Food on the Table is growing!
We are looking for a FT developer (or a contractor in the interim) with Front-end experience (HTML, CSS & Javascript) – ideally with Rails/Ruby experience as well
You are someone who…
- is passionate about development,
- has an entrepreneurial streak and
- wants to solve meaningful problems with great software.
We are Food on the Table & we solve real problems that make a difference in peoples day-to-day lives. As an Austin-based consumer internet startup, we help people to simplify their lives by simplifying the work around meal planning, shopping & cooking. Through our iOS and Android apps plus our website, we have built a service that touches thousand of people each day, bringing them live data about sale items in their specific grocery stores combined with recipes and meal planning personalization.
Our front-end needs are primarily in the browser, secondarily on top of Titanium, i.e. we have two technical stacks
- From the browser, we use use HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Redis, AWS
- From mobile, our iOS and Android apps are based on Titanium (using Javascript) combined with our shared backend service (Rails, MySQL, Redis, AWS)
We develop in a way you’ve probably never seen – ferociously applying lean startup principles, this means (among other things) we are constantly running multiple experiments to learn what changes really make a difference to our users (typically 10 experiments running at any time) & individual developers deploy to production multiple times / day, release Android multiple times / week & release iOS weekly. We are ferociously lean (as in lean startup) & as a result – everything we do goes straight back to how we are making a measurable difference to our users.
Learn more about how lean startup is applied within Food on the Table from the recent book The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (pages 99 – 102), from our CEO Manual Rosso’s talk at Startup Lessons Learned, or some patterns of lean startup at Food on the Table by Steve Sanderson.
If you’re interested, the get hold of me: I’m Steve Sanderson and my email address is my first name at foodonthetable.com & I’m @stevesanderson
