ChatterPlug, a marketing platform, is looking for a user-experience minded Rails developer (all-around skills is a plus but not necessary — i.e. both front and backend) who can play a key role in its ongoing development. Full-time, part-time and contract roles will be considered.

ChatterPlug will rely on the developer to:
• Integrate with partners’ APIs to improve our data (especially our location and place data), provide additional functionality to users and encourage importing and exporting of content through strategic partners APIs
• Maintain a stable, well-documented API and integration strategy (authentication scheme, widgets, etc.) that can be easily put to use by high-traffic partners.
• Develop and maintain the ChatterPlug web presence
• Recommend, implement and prioritize features
• Developing logic and algorithms for ranking content and delivering more relevant recommendations based on reputation, context and external data.
• Ensure that ChatterPlug is efficient, stable and scalable.
• Experience with embedded software / integrations is a plus

Position Overview
Strategy & Planning
• In partnership with the company’s executive team, identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company’s services as a mobile and web-based business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to business success.
• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including mobile/web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company’s services.
• Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.

Implementation & Deployment
• Collaborate with the executive team and potential strategic partners to develop use cases (or user stories) and specifications that describe the implementation of the company’s services as a mobile and web application.
• Manage outsourced vendors for tech-related items
• Establish and participate in a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.
• Work alongside other developers to review and test proposed development releases and help manage the release process.
• Assist with building test suites to ensure code isn’t breaking and correctly deployed.
• Assist with application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers.
• Monitor application performance and review/fix any application failures in staging or production.
• Establish and monitor a web and mobile analytics regime that measures site traffic and application usage relative to business goals.
• Support the marketing process by providing implementation of technical requirements for Internet marketing and search engine optimization.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices.
• Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.

Position Requirements
Formal Education & Certification
• University degree in the field of computer science, business administration, or another rigorous discipline. An advanced degree in one these fields is a plus.

Knowledge & Experience
• Demonstrated ability to envision web-based services that meet business enterprise needs or solve business problems.
• Hands-on experience coding in more than one currently popular web and mobile application frameworks.
• Familiar with more than one software development methodology and extensive Rails experience.
• Ability to discern user requirements and develop specifications.
• Has contributed to one or more open source projects.
• Skill with CSS, XHTML, one or more Javascript frameworks, and AJAX is a plus
• Knowledge of mobile and web standards.
• Experience with UNIX system administration and web server configuration.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and RFC standards, database management systems, and revivion control systems.
• Familiarity with technical requirements of Internet marketing and search engine optimization is a plus.
• Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities and risk management.

Personal Attributes
• Proven teamwork ability
• Capable of committing to the hours needed in a start-up
• Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional service orientation.
• Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Whether you’ve built business enterprise solutions, recommendation engines, reputation systems, viral facebook apps, interesting data visualizations, or something entirely different, show us that you can conquer the above and that:
• You’ve built, scaled and optimized Ruby (on and off rails) applications and web services to significant levels of growth.
• You understand (or can quickly wrap your brain around) the complexities of location-based applications and location data.
• You know how to measure the impact of decisions through metrics and testing
• You’re relentless about execution and detail.
• You have extensive server and relational database architecture experience (Linux/MySQL).
• You’ve worked in a test-driven, collaborative and iterative development environment.
• If you have mobile, iPhone, Android or Facebook experience, all are also a plus!

If this sounds like you, please send us your resume and any work samples you can!

• Location: Scottsdale
• Compensation: DOE
• This is a part-time job.
• This is a contract job.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.