Rails Backend Engineer for Mobile Startup, Los Angeles, CA, Flexilis

Come join Flexilis!  We're a venture-funded startup solving big problems on small devices.

We believe that people should be able to use their mobile phones without having to worry about hackers, viruses, or other hazards of modern life.  We're building a product that keeps your mobile phone (and millions of others) safe from all sorts of nasty things: a product people want because it actually makes their lives easier.

We are looking for smart, dedicated people who have a passion for building great software and solving tough problems.  Our product touches so many diverse technologies and engineering fields that you will always have a fun challenge to work on and will likely learn something new every day.

Why Flexilis?

We build things people want.  We do cool research.  We protect people.  We have fun.
 
We love creating useful, usable, and technologically game-changing software.  If we do things right, your work will be instrumental in helping people all over the world be safe.

Besides building something meaningful, here's why you'll love working here:

• We're a start-up:  it's fun, dynamic, and you will make a difference.
• We've got smart people without bureaucracy or politics.
• We work in a loft (no cubes here!) in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles: a short subway ride or drive away from most of the city and walking distance from music, art galleries, restaurants, apartments, and night life. 
• We're funded by top-tier venture and angel investors who have helped build companies such as Sun Microsystems, PayPal, Juniper Networks, Good Technology, and Symantec.
• We offer generous salaries, benefits, and stock options.
• You'll have the important, little perks such as a fast computer with two big monitors, a laptop, a smartphone, and free food and drinks.

What you'll be doing:

We are looking for a Ruby zen master (amongst other things) to help build a web service that supports a ton of traffic and does a lot of neat with mobile phones. Like everyone else on our team, you should be a great generalist constantly willing to learn new things and use the best tools for the job, as you will be using multiple programming languages and software architectures.

You'll be working a large-scale application used by many people, so an aptitude for developing elegant, scalable, robust, and maintainable code is a must.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and help architect a web service using Ruby + rails, MySQL, and various other technologies
• Help optimize and scale our system to support millions of users
• Work with the rest of our team on our web application

Requirements:

• Strong experience writing in Ruby (on or off rails)
• Strong general software development abilities
• Experience developing scalable network services
• Knowledge of application server and database clustering
• Experience working with databases (MySQL preferred)

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with XML
• Ability to develop massively concurrent, asynchronous systems
• Experience developing web applications (CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and friends)
• Knowledge of Erlang
• Experience deploying and launching real-world applications

So, now what:

Send an email to people /at/ flexilis /dot/ com and tell us something interesting that sets you apart from the crowd (a resume would probably be good, too).  We can't wait to hear from you!

We're hiring for all sorts of things right now, so be sure to check out http://www.flexilis.com/jobs for other openings.

All positions are full time in Los Angeles, CA.  Please no recruiters, contractors, or outsourcing firms.