Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
URL: stealth
About Us
Backed by one of the most notable VC firms in the world, we are looking for an exceptional RoR developer to join our currently small & strong team.
We are a new and progressive venture in the healthcare
industry. Yet we have real revenue, real paying
customers, and are growing at an alarming rate. We
apply aggressive process analysis, develop
user-centered web applications and cutting edge IT
infrastructure to provide excellent customer service,
quality care, and seamless process integration for our
doctors and internal admin staff. We are a very small
team and intend to stay that way and maintain our
solid and fiscally responsible business model.
- We are revolutionizing healthcare and therefore NO
HEALTHCARE experience is needed! We want fresh
ideas from other industries. We want your
analytical approach and your innovative solutions.
If you care about the customer and care about
delivering great solutions then we want to meet
you. *
Proven successful management team hails from Stanford,
Princeton, Yale and has successful track record of
previous startups.
About You
- Personality.
You must be able to interact with our receptionists,
doctors, and nurse team in order to learn their
process, form open and direct relationships in order
to hear their day-to-day struggles and brainstorm
creative solutions. We know that "personality"
isn’t a typical requirement of engineers—> but it
is in this case.
- Confident.
Perhaps to the point of being a bit "pushy" with
your ideas. We want you to have convictions! We are
looking for someone that has a passion for doing
things right and making trade-off decisions among
various technical approaches. Must be comfortable to
debate and defend your positions and to push for
change.
- Passion for the customer.
You should WANT to dig in and learn our business and
the complex processes that people in the healthcare
industry grapple with day-to-day. There are tons of
inefficient and manual process steps that we can
simplify (or eliminate) with clever web application
solutions thereby adding loads of value and
happiness in the process (we’re already doing this!)
- Computer Science Degree.
We understand that there are many people out there
today who "code", and that’s great. With our small
team, we’re looking for people who can hold their
own in terms of algorithm discussions, performance
optimizations, potential hardware trade-offs, etc.
For this reason, we’re only interested in great
developers that also have a BS in Computer Science
or equivalent.
- Smart and hard working.
Ready to take on responsibility and take action.
Team is not willing to push you. You’ll be working
99% of the time without any supervision (just
guidance on priorities and technical collaboration).
The ideal candidate will come in, ask how they can
help, take on projects, and run with them.
- Ruby on Rails.
This is a MUST HAVE. We’re looking for someone who
can be our resident guru. We’ve brought together a
crack team of engineers from various other language
disciplines and specialties and we’re programming in
RoR right now, but we want someone that can be our
resident expert and provide that resource so we
don’t fritter around with things you already know
and can steer us accordingly. Even 2 years of
experience in RoR is adequate to meet "guru" in our
eyes if you’ve gone deep in it.
- Other stuff that would be great.
Very strong Javascript background, CSS and DOM knowledge
jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous desired
Unix/Linux background (Ubuntu and Amazon EC2 experience a plus)
Strong DB/SQL skills, MySQL preferred
Work Environment & Team Dynamics
- Location.
A combination of working remotely (80%) and
in-office (20%). We generally meet physically 1 or 2
days per week at our office in downtown San
Francisco. Other than that we’re using Skype, WebEx,
and IRC to sync up on the day’s activities and
priorities and then it’s back to IRC to get stuff
done. For this reason, we think that a minimum of 5
years of work experience is required—> otherwise
the remote work aspect may prove challenging.
- Small team.
This is why it’s essential that we find the right fit.
- High productivity.
No red tape or bulky process—> heavy on results, light on process
Embrace TDD/BDD style of development with an eye for code refactoring
- Learn the business.
Your first few days will be spent doing training
with our receptionists and doctors in one of our
clinics, learning the human processes we want to
automate and simplify. We want you to know our
business!
- Full stack.
Our team "does it all" at this point. Web server
instances, database care, automated testing (rspec &
selenium), deploy scripts, etc. At some point as we
grow we’ll specialize, but for now you can get great
exposure to a very broad set of responsibilities and
functions while you simultaneously bring your own
unique talents and specialties to the team.
- Technologies.
We’re using lots of the latest technologies: Ruby on
Rails, Memcached, EC2, S3, Prototype, Scriptaculous
If you meet the criteria—> give a holler
VERY IMPORTANT: Although we would love to hire this
person as soon as possible, we are not in a rush and we
are not desperate to hire the first person that comes
along. Our current operations are running just fine and
we’re adding revenue customers every day. But we’d
love to accelerate even more projects that improve our
profitability and user happiness. Therefore, we can
take our time to look for the right person. Please only
apply if you meet the criteria. Startup energy and
interest is a must. We work hard, push each other and
have fun along the way. We’ll use your answers to the
questions below to follow-up with phone screens. After
the phone screen there will be an onsite coding test
with one of your potential teammates (not HR) to
showcase your skills (should be a positive thing!)
1. What sounds great about this opportunity? Why are you interested?
(This helps us immediately weed out the desperate, shotgun blast people)
2. What’s the coolest project or technology you've worked on?
3. What are your 3 biggest strengths wrt what we're looking for?
4. Why are looking for a new opportunity?
5. Attach your resumeThanks. We look forward to meeting you!
To apply: job-691719962@craigslist.org