Austin, Texas
Senior Software Engineer Job Opening in Austin, Texas - Everfest is looking for a full stack Software Engineer to round out their engineering team. You?ll be joining a company founded by experienced entrepreneurs with $2.5M in seed funding on the cusp of a Series A round. We?re experiencing massive organic growth and scaling to match demand. If ever there was a time to join Everfest, it?s right now. Seriously, like right now.
You will be a huge part of the team that gets us across this next checkpoint ? still the Founding Team ? and takes us into the next phase. Our current development team is led by a former who built and sold his own fintech company, along with a front-end specialist who makes us all look good. We work in RoR and are building our more UI-heavy core products in React. We also have a full-time designer ? now we just need YOU.
You?ll be working on our core offering Everfest GO, a subscription service scaled across the festival landscape, as well as everything needed to keep our teams humming along. We?re building the world?s central authority on festivals, and you can put your stamp on that.
We are currently located on Lake Austin Blvd near Magnolia Cafe. We eat a lot of french toast. We also offer your standard casual Austin startup ?dress code?, pre-IPO stock options and a team that is above average at the Internet. Join us!
What You Will Do at Everfest
Architect, develop and release new features and services
Design and develop a APIs to support mobile, desktop and tablet web and native apps
Solve challenging client performance and scaling issues
Make quick, continual improvements to support user engagement
Prioritize a wide variety of work tasks with your teammates
What We Expect
Fluent in multiple programming languages
Comfortable with front-end and back-end development
Strong understanding of system design and data structures
Familiarity with Agile and Kanban development
Great communications skills and passion for learning
Ability and desire to be part of a world class team focused on achieving amazing user experience
Background in computer science, engineering, math or statistics preferred
Skills
4+ years of professional experience in Ruby on Rails (or similar language/framework)
2+ years of experience with relational databases and SQL - PostgreSQL experience is a plus
Strong set of front-end skills including AngularJS or ReactJS
Knowledge of development tool creation and application architecture design
Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals and coding/testing best practices
Familiarity with AWS and Redis is a plus
Job Type: Full-time
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