Web Software Engineer

About Harvest!

Harvest is one of the earliest Rails applications designed for businesses. We took a rather boring and painful problem — time tracking — and applied our expertise in design & technology. We're trying to make time tracking enjoyable and possibly even sexy.

We started as a team of 3 (using Rails 0.14.1) and today we're a team of 22 serving thousands of customers from over 150 countries (and, yes, we're now on Rails 3). We're a small, profitable, and growing business that is completely self-funded.

Read about Harvest's development process.

Some of the Things You Might Work On

• Recreate bugs and unexpected behavior in our test suite, then fix the problem with our development team. Communicate the problem and solution back to our customers.
• Refactor complex business logic to take advantage of new technologies and techniques. For example, our report generation and export just went from a tmpfile on disk to streaming output from our Rails daemons.
• Collaborate with our interaction designers and front end folks on a better first-time user experience, then make it happen.
• Brainstorm exciting possibilities for 3rd party APIs, everything from financial tools to support dashboards and the newest Google APIs.
• Move a small codebase over to a new technology like Rails 3, Ruby 1.9.2, jQuery, HTML5, or CouchDB then report back to our team on the best tips and tricks.

Why Harvest?

• Startup culture, without startup stress. Harvest is a 6-year old, profitable startup. This means you'll experience the fun and excitement of a young, fast-growing company, but there won't be the typical crazy hours and instability of a normal startup. We’re as serious about work as we are about our lives outside of it.
• Small team, big impact. We’re a nimble, efficient and talented team of 22 people. What you will do will have a direct impact on Harvest and our customers’ lives. Your hard work will be seen, appreciated and used by thousands of your peers.
• Challenge yourself. Work with some of the smartest and most interesting people who genuinely care about their craft and demand the highest quality. Aside from the personal satisfaction of a job well done, you will be working with some of the most reputable businesses in the industry.
• Amazing work environment. Great salary, great benefits. Work out of our beautiful NYC office or from your home office. Wherever you are, Harvest will send you an awesome standing desk and a shiny new Mac of your choice.

To Apply

• Email us at at with the subject "Web Software Engineer"
• Tell us why you want to work with us.
• Tell us why we should hire you.
• Send along your resume and/or links to your proudest projects.