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Senior Software Engineer BookRenter
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About Us:At BookRenter we?re dedicated to making education more affordable by allowing students to rent textbooks for up to 75% off the retail price. Our innovative pricing and operating systems provide students with the best price, highest quality books, and most flexible rental experience available today. Currently offering more than 5.5 million titles and serving thousands of students on over 5,000 campuses, Launched in 2008, we?re one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley, growing at over 725% annually. BookRenter is a privately held company located in San Mateo, CA and is funded by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
Position Summary:
Primary Responsibilities:
Design and implement new product and enhancements at model, controller and UI levels
Work in a team oriented, exciting, challenging and rewarding work environment
Implement scalability and performance improvements for the application and underlying infrastructure
Optimize existing features
Design and implement web interfaces using jQuery, HAML and SASS
Work with a variety of cross functional teams to build awesome web applications.
Design and develop database driven web tools/apps utilizing a variety of technologies
Design and implement a commercial Ruby on Rails application
Minimum Requirements:
B.S. in Computer Science or a related field
6+ years of experience developing web applications, ideally using Ruby on Rails, Java, or Python
Experience writing automated tests (we use Test::Unit, Shoulda, and Harmony)
Experience with continuous integration (we use TeamCity)
Experience with Data modeling and optimization of RDBMS (MySQL)
Experience developing SaaS or web based enterprise software applications
A good eye for UI design using CSS, JavaScript (we currently favor jQuery, HAML, and SASS)
Experience using Textmate, Git, Unix systems, and Mac OS X
Perks:
This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and the chance to improve the lives of millions of students.
| Location: | San Mateo, CA United States |
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BookRenter
Investors: Storm VenturesAll Jobs: at BookRenter
| Web Site: | www.bookrenter.com |
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| Headquarters: | 00000 United States |
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