# JOBS: Seeking Ruby On Rails Developer - Rupture San Francisco

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jobs-seeking-ruby-on-rails-developer-rupture-san-francisco/153108>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 12, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jobs-seeking-ruby-on-rails-developer-rupture-san-francisco/153108 "2008-11-12T10:28:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![StephK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@StephK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/StephK)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jobs-seeking-ruby-on-rails-developer-rupture-san-francisco/153108/1 "2008-11-12T10:28:30Z")

</div>

Rupture is a new service for gamers that allows them to take control  
of their gaming identity and interact and track their own communities  
across all games and platforms. Rupture’s innovative feature set will  
allow you to access and share your personal game data, purchase and  
manage games and build your community from the web, your desktop and  
inside of the game environment. Rupture is looking for experienced  
superstars to help us change the way people game.

Role Overview  
A Ruby on Rails Web Engineer works as part of a team of software  
engineers and developers to develop and support online applications,  
with specific relation to online social networking. Working directly  
with Technical Web Lead to determine development resources and  
requirements in order to build, maintain and enhance high-quality  
online applications. Key responsibilities include: identifying  
platforms, determine technical needs and ideal development (internal  
v. external), design, implement, test, debug and maintain code;  
develops and writes efficient, high quality and cost effective code  
that meets/exceeds all of the requirements; understand technical and  
functional requirements and develops documents to accurately reflect  
and address all of the requirements; provide task dependencies,  
priorities and time estimates; coordinate work with other team  
members; creates prototypes for internal proof of concept and  
approval; create leading edge reusable and scaleable web technologies,  
both systems and engines if required; profile and optimize software  
components of web applications and technical solutions; manages bugs/  
defects according to team best practices; proactively identifies  
system inefficiencies and recommends solutions; assists in physical  
and logical database design

What skills does Rupture look for?

A Rupture Ruby on Rails Web Engineer normally possesses: a Bachelor  
degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training  
and professional experience; 5+ years of online service and  
applications development experience; experience with scripting  
languages such as Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, etc; delivered highly-  
available and scalable enterprise online service; solid understanding  
of object oriented methodologies and technologies, client server and  
internet system architectures; in depth knowledge of web applications  
and services development and deployment; in depth knowledge of user  
interface/front-end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX); solid  
understanding of web development patterns such as MVC and Portal, Push  
and Pull; relational Database programming experience using SQL: hands-  
on experience with Microsoft SQLServer, MySQL and/or Oracle databases.  
Development experience using ORM tools (e.g. Hibernate); in depth  
knowledge of Extensible Languages such as XML and XSL; experience with  
Software Configuration Management systems (e.g. Perforce); feel very  
comfortable to analyze and debug complex systems; willingness to work  
with different technologies upon request. Key performance competencies  
(Non Technical Skills) include: excellent verbal and written  
communication skills; excellent decision making capabilities;  
excellent detail-oriented, problem solving skills. Must be able to  
quickly identify issues and know when to escalate them to the  
Development Director and Technical Lead; ability to work in a dynamic  
and collaborative team environment; ability to quickly learn and apply  
new concepts, principles and solutions; demonstrates dependability and  
commitment to projects/tasks; focus on quality at all stages of  
production; able to adapt to a constrained schedule and perform under  
pressure; strong multitasking and organizational skills. Additional  
skills that an ideal candidate can demonstrate include: have been  
through at least one full SDLC; have been working in an Agile  
development environment; 2+ years of online game industry experience;  
familiar use of rich media application coding such as Flash  
Actionscript 2.0/3.0; development experience using Open Source  
software; experience using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and/or  
Eclipse; experience with J2EE application server such as JBoss,  
Weblogic or Websphere, and/or .NET web service/WCF, [ADO.NET](http://ADO.NET);  
experience with development & deployment in Linux/Unix and Windows  
environment.

Please apply online:  
[https://jobs.ea.com/myEA/profile.aspx?action=apply&postid=a0z50000000HKFh](https://jobs.ea.com/myEA/profile.aspx?action=apply&postid=a0z50000000HKFh)