Company DescriptionFountain is a hiring automation platform for companies employing hourly workers — think delivery companies, rideshare companies, and service marketplaces. What we build fundamentally affects the way people work across the world by making it easier to apply to be part of a contingent workforce. We power hiring at great companies like Safeway, Deliveroo, Grubhub, Shipt, and Cabify. We are a young, fast-growing company backed by top investors, and we're looking for risk-takers that are not afraid of challenging the status quo as our team more than doubles in size this year. Come join us as we enter this next chapter, and help us create the future of work!Job DescriptionFountain is looking for an engineer who cares about solving the inefficiencies in the modern workforce and is excited about breaking the status quo of an old, static industry. We're looking to bring on our first engineering hires to help us scale to every serious hourly-work employer in the world.You'll be on the front-lines of building a product that thousands of applicants touch each day, working with a top-notch team, and ideating constantly to get new customers. As we scale, your frameworks will dictate how our engineering team operates at 10 and 100 people.QualificationsRequirements1-2 years of industry experience working with Ruby on Rails.Good knowledge of object-oriented patterns in Ruby — we think it is crucial to apply proper object-oriented principles to grow the application.Some JavaScript knowledge for enabling our user interfaces — we need at least basic knowledge with jQuery experience. Ideally, you would prefer (and know a little bit of) React.Solid understanding of Agile development practices and Lean Software Development principles. You should be very efficient at understanding different use cases, prioritizing tasks, working with Git and implementing the GitHub flow. We ship new releases every day.You are proficient enough to optimize relational databases (PostgreSQL 9.4 ), using noSQL databases (we use Redis and ElasticSearch), and scale the application (we use Heroku). Good ElasticSearch knowledge and experiece with maintaining performant PostgreSQL databases is a huge plus.Not afraid of taking risks, and vested in making our business a success, together. Nice to Have:Open source contributions (please send a link to your GitHub profile)Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks. React.js would be a huge plusExperience with highly performant PostgreSQL databases or experience with ElasticSearchInterest in working with large amounts of data and machine learningExperience interviewing engineersAdditional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.