Hi RoRo. We have a fairly unique and exciting offer for the right Ruby developer. Please have a read through and if you have any questions, please feel free to make contact with us on the email below.
ABOUT OUR COMPANY Founded in 2007, our company is dedicated to helping students find great local teachers, and empowering teachers of all kinds (we’re all experts in something!) with robust online tools to help people connect with their teaching business. 2010 is going to be huge as we’re partnering with a like minded and exciting start up in the U.S and we’ll be working closely with their first class development and management team that will see us both contributing to each others success. OVERVIEW: Software Development Engineer (Offsite work a possibility, office is based in Torquay Vic - salary based on experience) We’re looking for a highly motivated engineer who gets excited about designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems and enjoys building useful, engaging user interfaces. Ideal candidates will work well in a collaborative manner with a small team of developers in Seattle and local designers and product managers, with a strong drive for “getting things done”! JOB DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES No two days will be alike - -stars in the role will be excited to work on a wide variety of technical problems including data gathering/ analysis,database design, front end programming, caching strategies, search and region-centric algorithms and more. Start with ideas, design products and features, architect technical solutions, then rapidly prototype, build, test, launch and measure the effectiveness of service/solutions. Open to testing variations on ideas; we’re building our platform to enable customers to tell us (with their actions) what they love. Working hard and smart to make the business a one of a kind experience. We’re small and we’re embarking on something big and exciting! It will mean that one day you’ll be writing code, the next you may be actively contributing in business development, marketing or even a finance meetings. Actively contribute as a critical member of an energized start up team both here and with our partner team in Seattle. EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS *Strong knowledge of and experience with, Linyx/Unix as both an operational and development platform. Debian or Ubuntu distributions preferred. *3-5 years experience with relational database platforms such as Postgres, MySQL, SQLServer, or Oracle. Postgres preferred, PostGIS experience a plus. *Strong understanding of web standards including HTML/CSS and experience with popular JavaScript libraries including Script.aculo.us, YUI, jQuery. *Team-based software development *Strong understanding of algorithm design & building scaleable, distributed architectures including multi-tiered, redundant, fault- tolerant systems. *Incredibly positive, just do it attitude! (Pessimists and complainers need not apply) We have a relaxed dress as you like environment. Office with great views, private balcony and fireplace if you're working onsite. Parking never an issue. No politics, no games, just exciting work and awesome support both locally and from Seattle. If you’re interested, please submit the following to adam.cunnig...@bigpond.com *Cover Letter, explaining why you’d ROCK at this job, *What you’re interested in learning / what you’ve learned recently *Resume If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! We look forward to hearing from you. Adam C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
