Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: www.superbetter.com
We're looking for an experienced, rails-savvy developer to help us design, estimate, implement and test out new features on our newest game, SuperBetter. As one of the first developers in the company, you'd have huge influence over the technical direction of our product and an opportunity to leave your mark on a tool that's already changing lives. If you're looking for a sane schedule working on a meaningful project -- we're looking for you.
What's SuperBetter? SuperBetter helps you achieve your health goals -- or recover from an illness or injury -- by increasing your personal resilience. Resilience means staying curious, optimistic and motivated even in the face of the toughest challenges. You can learn more about SuperBetter at www.superbetter.com. SuperBetter is being created by SuperBetter Labs: www.superbetterlabs.com.
THE JOB
Responsibilities
• Investigate, prioritize, implement, test and deploy changes, bug fixes, and enhancements to SuperBetter
• Estimate development costs for new features, identifying impact, designing solutions
• Troubleshoot unanticipated technical issues
• Work closely with the core SuperBetter team, including creative, development, analytics, and business functions
Required Qualifications
• Extensive programming experience in Ruby on Rails, MySQL, mongoDB
• Experience writing unit tests using rspec
Bonus Qualifications
• Experience with Mixpanel and resque
• Experience with Engine Yard
• Experience with Jenkins CI
• Experience with Active Admin and formtasti! c
Required Education
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related discipline
Your Personal Style
• Fearlessly optimistic. Incredibly playful. A curious, creative student. Passionate about making a difference in people's lives and changing the world.
• A strong team player, highly collaborative and flexible working style
• Someone who thrives in a start-up environment. We're a roll up your sleeves kind of place. You'll need to play a variety of roles and be passionate about building a solid foundation for an incredible new company.
• Incredibly honest, good-natured and a calm, even-keeled communicator (this is a no drama workplace)
• Someone with a very strong work ethic and ability to get things done (and we mean REALLY get things done)
• Desire t! o seize opportunity for almost limitless growth
NUTS & BOLTS
• Starts immediately
• Full Time
• Salary commensurate with experience
• The candidate must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to work on-site in our office, located in downtown San Francisco, walking distance to BART, Muni and Caltrain.
TO APPLY
• Please send a COVER LETTER and RESUME. Include "Back End Developer Application" in the title of your email.
• In your cover letter, please briefly answer the following questions (in addition to whatever else you want to share with us!):
o Which of your projects are you the most proud of and why?
o What is the most interesting technology that you've tried out recently?
o Have you worked in a team befo! re? If so, what worked and what didn't work?
o Wh! y do you want to work for SuperBetter?
MORE INFORMATION on SUPERBETTER
• The history of the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZztLac0Q1EI
• Background on the company: http://www.superbetterlabs.com
• NPR reporter plays SuperBetter: http://www.onthemedia.org/tags/superbetter/
• Related Press: http://superbetterlabs.com/press/
To apply: Send resume and cover letter to jobs@superbetter.com
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