Backend (Rails/Mongo) Engineer at Badgeville, Inc. in Menlo Park, CA

At Badgeville, we believe

• that a job should challenge us to constantly learn and grow as an engineer and as a person
• that we should have freedom to create innovative solutions to difficult problems
• that teammates should complement and support each other toward common goals
• that the work we do should have focus and purpose
• …and finally, that it’s unlikely you’ll ever beat our CEO, Kris, at foosball

What about you?

• Have you ever thought about rewriting Facebook in Ruby?
• Have you ever had a tingling sensation when refactoring code?
• Have you ever lost sleep over inadequate test coverage?
• Have you ever visited http://ie6funeral.com/?

Requirements (just one)

• a passion for web applications

We'll be impressed if you've

• Built web applications using Rails, Sinatra, or other frameworks
• Brought sanity to development by following TDD/BDD using tools like Rspec and Cucumber
• Optimized mysql or played with NoSQL storage solutions
• Wrestled with caching using Memcached, Varnish, or other options
• Tamed the Frontend using Javascript, CSS, and HTML(5)
• Seen the future and have experience with computing in infamous 'Cloud'
• Looked up acronyms such as HTML, XML, CSS, AJAX, REST, HTTP, TCP/IP, etc.

About Badgeville

Badgeville, the Behavior Platform, makes it easy for business leaders, marketers and innovative technologists to use smart gamification techniques to increase user loyalty and engagement across eCommerce, Media & Entertainment, Health, Education, Services and Enterprise web & mobile experiences. Using Badgeville, brands can reward users with real-time achievements and reputation, while at the same time driving user behavior, achieving specific business goals, and measuring and optimizing user engagement. Badgeville customers include Samsung, CA Technologies, X.Commerce, NBC, Bluefly, Interscope Records, Deloitte Digital, and The Active Network. Founded in 2010, Badgeville is based in Menlo Park, California and has offices in New York and Europe. For more information, visit Badgeville on the web at http://www.badgeville.com/.