Mid Rails Developer (remote work from the USA)

Description

PhishMe is seeking a motivated individual to join its software development team. The successful candidate will have at least some professional experience (internships or professional jobs held as a student are valid). This is a full time position working for PhishMe. Outsourced or software development contractors should not apply.

Qualifications

Successful applicants must be:

Comfortable working remotely from your private office (not the coffee shop)

Comfortable remote pair programming in a terminal environment

Comfortable working independently but pragmatic about when to reach out to the team for help

Able to balance working on bugs with working on new features

Able to organize your work into clear pieces with estimated goals

Able to communicate effectively as part of a remote-work focused company

Able to write clear, maintainable code

Helpful and available to other developers when they need to pair up

Understanding of when brute force or ugly code wins out over an elegant solution

Available to work for eight solid hours per day where at least five overlap with 8am to 6pm EST

Available during off-hours when scheduled for on-call rotation

Available for occasional travel

A US resident

Your experience should demonstrate that you:

Are eager to learn and able to understand and apply new things relatively quickly

Understand version control (bonus points for git experience)

Have at least some hands-on Rails experience

It would really be outstanding if you:

Have attained a four-year degree in something (…anything)

Have customer support experience (retail, help desk, consulting, etc.)

Have solid Ruby and Rails knowledge

Are comfortable with advanced Git usage: rebase, rebase -i, merge –no-ff

Are able to list some sources you use to keep current with programming news

Are fluent in SQL

echo "Are comfortable using the Unix command line" | sed -e "s/ / very /"

Are comfortable with regular expressions

Have basic image creation and manipulation skills

Aren't dogmatic about any aspect of development, even testing

Know not to click links in suspicious emails

Compensation

Competitive salary + stock

Retirement plan with 3% company match

Health, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance

Telecommuting expense reimbursement, etc.

Choose your own Apple workstation

Peers that enjoy appropriate use of internet memes

Location
Chantilly, Virginia
Telecommute (United States only)