andrewcarpenter

Critical Juncture | Rails Developer | SF Bay Area or Remote | Full-time | https://criticaljuncture.org/

Critical Juncture works to support government transparency and improved healthcare outcomes through the design, development, and maintenance of award-winning, intuitive web applications. Our small team is able to do so through years of focus in these areas and through deep partnerships with domain experts. As a full-stack developer at Critical Juncture, you will be an integral part of a small and dynamic team that works on important problems every day.

You are an experienced Rails developer with strong Ruby and Javascript fundamentals, an insatiable desire to learn, and high attention to detail. You get excited about translating domain knowledge into tools and user interfaces that allow our users to work more effectively. You believe that understanding why something does or doesn't work is just as important as making it work in the first place. You are self-motivated, communicative, and comfortable working in a virtual environment. You love the challenge of working across a breadth of services and quickly assimilating bits of information into a coherent whole.

https://criticaljuncture.org/jobs/2023-08-03-full-stack-rail...

Critical Juncture | Rails Developer | SF Bay Area or Remote | Full-time | https://www.criticaljuncture.org/

Critical Juncture works to support government transparency and improved healthcare outcomes through the design, development, and maintenance of award-winning, intuitive web applications. Our small team is able to do so through years of focus in these areas and through deep partnerships with domain experts. As a full-stack developer at Critical Juncture, you will be an integral part of a small and dynamic team that works on important problems every day.

You are an experienced Rails developer with strong Ruby and Javascript fundamentals, an insatiable desire to learn, and high attention to detail. You get excited about translating domain knowledge into tools and user interfaces that allow our users to work more effectively. You believe that understanding why something does or doesn't work is just as important as making it work in the first place. You are self-motivated, communicative, and comfortable working in a virtual environment. You love the challenge of working across a breadth of services and quickly assimilating bits of information into a coherent whole.

https://criticaljuncture.org/jobs/2020-11-02-full-stack-rail... for more details

Critical Juncture | Rails Developer | SF Bay Area or Remote | Full-time | https://www.criticaljuncture.org/

Critical Juncture works to support government transparency and improved healthcare outcomes through the design, development, and maintenance of award-winning, intuitive web applications. Our small team is able to do so through years of focus in these areas and through deep partnerships with domain experts. As a full-stack developer at Critical Juncture, you will be an integral part of a small and dynamic team that works on important problems every day.

You are an experienced Rails developer with strong Ruby and Javascript fundamentals, an insatiable desire to learn, and high attention to detail. You get excited about translating domain knowledge into tools and user interfaces that allow our users to work more effectively. You believe that understanding why something does or doesn’t work is just as important as making it work in the first place. You are self-motivated, communicative, and comfortable working in a virtual environment. You love the challenge of working across a breadth of services and quickly assimilating bits of information into a coherent whole.

https://criticaljuncture.org/jobs/2020-11-02-full-stack-rail... for more details

Critical Juncture | San Francisco | Full-time | Ruby on Rails

Are you tired of companies that are focused more on their next round of funding than solving important problems? Are you looking to use your development skills to make a social impact? As a full stack Rails developer at Critical Juncture, you will be an integral part of a small and dynamic team that works on important problems every day. You’ll deepen your knowledge, grow your skills, and see the immediate impact of your work on our education, government and healthcare partners.

We're four software developers making a big difference: our applications are used to improve maternal health outcomes at more than three quarters of hospitals in California, Oregon and Washington, address educational equity at the Oakland Unified School District, and facilitate participation in the Federal regulatory process.

We're looking for folks with professional software development experience to help us design, build and launch some exciting new applications. Please contact us at jobs@criticaljuncture.org

https://www.criticaljuncture.org/jobs/2016-10-03-full-stack-...

Thanks--we appreciate it! More info about federalregister.gov (the site is fully open source, has a powerful API, etc) can be found on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839137

Thanks! Those should be fixed now.

Thank you (and everyone) for your kind words.

We're a team of three SF developers (Dave Augustine, Bob Burbach, and myself) working on FederalRegister.gov in our spare time (we have day jobs at airbnb.com and wested.org).

Two years ago we entered a developer competition run by the Sunlight Foundation to use content from the newly-released data.gov clearinghouse to build an open source application; we created http://GovPulse.us, and took second place; traffic grew and we kept working on the site.

Six months later, the Government Printing Office and the Office of the Federal Register contacted us; they wanted to know if we could take GovPulse and expand on it to create a new face for the Federal Register. We jumped at the opportunity, quickly formed a company, and got to work. Last July we launched Federal Register 2.0 and we've been iterating on it ever since.

It's hard to say what the lessons are; but we're definitely not typical government contractors. Largely I think it comes down to having the right people in the agencies who really want to make change, and having strong leadership from above encouraging such change. And I don't think its surprising that the Office of the Federal Register is on the cutting edge for openness--the Federal Register is one of the earliest and most important open-government institutions; and when trying to cut through red tape it doesn't hurt to have a staff comprised largely of regulatory lawyers.

No, right now we're just doing our best for the Federal Register. But we're love to help out any agency that's interested!

I'm one of the developers on the Federal Register 2.0 project. Thanks for the great comments; we'd love feedback on how to improve the API or the site in general. In addition to the API client, the whole site is open source and on GitHub: https://github.com/criticaljuncture/fr2

I've used the Ruby spreadsheet gem with success. It's a bit old, but works ok.

http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/