Poll Everywhere is hiring a Rubyist; Personality Requirement

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"Poll Everywhere guys are the souls of wit" - rantfoil AKA Garry Tan

Corporate culture and values visible at http://www.polleverywhere.com/jobs

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## -- Wanted: Ruby Dev With Personality

Seeking a talented Rails developer to help us build new features at Poll Everywhere.

Since we're a young company, our product is constantly evolving to meet the demands of new customers which means we have a lot of new legacy code. We want a developer that is pragmatic enough to establish a sense of direction for our product architecture, but can resist the temptation to turn new feature development into intensive refactoring or re-architecture. This is a fine line between good taste and getting shit done.

Technical experience should include:

  - Previous Rails or ruby projects that you can show us
  - REST web service architecture
  - Rack Middleware
  - RSpec or proof that you like TDD
  - HTTP
  - jQuery, Prototype, JavaScript
  - Flex on Rails gets you a pat on the back

# Tell us more about:

  - Experience with OSS and/or side projects
  - Involvement in the Rails/Ruby community through meetups, projects, essays, etc
  - Previous Rails applications you've built (screenshots are good, URLs are awesome)
  - Fun, interesting, or crazy programming languages you've played around with
  - Art, music, and literature, or things that fascinate you

# We don't care about:

  - Every technology you've used since you touched a keyword 
    (like DOA web services and HP Basic)
  - Verbose resumes (shorter is better)

# Education:

We don't really care about your education. Anybody can get a college degree. What we care about is your ability to communicate, get stuff done, and work with a team. If you feel your education helps communicate those traits, tell us about it.

# Location:

We have a physical presence in Chicago, Boston, and the Bay Area but will consider remote collaboration. Its in our companies DNA to not have physical office space. Don't be afraid to get on an airplane.

# Comp:

$70K - $120K salary, determined by perceived talent Stock options Health and 401K benefits

Good luck. Don't send us a long resume.

## -- About Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere crafts interactive apps for audience participation at live events using mobile phones. We make popular text-to-screen applications for polls, text walls, and Keynote/PowerPoint. You'll see us used on TV, in stadiums, schools, CEO presentations, and little Chloe's kindergarten Idol talent competition (it's thrilling) - wherever an audience can text or tweet. Our customers include Google, TED, McDonalds, McKinsey, and other assorted badasses large and small (like Chloe). We scare companies that make "Audience Response Systems" or "Clicker Keypads".

We participated in Y Combinator and are a healthy, profitable, organically-grown company. We're an engineering company that knows how to market, not vice versa.

Our company works virtually, so we're looking for people who are disciplined. Witty, tasteful humor is a big part of our culture, so you should be ready to have a good time while working hard.

# Application Process

Keep applications brief; we want small resumes with relevant experience. Be prepared to defend any laundry lists of skills. Email your interest to one of:

  - [e-mail]
  - "please_hire+#{your_name}@polleverywhere.com"
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