About Chute

We are a venture funded, Y Combinator-backed, engineering-driven startup in SoMA, San Francisco. Our goal is to serve, route, or analyze every photo and video on the web. We are a small team of mostly engineers and growing, but are already collecting and serving photos and videos for huge, paying customers including NBC News, TNT, Taylormade, Golf Digest, Lucky Magazine, Saks, and many more.

We're looking for a badass full-stack engineer to join our growing engineering team.  We have a fast-paced, fun team and a highly collaborative culture.  You're versed in all things Ruby,Rails.  You relish solving problems at scale.

The Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• Node.js
• Postgres and MongoDB
• EC2 and Heroku

Your Challenges

• Work seamlessly between Rails, Ruby and Node environments
• Build simple, scalable solutions for customer problems
• Design web services to power both our applications and our community's at large 
• Traverse browser compatibility issues in a single bound
• Write stories and tests that guarantee your code works 

Skills and Knowledge

• Extensive Ruby on Rails experience
• Deep experience with jQuery, DOM and more
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with  Postgres and MongoDB
• Crazy troubleshooting skills and willigness to make people happy
• Passion about what we do and about driving Chute through a period of rapid growth and adoption

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Stock options in a growing startup
• Catered lunch everyday
• Fully stocked kitchen with beverages and snacks
• Work at our great, relaxed HQ in SoMA, San Francisco, with ping pong table, big screen, and gaming area (Xbox + Kinect)
• Paid relocation to San Francisco if necessary