Lead Rails Developer

Edco is an NYC-based startup with a deep-rooted commitment to schools. Our team brings you over 100 years of hustling, mentoring, and building great things.

Edco is looking for a lead Rails developer who is looking to take on a challenging side gig in order to help improve K-12 public school education.

Responsibilities:

• You will implement and maintain a live web application that currently processes tens of thousands of dollars donated to schools to help educate tomorrow’s leaders.
• You will refactor, evolve, and scale a back-end architecture that empowers school leaders to build sustainable community engagement
• You will play a core role in designing product tests and shaping our solution as we rapidly iterate on our MVP and expand our product offering.

We want to meet you, if you:

• Are passionate about improving K-12 education
• Write beautiful code, but care more about the impact of what you’re building
• Believe that business is about people and are committed to providing exceptional customer support
• Are proactive and gets things done without waiting for tasks to be assigned
• Live “lean” and constantly strives to quicken the build, test, and iterate cycle time

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of full stack development experience, with proficiency in Javascript / jQuery, Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL,and Websockets.
• 3+ years developing scalable web platforms using MVC frameworks such as Rails, Django, Cake.
• Experience building transaction processing, donor management, or outbound communications applications.
• Early-stage start-up experience, including building with a framework for running A/B tests
• Experience with Node.js, Redis and Sidekiq highly desirable