Web Developer, CarePlace/FireFlyHealth

We’re looking for individuals as passionate as we are about building innovative technology that will disrupt a critical yet broken healthcare system and drive value for all stakeholders – especially consumers. If you’re looking for a technical leadership role at a fast-paced and socially conscious startup run by talented yet humble entrepreneurs, Firefly is for you.


* Full health insurance
* Full dental insurance
* Parking for people with long commutes
* Gym stipends
* Company equity compensation packages
* Catered lunch and dinner
* Macbook Pros and 20 inch dell external monitors

Team Snapshot

* Our team includes a co-founder of Facebook, a Board member of Tufts Health Plan, a serial entrepreneur with 3 tech IPOs under his belt, a former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and the head of clinical informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
* Our alpha product hosts the largest rare disease community on the web.
* We have raised over $1M in Angel and are about to close a Series A with a top-tier VC.

Web Developer
* B.S. In Computer Science or other quantitative field
* 2+ years experience with Ruby, PHP (C, C++, Perl, Python are cool too)
* Strong knowledge of: JS, CSS, AJAX
* OO programming experience. Knowledge of ORM, ActiveRecord
* Solid foundation with MySQL or Postgres
* You like Yoshi

Senior Web Developer
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (M.S /Ph.D. in CS a plus)
* UNIX/Linux expert, know your way around a server
* Knowledge of ORM, Active Record
* MySql Expert (complex databases & tuning knowledge)
* Production level website optimization experience (kcachegrind, etc…)
* Experience with Apache, Subversion
* Knowledge of Memcached, RESTful APIs
* Working knowledge of JS, AJAX, Prototype JS framework, XHTML, CSS