Chowbus is a fast growing, well-funded food startup headquartered here in Chicago on a mission to help diners to discover new and exquisite dishes, and to give traditional mom and pop restaurants a fighting chance to succeed without compromising who they truly are. By building a super app, our goal is to be the one stop shop for everything related to food.

What You’ll be Doing

• Understand business needs, plan, design, and write a great piece software with your team members to support our rapidly expanding services and operations.

What You Should Already Have

• Minimum 2-3 years of production experience with Ruby on Rails and building RESTful APIs.

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript and capable of writing componentized front-end web app.

• Strong knowledge of HTML (we use HAML), CSS (SASS and BEM), Git (we’re on Github), and other common web technologies and protocols.

• Understanding that code is written for others to read and capable of writing highly readable, modular, clean, and testable software. You should also follow best practices, capable of recognizing and refactoring common code smell.

• Understanding that specs are the foundation of an application and dedicated to test-driving development using RSpec.

• Strong experience working with PostgreSQL and understand performance optimization strategies.

• Understanding that every piece of code written incurs a ‘cost of carry’, and that over-engineering is the bane of all evil. You should also have experience working in teams that practice Agile.

• Excellent communication skills. Attention to detail. Also, startup experience is a plus.

What We’ll Hook You Up With

• Code thoroughly reviewed in every single PR.

• Competitive market salary and stock options, based on experience

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans

• Daily free lunch and free food and beverages in the office