# Job Posting for Ruby Backend Developer in Mountain View, CA

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-posting-for-ruby-backend-developer-in-mountain-view-ca/70115>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 26, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-posting-for-ruby-backend-developer-in-mountain-view-ca/70115 "2006-09-26T22:26:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/c2a13f/32.png) [@varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/varac)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-posting-for-ruby-backend-developer-in-mountain-view-ca/70115/1 "2006-09-26T22:26:57Z")

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=== Position ===  
Spokeo, Inc ([http://www.spokeo.com](http://www.spokeo.com)) is looking to hire a talented,  
driven, and performance-minded engineer to do backend development work  
in Ruby. If interested, please contact removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid and/or call (650)  
988-9007. Position is available immediately. We are looking to hire!  
Compensation is market rate salary with stock options befitting early  
stage startup.

=== Company Background ===  
Spokeo, Inc ([http://www.spokeo.com](http://www.spokeo.com)) is a beta-stage startup working on a  
portal to aggregate information across all social networks and personal  
media sites. Spokeo, Inc was founded in 2006 by 3 Stanford graduate  
students and has secured medium term financing. Our engineering team is  
lean, coordinated, and highly proficient. We are looking for another  
indepentent developer to join our 6 man company. Our offices are  
located next to 101 in the city of Mountain View, CA.

=== Technology ===  
Our application is built on the RoR framework. The backend is a mix of  
RoR and pure Ruby. We work with the latest development, deployment, and  
production technologies for RoR.

=== Job Description ===  
We are looking for an experienced Ruby backend programmer to work on all  
levels of content aggregation: content retriveal (HTTP), content  
analysis (stream and tree parsing), and database storage. Work will  
involve feature implementation, stability upgrades, and  
performance-tuning.

- Necessary Skills  
BS or MS in Computer Science.  
Ability to work independently.  
Ability to architect new subsystems and re-architect existing subsystems  
as the need arises.  
Thorough knowledge of Ruby and Object-Oriented Programming.  
Thorough knowledge of MySQL.  
Thorough knowledge of distributed computing.  
Understanding of test-driven development.  
Ability to work in a Linux environment.

- Beneficial Skills  
Knowledge of distributed Ruby (DRb).  
Knowledge of HTML protocol and any Ruby HTML libraries (Net/Http,  
Open-URI, Curl)  
Knowledge of RSS/Atom and any Ruby RSS/Atom libraries (FeedTools, Simple  
RSS, Syndication…)  
Knowledge of Ruby parsing libraries (Hpricot, HTMLTokenizer, REXML…)  
\*Note that we only use some of these libraries, but we look for any  
working knowledge in this area.