# Our company is looking for Ruby on Rails Software/Web Develo

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**Created:** [June 6, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/our-company-is-looking-for-ruby-on-rails-software-web-develo/106145 "2007-06-06T21:22:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/our-company-is-looking-for-ruby-on-rails-software-web-develo/106145/1 "2007-06-06T21:22:35Z")

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Our company is looking for Ruby on Rails Software/Web D…

Key Responsibilities include:

- Implementation of front-end application templates for a high  
availability of the web-based applications.
- Work closely with a cross-functional team (UI design, engineering,  
and product management),  
using UI and functional spec/prototypes as input.
- Translate business requirements provided by Product Marketing into  
consumer facing UI designs.
- Apply an understanding of the inherent limitations of tools and  
technologies and suggest appropriate trade-offs.

Our core business is in Ruby on Rails managed hosting, so we’re  
looking for someone  
with experience in the field. Our employee will get one paid day a  
week to spend on  
his or her own Ruby on Rails projects. We"re in the process of  
launching some exciting  
new rails oriented products and our candidate will hopefully share  
that enthusiasm.  
Additionally, we are looking for a candidate who is currently active  
in the rails  
community or willing to be. Our ideal candidate is a self-starter and  
self-learner, intelligent and able to adapt  
quickly to a rapidly changing and potentially demanding environment.

SKILLS

Most important is that you’re a smart, creative all-rounder with good  
comp-sci skills,  
solid web development experience and flexibility in picking up new  
things.  
Particularly useful, though, are:

- Proven history delivering consumer facing scalable web applications.
- Strong desire to work with Ruby on Rails (currently v.1.2) or a  
comparable Model-View-Controller  
web development platform
- 3+ years experience with the software development cycle: product  
specification, design, implementation, qa, release.
- Source control with SVN or similar
- Relational database skills - MySQL or Postgres in particular.
- Deep experience with web browser technologies, especially DHTML,  
JavaScript,  
AJAX, CSS, and Prototype/Scriptaculous in particular
- Unix command-line skills and some knowledge of broader networking  
concepts
- Design and documentation of front-end projects of various scopes
- Experience working with product management in creating intuitive and  
cutting edge Web 2.0 interfaces
- Bachelors’ in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent  
experience.
- The ability to collaborate with peers in engineering and marketing  
as part of a development team, and to thrive in a challenging, fast-  
paced environment.  
While not all essential, we’d also like to see some of these:
- Agile / iterative development methodologies in a small team
- Good object-oriented design and data modelling skills; refactoring;  
a sense of aesthetics about code
- Keen on usable user interface design and its role in the development  
process
- Experience at a small company / start-up
- Any other languages or frameworks a plus (Perl, Python, C,  
Actionscript may be useful)  
Interested candidates should e-mail their resumes in Word format to  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid).

Location: United States  
\*California (Sacramento, Bay Area, San Jose) is prefered location, but  
remote location may be acceptable  
Salary: Negotiable  
Date: 2007/06/06