Who is LikeMe?
LikeMe is a social network based search engine that provides personalized recommendations for an active lifestyle. LikeMe.Net gets to know users’ favorite stuff and then provides recommendations on places they’re most likely to enjoy - in a new city, or in their own backyard. LikeMe is a young company, small enough for everyone to know your name. Its mission is to become the premiere destination for recommendations online – and empower users to help each other to enjoy life by sharing their favorites.
LikeMe currently offers personalized recommendations in six major categories: Restaurants,
Bars/Nightlife, Hotels, Shopping, Fitness/Spas/Beauty, and Activities. Even more categories that define and leverage the collective experiences of the LikeMe community will be rolled out in the future.
LikeMe has the benefit of being as well-connected in the business world as its users are in their own neighborhoods – which bodes well for immediate success. These relationships span major players in Hollywood, technology and publishing, and have brought LikeMe a vital partnership with Village Voice Media. Each of the websites for the 15 alternative newsweeklies owned by Village Voice across the country feature LikeMe members and recommendations, and they provide LikeMe with cool localized content.
About the job
LikeMe is looking for a senior Developer to join our growing company to help take our product to hyper-growth mode on the Internet. The ideal candidate has a number of years of experience with object-oriented programming and web site development utilizing open source tools. The ideal candidate is looking for an opportunity to fully utilize their knowledge, skills and experience in system architecture and development in a dynamic, go-go environment where the focus is on building a new way to search that has unlimited potential.
As a senior developer, you will architect and develop complex web-based software applications, and will lead others in the analysis, design, and development of these solutions. Development will focus on web applications developed on the Ruby on Rails platform utilizing an agile development methodology; applications will primarily be for LikeMe, but on occasion will integrate with or be used by one of our business partners.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills, sound interpersonal skills, creative thinking, and the ability to work in a fast paced dynamic environment is required. A passion to work extremely hard in a high-energy, team-driven, entrepreneurial start-up environment is expected.
Personal Characteristics
• Visionary
• Creative
• Positive attitude
• Enthusiastic
• Flexible
What's it in for you:
Competitive salary
Great insurance (medical, dental, vision, life)
Flexible health spending account
3 Weeks PTO… to start!
Short and long term disability plans
And more
If you want your business card to feature the name of a website where the numbers keep growing, the motto is “work hard, play hard,” and people are psyched to come to the office every day, then it sounds like you’re… LikeMe! (In addition to all that good stuff, LikeMe Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.)
If you are interested, please send resume and salary requirements to job+304@railsjobs.in
Required Skills:
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or similar area of study is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience building consumer-oriented web sites via HTML/XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (AJAX, DHTML) is required, experience with information architecture & user interface is required, experience coding for browser compatibility is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years experience designing & developing database-driven web sites with MySQL, MS SQL Server or Oracle is required.
• Minimum 5 years of object oriented programming and practices experience using Java, PHP or equivalent platform experience is required.
• Minimum 2 years experience with the Ruby language and the Rails framework is preferred, a mastery of the entire Ruby on Rails stack is a bonus.
• Experience in agile development methodology, including test driven development experience and pair programming is preferred.
• Experience with the development, support and scaling of high traffic consumer web sites, including optimizing database queries, caching, and client side optimizations.
• Passion for providing a great user experience is required.
• Proven ability to lead others in the software development process.
• As development lead, must be able to provide accurate and realistic effort estimates, commit to them, and deliver on time.
• Proven analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good communication and presentation skills with staff and vendors at all organizational levels, including both technical and non-technical staff.
• Ability to independently plan and execute responsibilities and tasks, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with occasional non-business day hours (evenings, weekends), able to prioritize and juggle multiple projects.
• Ability to work as a proactive, resourceful team member.
Employment terms: Salary
Hours: Full-time
Applications are now closed.
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