We’re a growing (~15 person) startup based in Shoreditch (London, UK) with a small (~5 person) engineering team. Geckoboard makes it easy for businesses to see their key metrics on elegant, real-time dashboards. Our customers include large and small tech companies, government and non-profit organisations.
We've set up our culture to be as employee friendly as possible. Being a relatively small team everyone has the opportunity to steer the direction of our technology and processes. We're solving a number of interesting problems to do with sc
aling, data storage and visualization.
London, UK. Full time. Geckoboard
Ruby engineer needed to help architect, build, test and improve a young, fast moving and market defining web application with all the challenges that come with that.
You’ll be:
- Shipping code, solving interesting problems and making a difference
- Working with an innovative web application and platform helping thousands of businesses around the world
- Working in a small fast moving team to shape the future development of the application with input on key technical decisions
- An ambitious and tenacious individual with a passion for hacking
- Eager to join a fast growing, well funded startup on an upward trajectory
- 1+ years’ experience with Rails (or similar advanced web framework).
- 2+ years’ experience with a dynamically-typed, object-oriented language (preferably Ruby or Python).
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience with at least one NoSQL datastore
- Test driven development experience
- Familiarity with DVCS (we use git).
- Able to work in London full-time
Nice to have:
- Open source contributions
- Backbone.js experience
- Event driven programming experience
- Keen on the startup world
Perks
- Competitive Salary with equity options
- Flexible working hours
- Choose the equipment that’s right for you – desk, chair, computer… whatever you need to do your job
- Free drinks and snacks and team lunch every Friday
- Take the holiday you need, we don’t count days
Application Process
To find out more send us your C.V./Github or Stack Overflow portfolio and a short description on why you’re perfect for the role to jobs@geckoboard.com