Senior Software Developer - Rails, React
About Us
We are GovPredict, an exponentially growing, Y Combinator-backed startup in
Washington, DC. Our software+data product helps companies predict what the US
government will do. We work with Fortune 500 publicly-traded companies,
Ivy-League universities, and United States House and Senate offices. Our
culture is “build fast and ask questions later.” But we value rigor and
best-practices too. Our team of powerful engineers is building the software
that no government has ever seen before.
Our team of top-tier software developers is distributed around the world
and our sales + business development is in the USA.
Our Stack
Ruby on Rails backend, ReactJS front end, Python scrapers, Postgres, Mongo,
Redis, Elastic Search, AWS, RabbitMQ, Terraform, and Ansible.
About the Job
As a senior developer at GovPredict, you will be responsible for
architecting software, providing technical leadership, writing
smart+scalable code, and helping grow our team. You will be a team
leader working with data nobody has ever worked with before.
You will work on frontend and backend features. Our product pulls in data
from structured APIs or from unstructured sources with our python
scrapers. We then manipulate, organize, and display it in never before
seen ways to our customers.
Requirements
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Strong
engineering background
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4+ years
industry experience
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Comfortable with automated
software testing (such as RSpec)
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Desire to work with Ruby,
Javascript, and Python
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Can take a task from gathering
requirements to deployment and maintenance
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Able to communicate
effectively in writing and orally in English (other team members speak Russian,
Romanian, Spanish, Polish, German, and Portuguese in addition)
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Eager to learn new things and
apply them quickly
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Ability to mentor and guide
fellow team members constructively
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Willing to work full-time with
some overlap on US business hours (8am to 6pm EST)
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