DESCRIPTION
Contactually is looking forexperienced software engineerswho are passionate aboutsolving complex problems with code. We’ve taken a novel approach to building business software -focus on the end user- and it’s been working! Our users love us 🙂 Come help us build a product that makes contact management easy and fun and 10,000s of people from the jaws of clunky, outdated software.
Our Stack
Backend: Ruby on Rails
Datastores: Postgres, ElasticSearch, Neo4J, MongoDB, Redis
Frontend: React, Backbone, Marionette, jQuery
Who are you?
You’re an experienced engineer looking for your next big challenge. You’re passionate about writingclean, concise, well-tested code, but you’re also a pragmatic problem solver. Youfollow the best practicesfor the technologies you work with andunderstand why. You love learning new things and teaching others about them. You stay up to date with the latest technologies and probably have sites like Hacker News or Coding Horror bookmarked.
REQUIREMENTS
4-6+ years as a full-time software engineer
Strong analytical and performance optimization skills
Strong experience with Heroku/AWS or similar cloud-hosting platforms
Experience with DevOps-related projects
Experience shipping platform changes in high-throughput scenarios
Experience designing and implementing complex systems integrations
Bonus:
Strong knowledge of Ruby/Rails
Experience leading an engineering team
Experience working with other departments to understand complex business goals and how that will impact implementationof systems integrations
Dog whispering
RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead architectural/planning discussions for new feature endeavors
Develop highly performant code in high-throughput areas of the application
Establish best practices for the team in terms of code/query performance
Analyze application, job, and query performance using top of the line tools such as NewRelic
Identify and resolve issues contributing to site or service unreliabilitywithin the Contactually technical ecosystem
Build and ship new features and services critical to our customers
Facilitate collaboration between engineers, product managers, and designers to solve complex and interesting problems
Write clear, maintainable, scalable code across multiple projects
Work on whatever you want on our quarterly X days where you can hack on anything you want
Work from the awesome city of Washington, DC!
Be an important, valued member for an autonomous, agile team
Take part in blameless retrospectives that help elevate the team and individuals to grow their engineering skills
BENEFITS
401k Contribution
Medical, Vision, & Dental
Equity Stake
Commuter Benefits
Above Market Salary
Unlimited Paid Vacation
Awesome team culture!
