You...

  • Have been using Ruby on Rails for 2+ years and can’t imagine going back to PHP
  • Love the startup culture in which a single person can make a big difference
  • Thrive in a laid-back, fun atmosphere
  • Want to do meaningful work that helps save lives
  • Believe in the mantra of moving quickly (and trying not to break too much)
  • Believe that anything worth doing is worth doing to the best of your ability

Who we are

We’ve been certifying people in CPR, first aid, and bloodborne pathogens since 2003. Not only that, we have been adding more trainings and getting bigger and stronger every year since.

We are a collaborative, growing team that creates and supports the world’s best training. Our online health and safety courses help save lives every day (literally — we have heard countless stories from our customers who have saved the lives of loved ones after using our training).

What we believe

Providing life-saving training is a noble pursuit that is worth getting up every morning to create.

Every team member is crucial and makes a difference, which is why we hire highly-motivated, hard-working, well-rounded people who pursue excellence in everything they do.

Surprising and delighting our customers at every turn makes life-long, loyal supporters who rave about the service to their friends. Not to mention, it helps make the world a better place to live!

Every high school student should learn CPR before they graduate, so we train thousands of students per year, free of charge.

You can work really hard and still have a ton of fun:

  • We have an open floor plan and a ping pong room
  • Play Settlers of Catan or Texas Holdem with co-workers at the office at night
  • Connect with coworkers at family fun days, our annual ice cream social, and our unique Christmas party, which you will not leave empty handed or unhappy

We blaze our own trail, because it’s a lot more fun to lead than to follow. We invented a way that allows a person to be fully certified from home for the first time in the history of CPR training.

What you'll be doing

  • Working on front-end user-facing web pages, working with UX to create great experiences (such as improving the employee reporting dashboard for Bed Bath & Beyond, Goodwill, Jazzercise, or Nike so they can more easily track their employees’ progress)
  • Working with our sales, marketing, & support teams to listen to the pain points of customers, hear ideas for improvements, and consult & creatively problem solve to come up with the best solution
  • Working with our team in the United Kingdom to help build similar but different functionality for their classroom and online training
  • Building & working on mobile apps
  • Learning and growing professionally by taking time every week to read articles or books from our bookshelf to better yourself
  • Mostly working normal working hours from the office, with many opportunities for remote work & flexible hours

Desired experience

At least 2 years of using Ruby on Rails. We want you to be able to jump right into our code base and start contributing without too much ramp up time.

Skills we're looking for

  • Experience with Ruby on Rails, JQuery, HTML, MySQL, Git, UNIX Command Line
  • Ability to design & build with the customer persona in mind
  • Follow programming and web development best practices
  • Detail-oriented — you test before you launch and consider every scenario and implication of a change
  • Able to gather requirements and communicate complex ideas to non-technical people

Bonus points for: Experience with a Javascript framework (Angular, Ember, React, Vue), DevOps experience, UX experience, Project management experience, Building & interfacing with APIs

Benefits you'll love

  • Health & dental insurance
  • Paid time off
  • 401k with company match
  • Fun culture & atmosphere
  • Possibility of programming trips (working from a different part of the country / world for a week or two almost every year)
  • A career that makes a difference (train people to save lives, hear heroic stories, and receive awesome testimonials from really grateful customers)
  • Professional development library (request a book or resource, and you'll have it within 2 weeks)
  • Community fridge with healthy beverage options
  • Free CPR & first aid training & certification :)

Ready to help save lives?

If you're still reading this, we would love to learn more about you. Shoot an email to hiring at protrainings dot com and include the following:

  • A fun, catchy subject line
  • Your top 3 strengths
  • Briefly describe a project you’re proud of. What was your role in it? What challenges were encountered? In hindsight, what would you have done differently?
  • Why you want to work at ProTrainings
  • Your résumé