Archive for June, 2008

MedHelp seeking superstar developers

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

We are always looking for great developers to join the team. Here is our job description:

Are you looking for a challenge? Work on cutting edge technologies for one of the hottest startups in tech? Are you passionate about technology and ready to make an impact? If so, MedHelp is the place for you!

MedHelp is the world’s largest online heath community. We are a social network where we connect people with similar interests, a destination where doctors from the best hospitals answer medical questions, and where users can find and use medical applications related to their health.
We are bringing health to web2.0. We have over 5.5 millions users and growing rapidly. We are a top 10 health destination.

We are looking for top notch engineers. We are located in San Francisco. We offer competitive salary, full benefits, and stock options…and cool co-workers, a pool table, and fully stocked fridge :)

Some of our recent projects include:
* building an application platform for tracking and charting medical information: http://www.medhelp.org/land/ovulation-calendar
* implementing real-time activity feeds that scale to handle millions of user activities
* developing social networking features that apply to medical information and our health-interested users

Responsibilities:
MedHelp is a fast-paced startup looking for motivated and passionate developers.
We look for candidates who are ready to take on a problem and drive it end to end from concept to completion.

Desired Skills:
• Ruby on Rails or related MVC framework development experience
• Database experience (MySQL)
• AJAX, JS, prototype, CSS
• Experience building scalable and performant applications

Send your resume to jobs@medhelp.org

Home page: http://www.medhelp.org
Typical user: http://www.medhelp.org/user_profiles/show/193137

Ruby Meetup at MedHelp

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In Feb, we hosted the SF Ruby Meetup.

We had a great time hosting this event and meeting other local developers building apps on ruby. We are big time rails proponents and we gave a presentation covering our top lessons learned in scaling MedHelp