Ruby Engineer Needed to Eradicate Poverty (San Francisco, CA)

27 August, 2011 at 3:52 pm in Craigslist / Education / Idealist / Nonprofit / Uncategorized

Local Jobs in Portland: We're looking for enthusiastic, idealist engineers who want to write code that meaningfully impacts the human condition. Ideal candidates will want to leverage their problem solving and creative talent to hack real-world social systems. They see the fundamental application of technology as human empowerment. If you are a master ruby engineer with a passion for building brilliant solutions that address tangible problems, we need your help to re-imagine work. The Company: Samasource is a social enterprise that connects people living in poverty to work via the Internet. We are a small, dynamic team committed to changing the world with an innovative business model. To get a quick overview of what we do, watch this 50 second video on YouTube of two of our workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96bSBNRCSoQ . Then watch the suggested videos on the right, and if that's not enough, watch the 9 minute TEDx talk our founder gave: http://vimeo.com/9305118 . The Code We're building a global distributed micro work platform customized to our unique ecosystem. This is a big space with lots of unsolved technical problems, here are a few we're trying to solve this month: Distributed, collaborative education and training Remote rural content delivery Intelligent task allocation and adaptive workflow Operational and platform scalability Mobile payments and messaging The Tools We keep up with the latest Rails 3.0.X releases, test with Test::Unit/Shoulda, use Redis for some fanciness, plan with Pivotal Tracker, and template with Haml and SASS. See something missing? Tell us, show us, make it happen. Responsibilities: Write elegant, high quality, unit-tested code. Be prepared to send in samples of work that you're proud of, bonus points for contributions to open source projects Own new platform components from conception to deployment Proactively communicate with workers and customers to understand and fix problems Fearlessly learn new technologies and comprehend new problem spaces Share your work with internal and external stakeholders in team meetings and at conferences Requirements: Comprehensive understanding of application stack 2+ years of experience working in Ruby 5+ years of software development experience (experience with other languages a big plus) 3+ years of relational database experience API design experience Strong working knowledge of unit testing frameworks Self directed, self motivated, and at home in a very fast-paced environment Location: San Francisco, CA Compensation: DOE This is at a non-profit organization. Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster. Please, no phone calls about this job! Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.