Shotgun Software: Web Application Developer (Server Platform)

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Location: Anywhere (Los Angeles or San Francisco a plus)
URL: http://www.shotgunsoftware.com

We're
looking for a Web Application Developer and server guru to join our
team.  We're a young and growing company building software for the
visual effects, feature animation, and video game industries.We
have one main product called Shotgun.  It is a flexible web-based
"production tracking and collaboration" application.  It is designed for
everyone working in the studio across many roles and needs.  It has a
customizable database, a flexible web interface, and an open API.  We
provide defaults and tools, and our clients can build and evolve their
own applications on top of this framework.  We are actively developing
additional products we’ll be announcing soon.You'll
be working with a team of talented developers to extend, maintain, and
optimize the Shotgun server-side platform. We work with an agile
development process and release software every 6 weeks (patches every
weekend), so the pace is very quick and iterative.About YouHere is what we are looking for:

  • Experience with relational databases including profiling / optimization (Postgres preferred)
  • Experience with one or more of Ruby (Rails helpful), Python, JavaScript in the context of building scalable applications.
  • Experience or interest in server-side JavaScript
  • Experience or interest in NoSQL data stores
  • Fan of agile development, unit testing, refactoring
  • Independent, strong problem solving and communication skills
  • Experience with working on a distributed team a plus   

About UsThis
is a cool place to work.  Most of us are foodies, we love good wine,
and we're becoming obsessed with coffee.  We have a strict no-asshole
rule, and are trying to build a dream team of people who inspire us
every day.We'll
pay you what you are worth, give you lots of flexibility and
challenges, and although we're all passionate and work hard, we insist
that you have a healthy work/life balance.Take a look at what we're up to here:  http://www.shotgunsoftware.comAnd some of our latest release videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/shotgunsoftware

To apply: If you're interested, send your stuff to: jobs@shotgunsoftware.com