Animal Apps creates engaging and addictive social games and applications. Currently a small core team of 5 recent Stanford grads with 5 contractors, we are profitable, growing fast, and poised to take significant share of a market a multi-billion dollar market. We build our products with Ruby on Rails.


We are seeking a bright, young developer to join our team in San Francisco, CA and take full responsibility for one product in our portfolio.


Why you should apply:

-Impact: you’ll have the opportunity to make massive contributions immediately; your product will be used by millions across the world

-Agility: we are skilled in the agile development paradigm; we work on multiple projects at once and evolve at light speed

-Fun: you’ll be working with cool people in an informal, non-hierarchical work environment and you’ll be living in beautiful San Francisco

-Profit: competitive salary, benefits with equity


We strive to constantly innovate and have fun in every aspect of our company. In lieu of a traditional cover letter, please send resume and brief responses to the following prompts to job+343@railsjobs.in. Responses should not be more than one paragraph!

(only answer two of the following four)

-Are you handy around the house? Tell us about a time you fixed something.

-Have you ever done anything entrepreneurial? Tell us a story describing it.

-If your working style was an animal, what kind of animal would it be and why?

-You’ve just finished a grueling two week project, it’s the weekend and you have no responsibilities to tend to! How do you spend your time?



Notes:

We are currently operating in stealth mode, so we have no a public facing website. If you’d like more information, contact us at job+343@railsjobs.in.

We move fast- if interested you should apply ASAP.




Required Skills:

- at least 1 year of experience: ROR or comparable MVC framework

-strong all-around coding skills

-good product sense

-scrappy and entrepreneurial

-a fast learner and a natural problem solver






Desired skills:

-front-end design skills

-experience working on a social platform like facebook, myspace

-interest in games/game design