OrgSync — Dallas, TX. Full-time.
Frontend / Backend / Full-stack
## Job Summary
We're looking for a sharp engineer to work alongside a small team of
developers and designers committed to building a robust, performant and
scalable web application serving over 350 colleges and universities
around the country. You have an attention to detail and a professional
curiosity that extends beyond the workplace. You will work in a mostly
autonomous environment, so you have to be just as awesome at getting
things done as you are at composing elegant solutions.
Most of our code is written in Ruby and runs on the Rails stack backed
by a MySQL database, but we also incorporate other technologies such as
Node.js, Memcached, ElasticSearch and Redis. We use GitHub for version
control and our infrastructure is entirely hosted via cloud services.
We care about keeping our libraries up-to-date and test coverage. While
most of our stack is on Rails today, we're comfortable with other
technologies and always strive to use the right tool for the job.
This is a full-time position at our headquarters in Dallas, TX and
includes a competitive base salary, a full range of benefits, stock
options, and an awesome team of creative people by your side.
We're a very open company and you will
## Requirements
- Passion for developing excellent software and an appreciation for elegant code
- Strong understanding of web services and REST concepts
- Strong understanding of relational databases including complex queries and optimization
- Experience writing object-oriented software guided by tests
- Strong understanding of performance optimization and caching techniques
- Being comfortable in a polyglot environment a plus
- Open source project contributions a plus
- Ability to play "Careless Whisper" on saxophone a plus
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
## Links
Open source: <a href="http://orgsync.github.io/" >
Blog: <a href="http://devblog.orgsync.com/" >
Openings: <a href="http://www.orgsync.com/company/careers" >
email clifton [at] orgsync . com for more information.
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