CarWoo! seeking Senior Rails Developer

We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us take the on-line auto industry by storm. You will be joining a great engineering and design team. You will help bring on-line car buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn a mostly terrible experience (buying a new car) into a wonderful experience for our customers.

You will be focused on creating new features for the carwoo.com web application. You must also be willing to dive into an extensive code base.

Responsibilities Work with the other members of the development,marketing, and product teams to create a world class product. You will be responsible for all aspects of the agile software design cycle: creating stories, design, implementation, iteration, testing, and release.

Qualifications

- 3 + years designing and building web applications

- 2 + years developing with Rails

- Knowledge of relational database design and SQL

- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS

- Experience with version control systems

- Solid understanding of Linux or Mac OSX

- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release

- Solid understanding of MVC

You get extra bonus points for:

- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery or Prototype

- Ability to write complex SQL

- Understanding of good RDBMS design. Experience optimizing queries.

- Experience with memcached, sphinx, and nginx

- Story driven development

- Web service development (REST)

- Ability to play soccer with aplomb

- Experience with raking algorithms (linear algebra…things like page rank)

- Machine learning and predictive algorithms

You can submit your resume at carwoo.com/jobs or send email to jobs@carwoo.com.

About CarWoo!

CarWoo!, simply the best way to buy a new car, was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneurs, Tommy McClung, Erik Landerholm and Michael Young. It is the first online service that allows buyers to negotiate anonymously with multiple dealers, ensuring the best offers on the car they want. With early funding by Y Combinator, CarWoo! is based in Burlingame, CA and is now funded by Blumberg Capital, Comcast Interactive Capital and Interwest Partners. Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and on Twitter at twitter.com/carwoo.