Hollrr

We need your help...

What is Hollrr?

Hollrr is the fun and easy way to share recommendations for great new products and services.

We built Hollrr because it makes our day to discover an awesome new product or service! The majority of these discoveries still come from the recommendation of a friend. And we wanted to have a better way to hear about all the great stuff our friends are discovering.

We have a lot of work to do, and we need your help.

 

Ruby on Rails Engineer

Hollrr is looking for outstanding Ruby on Rails engineer with strong front-end development skills to join our team. Your goal will be to make Hollrr a joy to use. Not only should you have a passion for shipping elegant, responsive web interfaces, but you should be committed to iterating quickly to turn user insight into features/improvements so we can build a community of fanatics.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Implement new features and optimize existing ones from controller-level to UI
  • Write front-end code in Ruby, HTML/CSS, and Javascript
  • Remix backend components into user-facing application code
  • Refactor existing Rails code for long-term maintainability
  • Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems
  • Pro-actively look for ways to make Hollrr better

Requirements:

  • Demonstrable experience building top-class, consumer web application interfaces
  • Excellent programming skills in Ruby
  • Expert Javascript/HTML/CSS/Ajax coding skills
  • Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
  • Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility
  • Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
  • Experience optimizing viral loops thru Facebook and Twitter

Personal traits:

  • Metrics-driven + humility. We don’t want to hear opinions… we want to hear your assessment and interpretation of user behavior and what the user is telling us.
  • Sense of humor
  • Open-minded and curious
  • Passionate about building Hollrr

 

Working at Hollrr

Compensation will be a mixture of both salary and equity. The right mix will be determined with your input. For an exceptional person, and with the right equity mix, a co-founder title is still available. The Hollrr team is based in the wonderful Dogpatch Labs, a Polaris backed incubator in Pier 38, San Francisco. Check out the photos of our office space.

 

If you like what you read and you think you fit the bill? Email us at jobs@hollrr.com, we'd love to meet for coffee.