Careers

Canvis’ founders are seasoned professionals with both Internet technology and construction related expertise. Our early customers and investors include architects, contractors, interior designers, engineer, and home control system installers. We’re still small enough for you to get in on the ground floor make a big impact during our start-up phase. We are a small, tightly-knit group of extraordinarily talented peers. We believe in ownership and input into decisions, and that our cross-functional team approach makes for a more effective and happier workplace.

Open positions:

careers@canvis.co

Senior Server Software Engineer

We develop in leading-edge technologies and believe in agile development. Our software stack is MySQL, Redis/Elasticache, Solr/Lucene/CloudSearch, node.js, Ruby on Rails, web sockets, nginx, HTML5, Angular.js, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac. Our deployment environment is Amazon: Opsware/Chef controlling EC2 with Linux virtual machines and related services and S3.


What you will do
  • Build and own critical parts of our service.
  • Hard-core coding and software design and architecture.
  • Work closely with our CTO and the rest of our development team.

This position will give you a lot of freedom to design and code to your own high standard, and to grow your software career at our company as we take off.


What we are looking for

We are looking for a smart adaptable engineer to join our small, but talented, team. We care more about the right team fit, passion for our mission, and desire to code, than a particular number of years of experience. So, if you meet the following, please apply.

  • Extensive web or mobile back end application development experience. Ruby On Rails, node.js would be a plus.
  • Good knowledge of databases of all kinds. MySQL, NoSQL would be a plus.
  • Strong architecture, software design, and development skills.
  • Full software life-cycle development – from design through testing in an agile, test-focused environment.
  • Experience of building and supporting scalable, high-quality web applications with open source technologies.
  • A strong desire to write robust tested code.
  • Good at solving problems and thinking creatively.

You look forward to learning new skills, and are not afraid to take ownership of projects, and transform an industry! You are turned on by the idea of working for a start-up – getting in on the ground floor, wearing multiple hats, and diving in to do whatever is needed.

We offer competitive salary, stock, benefits, free soft drinks and snacks and most importantly, a place to make an impact. We’re also easy to get to in San Francisco in an ‘A’ location: a short walk from the Muni, and Bart.

  • To apply, send a resume to:
  • careers@canvis.co
  • with the code SrSrvDev in the subject line.
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Senior Front-End Engineer (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript)

We develop in leading-edge technologies: HTML5+CSS3(only modern browsers), mobile, off-line web applications, cloud computing, Ruby on Rails. We believe in agile development, and have been releasing regularly since 2012. Our software stack is HTML5, Angular.js, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, nginx, node.js, Ruby on Rails, Redis, MySQL, Solr/Lucene. Our deployment environment is Amazon S3 and EC2 with Linux virtual machines.


What you will do
  • Build and own the UI of our software applications.
  • Hard-core web UI design and coding.
  • Work closely with our CTO and the rest of the development team.

This position will give you a lot of freedom to design and code to your own high standard, and to grow your software career at our company as we take off.


What we are looking for

We are looking for a smart adaptable engineer to join our small, but talented, team. We care more about the right team fit, passion for our mission, and desire to code, than a particular number of years of experience. So, if you meet the following, please apply.

  • Extensive web application development experience. Pluses for: Angular.js, Underscore.js, Sass, Ruby On Rails.
  • Strong UI design and development skills.
  • Experience of building and supporting responsive, high-quality web applications.
  • Full software life-cycle development – from design through testing in an agile, test-focused environment.
  • Good at solving problems and thinking creatively.

You look forward to learning new skills, and are not afraid to take ownership of projects, and transform an industry! You are turned on by the idea of working for a start-up – getting in on the ground floor, wearing multiple hats, and diving in to do whatever is needed.

We offer competitive salary, stock, benefits, free soft drinks and snacks and most importantly, a place to make an impact. We’re also easy to get to in San Francisco in an ‘A’ location: a short walk from the Muni, and Bart.

Senior QA and DevOps Engineer

We develop in leading-edge technologies and believe in agile development. Our software stack is MySQL/RDS, Redis/Elasticache, Solr/Lucene/CloudSearch, node.js, Ruby on Rails, web sockets, nginx, HTML5, Angular.js, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac. Our deployment environment is Amazon AWS: Opsware/Chef controlling EC2 with Linux virtual machines and related services and S3.


What you will do
  • Take ownership of our production environment, its operation and all deployments.
  • Ensure adequate testing of our releases.
  • Develop and enhance and our automated tests and operations tools and scripts.
  • Be first line response to production issues – troubleshooting and solving independently as much as possible, but also knowing when and with whom to consult when needed.
In more detail...
  • Work closely with our CTO and the rest of our development team to extend our automated test suite.
  • Manual testing of the application.
  • Manage our configuration management and issue tracking.
  • Develop OpsWorks Chef and shell scripts.
  • Package and test builds for deployment.
  • Roll-out new product releases.
  • Handle any alerts from the production system.
  • Use monitoring to tune our application in production.

This position will give you a lot of freedom to manage our production system to your own high standards, and to grow your career at our company as we take off.


What we are looking for

We are looking for a smart adaptable engineer to join our small, but talented, team. We care more about the right team fit, passion for our mission, and desire to code, than a particular number of years of experience. So, if you meet the following, please apply.

  • Experience in test automation, acceptance testing, load testing, and creating test scripts.
  • Good knowledge of version control systems (Git, Perforce, SVN, etc.), software build tools, and continuous integration (Jenkins).
  • Experience deploying a SaaS application on a cloud platform (EC2, Rackspace Open Cloud, etc.), and cloud automation tools (Chef, Puppet).
  • Extensive experience programming shell scripts and at least one other major scripting language.
  • Experience monitoring system health & analyzing log files.
  • Understanding of network configuration.
  • Good at solving problems and thinking creatively.

You look forward to learning new skills, and are not afraid to take ownership of projects, and transform an industry! You are turned on by the idea of working for a start-up – getting in on the ground floor, wearing multiple hats, and diving in to do whatever is needed.

We offer competitive salary, stock, benefits, free soft drinks and snacks and most importantly, a place to make an impact. We’re also easy to get to in San Francisco in an ‘A’ location: a short walk from the Muni, and Bart.

In your email, please give us a better picture of you in an operations role, by including brief examples of the following:

  1. Deploying a web application. Include description of the application stack, your role, steps and obstacles faced.
  2. A difficult production issue that you faced and how you solved it.
  3. Learning a new technology and mastering it in a short time-frame.
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