Job posting: Ruby / Ruby on Rails developers

Greetings,

We are currently hiring experienced Ruby / Rails developers to work
with our small team at Default / Springbolt. Below is the job
description as shown on our (holding) website:
http://www.springbolt.com/jobs.htm

Please reply off-list with any interest or questions.

Thanks for your time.

Guy

Below is the job description:

London based company seeks Ruby / Rails developers to join existing
team in both research and production roles. The role calls for a team
player with good customer facing and communication skills, a
willingness to learn new methods and technologies.

You’ll ideally have a consulting / software development background
and will be able to demonstrate your competencies using a portfolio of
sites you have been involved in designing and building. You’ll have
developed content-management systems and designed applications for
production-strength architectures. You’ll understand how to optimise
relational databases and write fast queries. You’ll be happy working
within a small team of capable and enthusiastic developers with
practical processes and to high standards. You’ll have a keen eye for
detail and a desire to maintain exemplary output. You’ll be
experienced in taking ownership and responsibility for functional
sections from conception through design to implementation and support.
You will also receive training as necessary to develop your technical
skills further.

The successful candidate will join a committed and friendly team.

Essential skill set:

  • 1+ years Ruby development experience
  • Strong working knowledge of Rails
  • Solid understanding of database administration, particularly MySql
  • Knowledge of Javascript, CSS and AJAX preferred
  • Enterprise level development experience a plus!

Key Responsibilities:

  • Carry out requirements analysis and system design with full
    responsibility or as part of the team
  • Manage time and plan work to ensure quality output on time and budget
  • Produce code to standards ensuring it is high quality, maintainable
    and fully tested
  • Ensure projects are documented in a manner that will ease future
    system and code upgrades

Duration: 3 month trial period with a view for full time employment.
Location: We are based in Notting Hill, London.
Salary: £25 - £35K

Applicants are required to send the following:

1/. A CV
2/. URLs exemplifying your work.
3/. Give three web based examples of your favoured web applications.
(these can be your own work and/or other websites you consider to be of
merit.

Please send CV and application for the attention of Guy at the
following address: [email protected]

On 1/24/06, Guy [email protected] wrote:

Greetings,

We are currently hiring experienced Ruby / Rails developers to work
with our small team at Default / Springbolt.

There’s actually a city named “Default”? I guess that’s what a city is
named if nobody specifies a name. :wink: