Curebit (YC W11) is hiring Ruby hackers passionate about software design

Curebit builds customer referral systems for businesses. We believe that great products need a better way to reach consumers than through ads. We believe that the old ways of centralized media are being replaced by peer-to-peer media, and that the future of product discovery lies in recommendations from like-minded individuals. We built Curebit so that companies that are loved by their customers can accelerate their word of mouth growth by asking for referrals in the right way.

PHILOSOPHY:

• we focus obsessively on product conversion (creating successful referrals for our users)

• we love experimenting, and are constantly testing ideas

• we measure everything, use data to test our hypotheses, and mine our historic data for new ideas

• we are scrappy and proud of accomplishing more with less

• we are founded by engineers and our culture is deeply technical

• we love Ruby, Rails, and elegant software design

• we use scrum, have test coverage for everything, and use automated deployment

• we SHIP more than daily

TRACTION:

• we have many happy paying customers, big & small; we've helped companies grow 80X using Curebit

• we're funded by YCombinator, 500Startups, and more than 20 proven entrepreneurs

• we're currently a team of 5; everyone has previously started at least one successful company

THE JOB:

• first engineering hire (!); work with the founders

• generous equity and market salary

• lots of complex software design/architecture challenges

• you will be building a platform used by thousands of stores, and seen by millions of shoppers

• based in San Francisco, right outside Civic Center BART (relocation assistance possible)

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• loves to code for fun

• generalist comfortable at all levels of the stack

• loves software design; writes readable, reusable, and (sometimes) declarative code

• dislikes overly clever hacks that violate convention or degrade readability/testability

• wants to be part of a startup or start one in the future (you'll be treated as a founder)

• just gets it done

REQUIREMENTS:

• eligible for employment in USA

• willing to relocate to San Francisco

TO APPLY, email us at aGFja0BjdXJlYml0LmNvbQ== with this info:

• a link to some Ruby gem/project that you think is particularly well designed

• GitHub username & code sample

• Tell us about something you've built that you're proud of

P.S. You may have read about an incident a month ago where we copied a design from 37signals. This is not something we stand for, and the people responsible are no longer with the company.