Software Developer for Social Web required! (only US)

Description

Job Description
Looking for someone that not only creates working software but well-crafted software. Someone who will respond to change but also steadily add value to it.

Work with our amazing team of developers and designers who love what they do are are continually looking for ways to improve. Focus on learning and contributing to open source projects.

We have an office right outside of Washington DC in Falls Church, VA. You can work there or from the comfort of your home office anywhere in the United States

Why this job?
We love technology, learning and building great software. Not only do we keep up with the latest tech, we're generally ahead (beta's and alpha's.) We provide recent hardware and make sure you have all the right accessories to do what you need to do (video camera, keyboard, mouse, headsets, etc.) Everyone meets up in person 2-3 times a year for a get together.

Full health, dental and vision packages are provided.

Everyone gets a Raspberry Pi to hack on and generally just have fun with.

Books and online training is also provided for your continued growth and enjoyment.

Use whatever OS you would like (most of us are on mac's with a little linux+windows mixed in.)

Be yourself.

Ok, the technologies
We use what's right for the job and actually completely changed the stack recently in order to accommodate the platform and space we're in now.

Ruby 2.1

Rails 4.1

CoffeeScript

EmberJS 1.5

Redis & SideKiq

Postgres (using hstore and json)

SCSS and Semantic UI

Fully automated infrastructure deployment via Ansible on Amazon

While these are what we currently use knowledge of any mainstream object oriented programing language is acceptable.

Core values

Continuously deliver success

Be extremely happy with your work

Not be bogged down with meetings and other non-tech stuff

Have hardware, software, and freedom necessary to do the above

Refactor frequently

Release often

Explore their own ideas

Choose a work environment and schedule which suits you

First and last: Continuously deliver success!

Skills & Requirements

Passionate about technology and web applications

Love working in an agile, sometimes fast-moving and changing environment

Comfortable working a distributed, semi-virtual environment (voice and video chats are a norm)

Comfortable giving and taking open and honest feedback from coworkers (who will also become your friends)

Able to take minimal direction from others but in return provide maximum direction for yourself (and sometimes others.)

Bachelor's degree in something

Excellent working knowledge of object oriented programming

Can actually create kick-ass code

About SpruceMail
We're building out the next generation marketing platform that connects together traditional email marketing into the social world. While we get to do the complicated stuff on the backend we try to keep it as simple as possible for the user to use.

We've been around for 5 years in the social advertising space and managed more than $250 million in Facebook ad spend. Have managed many of the world's leading brands including Samsung, McDonalds, PepsiCo, Target, University of Phoenix, Walmart and Zynga.


How to apply
Email me your resume and cover letter. If selected, we will conduct an initial telephone interview followed by a test (30min-1hr.) We regret that we are unable to respond to everyone.