Ruby/Rail Sr Developer role

The Company:
BiddingForGood, the leading online fundraising auction platform is looking for a seasoned Senior Software Developer. We compete in the $16 billion charity auction market with a mission of moving the silent auction online. Currently over 4,000 schools/non-profits, 170,000 consumers, and 60 advertisers use our platform to transact cause-based commerce which has helped raise over $85 million for worthy causes (this March we raised almost $5m). We are backed by tier one VC’s, highly motivated, and enjoy the double bottom line work we do.

The Position: Senior Software Developer
BiddingForGood is looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our development team to work on Ruby on Rails projects. You would be a key player in a new Rails-based product as well as assisting to maintain and extend our existing Rails products. Requirements for qualified candidates:

- Ruby/Rails

- Cucumber

- RSpec (or Shoulda)

- Capistrano

- Web Services (SOAP and REST)

- HTML/XHTML

- CSS

- Javascript (ideally including Prototype.js)

- AJAX



The ideal person will have had some experience with one or more of the following (though not required) - Passenger - Java - Spring - Hibernate - Stripes - JBoss Messaging or ActiveMQ - Oracle



You must have at least 5 years of strong development experience and at least one year of Rails experience.


BiddingForGood is located in Cambridge, Mass. The team is comprised of motivated staff driven to ensure the company’s success and take advantage of the opportunity that a fast moving company creates. Position includes competitive sick/vacation/holiday package, stock options/equity, health insurance, life insurance, LTD, tuition reimbursement, and 401k plan availability. BiddingForGood is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Resumes to psinacole@firstbeacongroup.com