groceries when someone is out of work and in the hospital...basically everything insurance doesn't cover.

Our mantra is , and we use it as a lens for everything we do from how we create new features, to how we communicate with our users, to how we work with each other.We're passionate about helping people come together to provide emotional and financial support to the ones they love most.



ADDITIONAL "ABOUT US" INFO:



* The book Hug Your Customers is our bible.Seth Godin's Linchpin is a close second.

* We have a Net Promoter Score of 83. Our users think

* We love team members who are compassionate, authentic, self-starters that can laugh at themselves and occasionally tell a good joke.

* We feel like we are the the because we get paid to do a job we would totally do for free.

* If you can't tell by now, we're a bit weird.We hope you are too.



COMP AND BENEFITS:

We're a well-funded start-up, so salaries are competitive.We offer full benefits including medical, dental, vision, and a variety of insurance and investment benefits. We believe in taking awesome trips, so we have unlimited PTO and sick time.And every other month, we give Recharge Days...because we all need a little forced R&R.



THE GOODBYE



Okay, so granted there is a fair amount of goofiness in this job description.Clearly, we don't take ourselves too seriously.That said, we do want to stress that we take our work very seriously, and we can promise you that we are on the verge of something very, very big here. With the right team on board, GiveForward is going to take off very soon and it's going to be a magical journey that will change millions of lives for people all around the world.But don't take our word for it.In the last year over 80 publications like the NY Times, Fast Company and CNN wrote about us and we won just about every fancy schmancy industry award possible including the Moxie Award for best consumer startup in Chicago, The Chicago Innovation Award for Best Newcomer Startup, the Empact 100 Award for the top 100 startups in the nation, the INC 30 under 30 Award, and we even won the Edison Gold Award for Best Social Innovation in the country (other Edison winners included Apple, IBM, Seth Godin, TED, and SpaceX).



If there is one thing we are sure about, it's that exciting times lie ahead.We hope you'll be part of the journey.



TO APPLY: Send a cover letter and resume to
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