Front End / Rails Web Developer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Heroku Web Apps team is dedicated to beautiful usable and valuable web apps. Were highly collaborative make decisions in minutes and ship features in hours. We believe in getting customer validation early verifying with real data but also running with our gut. The small team includes UI/UX design and product management but everyone on the team is responsible for the success of our products including that were building the right thing in the first place and that its polished and beautiful when its done.
Were seeking a developer with a passion for UI/UX great HTML/CSS/Javascript skills and that can own the entire stack of a Ruby on Rails app including ongoing operations and maintenance. The ideal profile combines deep experience in full-stack web development with a strong computer science background. You must be able to demonstrate prior experience on web sites youre proud to show off for their polished UI appropriate use of Javascript and optimized backends.
You should be passionate about:
- User experience and goal-directed design
- Current Rails/jQuery best practices
- Style presentation and design
You should be very strong on all of the following:
- HTML/CSS not a web designer but extremely good at implementing markup
- Javascript including jQuery and cross-browser compatibility
- Ruby on Rails
- Performance optimization SQL tuning caching strategies
- Ability to own projects end-to-end
Bonus skills:
- Async (e.g. EventMachine )
- HTML5 fanciness (e.g. websockets canvas)
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS e.g. S3 EC2)
- Having founded your own startup
Attach a resume but also include something about yourself in your message. Tell us why you love the product why you want to work at Heroku why you want this job and why youre qualified. Use the resume to back yourself up.
UI samples (or URLs) should be included.
This position does require that you live in or be willing to relocate to San Francisco and that youre already legally able to work in the US - H1B quotas dont open up again until April. If youre Canadian or Australian with a 4 year degree we might be able to do something.
Key Skills
- Bootstrap
- CSS
- Front-End Development
- HTML5
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- Angular
- Less
- JavaScript
- backbone.js
- Sass
