Serious Rails Engineer

Posted On: November 16th, 2009    Job Type: Full Time    Job Location:   

WHO WE ARE
When it comes to fun games, it’s Serious Business. We produce some of Facebook’s top social games, we have one of the world’s largest rails clusters, and we’re just getting started(ish).

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking to hire a rockstar Ruby/Rails engineer, like yesterday.

Know Ruby but not Rails?
No sweat.

Know Rails but not Ruby?
Sweat. But apply anyway.

Don’t know either ruby or rails?
Sweaty McSweaterson. But if you’ve got mad skillz we’d still like to talk.

Don’t live in the Bay Area?
We’ll move you here. We subsidize 5k in relocation expenses.

Got friends?
We pay a 10k referral bonus to anyone who refers a developer that we hire.

WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO
* Be one of the guys that makes Rails scaling happen
* Build out infrastructure to support rapid, scalable social application development
* Work on products that millions (we’re serious) of people use every single day
* Contribute back to open source projects like god and merb
* Have a life

WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU
Responsibilities:
* Designing and implementing cutting-edge user interfaces using Ajax, CSS, and DHTML
* Designing and implementing modular and highly-performing server-side game logic
* Designing and implementing internal tools that support our games
* Designing and implementing database schema and access mechanisms
* Ensuring our game interfaces work across all supported browser environments

Requirements:
* 1-3 years programming experience for consumer-based web applications using Ruby on Rails
* 1-2 years programming experience with AJAX, JS, CSS, & DHTML
* 1-2 years programming experience with Ruby
* Ability to quickly prototype and iterate towards production-level quality
* Ability to quickly prototype and iterate towards production-level quality

CULTURE
We are serious about culture here at Serious Business. More than just great engineers, we want to hire great people. We are going to be spending a LOT of time together, so we want you to know our expectations up front:

* Smart – this is Serious Business after all
* Gets things done – we value prototypes and code over posturing and talk
* Agile, tee dee dee – able to work on a variety of projects
* We’re a team – so everybody does the dishes
* Entrepreneurial – everybody has serious ownership and serious say in Serious Business
* Excited to work on projects with lots of unknowns and designing elegant solutions for problems that have quite literally never been solved before

LOCATION
Downtown San Francisco (2nd and Market)

PLUS LOTS OF BULLET POINTS
* 30 inch monitors (because we love pixels)
* Aeron chairs (used from Craigslist, but hey)
* MacBook Pros (standard)
* Full health, vision, dental
* Commuter passes

Tempted?
Please send cover letters, resumes and code samples to work@seriousbusiness.com

Oh, and when you respond please let us know how you found out about this job opening.

www.seriousbusiness.com