jobs
Goodreads is hiring! If you're interested, please send your resume to contact@goodreads.com. We are located in Santa Monica, California and prefer local candidates.
software engineer
We're looking for programmers who love to learn and love building cool products. We don't care if you have 10 years of experience or are fresh out of school. If you love to build stuff and work hard, can communicate well, and have a personality that fits in with ours, we'd love to meet you.Our development philosophy is to work in small teams of one to two people who can do everything from front-end to back-end. You should either have those skills or be dying to learn them.
required skills
- Ruby on Rails is preferred, but we'll take PHP or Java developers who know MVC frameworks
- Experience with MySQL
- HTML, Javascript, and CSS
- Knowledge of the Linux operating system
Interested candidates should submit a code sample as well as a resume. Also, answering our design challenge will ensure your resume will be read.
user interface guru
Do you know css, html, photoshop, and javascript like the back of your hand? Do you feel comfortable building basic Ruby on Rails applications? As a user-interface developer, you will be responsible for the look and feel and flow of features on Goodreads. You will be also run basic usability tests, and help to innovate and improve on the design.Interested candidates should submit a site they've built (or note which parts they've built, including specific css, html, and javascript examples). Also, please pick a feature on Goodreads and explain how you would improve it from an interface/design perspective.