VERBA - San Francisco, CA
<a href="http://verbasoftware.com/" >
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* Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME or HALF-TIME with benefits [work on your side projects!]
Verba thinks that college should be more affordable, so we help bookstores get books faster, cheaper, and sell them competitively.
We guide every stage of a used book's life. We help students save money, and bookstores become and stay relevant, competitive, and transparent.
Numbers: 450+ colleges and universities (and more beating down our door), tracking ~200k unique ISBNs, serving millions of students ("rush" season, when students are buying, means 100 requests/s), raising the "win rate" for bookstores to 80%, and dropping prices across the board. 19 employees, 3 part-time. 2 dogs. 5 cats. 3 children.
Code: Ruby, Rails, JS, Clojure and Impala for Hadoop/EMR, MySQL on AWS w/ Chef. We love experiments and go with what works! We also love making a stable, solid product which is why we have a ton of tests, metrics and a one-click build pipeline.
What's in it for you: A great team and company culture, benefits (even for part time!), laptop, books, BART pass, pool table, somewhat healthy office snacks, great conversation during our yearly company work-cations (<a href="http://verbasoftware.com/vacay" >), and hard, challenging, fulfilling work.
Message us if: You want to help make education better. You've got strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture, and know enough JS to help out on front-end. We prefer slope over y-intercept.
How to get the job: Write a cover letter to REDACTED_EMAIL that speaks to why this job might fit with you, and how you could help us out. The first step is a phone screen to solve a small programming problem. Then we'll schedule an on-site interview for a few hours, and have you walk through some of our code with us. Also we'll ask you some historical behavior questions, not logic puzzles. Then we'll make you an offer, and you'll accept and we have a new employee party!
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