Senior Developer (Ruby on Rails)

Change Anything is a web and mobile platform that helps people make significant

personal lifestyle changes. We are launching a new product, Coach Alba, which is an

automated text messaging-based personal assistant that helps people overcome the

difficult moments that derail their good intentions to change.

We’re looking for an exceptional and motivator senior developer to help us build our

product line.

What you’ll be doing:

 Design, implement, and test new features and maintain existing components

using Ruby on Rails framework

 Work with other developers to troubleshoot, re-factor and assist one another

 Checkout, rebase and merge git repository branches

 Assist in production configuration, deployment, monitoring and troubleshoot

Applicants should have:

 Strong knowledge and professional development experience with Ruby on Rails

 Professional experience with OO design and programming

 Experience with Test Unit framework such as RSpec

 Familiar with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery

 Understanding of web service technologies such as HTTP and REST

 Familiar with version control systems such as SubVersion or Git

 Experience with Agile development techniques

 Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle

 Superb analytical skills, self directed, excellent communication skills

 BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

What you will get:

 Opportunity to join an exciting tech-startup company with a mission to

meaningfully better people’s lives

 Competitive salary and benefits including stock options

How to Apply:

 Send an email to Vince at vince@changeanything.com and briefly describe

your background

 Attach a recent copy of your resume formatted as a .PDF

 Visit our blog (blog.changeanything.com) and sign up to receive our weekly email

Internship

Job Description Avalanche Studios is a Disney Interactive Development Studio based in Salt Lake City, UT. We are focused on the creation of video games based on Disney intellectual properties as well as the creation of new properties. We are looking for a programming intern to help with subtitle implementation! Responsibilities • Write code to support in-game subtitles during voice-over moments • Work closely with our user interface team to enhance our localization tool set • Reliably create high quality and performance-sensitive C++ code • Other duties as assigned Basic Qualifications • Proficient with C++ with at least 1 year of experience • Experience with Flash and ActionScript a plus • Experience with scripting language such as Lua, Python, or Perl a plus • Experience with C# a plus • Self-starter with a healthy curiosity and drive • Ability to work in a collaborative team environment • Ability to dive into new code and learn quickly Required Education To qualify as an intern, applicants must be currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or graduated within the last 12 months. Job Posting Industries Gaming Additional Information This position is with the legal entity Disney Interactive. Avalanche Software (Salt Lake City, UT) is a video game development studio focusing on the creation of games based on Disney intellectual properties in addition to the creation of new properties. In early 2009, Fall Line and Avalanche merged to become one studio. The new organization combines the best practices and experience of the two studios. They work together to continue to expand their strong relationship with Pixar, and strive towards creating the highest quality games to include feature film titles, as well as original IP. COMPANY OVERVIEW -- Disney Interactive, the interactive entertainment affiliate of The Walt Disney Company, creates immersive, connected, interactive experiences across console, online, mobile and social network platforms to entertain and inform audiences around the globe. Disney Interactive mission is to deliver Disney content to fans, whenever and wherever they want it, through numerous interactive media platforms. Disney Interactive operates five global product groups: Disney Core Games produces console and handheld video games for the Nintendo Wii™, Nintendo DS™, PlayStation®Portable, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment systems, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and the personal computer. Disney Interactive Media produces Disney.com and a portfolio of leading lifestyle websites for families, including Family.com Disney Interactive Worlds develops online virtual worlds, providing connected game-play experiences for children around the globe Disney Mobile Games brings the best of Disney content to the mobile web, smart phone applications, and mobile games; in addition, Disney Interactive manages a Disney-branded mobile phone service in Japan in association with Softbank Disney Social Games produces best-in-class content for the rapidly growing platform of casual games on emerging platforms and social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. All five product groups work together to create a variety of connected, multi-platform entertainment experiences.

Technical Program Manager

O.C. Tanner develops employee recognition and rewards programs that help companies appreciate people who do great work.

As part of that effort, we build large-scale, international, multi-million user web and mobile applications used by companies like FedEx, Texas Roadhouse, Home Depot, and American Express. And we’re doing it with technologies like Heroku, iOS, Android, Rails and Node.js. If web and mobile apps are your thing, we’ve got that.

We’re creating a new Technical Program Management practice. A Technical Program Manager at O.C. Tanner is part solution designer, part project manager, part business analyst, part metrics manager, and part technical business manager. Technical Program Managers incessantly push for clarity on the who, what, why, how and when of our work. The Technical Program Manager is the leader who relentlessly organizes and guides our product development teams to exceed our business objectives, nail our customer’s needs and delight and empower the people who use our products and services.

Responsibilities

Our Technical Program Managers partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, Front-End Engineers, Back-End Engineers, Mobile Engineers, QA Engineers and others to do the following:

•             Clearly understand and prioritize business objectives and customer needs

•             Design, build and deliver solutions that will meet or exceed the objectives and needs

•             Measure and report actual performance against baseline measures

•             Work continuously to improve performance against the objectives and needs

•             Help define and execute standards and practices that enable our development teams to do this as quickly and effectively as possible

•             Create an environment that attracts, empowers and retains technical people of the highest caliber

Applying candidates must have each of the following:

•             Strong technical breadth in web application development

•             A passion for delivering user experiences that delight and empower

•             A passion for building web apps

•             The ability to represent customers in a development team

•             Exceptional problem-solving skills

•             Exceptional communication and facilitation skills

•             The ability to lead through influence

•             Strong project leadership skills

•             A relentless drive for results

•             A passion for measuring those results

Exceptional candidates will have done one or more of the following:

•             Practiced the Lean Startup approach

•             Worked on a team that does Test-Driven Development and Continuous Delivery

•             Designed a user experience for a web app and/or mobile device

•             Coded a web app that runs on Heroku or a similar PAAS

•             Started a business

•             Contributed to an open source project

•             Worked on a large-scale, international, multi-million user web app

•             Hand-coded the HTML/CSS for a Responsive website

•             Developed and published a mobile app for iOS and/or Android devices

Apply here - http://www.octanner.com/about-us/jobs

iOS Engineer

O.C. Tanner develops employee recognition and rewards programs that help companies appreciate people who do great work.

As part of that effort, we build large-scale, international, multi-million user web and mobile applications used by companies like FedEx, Texas Roadhouse, Home Depot, and American Express. And we’re doing it with technologies like Heroku, iOS, Android, Rails and Node.js. If mobile apps are your thing, we’ve got that.

We need highly skilled iOS engineers who have a passion for creating delightful, useful and usable mobile experiences and a gift for writing clean, standard code.

Requirements

•             Advanced knowledge of iOS and development tools

•             Experience building and releasing mobile apps in the app store

•             Experience building localized and globalized mobile apps

•             Strong communication skills

You should be passionate about:

•             Building great products

•             Working on multi-million user apps

You excel if you:

•             Can lead, motivate, and inspire people

•             Have worked with REST and JSON

•             Have published multiple apps in the app store

•             Can write well

•             Are proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks

•             Are familiar with Git or Svn

•             Are familiar with Node.js, Ruby or Python

http://www.octanner.com/about-us/jobs

Android Engineer

O.C. Tanner develops employee recognition and rewards programs that help companies appreciate people who do great work.

As part of that effort, we build large-scale, international, multi-million user web and mobile applications used by companies like FedEx, Texas Roadhouse, Home Depot, and American Express. And we’re doing it with technologies like Heroku, iOS, Android, Rails and Node.js. If mobile apps are your thing, we’ve got that.

We need highly skilled Android engineers who have a passion for creating delightful, useful and usable mobile experiences and a gift for writing clean, standard code.

Requirements

•             Advanced knowledge of Android and development tools

•             Experience building and releasing mobile apps

•             Experience building localized and globalized mobile apps

•             Strong communication skills

You should be passionate about:

•             Building great products

•             Working on multi-million user apps

You excel if you:

•             Can lead, motivate, and inspire people

•             Have worked with REST and JSON

•             Have published multiple apps in the Google Play store

•             Can write well

•             Are proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks

•             Are familiar with Git or Svn

•             Are familiar with Node.js, Ruby or Python.

Apply here http://www.octanner.com/about-us/jobs

Ruby on Rails Engineer

O.C. Tanner develops employee recognition and rewards programs that help companies appreciate people who do great work.

As part of that effort, we build large-scale, international, multi-million user web and mobile applications used by companies like FedEx, Texas Roadhouse, Home Depot, and American Express. And we’re doing it with technologies like Heroku, iOS, Android, Rails and Node.js. If web and mobile apps are your thing, we’ve got that.

We’re actively adopting the practice of separating front-end and back-end processing across our application stack.  A Ruby on Rails engineer is responsible for creating the services required to feed our Front-End apps that span the web, mobile, voice and any other great ideas we come up with.

Our Ruby on Rails Engineers work closely with Technical Program Managers, Product Managers, Front-End Engineers, Mobile Engineers, QA Engineers and others to do the following:

•             Creates domain and web services using Ruby on Rails and other technologies for deployment in the cloud

•             Defines, creates and maintains the data structures required to feed these services including relational and NoSQL products such as PostgreSQL and Cassandra

•             Ensure 100% code coverage by automated testing -- we take test-driven development seriously here

•             Clearly understand business objectives and customer needs

•             Design, build and deliver solutions that will meet and often exceed the objectives and needs

•             Help define and execute standards and practices that enable our development teams to do this as quickly and effectively as possible

•             Foster an environment that attracts, empowers and retains technical people of the highest caliber

Applying candidates must have each of the following:

•             Great experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

•             Strong technical depth and breadth in service development

•             Deep knowledge of data management issues including storage, secure transmission, encryption and transactions

•             Comfortable with continuous deployment

•             A passion for delivering a bullet-proof services infrastructure

•             A craving for high performance code

•             Keeps it as simple as possible

Apply here http://www.octanner.com/about-us/jobs

Front-End Engineer

O.C. Tanner develops employee recognition and rewards programs that help companies appreciate people who do great work.

As part of that effort, we build large-scale, international, multi-million user web and mobile applications used by companies like FedEx, Texas Roadhouse, Home Depot, and American Express. And we’re doing it with technologies like Heroku, iOS, Android, Rails and Node.js. If web and mobile apps are your thing, we’ve got that.

We need highly skilled front-end engineers who have a passion for creating delightful, useful and usable web experiences and a gift for writing clean, web standard front-end code.

Requirements

•             Advanced knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS

•             Experience building and releasing web apps

•             Experience building localized and globalized web apps

•             Strong communication skills

You should be passionate about:

•             Web standards

•             HTML5 and CSS3

•             JavaScript

•             Mobile Web

•             Building great products

•             Working on multi-million user web apps

You excel if you:

•             Can lead, motivate, and inspire people

•             Dream in browser-transforms and elaborate multi-stop gradients

•             Have contributed to an open source project

•             Are experienced with mobile web app development

•             Can write well

•             Are proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks

•             Are familiar with Git or Svn

•             Are familiar with Node.js, Ruby or Python.

Apply here http://www.octanner.com/about-us/jobs