Senior Rails Backend Engineer

We are seeking a creative, passionate person who enjoys being part of an effective, small team. The ideal candidate would have experience of a number of RoR projects, one or more of which have seen significant traffic. We are located in Manhattan and can provide a workspace. However, telecommuting works equally well for us as the existing team is geographically distributed (three continents and counting).

Reasons you should join us
- You like developing software and seeing it used by hundreds of thousands of people
- You want to do things no one has done before
- You crave a fast-paced environment with very smart people, minimal management overhead, and getting things done
- You like a company that measures growth in orders of magnitude

Who are we?
ideeli is an exciting, venture-funded community/commerce startup implemented entirely in Ruby on Rails. We believe in small teams, agile development, quick turnaround, and getting things done. Across the entire company you'll find we're exceptionally ambitious and have been so successful that our initial investors have all increased their investment. As a result, we are growing and looking to broaden our team.

We are willing to consider contractors as well as equity-holding employees. Please respond with availability and rate.

Required Skills
- hands-on experience design/development/architecting highly scalable Ruby on Rails, Web 2.0, AJAX, Mobile, Social applications
- experience with DOM, Javascript, HTML, CSS, AJAX
- ability to work in a small, geographically-distributed team using collaboration tools (Skype, IM, email, mingle etc)
- detail-oriented and thorough in designing, coding and testing
- able to provide and explain code samples of previous work
- familiarity with Subversion (or similar) source control
- workday overlap with 10am Eastern time zone (UTC-5)