Technology is going to be at the heart of everything we do at Primary. From the first interaction with our customers, fulfilling orders, providing customer support to forecasting inventory levels and delivery logistics, software will be key to being a smart company. Our curated selection, powerful imagery and thoughtful design should make for an incredibly beautiful and effective web site. But we’re not just another ecommerce website with better design, we have a number of truly unique user experience innovations in mind and a chance to build a lean infrastructure that will scale really well.
By joining our founding engineering team and you will play a huge role in setting the tone for our engineering culture and build a modern stack, unencumbered with legacy code.
What you’ll be doing: • Implement features across the stack– from semantic HTML to concise CSS to advanced JS interacting with a Ruby on Rails backend. • Use the best tools & frameworks to solve problems – Rails, Coffeescript, Angular for now. • Contribute back upstream to open source projects we use. • Stay on top of technology landscape and help us shape our technology in a future friendly way.
What You Should Already Have: • We like a formal education: Bachelor’s degree in Comp Sci or Soft Eng. • But we also like self taught engineers who love their craft. • Understanding of interpreted languages like Ruby or Python. • The ability to build quickly.
Why you should work with us: • We are going to be a huge success and we will have tons of important problems to solve on the way to our ambitions. • Work with a friendly team that is incredibly smart and accomplished. • Work on a product you can be proud of and that will be loved. • Work closely with a CTO who has 10 years of experience, has launched multiple platforms that have gone on to scale to millions of users, most recently at Lot18. • Opportunity to contribute to open source as part of your job. • Meaningful equity in a successful company.
Salary and compensation
$70,000 — $130,000/year
Equity
0.25 – 1.0
