Rails Developer / Technical Co-Founder – Wine Industry Web App Start-Up

HarvestPoint (working name) is looking for a founding technical partner to play a critical role in architecting our mobile-friendly web application targeted at managing the relationship between wineries and grape growers. We recognize this is no Facebook. While specialized, it’s a sizable market with little competition. We estimate the TAM is ~$200M in North America. We’re building a substantial and sustainable business, and we believe our probability of success is high. We have a strong team that’s very well connected in the wine industry and well grounded in technology and entrepreneurship. We’ve already spoken with numerous potential customers. The response has been outstanding, and we have several beta customers already lined up.

We’re looking for a strong Rails programmer (no rockstar, ninja, frogman, or otherwise) who is comfortable with and enjoy owning everything (MySQL, Rails, Javascript, jQuery, CSS). You may be stronger in certain areas, but you must wear many hats. We understand the challenges of the work and highly value your contributions. We are not creating new, cutting edge technology, but we do want to be clean, responsive, and innovative in the way we combine existing technologies for elegant solutions. That alludes to the fact that we want to emphasize agile/lean practices and lean heavily on TDD/BDD. It generally goes without saying, but you should casual and fun, yet know when it’s time to get down to business.

This can be a side project for you, as long as you're committed to working hard and seeing it through. We’re open to various combinations of equity and cash for the right person.

This is a unique opportunity, especially if you have an interest in the wine industry.

We’re based in the North Bay, but welcome anyone in the Bay Area. If you’re interested, please contact Chris Farkas - cfarkas at gmail.com.