Globaldev - Ruby on Rails Developer

London or Windsor  ‐ Remote
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About us:
Our head office is based in the heart of Windsor and we've recently opened a new office in a prime location in London.

We're the largest social network you've probably never heard of. We have grown to become a portfolio of over 10,000 diverse and popular sites with annualized revenues in excess of $74m. We are a major player in the world of online dating and a key driver in the growth of social discovery networks, enabling people to make friends online and meet them in real life.

We’re working on several exciting new Rails projects and want to encourage you to bring your ideas to the team. We use Scrum, Kanban and are always aiming to improve skills together. The development team often go to industry events and regularly attend and have spoken at LRUG (London Ruby User Group) meetings. We also sponsored EuRuKo where one of our Senior Engineers was one of the headline speakers.

Requirements and skills:
• Ruby on Rails (solid, commercial experience)
• MySQL (or equivalent RDBMS)
• Knowledge of Javascript using jQuery or Prototype.
• Ability to write clean, semantic, well-formed HTML and CSS.
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix server commands.
• Strong communicator, cheerful team-worker and best practice stickler.

Desired:
• TDD and BDD
• Agile work environment experience
• Links to open source projects or blogs you’ve written on.
• Previous dating or social networking projects.
• Attribute-based searching with Sphinx.
• ColdFusion, Perl.

Salary:

Very competitive plus bonus and amazing benefits

Start date
ASAP
From
Hacker Jobs UK
Published at
30.07.2013
Contact person:
Steve Buckley
Project ID:
574954
Contract type
Freelance
Workplace
100 % remote
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