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Employment Opportunitites


Razoo is a web platform seeking to empower everyday donors to change the world through giving to charities and changemakers. We are looking to hire creative and motivated people who are passionate about creating the #1 destination site for online giving.

At Razoo, we are a group of people who are excited about revolutionizing philanthropy through using the latest social media and Web 2.0 tools. Our office environment is fun and casual (our favorite office past-times are playing Wii Tennis and creating smoothies with our Blendtec), yet we are also serious about our job of creating a world-class giving site.

Current Openings

Software Engineer - Rails Generalist
Front-End Software Engineer
Software Engineer - Scalability Expert


 

SOFTWARE ENGINEER - RAILS GENERALIST

To apply: email (serve@razoo.com)

The Software Engineer will be responsible for developing a fast, social and robust online giving platform. Your job will be instrumental in helping nonprofits raise money and in assisting existing and potential donors to make a difference through giving.

You will be successful at Razoo by:

  • Designing and writing high performance, elegant, and reliable code for both the frontend/UI and back-end of our web platform
  • Problem solving and having the intellectual curiosity to find technical solutions that are the quickest and easiest to build, yet also the most robust
  • Keeping up-to-date on the latest web tools and apps, and integrating with their APIs
  • Working collaboratively with a team of developers, business personnel, and creative designers
  • Working cross-functionally in software development (i.e. full Rails stack), but bringing particular strength in Rails best-practices
  • Taking the initiative to improve development, testing, measurement and deployment processes
  • Possessing the drive to consistently deliver results, being disciplined to work on your own with light supervision

Required skills:
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • 8+ years web software development experience
  • 5+ years MVC web framework experience
  • 1+ years Ruby on Rails experience
  • Solid background in dynamic object oriented languages (Ruby, Python, etc)
  • SQL, database design, and query optimization
  • OO Design, MVC architecture, unit/acceptance testing, and refactoring
  • Agile development processes and good track record of teamwork
  • Subversion and/or other version control systems

Desired skills:

  • Linux scripting and basic administration (Apache, Postfix, etc)
  • JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, AJAX
  • 3rd party API integration (SOAP, REST, etc)
  • Web and database scalability and optimization
  • RESTful API design and implementation
  • Experience researching new technologies
  • Experience building personal web apps and side projects as hobbies


 

FRONT-END SOFTWARE ENGINEER

To apply: email (serve@razoo.com)

The Front-end Software Engineer will be responsible for developing a fast, social and robust online giving platform, focusing primarily on front-end design and implementation and ensuring an excellent User Experience. Your job will be instrumental in helping nonprofits raise money and in assisting existing and potential donors to make a difference through giving.

You will be successful at Razoo by:

  • Designing and writing high performance, elegant, and reliable code for both the frontend/UI and back-end of our web platform
  • Problem solving and having the intellectual curiosity to find technical solutions that are the quickest and easiest to build, yet also the most robust
  • Keeping up-to-date on the latest web tools and apps, and integrating with their APIs
  • Working collaboratively with a team of developers, business personnel, and creative designers
  • Working cross-functionally in software development (i.e. full Rails stack), but bringing particular strength in front-end technologies
  • Taking the initiative to improve development, testing, measurement and deployment processes
  • Possessing the drive to consistently deliver results, being disciplined to work on your own with light supervision

Required skills:
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • 5+ years front-end development experience (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • 3+ years MVC web framework experience
  • 1+ years Ruby on Rails experience
  • Ability to build robust view-code from design comps (Photoshop, etc)
  • Cross-browser compliance experience
  • Prototype/Scriptaculous or other JS frameworks (jQuery, YUI, MooTools, etc)
  • JavaScript/AJAX testing methodologies
  • Solid common-sense understanding of UX issues
  • OO Design, MVC architecture, unit/acceptance testing, and refactoring
  • Agile development processes and good track record of teamwork
  • Subversion and/or other version control systems

Desired skills:

  • Solid background in dynamic object oriented languages (Ruby, Python, etc)
  • RESTful API design and implementation
  • Experience researching new technologies
  • Experience building personal web apps and side projects as hobbies
  • Linux scripting and basic administration (Apache, Postfix, etc)


 

SOFTWARE ENGINEER - SCALABILITY EXPERT

To apply: email (serve@razoo.com)

The Software Engineer will be responsible for developing a fast, social and robust online giving platform. Your job will be instrumental in helping nonprofits raise money and in assisting existing and potential donors to make a difference through giving.

You will be successful at Razoo by:

  • Designing and writing high performance, elegant, and reliable code for both the frontend/UI and back-end of our web platform
  • Problem solving and having the intellectual curiosity to find technical solutions that are the quickest and easiest to build, yet also the most robust
  • Keeping up-to-date on the latest web tools and apps, and integrating with their APIs
  • Working collaboratively with a team of developers, business personnel, and creative designers
  • Working cross-functionally in software development (i.e. full Rails stack), but bringing particular strength in Rails best-practices
  • Taking the initiative to improve development, testing, measurement and deployment processes
  • Possessing the drive to consistently deliver results, being disciplined to work on your own with light supervision

Required skills:
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • 8+ years web software development experience
  • 5+ years MVC web framework experience
  • 1+ years Ruby on Rails experience
  • Solid background in dynamic object oriented languages (Ruby, Python, etc)
  • 2+ years real-world web and database scalability experience
  • SQL database design and administration (optimization, replication)
  • Web application caching and load balancing techniques
  • Solid experience with Unix and network administration
  • OO Design, MVC architecture, unit/acceptance testing, and refactoring
  • Agile development processes and good track record of teamwork
  • Subversion and/or other version control systems

Desired skills:

  • JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, AJAX
  • 3rd party API integration (SOAP, REST, etc)
  • RESTful API design and implementation
  • Experience researching new technologies
  • Experience building personal web apps and side projects as hobbies