We are founded by veterans of Google and YouTube and bring together the personality of user-generated content with the quality of a professional video studio to help consumers learn how-to do everything from the practical ("How to Paint a Wall"), to the unusual ("How to Get Paid for Donating Plasma"), to the entertaining ("How Not to Get Mugged"). With hi...
We are founded by veterans of Google and YouTube and bring together the personality of user-generated content with the quality of a professional video studio to help consumers learn how-to do everything from the practical ("How to Paint a Wall"), to the unusual ("How to Get Paid for Donating Plasma"), to the entertaining ("How Not to Get Mugged"). With high-quality video content and vibrant user communities organized around specific topic categories, we provide a wealth of opportunities for distribution and advertising partners
We are looking for a motivated, highly skilled software developer with a strong Ruby on Rails background to join our engineering team
Responsibilities
* Build, extend, enhance, and maintain features and related applications primarily with Ruby on Rails
* Take a lead role in all major technical design and architecture decisions
* Diagnose and debug issues
* Collaborate with designers and product management to create great user experiences
* Help identify better practices, tools, and relevant trends that can positively influence the products we create and the productivity of the team
Required experience
* Minimum 3 years of web development experience and at least 1 year of extensive Ruby on Rails experience
* Solid object-oriented design skills, knowledge of software patterns, and experience modeling data-driven applications
* Use of test or behavior driven development. Experience with RSpec and Cucumber is a big plus.
* Extensive experience working with data and databases. You should be extremely comfortable with SQL including performance tuning tasks such as query optimization.
* Experience working on a popular, externally facing product and/or experience building one or more sites/systems from the ground up
* Basic system administration skills and comfort with major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux)
Preferred experience
* Experience with different caching techniques
* Experience building web services and/or APIs
* Experience utilizing cloud services (e.g. Amazon)
Bonus
* JavaScript expertise (experience with the Prototype and JQuery libraries in particular)
* Mobile application development experience (iPhone, Android, et al)
Educational requirements
* B.S. or advanced degree in Computer Science or related Engineering
