# Rails Database Developer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-database-developer/111130>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 2, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-database-developer/111130 "2007-08-02T22:35:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-database-developer/111130/1 "2007-08-02T22:35:50Z")

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Helium is seeking a strong, self-motivated, database developer to join  
our mature team in building our next generation applications using Ruby  
on Rails technology. 
Ideal candidates will have spent the past few  
years in a team environment building web-based database backed  
applications. Experience developing a Postgres backed application is a  
plus. This position will work closely Helium Engineering is a small  
talented team with concrete skills, using agile development  
methodologies in a professional way to produce tangible results on a  
regular basis while working hard and having fun. Team members’ skills  
and creativity are respected and encouraged. Helium is a well-funded  
startup and the engineering team cranks out greatness during reasonable  
work hours.

Helium pays its employees competitive salaries, along with competitive  
stock equity plans. The standard benefits – health and dental are  
available – as well as a matching 401K plan (almost unheard of in a  
startup).

About Helium  
Helium, located in Andover, Mass., is a newly funded consumer Internet  
company, building a platform for market-driven, user-generated  
publishing. Helium’s goal is to build the number one source of  
peer-ranked, user-generated content on the Internet. Using a proprietary  
peer review technology, Helium is revolutionizing the world of  
publishing. Now millions of people can come together in one place to  
publish.

Some technologies being used by Helium include:  
Ruby/Ruby on Rails  
Memcached  
Postgres  
Mongrel  
Rake  
MySQL  
RMagick/Imagemagick  
RubyGems  
Java  
PHP

Requirements:  
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.  
2+ years experience in Database Administration, Database Development or  
Database Architecting.  
Knowledge and proficiency in at least one modern computer language  
necessary.  
Excellent SQL skills  
Ability to support mission critical production systems  
Strong background of the Server platforms Linux, BSD, UNIX  
Work closely with system administrators and quality assurance during  
version updates and upgrades  
Strong communications skills.  
Ability to work independently while cooperating with the overall team.  
Ruby on Rails experience would be great, although not required.  
Familiarity with MySQL and Postgres.

Desired:  
Ruby on Rails developer  
Postgresql experience  
Database architecture experience  
Web development experience  
Preferred experience with Enterprise level database management (Oracle,  
Sybase, DB2, MySQL)