Entry-Level Web Developer (Ruby on Rails) job at Web Ascender. New York, NY.

Web Ascender is expanding its team and we'd love to have you join us. Our clients range from small businesses to high-profile national and international companies, so you'll have plenty of variety in your projects.

You'll be working alongside our developers, designers, and marketers to help create beautiful and functional online systems for our various clients using Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and PostgreSQL. We work in small teams so you will definitely have an impact!

As an entry-level web developer you will be contributing code to real projects alongside our more experienced developers. You'll gain experience in both backend and frontend development technologies, as well as UI wireframing and database architecture.

Check out one of our featured rails projects:

Or read more about our other rails projects:

We foster a work environment that is engaging and challenging, but we strongly believe in a sustainable work-life balance for all our employees. We are a remote-default company, with a physical office available for occasional team meetups and brainstorming sessions.

Requirements

You:

Have a passion for technology and creating things for the web
Have at least 1 year of experience with a major web development framework (Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Django, ASP.NET MVC)
Have at least a basic understanding of SQL database systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
Have a good understanding of HTML and CSS
Can point to examples of work or projects you've contributed to or created
Love solving problems
Have a thirst for learning
Have a collaborative spirit and can work well in a small team
Have excellent spoken and written English
Are a United States citizen
Live/work in the US Eastern or Central Time Zone
Have a Bachelor's (4-year) degree from a university, degree related to Computer Science a plus
Benefits Remote-default, office available
Sustainable work-life balance
Small team and interesting projects
401(k) plan with company matching
Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Paid time off, plus holidays
Training allowance for courses, conferences, books, etc