Experienced Ruby on Rails Developers
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Job Description
The health care system doesn't work for patients. But you can help change that. PatientsLikeMe is leading the social medicine space by focusing on the sharing of real-world data.
We've proven our concept and are now looking for several Senior Engineers to join our team as we change the world.
As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for enhancing, maintaining, and optimizing patientslikeme.com and supporting sites. Not only should you enjoy writing well organized, highly tested code, but you should also enjoy working with a brilliant group of teammates and stakeholders to solve hard problems in both software engineering and science.
Your responsibilities:
- Write scalable, well-factored, well-tested application code
- Work with support teams to find and fix application bugs
- Work with cross-functional teams to develop design solutions
Requirements:
- 7+ years experience developing web applications
- 1+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
- 2+ years of experience with JavaScript and one or more UI libraries like jQuery, Prototype, YUI, etc.
- Good automated test/spec-writing skills
- Database proficiency (schema design and queries)
- CSS & HTML proficiency
- Experience with Git or other version control system
- Experience working within Agile development environments
- Willingness to work in Haml and Sass
Desirable:
- Experience with medical systems, social networks and data visualization.
- Experience leading SCRUM teams
- Experience supporting multiple browsers including IE (6, 7, 8), Firefox, Chrome and Safari
- Linux, OS X experience
- Team player. Pirates, ninjas and rock stars need not apply.
- Experience with Rock Band, darts, or table tennis a plus.
To apply for this position, please email your resume to
careers@patientslikeme.com.