Spantree - <a href="http://www.spantree.net/jobs" > - Chicago, IL
We're Spantree, a small, nimble boutique consultancy based mostly in Chicago. We're looking for another smart person to join our team in the West Loop of Chicago. This candidate should enjoy learning new things and solving hard problems.
We work almost exclusively with open source software and we're not shy about jumping into third-party code to figure things out.  You should be motivated to submit pull requests and hunt down project committers on Twitter and IRC when you're stuck.
Some of our favorite day-to-day technologies include Groovy, Grails, Elasticsearch, Drools, MongoDB, Backbone.js/Marionette, CoffeeScript and Puppet.
Our clients range from small and scrappy startups to large hospital networks and software as a service providers. Historically, most of the stuff we've worked on has not been public-facing: it's either guarded behind the client's firewall, neatly tucked away as a library or jammed into the minds of the developers we've mentored. But we're starting to diversify from "behind-the-scenes" work to more early-stage product development.
Fundamentally, we like to work on tools that helping people make better decisions. This can take the form of a search engine to help people find interesting stuff to do on a Saturday night, a complex workflow management system for evaluating health insurance claims or a matchmaking and scheduling system to help people book face-to-face meetings at conferences.
We're looking for generalists who can quickly go from problem to working solution and communicate effectively with our peers and clients along the way. While we have a very strong technical stack already, you don't expect new hires to be an expert in everything right away.  In general, though, we're looking for people with the following qualifications:
* One or more fun languages: Ruby, Python, Groovy, Clojure, PHP, CoffeeScript, etc.
* One or more boring languages: Java, C++, C#, etc.
* One or more web frameworks: Grails, Rails, Django, SpringMVC, Play, CakePHP, etc.
* One or more databases: SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, we like it all.
* HTML, CSS, JavaScript and at least one framework
* Git, or a colorful excuse for not knowing it.
* The typical software development toolchain: text editors, IDEs, step debuggers, issue trackers, etc.
If you'd like to learn more, please email REDACTED_EMAIL to  set up a Google Hangout.
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