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SevenFifty Technologies | Mid or Senior Full-stack Developer (Rails) | New York, NY | Onsite

SevenFifty is modernizing the wholesale beverage alcohol industry, which is massive but technologically antiquated. Over 40,000 restaurants, bars, hotels, and retail stores across the country connect with their sales reps and wholesalers through our platform, replacing a status quo going back to Prohibition. We work with everyone from the largest importers to mom and pop winemakers to build bespoke tools for communication and content distribution and provide transparency across all tiers.

You'll be joining a small engineering team tackling a wide array of challenges - from complex data processing to modern, interactive web frontends; from liberating data from decades old mainframes, to consuming and writing APIs used by everyone from small retail shops to large conglomerates. We want people who are excited about learning new technologies and passionate about transforming a broken industry. We're also in a sweet spot for ambitious and talented engineers; we have a lot of traction and are well-financed, but still have a very small team responsible for a wide range of work enabling you to take ownership of large slices of our technology stack.

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Backbone, React, small bit of Clojure

Contact steve (at) sevenfifty.com

>>stevep+(OP)
For the curious. I tried to get data out of a wine wholesaler in California once about their supply chain (we had an interesting application for a product to discuss). Turns out even if they wanted to they couldn't get the data we needed because it would mean go back through years of paper records in an offsite storage facility. This industry could very much use some love.

>>iandan+In1
It's a remarkable industry to be a part of. We work with wholesalers of all sizes (we have 8 of the top 10 nationally as customers, along with hundreds of very small business that run on quickbooks or excel). A major part of our company and engineering challenge is integrating with the backend systems at all of those companies, grabbing whatever information they can send on a recurring basis, and standardizing it on one schema. We've produced the most complete dataset of what's available for purchase wholesale for any licensed establishment in the U.S. (at least in the 40 states we operate in, we have to go state-by-state due to the regulations).

Right now we're looking for mid-senior (at a minimum able to write idiomatic full-stack rails/JS code from the start) people to help build more software on top of the dataset, but it's the dataset that's the core of everything we do. One definition of enterprise software is software where the data will outlive the applications that lay on top of it, and we definitely fit that bill.