# Blomming is hiring! **URL:** \ **Category:** IT\ **Created:** [May 21, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blomming-is-hiring/219907 "2012-05-21T16:54:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blomming-is-hiring/219907/1 "2012-05-21T16:54:56Z")
# Ruby Senior Developer ## Job Description Blomming is looking for a _Ruby Engineer with experience on building cool Internet products using the Ruby On Rails framework_. You will be part of our Tech Department working every day to make our customers happy using our service. You will excited to develop new features and to improve functionalities and performances of the existing ones having a direct feedback from the users that everyday sell and buy online using Blomming. You will also work on the integration with other platforms and services for big customers or partners, so you surely know how to build high quality innovative and scalable solutions and how to integrate them with external services (building and consuming APIs). We love “know-all” guys: crafters and hackers that like to build complete web applications and get hands dirty working on the whole stack (from the web design to the application side) but what’s important is that you’re a maniac of a perfect designed, correctly oiled and incredibly fast backend for a web application. ## Requirements ``` - 4+ years of proven software development experience. - 2+ years Ruby on Rails development experience in a consumer facing ``` web environment. - Familiarity with relational databases, preferably MySQL and PostgreSQL. - Experience in XHTML, Javascript, CSS and general Web 2.0 techniques. - A good Javascript / JQuery or Prototype programming knowledge. - Strong knowledge of OO analysis/design, Design Patterns, Refactoring and Unit Testing. - Experience in TDD / BDD: you like to get your hands dirty with lots of Cucumber and RSpec. - Knowledge of “core services” for large scale Internet applications like: Memcached (or other caching services), Sphinx (or other search engines) and cloud computing environments. - Knowledge of HTTP and what RESTful really means (tip: it’s more than “clean URLs”), so you have an idea of what an API is and you are excited to build APIs for a web platform. - Expertise in application troubleshooting, debugging, performance evaluation and tuning. IMPORTANT: this means that you have performances ever in mind when you write every line of code; that you understand how to analyze the full stack of a request – from the browser to the database passing through network – and that you are database savvy and excited to run a query profiler. - Some Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management (i.e.: Git), build processes, testing, and operations. - Superb analytical skills, self directed, good communication skill (with engineers and non engineers) and able to work in a team. - Good knowledge of written and oral English is preferred. ### Extras ``` - Passion for new technologies, self directed learning, and ability ``` to share and introduce new ideas into a team environment. - Experience in System Administration for large scale Internet application: this means that you are confident setting up instances on Amazon AWS, configuring load balancing and correctly tuning, maintaining and monitoring the whole stack (Reverse proxy, Web layer, Application layer, DBMS). - Active participation in the Ruby and open source communities. - A previous experience of design and development of RESTful APIs for a web service. - Experience in building gems or plugins for Ruby On Rails or other Ruby frameworks. - Knowledge of NoSQL or graph databases. - Knowledge of other Ruby frameworks (e.g.: Sinatra, Merb). - Knowledge of Scrum and/or Agile Development processes (Pair Programming, Extreme Programming, etc.) and tools. - Good graphic/UX taste and experience with client-side frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap. - Able to work under pressure. ## Salary Depends on experience and skill level. ## Work Hours Full Time. Workplace Milan (mandatory!). ## Apply through E-mail removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Please write a clear and concise mail (in Italian or English as you prefer) with your experiences and examples and how you match our Requirements and Extras: it’s ok to attach CV but you’ll make us happy if we can understand everything and immediately, reading your e-mail. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![ascarp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ascarp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ascarp)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blomming-is-hiring/219907/2 "2012-05-22T01:01:58Z")
It seems to me that you are seeking an astronaut or similar 😉 Ciao, Indrit ---
**Author:** ![ascarp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ascarp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ascarp)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blomming-is-hiring/219907/3 "2012-05-22T07:51:17Z")
Well, for once, at least they state they need a senior developer, skills are in line with that. Maybe one of their team leads left for a startup! This is a more honest job posting than many others that have the same requirements and end with asking for a 6 month free stage before a contract, provided they will want to pay the person what he is worth. ---
**Author:** ![ascarp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ascarp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ascarp)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blomming-is-hiring/219907/4 "2012-05-23T11:42:27Z")
Hi Luca, thx for your feedback. I’m one of the founders of Blomming and Andrea (that inserted the post) is a lead Ruby dev and partner. I want just to have the chance to specify something more about our hiring proposal. We are simply expanding the actual (small) tech team and since we are a startup strongly based on a solid platform and a easy-to-use Internet product we want someone that can help us from day one in some very interesting and challenging activities: from heavy architectural problems, to scaling and also to improving the UX (in fact we are also looking for a Frontend developer: [http://company.blomming.com/jobs/ruby-senior-developer/](http://company.blomming.com/jobs/ruby-senior-developer/)). Obviously we know that what we ask is something more than average skills. 🙂 But that’s why we are looking for a Senior Developer and we are willing to pay for him. Anyway, sincerely, replying to Indrit: I think that “we” have the luck to work on something that can make every day a fun day. What I mean for fun is that we have the chance to improve ourself learning more and more by building something cool and I think that a real Senior Developer love to be a full-stack guy who learns everyday something new to improve his skills. So we are not looking for someone that can do both the car and the engine, but he must be able to design and build a durable, performing and silent engine for a good car… 🙂