Chicago, IL - Full Time
Experienced Ruby on Rails engineer needed to join doggyloot as a Director of Technology.
doggyloot is the leading website for the discovery of dog-related products and has hundreds of thousands of members that visit its website. doggyloot is a well-funded, VC-backed startup that was founded within the Startup Foundry at Sandbox Industries in early 2011.
The US pet product market is HUGE with over 46 million US households having a dog. There are actually more dogs (over 75 million) than children in the US. The size of the market for pet food and supplies is over $30 billion and has grown by over 200% the last ten years. doggyloot is positioned to revolutionize the pet e-commerce space.
Our small engineering team has already built an effective e-commerce platform but we plan to build even more impressive technology in the coming months and years. We need to scale our technology platform, build innovative consumer features and automate a lot of operational processes. This is a great opportunity to get involved early and make your mark with a promising, funded startup with rapidly-growing revenue and interesting technologies.
Looking for - Lead development for our existing Ruby on Rails-based systems. You're willing to collaborate with other members of the leadership team on the business and technical strategy as well as the product roadmap.You’re comfortable working on any part of the development stack (server administration, Rails, MySQL/PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS, Javascript/jQuery, UI/UX)
Email me at giselle at doggyloot dot com if you'd like more information about this position.
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