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## 1 resources
I have found these resources particularly helpful in preparing this posting:

Hiring Engineers, a Process
http://hueniverse.com/2013/02/hiring-engineers-a-process/

Join the Lift Team
http://blog.lift.do/post/24988178079/join-the-lift-team

How Etsy Increased Diversity in Its Engineering Department: An Interview with Marc Hedlund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D66GVc7ztA
via (@SuzAxtell)[twitter.com/suzaxtell]

New Study Exposes Gender Bias in Tech Job Listings
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/hiring-women/
http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/wanted-gender-free-job-ads/
via (@meaganewaller)[twitter.com/meaganewaller] and (@coryaw)[twitter.com/coryaw]

## 2 posting
## What We're Doing

Aisle50 is all about huge savings on groceries. Our sales team sources deals directly from manufacturers,
and we pass those savings (typically 30-60% off) to the shopper through our website. We're able to
provide uniquely interesting opportunities for both manufacturers, shoppers, and grocery stores:

Shoppers love our us because our offers are easy to use and provide much bigger savings than typical
coupons. Our biggest single offer to date saved shoppers well over $10.

Manufacturers love us because our programs are cheap and easy to run - printing paper coupons is
expensive. We also reach the shopper before they're in the aisle looking at dozens of competitors'
products. Often 80-90% of shoppers who take advantage of an Aisle50 deal haven't bought the product in
the previous three months, so we're truly introducing the product to new people - the ultimate goal of
the manufacturer.

Grocery stores love us because we drive trips to the store. As with a paper coupon, the store receives
the full value for all the products regardless of what the shopper pays. We've even found that people with
Aisle50 deals buy more than they normally would - a bonus for the store.

## Why We're Hiring

Mobile is such an important part of grocery. Not everyone has a smartphone in the store, but NOBODY has
a desktop. The vast majority of our users' problems arise in the store itself, yet we feel mobile is the
weakest part of our current offerings. We have a mobile-optimized site and native apps that basically just
frame the mobile site. It's a pretty good stop-gap solution but we're leaving a lot on the table. We want
to provide an awesome customer experience in the store and we need native mobile apps to do it.

## What It's Like Here

Aisle50 currently has (fifteen employees)[http://aisle50.com/team]. The tech team reports to the
co-founders.

We believe in the paramount importance of the customer experience. We have a number of
constituencies, so walking the line between what's good for shoppers, manufacturers, and retailers is
a difficult but rewarding daily challenge. We're humble about our code because what's important is
finding the best way to do things. We're all very curious people and enjoy working together to explore
a problem space and find the best ideas. We try to mitigate risk by taking small steps and creating
safety nets (eg: test-drive development, continuous integration).

We don't use Agile or Kanban or Waterfall or really any project management methods at this point. We have
a weekly meeting (and a morning check-in when we remember) to make sure we aren't losing focus, but in
and out of those meetings we just talk with each other about what we're working on, what's important, and
how to solve problems. We're all responsible for actively improving the company and product and kind of
just leave it at that. Our ideas as developers are consistently included in our products. We occasionally
use Trello to track larger projects when we feel like it'll be useful. Maybe eventually we'll need
something more formally defined but so far we've been pragmatic about doing what works and not
over-engineering the process.

We tend to be in the office most of the time because that's how we feel we're most effective, and we
look forward to working with you in person. However we do understand and encourage work-life balance.
People routinely work from home or take off a little early or whatever they need to do. As a tech team
we have very few deadlines and are good about proactively managing them which has made it easy to be
flexible.

We have a community manager who handles most of the customer support, but we all pitch in at various
times. It's nice to be able to get some first-hand contact with our customers. We have a close working
relationship with the sales team. A big part of our tech focus is on building internal tools to make
their jobs faster and easier.

We eat lunch together every day. It's not required or anything, we just like each other :)

## Stack

Our current tools include:

* Rails 3.2 (migrating to 4.0 soon)
* Ruby 1.9.2 (migrating to 2.0.0 soon)
* heroku
* postgres
* mailgun
* S3
* rackspace (we need a static IP for some of our retailer integrations)
* rspec
* json API

We develop on Macbook Pros and IKEA desks. We all use different editors.

## Who We're Hiring

Our current team has very little mobile experience, so we need someone who has a good handle on it.
You won't be entirely on your own - we'll be able to pick up the languages pretty fast. But with any
technology, the environment and tooling is often the biggest hurdle.  We need someone who knows how to
set up a project from scratch, pull in the right libraries, and create a solid foundation that is going
to work for us long-term. Once we have a stable development environment it's going to be much easier
for the rest of us to help out. Years of experience is a very rough rubric, but we expect a successful
candidate will have 4-6 years of software experience with at least the last 1-2 being mobile. This
person needs to be familiar with software design principles, able to reason and communicate at an
architectural level.
	I have found these resources particularly helpful in preparing this posting:

	Hiring Engineers, a Process
	http://hueniverse.com/2013/02/hiring-engineers-a-process/

	Join the Lift Team
	http://blog.lift.do/post/24988178079/join-the-lift-team

	How Etsy Increased Diversity in Its Engineering Department: An Interview with Marc Hedlund
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D66GVc7ztA
	via (@SuzAxtell)[twitter.com/suzaxtell]

	New Study Exposes Gender Bias in Tech Job Listings
	http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/hiring-women/
	http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/wanted-gender-free-job-ads/
	via (@meaganewaller)[twitter.com/meaganewaller] and (@coryaw)[twitter.com/coryaw]
	## What We're Doing

	Aisle50 is all about huge savings on groceries. Our sales team sources deals directly from manufacturers,
	and we pass those savings (typically 30-60% off) to the shopper through our website. We're able to
	provide uniquely interesting opportunities for both manufacturers, shoppers, and grocery stores:

	Shoppers love our us because our offers are easy to use and provide much bigger savings than typical
	coupons. Our biggest single offer to date saved shoppers well over $10.

	Manufacturers love us because our programs are cheap and easy to run - printing paper coupons is
	expensive. We also reach the shopper before they're in the aisle looking at dozens of competitors'
	products. Often 80-90% of shoppers who take advantage of an Aisle50 deal haven't bought the product in
	the previous three months, so we're truly introducing the product to new people - the ultimate goal of
	the manufacturer.

	Grocery stores love us because we drive trips to the store. As with a paper coupon, the store receives
	the full value for all the products regardless of what the shopper pays. We've even found that people with
	Aisle50 deals buy more than they normally would - a bonus for the store.

	## Why We're Hiring

	Mobile is such an important part of grocery. Not everyone has a smartphone in the store, but NOBODY has
	a desktop. The vast majority of our users' problems arise in the store itself, yet we feel mobile is the
	weakest part of our current offerings. We have a mobile-optimized site and native apps that basically just
	frame the mobile site. It's a pretty good stop-gap solution but we're leaving a lot on the table. We want
	to provide an awesome customer experience in the store and we need native mobile apps to do it.

	## What It's Like Here

	Aisle50 currently has (fifteen employees)[http://aisle50.com/team]. The tech team reports to the
	co-founders.

	We believe in the paramount importance of the customer experience. We have a number of
	constituencies, so walking the line between what's good for shoppers, manufacturers, and retailers is
	a difficult but rewarding daily challenge. We're humble about our code because what's important is
	finding the best way to do things. We're all very curious people and enjoy working together to explore
	a problem space and find the best ideas. We try to mitigate risk by taking small steps and creating
	safety nets (eg: test-drive development, continuous integration).

	We don't use Agile or Kanban or Waterfall or really any project management methods at this point. We have
	a weekly meeting (and a morning check-in when we remember) to make sure we aren't losing focus, but in
	and out of those meetings we just talk with each other about what we're working on, what's important, and
	how to solve problems. We're all responsible for actively improving the company and product and kind of
	just leave it at that. Our ideas as developers are consistently included in our products. We occasionally
	use Trello to track larger projects when we feel like it'll be useful. Maybe eventually we'll need
	something more formally defined but so far we've been pragmatic about doing what works and not
	over-engineering the process.

	We tend to be in the office most of the time because that's how we feel we're most effective, and we
	look forward to working with you in person. However we do understand and encourage work-life balance.
	People routinely work from home or take off a little early or whatever they need to do. As a tech team
	we have very few deadlines and are good about proactively managing them which has made it easy to be
	flexible.

	We have a community manager who handles most of the customer support, but we all pitch in at various
	times. It's nice to be able to get some first-hand contact with our customers. We have a close working
	relationship with the sales team. A big part of our tech focus is on building internal tools to make
	their jobs faster and easier.

	We eat lunch together every day. It's not required or anything, we just like each other :)

	## Stack

	Our current tools include:

	* Rails 3.2 (migrating to 4.0 soon)
	* Ruby 1.9.2 (migrating to 2.0.0 soon)
	* heroku
	* postgres
	* mailgun
	* S3
	* rackspace (we need a static IP for some of our retailer integrations)
	* rspec
	* json API

	We develop on Macbook Pros and IKEA desks. We all use different editors.

	## Who We're Hiring

	Our current team has very little mobile experience, so we need someone who has a good handle on it.
	You won't be entirely on your own - we'll be able to pick up the languages pretty fast. But with any
	technology, the environment and tooling is often the biggest hurdle. We need someone who knows how to
	set up a project from scratch, pull in the right libraries, and create a solid foundation that is going
	to work for us long-term. Once we have a stable development environment it's going to be much easier
	for the rest of us to help out. Years of experience is a very rough rubric, but we expect a successful
	candidate will have 4-6 years of software experience with at least the last 1-2 being mobile. This
	person needs to be familiar with software design principles, able to reason and communicate at an
	architectural level.