Location: San Francisco, CA (SOMA)
URL: http://www.seriousbusiness.com
Be a part of the team that makes Rails scaling happen!
Serious Business (www.seriousbusiness.com) develops massively scaled social games across all social networks. We have serious games in the pipeline and we are building a team to make it happen. Serious Business operates one of the largest Rails clusters in the world, and with your help, we’re going to make it #1. The founders are serious Rails engineers and they are looking for serious fire power.
We are a profitable, venture backed company with investments from the people behind RockYou and Flixter. Here’s a list of things people are saying about us:
San Francisco Chronicle: http://tinyurl.com/5pwqz6
TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/25/lightspeed-funding-turns-facebook-application-into-serious-business/
VentureBeat: http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/25/creators-of-facebook-app-friends-for-sale-raise-round-not-for-sale/
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: We are looking to hire rockstar Ruby/Rails engineers 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 peeps 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
CULTURE
We are serious about culture here at Serious. 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
- Ownership – 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
SOMA, San Francisco (Mission between 2nd and 3rd)
Plus additional benefits
- 30 inch monitors (because we love pixels)
- Aeron chairs (used from Craigslist, but hey)
- MacBook Pros (standard)
- Full health, vision, dental
- Commuter passes
- Awesome location in the heart of SOMA
Serious Business is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
To apply: work@seriousbusiness.com