Ruby on Rails Developer

Description

Job Description
We are looking for an amazing Ruby on Rails developer. This doesn’t mean you need to have 10+ years experience in the industry, we care more about skill and passion than credentials.

How we work
We work smarter, not harder. We think work/life balance is important and we work a 30 hour work week as standard (you still get a full-time pay; it’s a full-time position).

We have flexible work hours and location is flexible too. Some of us work out of the office in the South East of Melbourne but not all (we have team members in the UK, Poland and Brazil too). We would rather hire the best person available, not just the best person within a 10km radius.

We try to keep systems and policies to a minimum, but we have a few key tools in our workflow:

Github (how could you not)

Campfire (with a friendly hubot named Red Yoda)

Google Apps

Trello
Skype/Google Hangouts

The job
You’ll spend most of your time working on Cliniko, and a bit of your time working on backend systems that make our lives easier.

Things you might be doing include:

Adding a new feature to Cliniko (you’ll be responsible for the entire feature).

Fixing bugs.

Improving security.

Improving performance.

Upgrading our system to the latest tech (it’s currently a Rails 3.2 app).

If you want to see what you might be working on, check out our feature requests forum. Our client’s posts will give a good idea.

Skills & Requirements

Let’s be clear, you need to be seriously amazing. We are a small team (8 right now) and we want to keep it that way. We will offer you the best job you have ever had but we expect you to be super talented.

You should be absolutely passionate about building great software. You should take pride in your code, you might have framed pictures of your favorite code snippets amongst your family photos on your desk. You also need to be able to work autonomously (we don’t do typical management, we expect you to see what needs to be done and just do it).

We are growing at an amazing rate, have not taken funding and won’t be. We love what we do and are simply here to build great software. If you want to be a part of something very special and to be proud of what you build, this might be the job for you.

About Red Guava
We are a small bootstrapped and profitable software company based in Melbourne called Red Guava. We love building software and are passionate about making it great.

We build a product called Cliniko (http://www.cliniko.com). Cliniko makes life easy for allied health professionals by handling appointment scheduling, storing treatment notes and a bunch of other things too. It is already used globally by thousands of people every day and growing fast.

We are currently a team of 8 (5 in Melbourne, 1 in Poland, 1 in Brazil, 1 in the UK). We hang out in campfire with our hubot Red Yoda and enjoy what we do. With the differing time zones there is always someone about.

We are never happy with "satisfactory", we aim for "amazing" with every aspect of our business.

You have likely never worked in a job that you loved as much as you would this one.

How to apply
Please apply by getting in touch with Joel via contact form. I really hate to read through boring cover letters and resumes, so please just be friendly and let me know why you should be considered for the role. If you must send a cover letter/resume, please make it interesting or I really won't read it. If all goes well, we'll be skype chatting in no time and then I can get to know you better. Getting creative on your application is always looked upon favorably.