scottschulthess

Today, Zipcar provides hundreds of thousands of people with a viable alternative to traditional car ownership, saving them money, time and headaches. Around the world—from coast to coast, across Canada, the UK, and college campuses in between—people are making the decision to live car free and enjoying the convenience and environmental benefits of having “wheels when you want them”.

We’re working to transform Zipcar from its ‘startup roots’ into ‘a world-class engineering organization’. We're building a global platform to take the car-sharing and Zipcar experience all over the world.

The technology choices we’re standardizing on are:

Native Mobile applications on Android and iOS. Our goal is to launch new functionality on ‘mobile first’ wherever it makes sense. Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra, Apache Spark, Clojure, Haskel, machine learning, etc are going to be core to what we do. All back-end services are going to be written in Ruby, Scala or Java. Mobile apps are all native. Responsibilities:

Senior member of an agile team focused on delivering components of the next generation Zipcar technology platform. Work to achieve engineering quality standards that our members will love and that you and your team will be proud of. Responsible for the delivery a series of small, discrete applications leveraging Ruby, Java and/or Scala in a fast-paced, team-focused environment Lead the development of applications leveraging traditional and non-traditional data stores, such as Hadoop, Cassandra and others.

Comment · 11 years ago

Web server codebases are typically also way easier to modify, unit test, with better tools and languages.

Comment · 11 years ago

Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets. Ruby/Rails/Scala, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp/Hadoop.

Make products that your friends and family will use.

https://www.zipcar.com/ Software engineer: http://jobvite.com/m?3W4RAgwc Senior software engineer: http://jobvite.com/m?3t5RAgwK

Comment · 11 years ago

Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets. Ruby/Rails, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp. Make products that your friends and family will use. https://www.zipcar.com/ Software engineer: http://jobvite.com/m?3W4RAgwc Senior software engineer: http://jobvite.com/m?3t5RAgwK

Comment · 12 years ago

"With grid forms, lengthy forms can easily fit above the fold. Which means less scrolling. "

Seems like a bad idea to me whenever designs attempt to "Fit stuff above the fold". Scrolling is a lot better, and I think it's better to present users with a portion of the information at a time and allow them to progress through a long form in a linear fashion. Vertical scrolling > horizontal progression.

Comment · 12 years ago

Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets.

Ruby/Rails, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp. Make products that your friends and family will use.

https://www.zipcar.com/

Software engineer: http://jobvite.com/m?3W4RAgwc Senior software engineer: http://jobvite.com/m?3t5RAgwK

Comment · 12 years ago

Zipcar - Boston, MA

Work in the awesome fort point district at our nice new location.

Build applications for use or support of people you can actually meet (local members, friends, family).

Get a sweet Zipcar membership discount.

Good pay.

Get to work with technologies like Ruby on Rails, Backbone.

Senior Software Engineer http://jobvite.com/m?3Zomwgw0 Software Engineer http://jobvite.com/m?3npmwgwp