Agile Ruby Developer
at AboutUs, Inc in Portland, OR
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Mar 03, 2010
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Overview
Top 10 Rails site (Alexa Top 1000) seeking talent to join our Portland, Oregon based development team. AboutUs.org is a structured wiki of all websites. We run much of our site on AWS and are experimenting with other technologies that scale to support hundreds of thousands of users working together on millions of pages. We're venture-backed with a history of leading startups to successful acquisition.
We are looking for team-focused, talented programmers. Demonstrated proficiency in Ruby/Rails is a must. The successful candidate will be punctual, self-motivated, an excellent verbal and written communicator, and comfortable in our fast-paced, highly energetic environment. Can you raise our game? Apply now!
We are looking for team-focused, talented programmers. Demonstrated proficiency in Ruby/Rails is a must. The successful candidate will be punctual, self-motivated, an excellent verbal and written communicator, and comfortable in our fast-paced, highly energetic environment. Can you raise our game? Apply now!
Responsibilities
Pair programming
Agile workflow
Managing our scale
Well-specced code that works seamlessly across heterogenous DB backends
Constantly evaluating new technologies in our production environment
Operating hybrid setups between the cloud and our datacenter
Experience
We are looking for people to join an elite team. To be successful, you'll need to have already done the following:
Deployed web applications
Wielded advanced programming, including closures, metaprogramming, distributed computing, service-oriented architecture
Aligned with XP/Agile methods
Skills
Ruby/Rails
Git/GitHub
JavaScript/jQuery
MySQL
Nginx/Passenger
Tokyo Tyrant
AMQP
AWS: SimpleDB, SQS, EC2, S3
Linux/CentOS/Ubuntu
Pivotal Tracker
New Relic RPM
Education
We're hiring you for your mind. Please showcase it by answering some of the following questions in your cover letter:
* What is a recent programming insight you discovered and what was intriguing about it?
* Why do you want to work with us? (be specific!)
* What Open Source communities/projects are you a part of and why do you like them?
* Tell us about a time you brought initiative to your team and made a positive change.
* What modern programmer do you admire and why?
* How do you learn and keep up with the field of computing?
* What is a recent programming insight you discovered and what was intriguing about it?
* Why do you want to work with us? (be specific!)
* What Open Source communities/projects are you a part of and why do you like them?
* Tell us about a time you brought initiative to your team and made a positive change.
* What modern programmer do you admire and why?
* How do you learn and keep up with the field of computing?
Compensation
Based upon qualifications.
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