Full-time Web Engineer wanted

Chicago  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Cards Against Humanity and Blackbox are hiring a full-stack web engineer who is excited to help us build tools for independent artists and tell jokes on the internet.

The ideal candidate is eager to deeply understand complicated problems and contribute holistically to solving them. We’re interested in hiring well-rounded people with hobbies and side projects who are curious about learning new things and contributing to our culture in unexpected ways. Please consider applying even if your background doesn’t perfectly match our ideal credentials. We are committed to diversity and especially encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply.

The technology we’ve built so far has shipped the most-backed Kickstarter game in history, sold over 10,000 Trump Bug-Out bags in under 2 hours, distributed 30,000 pieces of cow poo, and raised nearly $3 million for nonprofits like the Wikimedia Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, and DonorsChoose.org, where Cards Against Humanity has funded over 13,000 teacher projects in high-poverty classrooms across the United States.

Day to day you’ll be working closely with a small team of designers and engineers, primarily on Blackbox, to plan and build new features, and optimize existing ones. We’re currently using Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and AWS to make this happen, but we’re open to always open to new technologies if it makes sense.

This is a full-time position based in Chicago, IL with benefits including full health and dental and generous vacation. We work out of our wonderful co-working space full of other amazing artists, developers, game designers, photographers, and the occasional dog. We often work remotely as well, but you should be available to join us for regular meetings.

Responsibilities

  • Build and launch various web projects for Cards Against Humanity and Blackbox.
  • Systems administration of web servers.
  • Collaborate with other team members; you should be willing to champion your ideas (especially those in the best interest of the customer), but also be able to work towards a compromise solution.
  • Cards Against Humanity and Blackbox are design-led companies, and you should be comfortable making development part of our product design process.
  • You should be excited to test ideas with our UX designer, ask tough questions, and adapt based on what we learn.

    Skills and Qualifications

  • Ruby, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
  • Experience with programming frameworks like Ruby on Rails and AngularJS.
  • Elasticsearch knowledge would be a big help.
  • Responsive design and web standards.
  • Familiarity with AWS, testing, deployment strategies, and building and consuming APIs.

    To apply, please send us:

  • A brief introduction to yourself.
  • Your work history.
  • A link to your website, GitHub, or relevant work examples.
  • Approximate date you are available to start.
  • Salary requirements.
  • Start date
    ASAP
    From
    Cards Against Humanity
    Published at
    15.06.2016
    Contact person:
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    Project ID:
    1148129
    Contract type
    Permanent
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