Services Engineer - Ruby on Rails (RoR) (closed)
Senior Services Engineer
Come to work for Move! We are the leading hub of online and offline real estate and neighborhood information. Our exciting vision is to transform the real estate industry so people love where they live. We provide consumers with the real estate content, decision support tools and professional connections they need before, during, and after a move. Check out our mobile apps – we have access to the most comprehensive selection of existing and new homes for sale, apartments for rent, and senior housing. REALTOR.com®, the company’s flagship site and mobile apps are also the official site of the National Association of REALTORS and the No. 1 consumer destination for real estate-related information with more than 23 million unique users monthly. Our mobile apps are experiencing incredible growth at 200%+ growth year over year. Move is currently looking for a creative, quality focused, senior services engineer who can enhance our company with the latest best practices and knowledge of web service technologies. We're a team oriented, passionate, and collaborative group looking for like-minded developers.
In this position, you will be a technical contributor and leader working in the Campbell corporate headquarters. You will collaborate with others in the planning, design, and development of strategic and innovative consumer web and social services. You will help to both design brand new innovative social services and extend existing services. You will coordinate with other service development teams to ensure consistency and synergy in the system architecture. Your position will be working on highly visible and impactful services used by our flagship web and mobile apps.
Requirements:
*6+ years back-end and services development on high traffic consumer sites with demonstrated experience designing, implementing and deploying RESTful APIs, SOA implementations, or similar web services.
*Strong in depth experience in Ruby on Rails, and/or other server side technologies such as Java, Ruby, or PHP.
* Experience in other open source web development technologies a plus. You have a natural drive to leverage open source and third party solutions
* Solid knowledge of OO design
* Experience with agile methodologies a plus
* Enjoy learning new technologies and keeping up to date with industry trends in consumer and social products and services
* Excellent communication skills, high integrity, and have a focus on quality
* You are passionate about creating high performance, elegant services to support innovative applications
* BS CS or equivalent
Responsibilities:
*Develop services that are high quality, scalable, reliable, and fast*Collaborate with Product and Development teams regarding product definition, schedule, scope, and project-related decisions
*Define best practices and general services architecture and APIs
*Investigate technologies that can be leveraged in the team’s implementations
Move enjoys the stability and work-life balance of being a 10 year old public company while maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit, drive, and energy of a start-up. Contact us now and learn more about Move.com's smart, diverse, and collaborative teams where you can make a difference!
