PHP / Rails Web Developer at Firefly Health (Cambridge, MA)

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building innovative technology that will disrupt a critical yet broken healthcare system and drive value for all stakeholders – especially consumers. If you’re obsessed with building scalable platforms, improving product performance, and informing major architectural decisions and are looking for a technical leadership role at a fast-paced and socially conscious startup, Firefly is for you.

Firefly snapshot:

• Our team includes a co-founder of Facebook, a Board member of Tufts Health Plan, a serial entrepreneur with 3 tech IPOs under his belt, a former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and the head of clinical informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
• Our alpha product hosts the largest rare disease community on the web.
• We have raised over $1M in Angel and are about to close a Series A with a top-tier VC.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (M.S /Ph.D. in CS a plus)
• UNIX/Linux expert, know your way around a server
• Knowledge of ORM, Active Record
• Lots of Rails or PHP experience
• MySql Expert (complex databases & tuning knowledge)
• Production level website optimization experience (kcachegrind, etc…)
• Experience with Apache, Subversion
• Knowledge of Memcached, RESTful APIs
• Working knowledge of JS, AJAX, Prototype JS framework, XHTML, CSS

What’s in it for you:

Highly competitive salary, stock options, health, dental, and gym, catered meals, and all the tea in China.

Interested? Send us a short cover letter (2 paragraphs, max) along with your resume to jobs@fireflyhealth.org.