Web Application Developer

To Apply: careers@epernicus.com

Date Posted: Monday February 08, 2010

Company: Epernicus

Location: Boston, MA

Epernicus is growing and we're looking for help! We're a Boston-area start-up (Harvard and MIT roots) founded in 2008 by four passionate entrepreneurs with medical and software backgrounds. Our customers are world-class companies and non-profits doing cutting-edge medical research (Genzyme, the Broad Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, to name a few...). Our software products will positively impact healthcare for hundreds of millions of people.

We're looking for an experienced and creative web application developer who writes clean code, communicates effectively, and is motivated by building meaningful and mission-critical products. As web application developer, you will play an instrumental role in the design and implementation of our suite of enterprise products. This position reports to our CTO. We offer competitive compensation (commensurate with experience) and early stage equity.

The ideal candidate has:

* Solid technical fundamentals (likely CS or Math background).
* Significant experience building production web applications (Ruby on Rails a plus).
* Strong SQL skills (we use MySQL 5).
* A passion for clean code and clear naming conventions.
* A drive to design and build highly usable software.

To apply, please email your resume to careers@epernicus.com, along with a solution to the following exercise: Write code, in your choice of language, that takes as input a string and integer shift and returns that string encoded using a basic Caesar cipher.