WHO WE ARE:
Canadians spend over $70B annually on their homes – whether it’s major renovations, or small repairs and maintenance work. This journey often starts by finding the right contractor. HomeStars is the leading platform in Canada, helping homeowners with their home renovation needs by allowing them to search our database of companies and hundreds of thousands of reviews. Every month over half a million homeowners visit HomeStars to research and connect with the best rated home professionals near them. Home Professionals advertise on HomeStars to tell their story, and grow their business with highly qualified connections. HomeStars has recently been acquired by ANGI Homeservices Inc., the #1 marketplace in the US for helping homeowners connect with the best home service providers.
WHY JOIN US:
HomeStars is looking to continue to build a positive, winning culture and that starts with hiring great people like you! If you are looking to be part of something great, work on a dynamic and growing team, we want to hear from you.
HomeStars embraces and celebrates the uniqueness within our work community. We believe our greatest ideas come from a diverse mix of mindsets, backgrounds, and experiences. The HomeStars organization is committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment where all of our employees feel welcome, comfortable, and have the opportunity to thrive.
THINGS YOU MAY BE WORKING ON IN YOUR FIRST FEW MONTHS:
-Participating in design charrettes and reviews for new product features.
-Writing client-side code for our Homeowner and Service Pro dashboards.
-Build API endpoints for our front end and mobile clients.
-Build location, authentication, and search services.
-Ensure our services scale reliably as we continue to grow
ABOUT YOU:
-You have curiosity about how things work.
-You learn quickly and make steady progress
-You communicate effectively with people from different disciplines, like Product and Design
-You have experience with an MVC framework (Ruby on Rails is preferred).
-You can explain REST APIs in plain language.
-You have experience with RDBMSs like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
-You have a deep knowledge of front-end JavaScript frameworks like React & Redux.
-You have experience with ES6
-You are aware of industry trends impacting our infrastructure and our build system, including ansible, circleci, npm, vagrant and git
-You are excited about sharing knowledge with coworkers.
-You have a keen eye for application performance and code quality.
-You have experience with functional MiniTest, RSpec, Jest, Enzyme or similar test frameworks.
-You enjoy collaborating on technical projects and planning before executing.
NICE TO HAVE:
-Experience with the JSON API Specifications
-Experience with Ansible and Docker
-Experience with web sockets
-Full stack experience with Ruby on Rails, NodeJS or React
-Learns and proposes new experiments to help their team collaborate more effectively
-Be able to own the technical testing and performance plan for their projects
ABOUT OUR STACK:
-Ruby on Rails, React
-Amazon Web Services, CircleCI, EC2, Elasticsearch, Amazon Aurora MySQL, Sidekiq, RabbitMQ
Our Engineering Values:
– Seek to Understand and Be Understood
– Make User Driven, Data Informed Decisions – Think Big, Ship Small, to Maximize Learning
– Champion Belonging and Wellness for Everyone – Take Responsibility to Build Sustainably
– Commit to Continuous Learning
