Harvest: Junior Rails Developer in New York

Location: New York, NY
URL: http://www.getharvest.com/


Harvest is looking for a Junior Rails Developer to join our team.About Harvest:Harvest is one of the earliest Rails applications designed for businesses. We took a rather boring and painful problem — time tracking — and applied our expertise in design & technology. We're making time tracking enjoyable and effortless.We started as a team of 3 using Rails 0.14. Since then, we've grown to 19 Harvesters, serving thousands of customers from over 150 countries (and yes, we're now on Rails 3). We're a profitable and growing business that is completely self-funded.Learn more about working at Harvest: http://www.getharvest.com/careersNow, About You:You'll be joining a team of 6 awesome developers, working on a popular web application that powers some of coolest businesses out there. Here's a glimpse at Harvest's development process:http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2011/10/how-harvest-is-made-part-two/You should have a strong foundation in computer science, and some experience with Ruby & Rails. You are smart, curious, and eager to learn. We value honesty, responsibility, and humility, and we hope you do too.Sample of Things You Might Work On:Recreate bugs and unexpected behavior, then fix the problem. Communicate the problem and solution back to our customers.Refactor code to use new technologies and techniques. For example, our report generation and export just went from a tmpfile on disk to streaming output from our Rails daemons.Collaborate with our interaction designers and front-end devs on a better first-time user experience, then make it happen.Explore exciting possibilities for 3rd party APIs — everything from financial tools to support dashboards to Google app integrations.Move a small codebase over to a new technology like Rails 3, Ruby 1.9.3, CoffeeScript, or CouchDB.Job Perks:Work that is meaningful, challenging and fun.A Mac of your choice + GeekDesk (standing desk) at our beautiful Soho office.Excellent coffee.Good salary.100% health benefits.And a promise: no political B.S., cubicles, or TPS reports.


To apply: Email us at jdevs@getharvest.com with the subject "Harvest Jr Dev (37s)". Describe your CS background, tell us why you want to work at Harvest, and why you'd make a good fit here. Bonus points: include a link to your GitHub account.

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