Job Description

Tophatter is a profitable startup and the world’s most entertaining, mobile shopping marketplace.  Combining the engagement of a game with the economics of a marketplace, Tophatter generates over $300 million of annual Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) and sells 100,000+ items every day - wow!

JOB DESCRIPTION

We're looking for strong, experienced full-stack software engineers to join our small, but growing team. You will have an opportunity to work on all aspects of our product, including our web and mobile clients, backend, and infrastructure.

 RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build, extend, and maintain web front end, mobile, and backend components of an evolving, real-time application
• Partner with our product managers and the broader business to understand and help prioritize product initiatives
• Write clean, elegant, testable code that scales well
• Focus on fast, iterative & agile development
• Ensure performance, scalability, availability & security in everything you do
• Contribute to platform-level technology, strategy & decisions
• Engage in the business goals as well as the technology

REQUIREMENTS

• BS/MS, or equivalent work experience, in Computer Science, Math, or related technical field (experience writing good software is a suitable replacement for a technical degree)
• 3-5  years of full-time work experience, preferably in a startup environment
• A full-stack generalist with experience in both front-end and back-end technologies (we use primarily Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native) - ability to wear many hats
• An emphasis on shipping products on web/mobile, rather than lower-level, systems or embedded systems
• Knowledge & skills in a broad range of internet technologies
• Deep proficiency interacting, building and improving the performance of RESTful APIs
• Deep proficiency in a popular framework such as Rails, Django, or Node (we use Ruby on Rails)
• Deep proficiency in a dynamic programming language such as Python or Ruby (we use primarily Ruby)
• Competence with Linux and Git
• Comfortable working in a small, dynamic, and fast-paced team
• Resourceful, flexible & adaptable; no task is too big or too small
• Experience in an agile environment where iteration has led to perfection
• Past co-workers attest to your prowess & agility in building great products