Long Description

The Honest Company is looking for a Senior Back-End Ruby Engineer for a rapidly growing development team. We're a talented, passionate and determined group with a good sense of humor.

We are looking for someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. You are known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem.  You take pride in your work and deliver clean, well-tested code.  You are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes.

Responsibilities

• Build, design and code new features and enhancements for Honest APIs and backend platform
• Building integration solutions for 3rd party services such as Payment Processing, Inventory management and Automation, Warehouse control systems and many more
• Participate in all aspects of a project life-cycle utilizing SCRUM methodology

Required Skills

• 4-year CS degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional experience, with 2+ years of open-source development experience using Ruby, Python or Node.js
• Understanding MVC frameworks such as Rails, Sinatra, Django, Express or similar
• A passion for writing maintainable code with a deep understanding of OOP, design patterns, and data structures
• Experience designing, building and testing REST API’s
• Experience with test driven development (RSpec, Cucumber, Capybara)
• Strong *nix skills (Linux, FreeBSD, and/or Mac OS X preferred)

Desired Skills

• Start-up experience
• Solid knowledge of scaling web applications and asynchronous architectures
• Passionate about TDD
• Experience working in a subscription-based e-commerce environment
• Cloud/AWS and distributed deployment experience a plus
• Experience with search platforms (Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, etc.)
• Automating deployments with Capistrano and Chef (or similar tools)
• Experienced with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX
• Contributed to open-source project(s)

We offer

• Key role in a high growth organization
• Being part of strong and collaborative team
• Treadmill desks and standing desks, TVs, game consoles and comfy couches
• Competitive base salary
• Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vistion)
• 401k with company matching
• Amazing office located in sunny Santa Monica
• Ping-Pong tournaments and company barbeques

Who We Are

The Honest Company, a leading healthy lifestyle brand, is committed to creating products that are effective, safe, delightful, accessible, and responsible. In pursuit of its mission to empower people to live a healthy and happy life, The Honest Company's portfolio of 100+ products address the ever-growing category needs of baby, personal care, home care, vitamins & supplements, and gear. As a mission-driven company and trusted resource, Honest provides education, support, and inspiration to its community of members. It was launched in 2012 and now has a presence across the U.S. and Canada at HONEST.com and in over 3,500 retail locations. Through its social goodness platform, Honest invests in building healthy, safe families. The Honest Company is privately held and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.