Ruby on Rails

We're a fun and exciting provider of Internet-based, spatial analytics information. We are profitable and have market-accepted products with quickly expanding demand. We are looking to hire a Senior Rails Engineer with outstanding Ruby on Rails experience who loves Big Data. This is an exceptional opportunity for a great developer to become the senior engineer of a small and growing, profitable, venture-backed company.

This position is located in our Worcester, MA, offices. (Read further about our location, below!) Relocation assistance will be offered for the right out-of-area candidate.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Serving as a Sr. engineer on the technology team developing map-based information products
• Solving challenging problems working with massive datasets that include crime statistics, schools, lifestyles, neighborhoods and more
• Working in an Agile, TDD environment, writing code you can be proud of
• Keeping existing products up-to-date and developing new products with the latest technologies, architectures, and standards
• Working alongside a nimble engineering team, being team oriented     
• Collaborating with PhD Geographers and Statisticians to create new, disruptive products  

What's In it For You?

•        Major opportunity to be part of a small, growing, profitable company

•        Casual fun working environment, solving some of the most exhilarating Big Data problems in the industry, alongside a team that's as passionate as you are about this stuff!

•        Competitive salary, stock options, and great benefits (401(k), 100% medical coverage, 11 paid holidays)

•        Long-term stability with a venture backed start up that is already profitable and growing

•        Investors include the Founders of MapQuest and CoreLogic

Desired Skills & Experience:

• A BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar; MS preferred
• 5+ years designing and implementing complex, data-heavy e-commerce systems
• Self-directed time management, documentation and communication skills
• Proven Effective ability to work with others
• To be passionate about your craft
• Extensive RoR app dev experience with merchant processing capabilities

• An ideal candidate would also possess:  
• Familiarity with GIS-related software, incl. spatial databases such as PostGIS and the Google Maps Javascript APIs
• Experience with all aspects/tiers of web and mobile web app development
• Strong Unix skills including API/data mining experience
• Scaling and performance tuning of high-traffic, data-heavy sites

Our Environment

·         Hand coded Rails 3, Ruby 1.9, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript/JQuery

·         OpenStreetMap, Google Maps API, Engine Yard, Amazon AWS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS

·         We use all of your favorite tools: GitHub, Basecamp, Pivotal, etc.

Our Location

·         Headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts, New England's second largest city, recently featured in The New York Times: Long a College Town Worcester Now Looks the Part

·         In a walkable neighborhood, yards away from commuter rail hub, highway, pubs, restaurants and coffee shops.  

·         5 miles in any direction and you are in quaint New England towns with nationally-ranked schools, historic charm, and great housing options (and we would know, we're the experts!).

Interested?

Tell us about yourself and why you would like to work with us! Email <nickm@wdsearch.com> and include a link to your website / portfolio / GitHub / LinkedIn.

Company Description

My client is a small, high-end geospatial analysis Company born of university research, specializing in location-based decision-making tools:  analytics, information and data.  We license geospatial risk analytics and SaaS products for a host of business to business applications, and run NeighborhoodScout.com, the largest neighborhood search engine in the world, and "the most trusted source for choosing a neighborhood," according to Money® Magazine.