Ruby Developer, Los Angeles

The backend team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining rich web applications. We build software for young startups, world-famous brands, and ourselves.

Perks

• Open Source Software sponsorship: Code your own open source libraries during work hours.
• Be a big fish in a small pond: Our teams are small and agile, and you’ll have a big impact on every project you work on.
• Play with new technologies: Experiment with cutting edge databases, servers, gems, etc.
• Help define company processes: Be part of a team that defines their own standards and processes.
• Be seen: Work on software that gets deployed to millions of people.
• Have fun: Working at philosophie is more like hanging out with your friends than going to work.
• Code in the sun: philosophie venice is located right near Venice Beach. Want to get out of the office for a bit? Pack up your laptop and head to the beach!

Basic skills and knowledge required to perform this job include:

• proficiency with GIT
• experience building websites with Ruby
• independent enough to work on your own, but humble enough to ask for help
• experience working with 3rd party HTTP APIs
• love programming

The ideal candidate will possess the following traits:

• professional Ruby experience
• open source contributions
• comfortable with JavaScript and other frontend technologies like HTML and CSS
• experience designing and implementing HTTP APIs
• experience deploying apps to Heroku