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Motiveflow is a unique Fort Worth technology startup anchored by a strong operating company is assembling a core, high-level RoR development team. Team will be responsible for rapidly developing a highly innovative and disruptive web technology platform that will lead the automotive dealership industry into serving the new consumer paradigm. Company has completed phase 1 development using outsourced development - now recruiting in-house team to assume development. The company is well capitalized with highly successful, experience entrepreneurial leadership. Strong-market pay, benefits and equity opportunities available for ground-floor team.

Job Description

Our application environment is Ruby on Rails using a Postgres database.  Our infrastructure is hosted in house and on Amazon via cloud services. We are looking for a programming superstar to join our team of gifted hardware and software virtuosos.  You have the opportunity to be on the ground floor of helping transform an industry with web-based software while making a profound impact on the automotive industry.

As a developer on our small core team you'll have a huge impact on all of our current and future projects. Your engagement will span the entire product life cycle, including: product design, implementation, deployment, refinement and ongoing performance and scalability tuning.

On-site developer preferred, but remote will be considered provided candidate is willing and able to travel 6-10 days per month to Fort Worth office.

What We're Looking For:

The right person for the job will have a strong commitment to engineering excellence and a drive for continuous process improvement. We’re looking for somebody who thinks outside of the box and offers creative solutions for our interesting and challenging problems.

Job Responsiblities

• Architect, design and implement the next generation of our application.
• Help lead a team of developers and ensure best practices in all areas of the engineering process such as: rigorous source code control, code reviews, automated builds, automated testing, etc.
• Apply your development and engineering skills to a variety of different technologies.
• Collaborate with an extraordinarily small and talented team of other engineers and designers.
• Continuously improve the performance and scalability of the product to support the growth of our high-traffic platform.
• Help identify new software features that can drive additional revenue growth
• Coordinate with contract software developers to maximize development efficiencies.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4 yrs professional experience building complex web software
• 2+ years with Ruby on Rails 2.x - 3.x
• High level JavaScript competency
• Good knowledge of SQL – Postgres 9.x
• Thorough understanding of core object-oriented principles and the MVC pattern
• Ability to review scope and estimate work
• Ability to develop across entire application: database, business logic, and front-end
• Proficient using 3rd party API’s and a strong knowledge of implementation.

Personal Abilities

• Motivated, driven and possessing a desire to achieve success.
• Flexible, with the willingness and ability to take on additional responsibilities as needed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong work ethic, team oriented
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.