We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers.<p><i>Responsibilities</i><p>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 development cycle: writing stories, design, implementation, iteration, testing, and release.<p>One of the first things you would get to do is help define and create our mobile applications and API infrastructure. These are key projects to our success.<p><i>Qualifications</i><p>- Deep knowledge of Rails and everything that goes along with it (MVC, REST, relational database design/SQL)<p>- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS<p>- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)<p>- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release<p><i>You get extra bonus points for:</i><p>- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery or Prototype<p>- Ability to write complex SQL<p>- Understanding of good RDBMS design. Experience optimizing queries.<p>- Experience with memcached, sphinx, and nginx<p>- Node.js<p>- Story-driven development<p>- Web service/API development (REST)<p>- Ability to play ping-pong, soccer, or Call of Duty skillfully<p>- Experience with ranking/ratings algorithms<p>- Machine learning and predictive algorithms<p><i>Perks</i><p>- Full Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)<p>- 17 days of PTO (vacation)<p>- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)<p>- A substantial amount of equity in the company<p>If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to michael@carwoo.com.<p>We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).