Senior Rails Hacker

To Apply: engjobs@blueleaf.com

Date Posted: Monday August 30, 2010

Company: Blueleaf

Location: Cambridge, MA

Blueleaf is an angel-funded startup building a new way to deliver financial services online that we believe will become THE investing interface on the web. We are seeking a bright, passionate, full stack Rails engineer.

Blueleaf will help people take control of their investments through helping them understand their investments, monitoring their investments for them every day, helping them collaborate with the people they trust, and securely powering third-party apps with their financial data. To do this, we’re building a hub connecting investors, their families and their financial advisors to ALL their investment and bank accounts, and to one another. Our ultimate goal is ambitious: we want to transform financial services the way Amazon transformed retail sales and Google transformed advertising.

We are six guys: a lean startup CEO, a financial cryptographer CTO/coder, a serial entrepreneur VPE/coder, a test-driven demon engineer, a brilliant ex-Hashrocket user experience designer, and a crafty guerrilla marketer. We’re always looking for the best and brightest to join our world-class team. Our investors include high-profile founders from some of the largest sites on the Internet as well as some of the smartest investors in the world.

We currently have an invitation-only Alpha that we’ve shared with a handful of Blueleaf friends and we’ll happily share with you. Our process is agile: customer driven with quick iterations and A/B testing.

Your Responsibilities:
* Work closely with CEO, designer, and the rest of the engineering team to refine requirements
* Learn and hack the system from end to end
* Work in short iterations with frequent releases

Requirements:
* 2+ years full stack Rails experience
* TDD/RSpec/Cucumber
* Comfort with Linux system administration
* Learned re-user of code and design patterns
* Fearless coder
* Interested in learning about personal finance

Experience with or willingness to learn:
* AJAX/JavaScript and one or more UI libraries (we use jQuery)
* Haml and Sass /CSS
* Git
* Scaling web apps
* Continuous deployment

If this sounds like you, please drop us a line. Please include a resume, links to any online work (sites, github, blog, twitter,...). No recruiters or contractors please.