Full Stack Developer - Deny Designs

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DenyDesigns is a modern, think-outside-the-box home furnishings company. We empower our customers to transform everyday household accessories into fun and original statement pieces. Our talented team of artists earn part of the proceeds, enabling Deny to support art communities all over the world while also spreading the creative love! From custom furniture pieces to textiles, if it’s in the home décor category, Deny puts its own unique spin on it!
Our team is located in Englewood, CO, and we’re looking for the next generation of tech leaders who understand that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision made.
Our platform is built primarily using Ruby/Rails, Redis, MySQL and is hosted on Amazon Web Services. Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python, Go or Elixir) and other relational databases are fine substitutes.
As a FULL STACK RUBY ON RAILS DEVELOPER
, you will be involved in every step of the development process. If you're seeking an environment where you can have ownership, continue to learn and advance your career, let’s have a conversation.
You’ll Report To: DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS, DENY DESIGNS.
What You'll Be Doing:
● Maintaining existing code as well as improving and updating code as needed
● Reviewing current processes and making recommendations for improvement
● Working with the team on day-to-day operations
● Constructively providing feedback and insights to your peers through code reviews and other discussions
● Constantly improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
You’ll be successful if you are strong in building within and maintaining large codebases containing a significant 
amount of business logic.
What You Should Have:
● Experience building and maintaining web applications for 3 years
● 3 years of Ruby on Rails experience and strong knowledge in best practices
● Strong Linux working knowledge
● Test driven development (Rspec, capybara)
● Mercurial and/or Git (branching and merging)
● Experience with continuous integration practices, pipelines and workflows
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills. You can explain complex topics to both highly technical and non-technical team members
● Not afraid to wear multiple hats - no job being too small or too large
● We're casual and informal but we work hard and work responsibly...A pleasant and supportive demeanor goes a long way
Experience with any of the following technologies is a plus:
● Java
● React and/or AngularJS
● Amazon Web Services (ELB, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3)
● MySQL
● PivotalTracker and/or Jira
● Agile development methodologies
Who We Are:
Leaf Group is a diversified Internet company that builds platforms to enable communities of creators to reach passionate audiences in large and growing lifestyle categories.  We create amazing experiences that celebrate the best of art, design and technology.  We want people with an intense curiosity, a commitment to high quality service, who embrace the fun of the journey. Come help us disrupt and transform the digital media and art world!
We work in a fun, collaborative environment that is diverse, adventurous, and open-minded. We encourage all of our employees to learn and grow personally and professionally so they can assume greater responsibilities and advance their careers within the department or within one of our operating businesses. Check us out here: ****What We Have:
Well Good is the 2019 People's Choice winner of the Webby’s Award for Best Lifestyle Brand
eHow is the 2019 People's Choice and official Webby Winner for Social Video/How To-DIY 
Leaf Group is among the 2019 Built In LA Best Companies To Work For
Leaf Group is among Comparably's 2018 Best Companies in Los Angeles
Well Good is the 2018 winner of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company Award
MyPlate is the 2018 winner of the Webby Award for Best Design
Winner of the 2017 Best Company for Diversity award Comparably
Competitive compensation and benefits packages (i.e., Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, 401K)
Discounted gym memberships
Paid-to-play vacation rewards
Discretionary unlimited vacation time
Employee discounts for Saatchi Art, Society6, and Deny Designs
Leaf Group, Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for all job openings are welcome and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by state, federal, or local law. It is the intent of the Company to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local legislation concerning equal opportunity in employment.
Agency Disclosure:
If the Leaf Group Talent Acquisition department, or any current company employee, receives an unsolicited resume from a third party recruiting agency and Leaf Group does not have a signed Agency Agreement active, Leaf Group will not be deemed liable to pay a placement fee. The unsolicited resume will be considered a gift and can be considered for our recruitment efforts.

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