Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Job opening - MasteryConnect: Rails Developers - Mid & Senior

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Location: Salt Lake City, UT
URL: http://www.masteryconnect.com

About MasteryConnect
MasteryConnect is a fast-growing, venture-funded startup based in Salt Lake City (our office is 30 minutes from 10 world class ski resorts).  MasteryConnect is gaining traction and making a huge impact on student achievement for K-12 education.  In the first 12 months after launch, our social network of teachers reached over 7,000 districts (1/2 the districts in America).  MasteryConnect has the #1 app on iOS, Android, and Windows8 for the new Common Core Standards in education. 
If you’ve ever wanted to work in a company that is looking to have a big social impact as well as be a profitable venture, we’d love to talk to you.  We have an amazing CTO named “Doug”.  If you want to grow in your dev skills, you’ll love working along-side Doug.  He’s the engineer that past people he’s worked with from Google have called “a rock star.”  (Doug doesn’t know we wrote this about him, but it’s true, he is phenomenal.)

What We're Looking For
  • Rails developers that are passionate about what they do and have the experience and drive to be part of a mission-focused startup.  (If you have a ton of experience in PHP and want to get into Rails, we'd still love to talk)
  • Self-starters that have started something on their own like a framework, a company, a product, or a project on their own.

Technologies We Use
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Lots of fun JavaScript frameworks
  • iOS, Android, WIn8 app development
  • Amazon Web Services
  • All the latest front-end hotness

Benefits & Salary
  • We believe in paying a competitive salary commensurate with experience
  • We pay the full cost our team's health care premium (a really! good plan with the lowest deductibles and best possible care)
  • Work from home (remote) benefits

Our Dress Code
  • We're a startup.  We like shorts and t-shirts. 

How We Work/Our Dev Philosophy
  • We have strong opinions about what we build and release to customers
  • We believe in iteration and agile
  • We believe in a continuous release cycle
  • We believe in work-product and "getting things done"
  • We see web development as a craft that requires creativity and skill

How Are We Funded?
We're venture funded by the top VC brands and investors in K-12 education including NewSchools Venture Fund (www.newschools.org), Learn Capital (www.learncapital.com), ImagineK12 (wwww.imaginek12.com), and Silicon Valley Angels.  What's also great is that we actually sell a product and have real revenue!

Learn more about what we're doing for K-12 education at: www.masteryconnect.com

To apply: Send a resume to jobs@masteryconnect.com



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