Lead Ruby on Rails Developer for Vae Platform (PaaS CMS) at Action Verb, LLC (Las Vegas, NV) (allows remote)
Job Description
Action Verb is looking to hire a full-time Lead Developer to take over the primary development lead responsibility for our product Vae Platform (http://vaeplatform.com).
This is a full-time, work-from-home, choose-your-own-hours position.
[NO RECRUITERS, NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE.]
Action Verb's Story
Action Verb is a bootstrapped, profitable company founded in 2007. Action Verb offers two main products: BrickFTP, a hosted file sharing service for business, and Vae Platform, a unique web hosting platform with an integrated SaaS CMS system. Our SaaS services have almost 1,000 paying customers and a total userbase of about 10,000 users.
We're a small company (you'll be the 6th person on the team when you join) but we're at an inflection point where we're trying to grow into a more robust team.
Here's where you come in.
Until 2011, Kevin, the founder of the company had been the lead engineer on all of our applications. We are now in the process of building out an engineering team so that we may develop and improve our products more quickly.
We've done this successfully on BrickFTP and are now looking to do the same thing on Vae Platform. By the end of the first quarter of 2013, we expect to be about an 8-10 person team.
So we're now opening up our search for an engineering lead for Vae Platform to take an ownership role of the development side (but not the marketing/bizdev) side of the product.
You'll be responsible for:
- Shaping (with management) the direction of the product -- determining which features to include, what to release when, etc.
- Becoming familiar with customer feedback
- Implementation and testing (i.e. actually getting your hands dirty with Ruby and PHP code)
- Performance Tuning
- Working with Customer Support to address any technical issues faced by customers
Basically, you'll be in charge of taking Vae Platform to the next level.
What is Vae Platform?
Vae Platform is our hosting environment with a built-in CMS.
Vae Platform has been around since 2007 and has thousands of active users and hundreds of paying customers.
We obsess over the experience that developers have when using Vae Platform. We're not the cheapest solution, but we win by making lives easy for developers.
We have huge plans to grow the platform in 2013 and have already identified specific niches where we think we can be very successful.
The backend is built on Rails 3, and use Resque, Haml, Sass, jQuery, Memcached, and Git. VaeML (our custom markup language) is written in PHP and VaeDB (our custom database) is written in C++. On the operations side, we use Plesk and Chef. We host everything on an internally managed server stack on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS.
We use Mac OS and vim for development, but you’re free to use whatever you’d like. We run Linux (Ubuntu) on our servers.
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