Want to make an outsized difference on a product with 50m monthly pageviews and growing? Our Full Stack Developer contributes across the stack, from understanding database queries to writing concise Ruby to implementing HTML (or HAML) that brings our intuitive designs to life for our 40k active sellers. This role touches all realms of Bonanza functionality, though if you find one area you're especially good at, we'd love to have you own it.
We're looking for a full-time, full-stack Ruby on Rails developer to help us tackle the many challenges of running a marketplace that scales.
Your tasks will vary from week-to-week, but will generally be tailored to the areas of Bonanza that are most exciting to you. Some of the stuff we're working on includes:
Broadcaster: an advertising platform that takes Google Adwords and makes it comprehensible
Webstores: standalone stores for merchants that want to go big
Catalog: means by which to use natural language processing to identify arbitrary items
Implement good ideas received from our user feedback
Improve usability for sellers
Data mining and building reports
Search experience: helping to differentiate from competitors
Obviously these bullets only scratch the surface of the tasks we'll be working on at a given time.
We strongly prefer that you have some Ruby on Rails experience in a production environment. You’ll be working in the full stack, from the database (MySQL) up to jQuery and HTML/CSS. You should have the doggedness to track down bugs in order to make an appropriate fix. You should have the empathy to see problems from our customers’ shoes and keep their needs in mind while building solutions.
Just as we're big on using data to solve our customers problems, we're also big on using data to inform our Developer evaluations. Those who get shit done and leave a spent todo list in their wake will rise quickly. Those who let pass days without making a commit will struggle.
Bonanza is a product-first company run by a CEO who has spent most of his adult life as a Programmer. The implications of this are that we've obsessed for literally years about how to foster an environment optimized for Developer happiness and throughput. It starts with our salaries, which, at the high end, range to levels beyond those offered by the tech titans. More importantly, we provide a working environment where you will virtually never be interrupted by meetings, and where you will be given access to the best hardware available. Because your productivity should never constrained for lack of resources. We also offer a thoughtfully constructed collection of perks that stands apart from our competitors:
Beyond this set of perks, we are committed to inclusion and enabling everyone to be heard. We also commit to our employees that if ever they have ideas on how we can improve our benefits package to better serve our team, we will do our best to make them happen. That's probably why we keep winning awards like these:
