Senior Software Engineer, Back End

The Honest Company, a leading healthy lifestyle brand, is committed to creating products that are effective, safe, delightful, accessible, and responsible. In pursuit of its mission to empower people to live a healthy and happy life,

• Build, design and code new features and enhancements for the Honest suite of apps, APIs and backend platforms
• Build web applications that work equally well on desktop and mobile devices
• Integrate with 3rd party solutions such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest
• Participate in all aspects of a project life-cycle utilizing Scrum methodology
• Performance tuning of backend JSON APIs

• Bachelor's degree (computer science, or relevant degree) or equivalent experience required
• 5-7+ years of professional experience, with 3+ years of open-source development experience using Ruby
• Understanding of MVC frameworks such as Rails, Sinatra, Django, Express or similar.
• A passion for writing maintainable code with a deep understanding of OOP, design patterns, and data structures
• Experience designing, building and testing REST APIs
• Experience with test driven development (RSpec, Cucumber, Capybara)
• Strong *nix skills (Linux, FreeBSD, and/or Mac OS X preferred)
• Start-up experience
• Deep knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web design
• Knowledge of Bootstrap and Javascript frameworks such as Angular, Ember or Backbone
• Solid knowledge of scaling web applications and asynchronous architectures
• Passionate about TDD
• Experience working in a social networking environment
• Experience with search platforms (Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, etc.)
• Contributed to open-source project(s)