Fellow wizards of λ,
I'm a developer that's been doing Ruby for about 5 years at OrgSync, an awesome company that I helped bootstrap out of a house in Austin, TX while studying CS at UT. We have a really great subscription-based business model; directly serving over 300 colleges and universities (to include Stanford as well as USF & SFSU) at a 95+% annual renewal rate. We have also never taken any VC funding, which I believe is a stance in vogue right now (I'm only kind-of joking if any githubbers read this).
We have [slowly] grown our development team to 8 incredibly talented and driven dudes with a diversity of talents ranging from snap-drumming to symphony viola. We have a good diversity of programming backgrounds, ranging from Common Lisp & iOS to someone with a commit in mainline valgrind. But we all love working in Ruby.
But here's the catch: we're in Dallas. Fortunately, Texas has good looking & generally pleasant people, low cost of living and no state tax. We also have a Ruby group (dallasrb.org), where we host the hacknight every 3rd Thursday.
If you're considering a move, please do consider us!
Clifton @cliftonk
Relevant company links:
- Github: https://github.com/orgsync/
- Company Website: http://www.orgsync.com/
- Favorite picture: https://orgsync.com/47575/photos/albums/24946/photo/459550
- Ruby post: http://www.orgsync.com/job_openings/ruby-developer
- Frontend post: http://www.orgsync.com/job_openings/frontend-developer
- UI Designer post: http://www.orgsync.com/job_openings/ui-designer
We were founded in 2007, have over 300 colleges and universities as clients and are growing rapidly to reach our goal of working with the 4,000+ colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. In the future, we will also be entering other markets that can utilize our dynamic and evolving product. We have an exciting and relaxed corporate culture that values team members' contributions and dedication. Come be a part of our growth.
We're looking for a programming virtuoso to work alongside a small team of developers and designers committed to building a robust, performant and scalable web application that our users love. You have an attention to detail and a professional curiosity that extends beyond the workplace. You will work in a mostly autonomous environment, so you have to be just as awesome at getting things done as you are at composing elegant solutions.
Most of our code is written in Ruby and runs on the Rails stack backed by a MySQL database, but we also incorporate other technologies such as Node.js, Memcached and Redis. We use GitHub for version control and our infrastructure is entirely hosted via cloud services.
This is a full-time position at our headquarters in Dallas, TX and includes a competitive base salary, a full range of benefits, stock options, and an awesome team of creative people by your side.
- Passion for developing excellent software and an appreciation for elegant code
- Strong understanding of MVC web frameworks and REST concepts
- Strong understanding of relational databases including complex queries and optimization
- Familiarity with key/value stores and caching techniques
- Familiarity with JavaScript and its frameworks a plus
- Open source project contributions a plus
- Ability to play "Careless Whisper" on saxophone a plus
- Strong written and verbal communication skills