Senior Rails Developer

As our senior rails developer, you’ll work in an agile environment designing and building an extensible and maintainable web and iPad-based education platform, conducting continuous deployments, and supporting a lean startup approach. You will quickly take the reigns, mentoring other developers, working within a collaborative agile environment, leading the development of ROR apps, and communicating with non-technical members of the team. You will be part of an A team of developers. The collaborative eSpark team is a dedicated and fun-loving group. If you like sweet treats, practical jokes, team cheers, word play, and scavenger hunts, this is the place for you. Join us in developing software that is changing the future of education.


Things you’ll be doing at eSpark:

• Lead Greenfield development of new Ruby on Rails apps
• Leverage the Ruby on Rails platform and data analytics to automate A/B testing, clustering, and lean UX testing
• Pair programming, continuous integration, and test driven development
• Conduct continuous deployment and concurrent market-testing
• Maintain a method that is lightweight, predictable and enables a lean startup approach
• Assist in recruiting additional talented technical team members

• Ruby on Rails expertise, including pattern and plug-in selection
• iOS experience
• Pair programming, continuous integration, and test driven development
• Automated and behavior-driven testing experience
• Continuous deployment experience