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Razoo: Software Engineer - Rails Generalist
Location: Washington, DC
URL: http://www.razoo.com/p/jobs
The Software Engineer will be responsible for developing a fast, social and robust online giving platform. Your job will be instrumental in helping nonprofits raise money and in assisting existing and potential donors to make a difference through giving.
You will be successful at Razoo by:
- Designing and writing high performance, elegant, and reliable code for both the frontend/UI and back-end of our web platform
- Problem solving and having the intellectual curiosity to find technical solutions that are the quickest and easiest to build, yet also the most robust
- Keeping up-to-date on the latest web tools and apps, and integrating with their APIs
- Working collaboratively with a team of developers, business personnel, and creative designers
- Working cross-functionally in software development (i.e. full Rails stack), but bringing particular strength in Rails best-practices
- Taking the initiative to improve development, testing, measurement and deployment processes
- Possessing the drive to consistently deliver results, being disciplined to work on your own with light supervision
Required skills:
- Excellent problem solving skills
- 8+ years web software development experience
- 5+ years MVC web framework experience
- 1+ years Ruby on Rails experience
- Solid background in dynamic object oriented languages (Ruby, Python, etc)
- SQL, database design, and query optimization
- OO Design, MVC architecture, unit/acceptance testing, and refactoring
- Agile development processes and good track record of teamwork
- Subversion and/or other version control systems
Desired skills:
- Linux scripting and basic administration (Apache, Postfix, etc)
- JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, AJAX
- 3rd party API integration (SOAP, REST, etc)
- Web and database scalability and optimization
- RESTful API design and implementation
- Experience researching new technologies
- Experience building personal web apps and side projects as hobbies
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To apply: To apply: email serve@razoo.com
