Volunteer Rails Web Developer, Citizens Market

Skilled in Ruby on Rails? Interested in cutting-edge work on collective intelligence? Want to make a difference in corporate behavior?

Our all-volunteer team of seven professionals is launching Citizens Market, an exciting nonprofit with a mission to empower consumers with tools to shop their values. We’re designing a crowdsourced website where information about corporate behavior is organized into scores that consumers can see while they shop. The scores are generated by users who rate companies on a number of social or environmental issues.

We’re looking for a volunteer web developer with experience in view-layer coding in Ruby on Rails to join our team, collaborate on strategy and help us launch our beta web application. We’re based in Boston, Massachusetts with a preference for local candidates, though we welcome applications from remote candidates. The time commitment and schedule is flexible; we usually ask for a minimum of five hours per week for at least one year. Please see full description of the volunteer position below.

Learn more at www.citizensmarket.org or http://www.citizensmarket.org/Citizens_Market_Summary.pdf.

You can learn more about the volunteer web developer position at
http://www.citizensmarket.org/Volunteer_Your_Rails_Skills_for_Social_Impact.pdf.

Please view full description at:
http://www.citizensmarket.org/Volunteer_Your_Rails_Skills_for_Social_Impact.pdf.

• Minimum 3 years experience as programmer, with 6 months full-time (or 1 year part-time) in Ruby on Rails
• Strong skills in developing standards-compliant XHTML and CSS views.
• Ability to create semantic markup and test interface in all grade-A browsers
• Comfort working with Git
• Strong initiative and ability to work effectively in a “flat,” non-hierarchical, all-volunteer organization
• A good sense of when to think for yourself and when to ask questions
• Ability to work and communicate effectively in a virtual team environment
• Attention to detail, customer-service orientation and creativity in problem-solving
• Fluency in English

Please view full description at:
http://www.citizensmarket.org/Volunteer_Your_Rails_Skills_for_Social_Impact.pdf.

• Understanding of REST and ability to conform an interface to it
• Experience and discipline necessary to follow behavior-driven and test-driven development practices
• Portfolio of live Ruby on Rails applications up and running
• Demonstrated interest in corporate social responsibility issues
• Demonstrated interest in user-generated information and collective intelligence models
• Location near Boston, MA and ability to attend meetings in person