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Software Engineer - Core Platform & Scalability Zipcar
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Overview:What's it like working for Zipcar? We have over 700,000 paying customers around the world, some of whom are probably your friends. Walking around the city, you see people using our product every day. When you tell people at parties that you work at Zipcar, their first question is rarely "oh, what's that?".
Zipcar is transforming urban life. We make life more rewarding, sustainable and affordable. We enhance urban lifestyles by maximizing our members' most precious resources - their time. In order to developing leading edge products and services, our Engineering Group is seeking innovative software engineers across all our deciplines. The work you will do has a direct impact on our business and our members' experience. You will fix real problems for real customers in real time.
We have a cool product that we love, and our customers love. The problems we face daily stem from striving to create an amazing member experience while managing a very complex business. Of course, the engineering team still has the same issue any company experiences: getting consensus on where to go to lunch and dodging oncoming Nerf warfare.
Responsibilities:
Help design, build, and maintain our next generation core platforms, which will allow us to significantly scale globally
Work with engineering teams (web, mobile, reservation, and operations) on innovation across all platforms
Collaborate closely with our product team and prepare for future systems enhancements.
Qualifications:
Experience with development, debugging, and performance tuning of web-based, database-backed systems
Command of your favorite server side language (Ruby/PHP/Python/etc.)
Ideally 3 to 5 years? experience in web-based software development
Passion for developing software with the best user experience in mind
Comfortable working in Agile Methodology
Ruby on Rails experience is a plus
| Location: | 25 First Street Fourth Floor Cambridge, MA 02141 United States |
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
Zipcar
Investors: Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Greylock Partners, RevolutionAll Jobs: at Zipcar
| Web Site: | www.zipcar.com |
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| Headquarters: | 25 First Street Fourth Floor Cambridge, MA 02141 United States |
| Industry: | Other |
