Front End Engineer

About Us

Located in Palo Alto, CA, Ruist is on a mission to empower companies to build experiences people love. To match this vision, we are building an enduring team and business. 

The Ruist team previously founded and built RelateIQ (sold to Salesforce in 2014). We are looking for smart and ambitious individuals who want to help build a company from the ground-up. You’ll be working on an experienced and diverse team who have backgrounds from companies like Apple, Yahoo, CERN, Salesforce, and Palantir.

Core Responsibilities

As to be expected in a fast moving start-up, the scope of this position will evolve continuously. Comfort with ambiguity is required. Below is a partial description of the important qualities we are looking for in the ideal candidate:

  • Proven ability to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software
  • Comfort managing individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables 
  • Track record of execution and delivery; ability to get stuff done 
  • Development process flexibility; ability to build software in fast iterative cycles 
  • Demonstrated passion for coding and problem solving, either within a startup environment and/or side projects in an academic environment
  • Strength in collaborating cross-functionally across engineering, design, and product

A great candidate for this role probably has...

  • Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages. 
  • BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience. 
  • Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development. 
  • Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.
  • Expert level knowledge of JavaScript
  • Experience with a JavaScript framework such as React, Angular, Backbone or Ember
  • Demonstrated empathy for design and UX best practice
  • You're comfortable with HTML, CSS and related technologies
  • Bonus points for ES6, SASS, Redux or Flux

Not everyone will match the above qualifications 100%. If your experiences don’t perfectly align, but you think you’d be a great addition to our team, we’d still love to hear from you.

Ruist is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. 

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