Experienced Ruby Front-End Engineer

Dallas  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Quesbook gives students a tailor-made test prep experience by learning their weaknesses in real time and integrating one of the largest question banks with explanatory content pieces and a subject-specialized tutoring network. Every students' performance is linked to specific videos, tutors and new question sets to help them erase their weak spots without having to trod through countless practice exams.

Your responsibilities:

  • Work closely with product managers, UX designers and back-end engineers to implement elegant front-end solutions.

  • Embrace and promote best practices in order to create maintainable, high performing web applications.

  • Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team.

  • Be passionate about software development.

  • Willing to lead development team, drive product development, and make important technical decisions regarding product development.

  • Ability to make and hit milestones and to take ownership of a project from start to finish.

  • Would feel comfortable with the title "full stack" engineer.

    Required qualifications:

  • At least 5-7 years of industry experience in software development; in-depth experience developing numerous web-based applications.

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience (will consider relevant professional experience in lieu of degree).

  • Expert understanding of web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, REST, JSON, etc.), and experience in creating reusable UI components.

  • Strong understanding of web optimization strategies.

  • Ability to communicate with users and stakeholders at all levels (internal and external), strong problem solving skills, proactive, willing to take ownership, and drive to keep commitments.

  • Experience with a JavaScript architecture framework like Angular, React etc.

  • Experience with Node, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, etc.

  • Proficiency with Git or another version control system

  • Love for clean, maintainable, modular code

  • Experience with Mongodb, Redis, Postgres, etc.

  • Experience with web application hosting, networking, and integration.

  • Experience with TDD

    Why work with us:

    Everyone here has a passion not just for education, but for making education more accessible, more affordable and more efficient.

    Benefits:

    Full health coverage for the employee, Two-weeks Paid Time Off, Flexible Equity Options, Unlimited water breaks.

    Compensation:

    Salary: $100,000 - $150,000; dependant upon experience, equity trade off, and location.
  • Start date
    ASAP
    From
    Quesbook, Inc.
    Published at
    10.02.2016
    Contact person:
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    Project ID:
    1067385
    Contract type
    Freelance
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