Web Services Engineer

We help consumers make better choices about credit cards. The credit card is one of the most ubiquitous products in the world. It’s hard to imagine modern life without it. It’s also one of the least understood. And that lack of understanding is potentially threatening to consumers’ economic well-being. CreditCards.com is the leading online marketing and publishing organization devoted to helping consumers make informed choices about credit cards.

We are looking for someone who loves MVC frameworks, turning complex data from multiple sources into streamlined user-friendly tools, and integrating APIs.

* Develop scalable web services for award-winning consumer-facing financial tools * Build internal reporting and configuration tools for financial and consumer data * Work with UX team where necessary to implement wireframes and integrate front-end assets * Integrate new external APIs into platform * Design new API specifications for use inside and outside the organization * Work with advanced caching, queuing, and data store technologies * Own full web development requirements and implementation, release management, QA regression scripts, and deployment to production environments

* Proficiency with an MVC web framework (e.g. Python Django, Ruby on Rails, or PHP) * Proficiency with implementing new data schemas in a database as well as the model layer of a framework * Proficiency with modern JavaScript (e.g. jQuery, angular, react, ember) * Proficiency with consuming and producing RESTful APIs * Proficiency with security requirements, authentication and authorization layers (e.g. OAuth2) * Familiarity with how databases work, experience in a relational paradigm (e.g. MySQL) as well as NoSQL (e.g. Redis) * Familiarity with web service delivery stacks (nginx, passenger, virtual host configuration) * Familiarity with BDD or other automated testing tools (e.g. Jasmine, Cucumber) * Familiarity with source control and deployment tools: (GitHub, Jenkins, Maven) * Excellent communication and writing skills * Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent education and experience