Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Client Services: Rocket Whale, Inc.

As a Client Services Senior Software Engineer at Rocket Whale, you'll work on our flagship client product architecting and developing world-class advertising & big data analytics software.

Who We Are

We believe that amazing things happen when talented, driven and fun people come together and bust their asses to achieve a shared vision. That vision drives us to deliver software design and development services that support the development of the next generation of policy management software, which is 1 of about 20 segments of the $6B/year GRC software market. This software helps manage the lifecycle of company policies and automates and improves a plethora of related tasks, which helps companies systematize their business and stay in compliance with assorted regulations. Our culture at a glance:

• We're smart, fun people who get shit done.
• We're fanatical about testing, automation and systematizing.
• Our development is driven by content-out interface design.
• We highly value trust, honesty and open communication and exemplify our 10 dimensions.

Who You Are

This is a senior position which, to us, means:

• You live the 10 dimensions at almost all times and coach others within the organization to demonstrate them.
• You can be given high-level goals and you'll achieve them at a rapid pace without supervision, involving others when necessary.
• You're an expert within your technical domain and coach others within the organization.

What You’ll Do

You will build our client’s flagship, enterprise-level product (think Google AdWords meets Google Analytics). If you worked on this project over the past several months, you might have done these things:

• Architected a database schema and server API to display real time data.
• Passionately debated how a new feature should be implemented with a product manager and UI designer.
• Created a multi-level CRUD interface for objects within a tree structure.
• Created an interactive chart using d3 and Rickshaw.
• Designed a Role Based Access Control (RBAC) system to meet specifications.
• Spent 4-6 weeks refactoring the database that supports an entire product, including migration and testing.

Using these technologies:

• Front-end:  Ext JS 4, CSS3/SASS/Compass and more.
• Back-end: Ruby on Rails 3, node.js, MySQL, MongoDB and more.

What You’ve Done

You have:

• A demonstrated passion for software development.
• Experience building and shipping rock solid software.
• A very strong background with Ruby on Rails or equivalent experience that makes it clear you'll excel at it in time.
• References that are happy to talk about what an amazing software architect and person you are.
• Experience leading and coaching other developers.

What You’ll Get

This is an opportunity to be one of our earliest full-time employees and to work with a team of driven, motivated and fun people at a bootstrapped, profitable startup with a bright future. You’ll get:

• A results-oriented work environment.
• The laptop and workstation you need to succeed that becomes yours after a year.
• A start as a full-time employee with the salary, equity and benefits you need to be happy.
• A one-month and three-month performance review to make sure things are working out.  If you aren't happy after a month, we'll give you $1500 to walk away.
• Unlimited future growth opportunities at an early stage startup.