Job opening - Birchbox: Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails

Location: New York City - Flat Iron
URL: www.birchbox.com

Birchbox is looking for experienced full-stack software engineers with significant experience working in Ruby on Rails. You are obsessed with delivering the best possible customer experience, value software engineering practices such as testing, and never forget about scalability and reusability when designing your code.

Responsibilities

You will have the opportunity to work with our team on all aspects of our technical infrastructure including:

• developing scalable backend services in key focus areas such as logistics, payments, and inventory management
• building our internal and developer APIs
• developing new user facing features for our incredibly engaged customer base
• working with our data science team to develop an infrastructure for personalization
• working with the entire tech team to provide a consistent, fast, and delightful, experience to our customers and partners

Requirements

• 5+ years professional experience, 2+ years in the RoR eco-system
experience building restful RoR services
• experience with large scale relational and non-relational databases
• you value testing and have experience with the associated tools/frameworks e.g., RSpec, Cucumber, Selenium
• you have a solid grounding in computer science, you understand the efficiency of the code you write in terms of time and space, and you put thought into your choice of algorithms, data structures, and db schemas

Pluses

• Java or C/C++ experience
• Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Computer Science
• Startup experience
• Experience relevant to Ecommerce

Tech @ Birchbox

The tech team at Birchbox is responsible for maintaining and improving the company's customer-facing site (http://birchbox.com), managing hosted and cloud infrastructure, and closely supporting other teams (logistics, marketing, et al.) in our 60+-person company. We work with a wide variety of open-source technologies: Debian-based servers; Chef deployments; Ruby on Rails and Java services; Python scripts; and even PHP and Perl, God forbid. The size of our team and the breadth of its responsibilities means we rely on our engineers to be self-motivated and quickly follow through on tasks without requiring close supervision. In return our engineers are given leeway to use their own initiative.

We are a small, diverse team of engineers:

• Ryan Buskirk is a web application engineer, arcade machine builder, guitar wailer, and all around swell guy with over ten years of professional experience.
• Becky Case is an engineer who's worked on multi-million-dollar-per-day systems without batting an eyelash. She is obsessed with her Yorkie, Pixel.
• Jereme Corrado is a systems architect who enjoys building clean solutions to the hard problems of scale and continually evolving dev.
• Liz Crawford is the CTO @ Birchbox. She has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, and a preference for silly novels, adventurous sports, and sunshine.
• Aaron Ingram is the author of Practical Oracle Security and a backend programmer specializing in databases and security.
• Benjamin Kelly is a data scientist and thrives on discovering actionable insights from data.  He has a PhD in Information Theory and enjoys jazz, chess and current affairs.
• Matt Kimmel is a jack-of-all-trades programmer who thrives on coding challenges and is fueled by fresh sushi.
• Dave Lewis is a dedicated problem solver with a pragmatic approach to everything.
• Marie Matheson is an espresso-powered software engineer, responsible for feature development and occasional dabbling in web site beautification.
• David Morrison is a product guy who is passionate about code, startups, design and sports. He loves a jog. And still hasn't found the perfect journal. 

Why it's great to work at Birchbox

• The chance to build a fresh infrastructure to express better solutions to old and new problems.
• The opportunity to work on conceiving, designing and building a next-generation ecommerce experience.
• The uncommon chance to be at the start of something huge. We have only made a small dent in what we're planning to do and we are growing rapidly.
• We think Cake, Chocolate, Espresso and Indian Cuisine are food groups. Which is part of the reason why we also believe in working out in the office. Push-ups anyone?
• Free beauty products and advice on exfoliation (you may not want it, but you'll find out why you need it!).

About Birchbox

Birchbox is changing the way people discover and shop for beauty and lifestyle products. We combine a personalized subscription service that delivers high-end samples directly to our members with an online magazine and store. Our platform provides our brand partners with a more effective way to access customers.

Birchbox launched in the Fall of 2010 and is one of the fastest growing companies in New York. We are backed by top VC firms, including Accel Partners and First Round Capital. You can get a feel for the buzz about Birchbox, by searching for us on YouTube: http://birch.ly/nl6nVp. For traditional media coverage, checkout our press page: http://www.birchbox.com/press.

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