Compass Inc | San Francisco USA | Full Stack Engineer | Full Time.
About Compass:
Three years ago, a team of researchers, entrepreneurs and data geeks set out on an ambitious mission: To put the world’s startups under the microscope in an effort to better understand why some succeed and why 90 percent eventually go the way of the dinosaur.
Fast-forward to today, Compass has analyzed data from over 30,000 startups around the globe, published groundbreaking reports and launched Compass, a benchmarking and decision-making tool for companies. We are going after a ~$100 Billion market that is today owned by Consulting, Market Research, Information &amp; Competitive Intelligence Firms. In the past three years, we've achieved unprecedented insights for startup and software CEOs with our "Startup Genome Report" and "Ecosystem Report", which were featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and also received a mention by President Obama. We are now ready to take the next step, and are therefore looking for new members to join our A-Team.
The Position:
At Compass, you will be a part of our agile engineering team, working in a continuous integration environment with cutting edge tools, building a highly scalable application We collect and analyze data from all kinds of data-sources in order to build the biggest data set of private business data It is our core objective to fully model the lifecycle of a company, with its failure and pivotal points and present business data in a way that creates insights for decision makers, helping them navigate their business with Compass You will play a critical role in designing the core architecture of our products and determining the company's success.
Some of the technologies we use daily include:
Ruby on Rails 
Rabbit Chef (w Docker) 
MongoDB 
Jenkins 
Angular.jsD3.js 
StatsD 
Python (w NumPy, SciPy)
Your Profile:
We are looking for Ruby/Rails developers that want to become full-stack-developers OR experienced developers that want to move into the Ruby/Rails world.
You have:
strong software engineering foundations excellent analytical abilities and faculty of abstraction entrepreneurial &amp; pragmatic mindset willingness to break the rules high degree of personal motivation and ability to self-manage a successful track record.
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