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Our technical bonafides
- Ruby on Rails, we like living on the edge and are on Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2
- PostgreSQL database with PostGIS (location, location, location!)
- Javascript heavy front-end powered by Backbone.js framework
- Fast data pipeline, using RabbitMQ and Redis
- Cloud hosted on Heroku and Amazon AWS
- Multi-tier architecture, using JSON/REST APIs
What you will get from us
- Support and resources to continue learning.
- A brilliant team with which to collaborate.
- A highly agile enviroment, where everyone is passionate about making things better every day.
- A commitment to your career, so that you can grow with the company.
Apartment List
Head of Product
- You’re a rising star in the PM sphere and are ready to take your career to the next level. You’ve been arbitrarily constrained in your current role and would love to take over the product reins at a fast-growing consumer web start-up.
- You speak geek. You’ve coded before. You understand the architecture of complex and scalable web apps. Devs respect you. You write clear and concise tickets with reasonable target dates.
- You’re a shipper. You translate business objectives into product vision and ultimately technical requirements. You prefer to launch an MVP, solicit user feedback and iterate. You’re organized and execution focused.
- You’ll collaborate with Founders, Engineers, Designers & Marketers to grow AL into the web’s leading rental marketplace.
- You’ll own the Product Management process from start to finish: build & prioritize the roadmap, define the scope, write the specs, assist with implementation, conduct user tests, perform web analytics, and adapt features accordingly.
Head of User Experience
- You are passionate about modern web and mobile user experience.
- You know where the industry is heading tomorrow, but are aware of limitations we live with today.
- You deliver efficient and clean wireframes and mockups fast.
- You strive in an iterative agile environment and love brainstorming creative concepts with engineers, designers, and product managers.
- You are well versed in UX and Interaction Design tools.
- You live and breathe user feedback: from metrics and analytics to focus groups and usability studies.
- You have formal training in HCI, solid UX portfolio, and a proven track record of industry success.
- Programming and/or graphics design background is a strong plus.
Director of Engineering – Mobile
- You are a natural leader, who is able to inspire people around you. You can quickly earn the respect of an exceptional team of engineers.
- You can’t imagine your life without coding for iOS or Android, but you know that there is a lot more to building a great app than writing code.
- You have experience managing engineering teams, and track record of shipping high quality mobile products on time.
- You are passionate about Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or XP. You know when to pull forward and when to push back.
- You are a well rounded technically: from CS to UX and everything in between.
Visual Designer
- You’re a rising star in the creative sphere; you’re ready to take your career to the next level.
- You have at least 2 years of full time visual design experience
- Your designs are clean and intuitive. You prefer to understate than overstate, but you know how to get your point across.
- You move quickly and efficiently, and enjoy working independently and in a team.
- You’re a whiz with Photoshop, and ideally have experience in HTML/CSS, Javascript, and/or Omnigraffle or Balsamiq
Ruby on Rails Guru
- You are a web developer with mad coding skills, who can build innovative applications fast and with high quality
- You know Ruby on Rails inside out and actively follow the Rails community.
- You are an excellent full-stack programmer, or well on your way to being one.
- You want to have fun at work, you love working with a smart and talented team, and you aren’t afraid to speak up and make yourself heard.
- You can take ownership of a feature from idea to production, with minimal guidance and supervision.
- You are excited to solve the 16 million renter headaches real people have each year looking for a new place to live — we are!
Car Helper
Ruby on Rails Guru
- You are a web developer with mad coding skills, who can build innovative applications fast and with high quality
- You know Ruby on Rails inside out and actively follow the Rails community.
- You are an excellent full-stack programmer, or well on your way to being one.
- You want to have fun at work, you love working with a smart and talented team, and you aren’t afraid to speak up and make yourself heard.
- You can take ownership of a feature from idea to production, with minimal guidance and supervision.
- You have a passion for cars and a desire to redefine the car buying experience – we are going to change how millions of people find their next car!
Vertical Brands
Web Designer
Want to help build a cutting edge, consumer oriented website focusing on realty-finance from the ground up? If you have the energy and drive to take ownership of the design direction for a growing consumer website and make your mark as a rock star UI designer, this is your place. The team that brought the world ApartmentList.com (0 — 600,000 monthly visitors in under one year, 3rd fastest growing company in the Bay Area) is getting ready to have the same impact on the realty-finance space. We are planning on launching the site in the coming months — we need you to grab the reigns and take it to the top through clean design and a focus on creating the best user experience possible.
About you:
- Passionate about modern web and mobile user experience
- Experience designing applications for consumers — send us your portfolio!
- Self-starter, take ownership of designs and bring a user focused voice to product conceptualization
- Able to translate your designs and vision into reality with clean, front end markup code (e.g., CSS, HTML, JS, etc.)
- Team player, work with the development and business teams to conceptualize, design and execute new products and features
- Strive in an iterative, agile environment and love brainstorming creative concepts with engineers, other designers, and product managers
- Well versed in design and development tools
- Live and breathe user feedback: from metrics and analytics to focus groups and usability studies
- [Bonus] Previous experience with or passionate about consumer finance or real estate
Sound good? Ready to get started? Apply now.
Please note that this is a full time job which requires being on site in our awesome San Francisco offices.

About Us
- The Product: we’ve grown to 1.2M monthly renters in just over a year and have been featured in top publications like TechCrunch, CNN Money and Pandodaily, to name a few.
- The Opportunity: Multi-billion market that’s ripe for disruption.
- Location: The Wired Magazine building in the heart of SoMa.
- Fast Growing: with 2100% 3-year revenue growth, we’re featured in Inc 500’s Fastest Growing Companies.
- Profitable: Although we’re funded by top tier investors, we’ve been profitable since early 2010.
- Compensation: We hire great people and reward them with great pay + equity. No ramen noodles at this startup!
- Benefits: we take care of our own with health, dental, vision, fitness, transportation, and job training
- Equipment: Top of the line – lots of trips to the Apple store.
- Office environment: we’re powered by pingpong and artisan Belgian ales, always on tap. Offsites to Tahoe, Lagunitas Brewery and House of Air- trampoline dodgeball!
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