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Job Description
We’re looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails developer to join our dev team.

Contract offered: Full time contractor
Location: Chambéry, France or telecommute. We’re very used to remote collaboration since the dev team is working remotely already, we’ll consider any location in a European-ish timezone.
Experience required: Advanced, 3+ years
Language: English is required, we’re a french company but all communication is in english, some of our developers / designers don’t even speak french

The challenges you will face include:
  • Build new features that will be used by stores
  • Performance analysis and optimization on an application serving 11 million pages per month
  • Integrate our application with other services
  • A strong focus on API and mobile
  • You will be involved in architecture and implementation of our application, from the technical and functional perspective.


  • The team is small so you get to really make an impact:
  • Fast release cycles (2 weeks)
  • We work with pull requests for everything
  • You will endorse the rotating “Release Master” responsibility as soon as you’ll be ready
  • Your opinion on tech and architecture choices is welcome, don’t hesitate to speak your mind!


  • Skills & Requirements

    We’re looking for the following skills:
  • Proficient with Ruby (1.9.3) on Rails (3.2)
  • Good knowledge of Relational Databases i.e. PostgreSQL and SQL
  • Used to TDD workflow : rspec, JSLint, capybara, Jenkins CI
  • Experienced with scaling applications: code optimization, caching with Varnish/Redis
  • Familiar with Front-End techniques: Javascript/jQuery, HAML/SASS, liquid
  • EC2 / S3
  • Capistrano or Puppet experience is a plus
  • Our favorite tools: Github, New Relic, Airbrake, Pivotal Tracker, Basecamp, Campfire


  • About Leadformance
    Leadformance is a software company founded in 2007. We are a team of 27 located in Paris and Chambéry (France), with a dev team working remotely.

    We are the european leader in Web to Store solutions with 120 clients like L’Oréal, Panasonic, LG, Fendi, Tag Heuer, Orange, Darty, 1-2-3 Etam, Subaru, Optical Center, Quiksilver, Castorama, Havas Voyages…

    Our application is used by stores in more than 100 countries.

    In 2010 we won the Paris ecommerce innovation award. In 2011 the PagesJaunes group invested in the company.

    The Location
    Even if we choose to collaborate remotely in the beginning, you’ll probably decide to relocate once you get the chance to visit the company headquarters!

    Our Chambéry office is located just several miles away from the world’s best ski resorts (Courchevel, Meribel, Val d’Isère...) and 15 minutes from the biggest lake in France (Lac du Bourget).

    The area is well connected, with 2 international airports (Lyon and Geneva) at 1h drive from the office.
    Start date
    ASAP
    From
    Leadformance
    Published at
    27.06.2013
    Contact person:
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    Project ID:
    557927
    Contract type
    Freelance
    Workplace
    100 % remote
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