Rails Job

Developer at Social Games Startup!!

Posted over 2 years ago at 01 June 2009

Description:

Animal Apps creates engaging and addictive social games and applications. Currently a small core team of 4 recent Stanford grads, we are profitable, growing fast, and poised to take significant share of a market a multi-billion dollar market. We build our products with Ruby on Rails.

We are seeking a bright, young developer to join our team in San Francisco, CA and take full responsibility for one product in our portfolio.

Why you should apply:
-Impact: you’ll have the opportunity to make massive contributions immediately; your product will be used by millions across the world
-Agility: we are skilled in the agile development paradigm; we work on multiple projects at once and evolve at light speed
-Fun: you’ll be working with cool people in an informal, non-hierarchical work environment and you’ll be living in beautiful San Francisco
-Profit: competitive salary, benefits with equity

We strive to constantly innovate and have fun in every aspect of our company. In lieu of a traditional cover letter, please send resume and brief responses to the following prompts to jobs@animalapps.com. Responses should not be more than one paragraph!

(only answer two of the following four)
-Are you handy around the house? Tell us about a time you fixed something.
-Have you ever done anything entrepreneurial? Tell us a story describing it.
-If your working style was an animal, what kind of animal would it be and why?
-You’ve just finished a grueling two week project, it’s the weekend and you have no responsibilities to tend to! How do you spend your time?

Notes:
We are currently operating in stealth mode, so we have no a public facing website. If you’d like more information, contact us at jobs@animalapps.com.
We move fast- if interested you should apply ASAP.
Animal Apps is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Required skills:

- at least 1 year of experience: ROR or comparable MVC framework
-strong all-around coding skills
-good product sense
-scrappy and entrepreneurial
-a fast learner and a natural problem solver

Desired skills:

-front-end design skills
-experience working on a social platform like facebook, myspace
-interest in games/game design

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