Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.ekoventure.com/

Booming start-up seeks talented and dedicated RoR engineers
About the firm:
ekoVenture has created an OpenTable-like platform for travel experiences and day activities. Think sailing, trekking, kayaking, safari, cycling, wine tasting, culinary trips, cultural trips, voluntourism, eco travel, and more. Already, more than 450 tour suppliers use this platform and have entered 10,000 trips that serve over 160 countries, all which are live to travelers via ekoVenture.com. Trips are available directly to consumers via ekoVenture.com or through distribution partners. Our inventory will be shared across thousands of sites on the web via our Global Distribution System (GDS).
Our mission is to take the cool travel experiences that are available, and make them accessible to the average traveler. Right now, more than $30 billion is being transacted on trips in our market and we will grow this number by providing greater access to reputable tour suppliers around the world.
Our company is well funded by three reputable venture groups, well known angels, and the world’s most famous and successful entrepreneurs (familiar names).
Although a lot of companies talk about agile software development, we actually implement it (hard-core agile and extreme programming), with pair programming, test-driven development, aggressive refactoring, weekly releases, etc. Whether you already have first-hand experience with agile or are interested in learning agile through our immersive agile boot camp, then ekoVenture is certainly for you!
We practice lean start-up methodologies and our team members are smart, enthusiastic, creative, and obsessed with making a start-up company into household name! This will involve a lot of effort and focus – but thankfully there is delicious late-night Vietnamese food right across the street from our hip offices in Jackson Square. We are making it happen and need incredible engineers to join our already talented team.
About you:
• Well versed in RoR with a minimum of one year experience;
• Self-motivated and takes initiative;
• Loves a place where he/she can make an impact;
• Extraordinary communication skills;
• Innovative & creative;
• Up on the latest trends & plug ins;
• Enjoys regular tech networking and staying informed;
As a Ruby on Rails developer, you will do the following:
• Work with product managers, UI designers, QA engineers and other developers to design, implement, document, and test multi-tiered, web-based applications;
• Work on all layers of our web application, from front-end CSS and server side coding to database development;
• Troubleshoot and resolve complicated and business-critical technical issues related to function, performance and security;
• Integrate with third-party web services and data sources;
• Implement automated tests;
• Build tools to automate repetitive tasks.
Qualifications:
• BS/CS or equivalent experience;
• Experience engineering for high-volume, transaction-oriented, consumer-facing web sites;
• Rails 2, MySQL 5, CSS, MacOS X, and Linux or OpenSolaris (preferred);
• JavaScript;
• Git;
• Experience with testing frameworks from rspec and Cucumber to Selenium and JsUnit;
• SQL
We offer:
• Great compensation negotiable based upon experience
• Full benefits, two weeks paid time off, and 401K
• Attractive employee stock option plan (we want you to share in our success)
Cool perks, such as:
• Company iPhones, mobile service, and 3G Internet connection on laptop
• Sabbatical time (in addition to paid time off)
• Free vacations anywhere in the world through our suppliers’ complementary employee programs
• Discounted/reimbursed health club memberships at the city’s best facilities
• Regular company-sponsored local outings such as climbing, sailing, hiking and more
• Full technology set-up per your needs

To apply: Send us your resume at joinus@ekoVenture.com