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About Knoq.com

Knoq.com is a well-funded startup that brings neighbors together and helps them get things done. We are revolutionizing the way household services are bought and facilitating neighborly interaction. We give people the ability to choose the level of interaction with their neighbors while still enjoying the best aspects of the place they live. Knoq also is a strong advocate of local small business and gives them incredible tools to run their business better and integrate themselves into the community.

We have a team of fun, creative, talented, well-adjusted people who believe in the idea and are using our superpowers to make the promise of Knoq a reality. The team is a group of happy people who work reasonable hours and have fun at work and in the rest of their lives too. We’ve built a trusting environment where success is celebrated and problems are fixed without shame or blame. If this floats your boat and you have the chops, we want to talk to you.

 

About the Role

Knoq.com is looking for an experienced technology professional with experience on at least one major Rails project to join our team.

Responsibilities:

Senior Rails Engineer

• Build cool new features
• Make current features work better
• Fix bugs
• Find best solutions to technical challenges regarding data, interfaces, 3rd party partnerships and the like

 

Product Manager

• Help define and refine the feature set and UI
• Contribute to discussions on strategic direction, increasing value/usage and virality
• Work with Founders and User Experience to engineer the best solutions

 

Operations Engineer

• Google analytics configuration, monitoring and analysis
• Server configuration
• Deployment of releases
• Help decide best tools to use for all things technical, implement them in our environment
• Manage outages and critical bug fixes

 

Lean Evangelist

• Advise and help the team adhere to hypothesis testing, MVPism, test development and user feedback collection.

 

Qualifications:

• Experience delivering new, innovative features using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, jQuery, and other open source tools
• Comfortable developing any portion of Rails application stack from data store layer to browser
• Insistence on Test Driven Development
• Experience with different data access challenges, caching techniques, scalability best practices
• Strong database and data modeling skills — experience with MySQL and NoSQL variants, like Hadoop and other map/reduce technologies is a plus
• Excel at designing and iterating solutions in small teams
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Proficiency working in a Linux environment
• Excited to work in a highly iterative development process with continual production releases
• 5+ years developing web applications
• BS, Computer Science or equivalent work experience

 

An ideal candidate would also have:

• Strong Javascript and XHR coding skills including experience, jQuery and/or Backbone.js preferred
• Good knowledge of HTML and CSS best practices
• Experience building multiple consumer facing web applications backed by MySQL
• Strong sense of what makes for an application highly usable
• Previous experience with an early-stage venture-backed startup
• Experience with cloud computing (particularly Amazon Web Services or Heroku)

 

Benefits include:

• Good money, steady paycheck
• Health insurance
• Generous vacation package
• Gym membership
• Paid conferences and networking events
• Equity
• All the popcorn you can eat