Ruby Developer Needed

[Jamie Orchard-Hays]

My friend David Robinson of Birch Studio asked me to pass this along. The job is for:

PEARL National Home Certification
Cynthia Adams, CEO
cyn...@pearlhomecert.com
434.825.0232
www.pearlhomecert.com

Cheers,

Jamie


PEARL Home Certification Senior Software Engineer Opening

We’re looking for an experienced developer interested in working on creative projects in a startup environment to help make the world more energy efficient. PEARL’s mission is to promote home energy efficiency at a grand scale and to do it with a high growth business, a work hard/play hard culture and a long-term vision. We’ve developed an MVP version of our platform that our initial customers love and want to grow it. The platform includes consumer and contractor-facing web applications, and a database to store information about the energy efficient and other characteristics of large numbers of homes, as well as an innovative back end algorithm to power the whole system.

This innovative marketing and certification platform incentivizes and assists homeowners to make energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements. Our software and services connect homeowners to high-quality specialized contractors, rebates, financing, and other resources. Homeowners and contractors love the system because it lets them develop comprehensive home energy improvement strategies and our ENERGY STAR branded certification boosts the value of the home.

PEARL’s founders are national experts on residential energy efficiency and one of the nation’s leading HVAC contractors. We deeply understand this industry, know what it needs and have a massively disruptive approach to unlocking the value and the market for home energy efficiency improvements.

Skills

• - Web application development using Rails or another MVC web framework

• - Javascript frontend experience specifically Ember.js

• - iOS, Android, and/or Rubymotion mobile experience

• - Database (PostgreSQL or other)

• - RESTful API

• - Smart, hardworking and honest

Residence in Washington, D.C. metro area preferred, but remote arrangements possible. We’re moving quickly so we’ll need to be in touch regularly if you want to work remotely (at least four hours of overlap with the workday in DC).

If you fit this description, please provide us with resume / LI profile and a short description of: - The most interesting/important/relevant projects you’ve worked on
- Where you want your career to go in the next few years
- Why you’re interested in applying for this position (i.e. what sort of a fit you see)

PEARL offers:
- Opportunity to make a positive impact on global climate change issue - Entrepreneurial experience + Salary + Ownership stake
- Smart, hard-working teammates who leave their egos at the door
- Good coffee, good bourbon, and a pet laser-shark