Senior Rails Developer
The world is filled with sixes. Not the hot ones from Battlestar Galactica - we're talking average opportunities filled by average talent. You’re not a six, so why jump at an average opportunity when we’re offering up the golden ticket.
At Ship Sticks we’ve got it all. An experienced management team, a top notch product, and a lifestyle that can’t be beat. Join us as we build a great business in one of the best zip codes in the world with offices less then a mile from the beach. Be a part of our product team in New York or West Palm Beach and take ownership of the Ship Sticks platform.
About Ship Sticks:
Ship Sticks is a service and logistics company focused on making destination sport travel easy, cost-effective and hassle free. Our offices are located in beautiful West Palm Beach and New York City.
The role
- Develop new features for our Rails-based shipping platform
- Design, architect and develop web services for our mobile offering
- Manage the development of our mobile application suite
- Integrate Ship Sticks services into existing reservation systems
- Define best practices for our development team
- Expand the platform into other markets beyond golf
Why us?
- Experienced management team
- Strategic investors
- Fun, casual work environment
- Opportunity to travel between New York and West Palm Beach where there is great fishing, boating, beach and golf
- Competitive salary (income tax-free in Florida)
Why you
- You’ve built and launched Rails 3 apps that you’re proud of and would love to share the links
- You have experience building both consumer web and enterprise applications
- You’ve contributed to the Rails open source community and Github and can prove it
- You’ve written wrappers for web services and have integrated with payment providers like Authorize.net
- As a plus, you’ve integrated with logistics providers (UPS or FedEx)
- You know Mongo
- You’re a jQuery/Javascript expert
- You know more than just Heroku, you know Capistrano, too
- Java is something you’ve dabbled with in the past
- You’re a great communicator
- You take pride in your work
- You write tests for your code AND because you care, you test it in the browser too
- You understand UNIX and can set up servers
This position is on-site in West Palm Beach or potentially in our New York office. Good luck, we look forward to hearing from you!
