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Rails Engineer - Socialcam

Justin.tv is already the world's largest live video platform and the leading streaming website for competitive gaming. Now we're building the way the world shares mobile video with Socialcam, the leading mobile application to share videos.

Join us in our fast pace moving team in the heart of San Francisco, we build fast and release every day. Socialcam Rails stack is already running Rails3, tested with Rspec and we use the best gems and practices out there.  You can read more about how we have already increased JTV rails performance here.


Who you are:
You are a talented Rails engineer, your know your stack on the tip of your fingers and you want to tackle more challenging problems.  You are not afraid of taking the load and handling it.  You prefer small ambitious team.  If this sounds familiar, you might want to consider Socialcam twice then :)

Responsibilities:
  • Contribute to product design and implementation discussions
  • Our Mobile apps are talking to Rails through the Socialcam API, you will make the API faster, better, stronger
  • Bring the website to the next level in order to reflect new apps functionalities by using latest html5 and JS tricks
  • Test and iterate code before and after production release
Requirements:
  • You know how to choose he right tool at the right time, even if it's not in Ruby
  • You use git and have a Github account showing us your talents
  • One or more high quality Rails projects to show off
Pluses:
  • Experience in caching and making things fast
  • Experience with MongoDB and Postgres
  • You test your code, with Rspec
  • You use Haml, Sass and jQuery
  • You are not limited to the Rails stack and understand how things work under the hood

Benefits: Competitive salary (including equity), full medical & dental, catered lunch & dinner, biweekly massages, gym membership, Super Streetfighter 4 tournaments, whatever design tools you desire, as many monitors as you can fit on your desk.

Justin.tv is a Y-Combinator company. We're based out of San Francisco, CA.
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