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.<p>PHILOSOPHY:<p>• we focus obsessively on product conversion (creating successful referrals for our users)<p>• we love experimenting, and are constantly testing ideas<p>• we measure everything, use data to test our hypotheses, and mine our historic data for new ideas<p>• we are scrappy and proud of accomplishing more with less<p>• we are founded by engineers and our culture is deeply technical<p>• we love Ruby, Rails, and elegant software design<p>• we use scrum, have test coverage for everything, and use automated deployment<p>• we SHIP more than daily<p>TRACTION:<p>• we have many happy paying customers, big & small; we've helped companies grow 80X using Curebit<p>• we're funded by YCombinator, 500Startups, and more than 20 proven entrepreneurs<p>• we're currently a team of 5; everyone has previously started at least one successful company<p>THE JOB:<p>• first engineering hire (!); work with the founders<p>• generous equity and market salary<p>• lots of complex software design/architecture challenges<p>• you will be building a platform used by thousands of stores, and seen by millions of shoppers<p>• based in San Francisco, right outside Civic Center BART (relocation assistance possible)<p>OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE:<p>• loves to code for fun<p>• generalist comfortable at all levels of the stack<p>• loves software design; writes readable, reusable, and (sometimes) declarative code<p>• dislikes overly clever hacks that violate convention or degrade readability/testability<p>• wants to be part of a startup or start one in the future (you'll be treated as a founder)<p>• just gets it done<p>REQUIREMENTS:<p>• eligible for employment in USA<p>• willing to relocate to San Francisco<p>TO APPLY, email us at aGFja0BjdXJlYml0LmNvbQ== with this info:<p>• a link to some Ruby gem/project that you think is particularly well designed<p>• GitHub username & code sample<p>• Tell us about something you've built that you're proud of<p>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.