Web Application Engineer Job in New York, New York US

Web Application Engineer

Job Description Job Category: Software Engineering: Development Location: New York, NY, US Job ID: 785103-74353 Division: Skype WEB APPLICATION ENGINEER About Us GroupMe is a group messaging app that helps millions of people around the world stay connected. Since we launched less than two years ago, we've processed billions of messages, grown the company to 25 people, won the Breakout award at SXSW, and been acquired. Now as a part of the Skype division at Microsoft, our goal is to be the daily communications provider for *billions* of people. Even though we're part of a huge company, we have a great deal of autonomy, and continue to operate like an independent startup that works hard and iterates quickly. We work in a sunlight-filled loft near Union Square with hardwood floors, a ping pong table, and a pinball machine. We sing karaoke across the street sometimes. Basically, we love our jobs and have a lot of fun doing them. About the Position GroupMe needs world-class web application engineers to help change the way the world communicates. Our development process is "agile" which means week long iterations, stories, points, etc. We stress pair programming and are all strong generalists. We have engineers, not "front-end" or "back-end" people. You will be responsible for helping building web applications and services to support GroupMe's core group messaging product and other (top secret) communications and commerce applications. Our office is near Union Square in the heart of New York City. We will re-locate you if you don't live in the New York / New Jersey area. We have a fun, relaxed, and friendly work environment along with awesome office perks (ping pong, pinball) Requirements - Strong ability or desire to program with Ruby on Rails - Analytical problem solving skills - Extensive Web application development experience with any of the following: Ruby, Python, Javascript, Perl, Java or Scala - SQL experience - HTML/CSS experience Nice To Have - PostgreSQL experience - C/C++ experience - Open source contributions - TDD experience - Pair programming experience - Experience scaling web services - Experience building web APIs for mobile apps