DailyKos, the leading online progressive blogging and activism platform, is looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer. DailyKos is a great place to work– your code will be used by hundreds of thousands of people every day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to effect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond. If you want a job that provides more than just a technical challenge, we’d love to hear from you.

Our company and our tech team is distributed across the US.We offer a flexible work environment, the ability to work from home as you see fit and we’re very close to BART when you want to come in. We also offer a very competitive salary and benefits, and the latest hardware to work on. People love working here and tend to stay for a long time. The atmosphere is energized by the day’s news events and our common cause. We have a great space filled with great people, near Berkeley Bowl where lunching options are healthy and numerous.

We are nearing the release of a substantial port on our 11-year-old website, bringing in the best practices and cutting edge tools. Our stack includes:

Rails 3, JavaScript/CoffeeScript, Haml/Sass, jQuery/Front-end MVC, Capybara, Chef, Varnish, RSpec. We bend MySQL to our will and take great pride in code quality.

We are searching for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer, with experience across the full stack, to take on the challenge of helping us scale to grow and support our large and active user base. We value careful, deliberate thought and take pride in clear, well crafted code.