Airspace Technologies is looking for a full time Ruby on Rails Developer in Carlsbad CA. The position does allow for remote work, but we prefer someone who can come to the office a few days a week. We have a very experienced team so we are open to different experience levels. However, I think two years of professional Rails experience would be the minimum needed in order to be successful. What we do:

Airspace Technologies ships critical shipments like organs and semiconductor parts across the country as fast as possible. From a developer perspective, we are optimizing a real path between two arbitrary points. We find and book the fastest flight, calculate the drive time and directions and even automatically dispatch drivers to the appropriate locations when certain milestones are reached. Cool right? That is the sum of three rails applications, an iOS app, Andorid app and lots of development.

What we want to do:

Now that we have this cool auto dispatch for drivers, are great at calculating optimum paths, and have a nice API, we would like for clients to be able to schedule different types of deliveries instead of just optimal time. Some of our clients simply just want local deliveries and are constantly getting orders all day. We need to be able to dispatch a driver to a distribution facility, have them pick up multiple packages, calculate the optimum route Hamiltonian Path style, while providing accurate times to the client and their customers. Even harder is the fact that we will have multiple drivers in the area so we will have to dispatch the correct one first and then involve the others as the distribution of the packages changes. Phew!

So I would sum up the job description as:

We have a really hard problem to solve that is going to be very fun to work on. We have a great environment that is really fun to work in. If you love ruby and want a project that will push you to be even better, please apply!

Another thing to keep in mind is all of the apps described above were made in the last year so I can assure you that you won’t be maintaining some Rails 2 app in ruby 1.8.7. Also, it is sunny and 70 degrees pretty much everyday in San Diego and we are less than a mile from the beach!