(San Francisco, CA)

Position Title: Web Applications Developer

Reports to:Interactive Application Developer

Department: Information Services

Salary: Competitive

Location: San Francisco, CA

Time Base:100%; Position No: 3932

WestEd, a nonprofit research, development, and service agency, works with education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults.

While WestEd serves the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah as one of the nation's Regional Educational Laboratories, our agency's work extends throughout the United States and abroad. WestEd has 16 offices nationwide, from Washington and Boston to Arizona, Southern California, and its headquarters in San Francisco.

WestEd has been regularly ranked in the top 100 places to work in the Bay Area and offers a relaxed working environment that is compatible with outside activities and family needs. We provide a generous benefits package and a great working environment that allows you to collaborate with experts and thought-leaders in all aspects of the educational field, both inside and outside of the organization.  We are predominantly a Ruby on Rails shop, but we have also created and supported projects in Perl and PHP.

Position Description WestEd is looking for a developer to join our Web Applications Group. You will work to help design and build interactive web applications for schools, districts, states and the federal government. As a member of a small development shop in a larger organization, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of software that touches millions of lives, develop in the full application stack and collaborate and interact with thought leaders in educational research and reform.

ResponsibilitiesThe developer will work directly with clients and project managers to gain a strong understanding of the problem domain, create working prototypes in Ruby on Rails, and iteratively refine the applications as they are built. They will work with the entire application stack, from database design to client-side Javascript. While we have designers on staff to do the heavy lifting, a working knowledge of markup and CSS is assumed.

QualificationsRequirements: * Have some code that you wrote and can share with us. It does not have to Ruby or Rails or even web-based, but it should be something that you are excited to share and talk to us about. * A passion to create and deliver working software. * Knowledge of a high-level scripting language (Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP.) We use mostly Ruby and Rails. * An understanding of web application development. * Some basic SQL experience. We mostly use MySQL. * A working knowledge of HTML and CSS. * Familiarity with the UNIX command line. * Great communication skills, both verbal and written. * Must be a US citizen or authorized to work (visa sponsorship not available). Desired: * Background with educators, researchers, or the larger education community. * Knowledge of any or all of these technologies: version control (Git), Javascript, Continuous Integration, TDD, Heroku. * Ability to do basic system administration and UNIX shell scripting. * Knowledge of database design.

All health benefits effective first of the month following date of hire 15% contribution toward retirement effective day one of employment 20 vacation days, 10 holidays, 2 personal days 12 days sick leave per year Employee Parking Available in our SOMA building.