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Normal Company   |   Quirky, Inc
We bring two brand new consumer products to market each week, by enabling a fluid conversation between a global community & Quirky's experts
  • Location: New York, NY
  • Date Posted: August 09, 2012

About This Job:

ABOUT US

Quirky is a social product development™ company that brings consumer product ideas from sketch to store every week, and rewards the thousands of contributors to these products with a share of the revenue generated by their sale. We make invention accessible and are revolutionizing the way consumer products are made. Our products are regularly featured on blogs such as TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Engadget, and we have also been profiled by a number of publications ranging from the New York Times to Parade Magazine. We have several retail partnerships including Target and Bed Bath and Beyond. We even had our very own reality show! (http://www.sundancechannel.com/quirky/). Quirky is a well-funded startup with offices around the world and over 50 employees in our New York Headquarters.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a back-end developer at Quirky, you will be responsible for contributing to many aspects of building and maintaining the Quirky Technology Platform as we scale the business out to meet increased product demand and greater product development participation. This will include:

  • back-end web application development (database, business logic, API) for new website and mobile features
  • back-end system development (shopping cart, order fulfillment, accounting, etc)
  • performance and scalability of our platform
  • financial reporting
  • customer service tools
  • operational support

REQUIREMENTS

At minimum, you will have at least a few years of professional experience with the following technologies and software. These are the tools that we work with every day and that we expect you to hit the ground running with. The quantity of your experience is not nearly as important as the quality of it.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Objective C
  • MySQL
  • Git
  • Agile, Iterative Development
  • excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • action and detail oriented
  • highly motivated to drive projects to completion

As your code will be deployed in a high-volume e-commerce production environment, performance tuning and testing will be critical to success.

BONUS POINTS

Building a global product development company is no small task and we are seeking individuals excited by the challenge and who have experience with the following areas of our business. The more you can bring to the table, the more we will have to talk about.

  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS)
  • Deployment Management (Heroku)
  • Payment Processing (ActiveMerchant)
  • E-Commerce/Shopping Carts
  • Warehousing and Shipping
  • Issue Tracking (Jira)
  • NoSQL Databases (Mongo)
  • EDI
  • Accounting (NetSuite Integration)
  • Social Media Integration (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
  • Crowdsourcing
  • RESTful web service API development
  • Database Schema Design and Indexing
  • Data Warehousing
  • Startup Experience

*Relocation available for well-qualified candidates.* Apply Via: http://quirky.theresumator.com/apply/rKVnJx/BackEnd-Developer.html

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