Our Client is a fast-growing, venture-backed, NYC-based mobile service that helps users get and give opinions in real time. We’ve built an addicting mobile application that’s growing rapidly, providing millions of rapid responses per day to users asking all manner of questions on the go. We’re a first-mover in the space, have off-the-chart engagement numbers, a very loyal community, and achieve the quickest results of any service. We are seeking new members of our core team who have sincere enthusiasm for disrupting the industry with a product that changes lives, who attack hard problems with top-notch skills, and who are a strong fit with our core values that include humility/service, craftsmanship, and fearlessness. 

And we’re looking for a stupendous Senior Web Applications Developer to own that platform for us, and to make extraordinary things look easy.

What’s our deal?

We’ve built our systems so far on native mobile platforms for iOS and Android, and PHP server code with a pinch of Ruby to spice things up. Our backend systems are awesome, we’re using MongoDB for all our transactional data, and Vertica DB for business intelligence and data warehousing.

What have you done?

• Built numerous web apps, large and small, ugly and sexy, for fun and for profit, by yourself and in teams, probably in multiple languages, probably sometimes in your dreams because you have a sort of unhealthy addiction to the web.
• Your native tongue is Javascript. You know how to program backend systems, but you consider it to be the realm of the less enlightened. HTML5 and CSS3 are only “skills” for you in the same way your heart-beating is a “skill”
• Been living and sometimes drowning in web development for 5+ years using modern tools, MVC frameworks, NoSQL databases, Cloud deployments, and all the gooey goodness of the open source web stack.
• Acquired a deep base of understanding of the theory of computer science and software engineering through a Bachelor’s degree or general Matrix-like knowledge-absorption
• Coupled your pure web-dev with highly hands-on development skills in PHP and/or Ruby on Rails while maintaining a technology agnostic mentality crucial to picking the best solution every time
• Shown a keen intellect, innovative problem solving skills, and the ability to self-direct towards clean, elegant results.
• Gained an attuned aesthetic sensibility and an overriding appreciation for exceptional user experience as the ultimate goal of all design and development efforts

 Who are you going to be?

• A craftsman in your trade. You believe that if something is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing fully, elegantly, creatively. And you know the difference between problems “solved” and problems “solved right”.
• Practiced, talented, and growing. You’re very good at what you do, and you demand that you’re better at it today than you were yesterday, and not nearly as good as you’ll be tomorrow.
• A fearless innovator. Driven by optimism, you don’t settle for compromises.
• You fail gracefully and drive forward stronger, smarter, and more determined.
• A joy to work with. Through humility, service to your customers, respect for your colleagues, a good sense of humor, and old-fashioned hard work, you bring delight and excitement to bear every day on the challenges of a startup.