Jobs at Quirky

Ruby on Rails Web Developer

Location: New York, NY

Department: Tech

Type: Full Time

Min. Experience: Entry Level

ABOUT US
Quirky is a social product development™ company that brings consumer product ideas from sketch to store every week, and rewards the thousands of contributors to these products with a share of the revenue generated by their sale. We make invention accessible and are revolutionizing the way consumer products are made. Our products are regularly featured on blogs such as TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Engadget, and we have also been profiled by a number of publications ranging from the New York Times to Parade Magazine. We have several retail partnerships including Target and Bed Bath and Beyond. We even had our very own reality show! (http://www.sundancechannel.com/quirky/). Quirky is a well-funded startup with offices around the world and over 50 employees in our New York Headquarters.

RESPONSIBILITIES
As a rails web developer at Quirky, you will be responsible for contributing to all aspects of building and maintaining the Quirky Technology Platform as we scale the business out to meet increased product demand and greater product development participation. This will include:

end-to-end web application development (database, business logic, front-end) for new site features
back-end system development (shopping cart, order fulfillment, accounting, etc)
financial reporting
customer service tools
operational support

REQUIREMENTS
At minimum, you will have at least a few years of professional experience with the following technologies and software. These are the tools that we work with every day and that we expect you to hit the ground running with. The quantity of your experience is not nearly as important as the quality of it.

Ruby on Rails
MySQL
HTML/CSS/Javascript (jQuery)
Git
Agile, Iterative Development
excellent interpersonal and communication skills
action and detail oriented
highly motivated to drive projects to completion

As your code will be deployed in a high-volume e-commerce production environment, performance tuning and testing will be critical to success.

BONUS POINTS
Building a global product development company is no small task and we are seeking individuals excited by the challenge and who have experience with the following areas of our business. The more you can bring to the table, the more we will have to talk about.