Akka, Redis, Riak, Git, Chef, and Scala are tools of today
Skills and Tools
We're pragmatists. We have no religion about development process, programming languages, version control, text editors, SQL vs NoSQL, etc. We use the right tool for the job, and we try to stay adaptable and open-minded. We care deeply about building a mutually supportive atmosphere, and you should, too.
We don't expect everyone we hire to be an expert in everything we do on their first day. We do expect that you want to learn, grow, and be challenged by the people you work with. You should be able to learn new things on your own, quickly.
We believe strongly in metrics, testing, continuous integration, and working fluidly and harmoniously with our experienced operations staff. Everything we write is designed for simplicity and maintainability. We take security very, very seriously.
Our backend developers mostly work in Scala. Our frontend developers mostly work in Ruby and JavaScript. We use Git, Chef, a variety of Amazon Web Services, Postgres, and more. We're experimenting with Akka, Redis, Riak, and other neat stuff, but always with a critical eye and thorough benchmarking.
We are active open source contributors, and we hope that you are too (or, at least, that you want to be).
( Data Scientist at Simple Finance )