Description
Senior Ruby Developer & Agile EvangelistBased in London
Permanent
40-65K + bonus + Options
To start ASAP
Job Description
My client is looking for a Senior Ruby Developer and Agile Evangelist to join an exciting London based tech startup. This is a tremendous opportunity to join a high profile/growth venture backed business with an awesome team that is making some major waves. The right candidate will join the engineering team based in Shoreditch, and will be instrumental in architecting, designing, building, and scaling the technology platform.
You will be working as part of a small team with a flat structure following Agile software development practices (Scrum). They follow TDD using Cucumber and Rspec, use Continuous Integration, frequently pair program, and place a high value on clean, maintainable, and well-designed code, all with a healthy dose of pragmatism. They are looking for a passionate and highly motivated developer who shares their values.
Desired Skills & Experience
Required Skills
*Expert knowledge of OO design, Design patterns, and Refactoring
*Test driven development
*Languages/Frameworks - Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Joosy
*Web servers - Apache, Passenger, Thin, Nginx,
*Databases - SQL and NoSQL, Neo4j, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Memcached, Redis
*OS - Mac, Linux
*API development - REST, JSON, OAuth
*Web development - HTML, CSS, Javascript, Coffeescript, AJAX, JQuery, HAML, SASS
*Testing frameworks - Cucumber, RSpec , Capybara
*Other relevant technologies in the Ruby ecosystem
*Self starter able to propose and execute complex software development initiatives
*Passion for new technologies, self directed learning, and ability to share and introduce new ideas into a team environment
*Expertise in application troubleshooting, debugging, and performance evaluation and tuning
Experience
*5+ years software development experience
*3+ years Ruby development experience
*Previous experience in a technical leadership role a plus
*Previous experience as a scrum master a plus
*Experience building and scaling large internet applications
*Active participation in the Ruby and open source communities
*Expert knowledge of OO design, Design Patterns, and Refactoring
*Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Linux, Apache, Passenger, Thin, Nginx, EventMachine, Jruby, SQL, MySQL, Postgres, XML, JSON, D/HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, JQuery, HAML, SASS, Memcached, Redis, Cucumber, RSpec and other cool technologies in the Ruby ecosystem
*Self starter able to propose and execute complex software development initiatives
*Active participation in the Ruby and open source communities
*Passion for new technologies, self directed learning, and ability to share and introduce new ideas into a team environment
*Expertise in application troubleshooting, debugging, and performance evaluation and tuning