Senior Rails Developer / Engineering Lead at Yardbarker, Inc.
Yardbarker (www.yardbarker.com) is a San Francisco-based company that is revolutionizing online sports media with its rapidly growing network of 700+ sports publishers, dozens of celebrity athlete bloggers (like Donovan McNabb, Santonio Holmes, Rajon Rondo, Gina Carano, etc.), and a community of the most passionate sports fans on the planet. We are growing quickly, our investors are very supportive, we work with some of the biggest brand advertisers on the planet, and we've just partnered with FoxSports.com and MSN to bring our content to a larger audience.
We have a small, but very experienced, team, and we are looking to add one very talented Rails Developer to help us grow to the next level. If you're the ideal candidate, you:
-- Love to solve problems, and love to write elegant and pragmatic code. You know when it's appropriate build a sophisticated general-purpose architecture, and you know when to let go of perfectionism... and create a quick hack to solve the problem at hand. You feel that software is a means to an end, rather than the end itself... and yet, great code just keeps flowing out of you!
-- Have a broad skill-set, including Ruby on Rails, MySQL, CSS, HTML/XHTML, and Javascript (including libraries such as Prototype and Scriptaculous). Although you may have particular strengths, you're comfortable working throughout the stack, and doing whatever it takes to drive a project to completion.
-- Have worked on a large-scale web property, and have successfully dealt with performance, optimization and scaling issues. You consider scalability whenever writing new code, and you are extremely comfortable writing custom SQL to work around Rails or MySQL limitations.
-- Have worked in a start-up before, and are excited about the opportunity to roll up your sleeves and build something great (especially something great that will be seen by millions of sports fans)!
-- Have excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills. When working with other engineers, you are precise and insightful. When working with non-engineers, you are patient and collaborative... not because it's part of your job description, but because you believe that the best products are built by small, cross-disciplinary teams.
-- Are highly self-motivated. You're excited to work hard, because it means that you're going to be able to take pride in what you've accomplished. When necessary, you can be highly productive on your own, but you especially enjoy the camaraderie that arises from working together as a team.
-- Are pragmatic when it comes to process. You are not attached to any particular software development methodology (extreme, TDD, agile, scrum, waterfall, etc.). You may have personal favorites, but you're comfortable working in a variety of systems. Your preference is for just-enough structure: enough form to facilitate communication and collaboration, and enough openness to allow something new and unexpected to emerge.
Bonus points:
-- You're a sports fan
Email your resume and cover letter to jobs@yardbarker.com.
See you in the Yard!
- Compensation: Negotiable. Includes market rate salary, equity, and full array of health benefits.
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