# Hiring a rubyist (SF Bay Area or remote)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hiring-a-rubyist-sf-bay-area-or-remote/48663>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 23, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hiring-a-rubyist-sf-bay-area-or-remote/48663 "2005-11-23T03:18:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff.fry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jeff.fry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff.fry)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hiring-a-rubyist-sf-bay-area-or-remote/48663/1 "2005-11-23T03:18:30Z")

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Hey there, I’m looking for a star coder to join our team, coding in  
Ruby. Depending on your experience and desire, I’d consider either a  
contract or a permanent position.

We need someone who understands how to design and build a solid,  
flexible, reusable GUI automation framework. Solid experience with Ruby  
is a big plus; strong skill with a scripting language like Ruby, Perl,  
TCL, or Python and a desire to learn top-notch Ruby is a requirement.  
Much of the work will be using Ruby’s Watir libraries. Familiarity with  
those libraries is great, but not a requirement.

So who are we? I work at Lyris Technologies, in Berkeley CA. We are a  
small and comfortably profitable company creating applications to  
manage and report on legitimate email campaigns.

Is that a euphemism for vile, spam-sending scum? No. I’m honestly quite  
reluctant to hire anyone with low enough moral standards that they  
would work for a spammer. Our customers really are good guys (and  
neutral guys) who send email to people who ask for it - folks like Sun,  
IBM, NASA, Habitat for Humanity & the American Federation of Teachers.  
If you want to know more about us or our ethics, check out our  
customers at [http://www.lyris.com/customers](http://www.lyris.com/customers) - or write me with  
questions. I respect that many of the best folks out there want to work  
for companies they can be proud of.

This position could be either out of our Berkeley CA office or be a  
remote position. If it’s remote, we’ll fly you out to the SF Bay Area a  
few times a year. This will likely start as a 3-month contract with the  
ability to extend it or convert to a permanent position by mutual  
agreement. If however we are impressed enough with a candidate who  
wants to start out permanent with salary + benefits, we can make that  
work too.

FYI, we are a very solid company - 11 year old and comfortably  
profitable for 10 of those, but still small enough and agile enough  
that the team of coders is a real pleasure to work with. I truly  
recommend the company as a place to work and would be happy to answer  
questions if anyone is considering it and wants to know more. If the  
above sounds interesting to you, please email me at removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid.

(BTW, some folks have asked if this is a QA position since the Watir  
libraries were designed primarily for test automation. It’s not. Watir  
is actually quite versatile. We use it in one of our core  
applications…which will make more sense once we talk further.)